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Taming Ava & Fixing Jax - A Modern Fairytale

Chapter 23 Payback

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Clay listened as the man on the other end of the call explained how Jax had avoided death when he'd gotten shivved yesterday. It was typical prison bullshit. Unfortunately for the three guys that failed to kill Jax, they were looking at attempted murder charges. They were caught on video and by the guards. It was a slam dunk case.

In addition to punishment within the prison consisting of solitary, a loss of privileges and transfers to a supermax prison, the failed assassins would be tried in court on attempted murder charges and, even with Jax doing the prison thing and refusing to testify, the three men were looking at significant time. They were perfect picks for assassins. They had no family and no one to fill their commissary accounts. For a couple of years worth of commissary money, they were willing to trade years of their lives or they were idiots who thought they would get away with it and get years of commissary.

Next Clay called Ellie Lowen. She would be disappointed that she couldn't talk to the outlaw and have some degrading sex, but she'd be more devastated when she learned the hit failed.

"What happened?" Ellie said.

"Jax's in the hospital in ICU. They did surgery and if they can kill his infection with antibiotics, he's going to live."

"Are you sure he'll live?"

"Unless we get lucky and he gets one of those hospital infections that kills, I think he'll make it."

"Son of a bitch," Lowen swore. "What the hell went wrong?"

"Jax was in line waiting to talk to his old lady when the three guys attacked him. Jax fought back, they finally got control of him and while they were shivving him, a guard noticed called for back-up and intervened probably saving Jax's life."

"This is fucking bad," Ellie said. Lowen had pinned all her hopes on Jax's death. She'd paid for it and she damned well wanted Jax Teller dead and the sooner the better.

"No shit," Clay said. Typical attorney always stating the obvious as though they'd come up with some new and profound thought.

"Where are you?"

"I'm at San Francisco General hospital with Gemma, a couple of the guys and Jax's bride. Her father is gone. He'll be back tonight."

"Well, someone is going to have to try again."

"Fine. You arrange it this time."

"Like I have those kinds of connections," Lowen said sarcastically. "I don't suppose I'll get any of my money back."

"You supposed right," Clay said with heavier sarcasm.

"Can you find someone or could you do something at the hospital?"

"Like what?"

"Maybe you could smear feces—that means shit—in his IV line or something like that."

"You are an idiot—that means fucking crazy. Gemma said there's a guard outside his door. He's going to be hard to kill in the hospital and make it look like an accident. I'm sure as hell not going to take the risk. If I got caught it would fucking ruin my life."

"OK," Ellie said sighing heavily. "Is there any way we could pay someone to kill him in the hospital?"

"Did you miss the part when I told you there was a guard outside his door?"

"I heard you, but I watch all these TV shows where someone dresses up like a nurse and gives the patient a syringe full of poison and then just walks away."

"Genius plan," Clay said again using sarcasm. "Why don't you give it a try or hire someone? I don't want any part of it."

"OK fine. Can you have someone kill him in prison again?"

"The guys that tried this time won't be available. It's going to take some time to put it together and Jax is going to be protected. I'm sure his old lady's father will raise hell with the prison. It will be months before things relax enough for there to be a chance at killing him again."

"Fine," Ellie said curtly. "Find out when and how much. I'll pay more to make it happen sooner. I need him dead. I also want a discount for the screw up for this one."

"I'll put you in touch with the guy direct. You tell him you want a discount. I don't want anymore to do with this."

"Do I have to remind you, that you are involved in this?"

"You're the one whose ass is on the line," Clay said.

"And you're the one who paid me to throw the case," she said.

"Watch who you threaten. You've made a lot of enemies. One or more might come after you."

"Are you threatening me?"

"Take it anyway you want to," Clay said ending the call. He was so angry with that bitch Ellie Lowen that he had to fire up a cigarette and have a smoke to calm his nerves before returning inside.

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Jax watched as Ava's face flushed.

"Come into the bathroom with me. It could be my dying request."

"Let me think about that," she whispered softly. She poured a plastic cup full of water from the pitcher on his bedside tray table. "Don't need to think anymore about this. I never really had to think about it at all," she confessed with a smile.

She poured the mauve plastic cup full of water on Jax's crotch.

"Maybe that will cool you off," she whispered.

Jax gasped at the shock of the water hitting his body. He was thankful the water wasn't cold.

"I can't believe this," Ava said in a loud indignant voice. "You've peed the bed."

"Ava," Jax's voice was a low warning growl.

She gave him a big grin before marching out of his room and informing the nurse loud enough for Jax to hear it from his hospital bed that he'd pissed himself.

That would teach him to shove his tongue in her mouth and tell her that her father was watching.

Author's Note: Check out my new story Quarantine & Love: Jax and the Romance Writer

Jax is quarantined with a romance writer who has a mysterious agenda with the lethally sexy VP of SAMCRO. This will be a short under 20 chapter story.