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Taming Ava & Outwitting Jax - A Modern Fairytale
Chapter 10 Engagement
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TB wasn't much of a father, but still he believed he knew his daughter well. She tried to casually mention that she'd spent part of the last three Saturdays visiting a man who had been wrongly convicted of something she hadn't mentioned. She was working on angle. She'd found some prisoner through the attorney she'd hired to review the changes in his will with her and the prisoner would be in jail for well over the three years she had to stay married to collect her inheritance.
His plan was working perfectly. Since he'd put the fear of God into his daughter, her behavior had improved dramatically. No more property damage and for the first time in her life, she had made a plan and she had a goal. If she thought marrying a convict to get her inheritance was what she needed to do, then that's exactly what he was going to let her do.
He had no doubt that she was hoping that when she told him that she was going to marry a convict, he would insist that she not go through with it and he would put her back in his will without conditions. He had no intention of doing that. If she wanted to spend three years in a fake marriage to an inmate, then she could do that.
She might not like the terms he was going to set for her marriage. Obviously, her inmate husband wouldn't be able to support her and she couldn't support herself. That meant she would have to continue to live with him. As a respectable married woman, that would mean she would have to conduct herself as a married woman. No partying and no dating of course. In short, he would have more control over her now than he had ever had before.
He didn't want his daughter to lose out on her inheritance. He wanted her to grow up and be more responsible. Maybe marrying a convict would do just that. She would have to keep up the pretense of a marriage. That meant she would have to write him letters and go to the prison every week to visit him. That would give her life some structure.
He didn't think she would be able to be that disciplined for three years, but if she fulfilled the terms of his new will, she would inherit. He was hoping to get a new and improved daughter. If that meant she married a convict, then so be it.
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Ava was beginning to enjoy her plan. She had always been able to read her father like a picture book. When she told him she'd met a prison inmate who was wrongly incarcerated, he didn't pay much attention. She added that he was wrongly convicted. Still not much interest. That was OK. At their next weekly dinner, she would mention more abut Jax and his wrongful conviction. By then, she would have looked a little at his case so she could discuss it with him.
Monday, she picked up copies of all of Jax's case files from Ellie Lowen. She wondered what she would do if she found something in his file that would get him released from prison immediately. That could be a dilemma or not. She didn't think she was a good enough person to tell him what she found. She'd tell him after the three years or maybe 2 1/2 years because he wouldn't be able to get out instantly. She might not be a good person, but she wasn't completely horrible—unless he started being really mean and annoying to her. And then who knows what she'd do? He might do the whole twenty years innocent or not.
She saw a transcript of his testimony. She was hoping that there would be a video of it so she wouldn't have to read it all. Her eyes got tired when she looked at how long the transcript was. The only part that really mattered was his testimony.
She made a face as she read the part about how he'd climbed into a car with June Stahl, undercover ATF agent, who he claimed was going to give him a blowjob. What the hell was it with men getting their dicks sucked? She shook her head with disgust. She remembered reading in a fashion magazine about this woman who was a hooker and she'd given so many blowjobs she had TMJ and had to have surgery or had to get her jaw wired shut. Maybe she had to have both surgery and a wired shut jaw while it healed.
Her sympathy for Jax was definitely lacking when she found out he'd gotten into a car with a woman he barely knew because he thought she was going to suck his dick. She didn't know who had started all this licking and sucking of the genitals stuff, but it was highly unsanitary. Who knew what kinds of germs were roaming around that area? Sex was enough of a germ laden task without adding licking and sucking to the mix. Sometimes she hated men.
Jax sent her another letter and she wrote back. He also called for the first time. She preferred talking to him on the phone to seeing him in person. There was less toxic masculinity to deal with since she couldn't see him. It was still there though lurking in the background.
She did ask her phone about detoxifying toxic masculinity. There had been a list of attributes to use to detoxify masculinity, but the more she read them, the more she thought that there was a misunderstanding. Those were characteristics of toxic masculinity because she recognized them in Jax and there was no way that she was wrong about Jax having toxic masculinity. Life sucked when you couldn't trust your phone for the answers that really mattered in life.
The weeks passed in this pattern of visiting the prison, writing a letter and talking to Jax once a week. During her weekly dinners with her father, she would drop Jax's name into the conversation. She even began mentioning that she believed him when he said he was innocent.
The weeks dragged on until finally at the two month mark, they got engaged. He hadn't even pretended to propose. Jax told her this was the eight week anniversary of their first solo prison meeting and that meant they were engaged. It was definitely not the romantic proposal of her dreams.
When she got engaged, she wanted it to be somewhere romantic like in a gondola on the canals of Venice, maybe the Egyptian pyramids at night or in a castle in Germany. Never in a million years could she have imagined getting engaged in a prison yard. Her humiliation level was high and it was only going to get higher if she actually had to go through with a wedding.
On Sunday when she had her weekly dinner with her father, she announced her engagement. She expected him to be disgusted. She expected him to insist that she end her engagement immediately. She never expected that her father would want to meet Jax.