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Taming Ava & Fixing Jax - A Modern Fairytale

Chapter 29 Hospital Rush

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Ava's eyes squinted as she looked at the alarm clock on the nightstand in her hotel bedroom. She put her cell phone down and got out of bed.

She walked to the other end of the suite and tapped on her father's door. It was the first time in her life that she had awakened her father in the middle of the night. As a child, she'd had strict instructions to wake her nanny up. Well, there was no nanny now.

"Come in," he called.

TB slept in pajamas made from the finest Egyptian cotton usually in navy or charcoal. Tonight had been a navy night.

"Jax is going into surgery soon," Ava said. "He got in another fight and they have to stitch him up," Ava said frowning. Jax's toxic masculinity was always getting him into trouble.

TB shook his head. Ava had a lot to learn about life and the man she married.

"Ava, I have previously explained to you that Jax doesn't get into recreational fights. When he fights, it's to save his life. Someone must have tried to kill him at the hospital. We need to see him before he goes into surgery. I'll call Gemma, tell her what's happened and offer her a ride. I'll get the car brought around. You have fifteen minutes to get dressed."

"I can't get ready that fast."

"Skip hair and make up, put on jeans and a T shirt. You'll have ten minutes to spare. I'm sure Jax won't mind if you aren't picture perfect."

"It sounded like he's going to be OK."

"Ava, get your butt back to your room and get dressed," he ordered sharply. "A hospital does not call in the middle of the night with good news. We need to go see him."

Ava scowled at her father, shut his bedroom door and marched back to her room. She was the kind of girl who wouldn't dream of leaving the house without doing her hair and applying make-up. What if someone took a picture of her?

Jax's toxic masculinity had even rubbed off on her father. He was much more bossy ever since he met Jax. Her father had never been woke, but now he was practically in the Dark Ages with his thinking.

She pulled on jeans and a black short sleeved T-shirt. She brushed her hair and pulled it back into a big thick ponytail. She was lucky she'd inherited her father's thick beautiful russet hair rather than her mother's thin dingy brown hair although had she gotten her mother's dingy colored hair, it wouldn't have stayed that color as long as hair color existed. She quickly added a coat of mascara to her lashes and burgundy lip gloss.

Her father called her name telling her that he was going to leave without her. She slipped her feet into black booties, grabbed her black leather jacket to keep her warm against the 4 am cold and grabbed her large handbag also black. She was ready to go play devoted wife for another day.

Her father had his laptop in its case and slung over his shoulder.

"Gemma's waiting in the lobby for us. Her husband is still asleep and she'll call him with an update."

Ava nodded. She wasn't at her best in the morning and it had taken her hours to fall asleep so she was tired on top of it.

When they got to the hospital, two police detectives were just leaving Jax's room.

"What's going on?" TB demanded.

"Let's all go inside Jax's room and talk," Vince said expertly herding TB, Ava and Gemma into Jax's room.

"You want to explain your part?" Vince asked Jax.

The bruises on Jax's face and hands had darkened to purple. They were especially noticeable against his deathly white skin. He winced as he tried to sit up. Vince handed him the bed control so Jax could raise himself.

"I woke up, couldn't go back to sleep and saw this nurse walk into my room. I'd already had my meds. She tried to inject something into my IV. I ripped the IV out of my arm to stop her. She then tried to stab me with the syringe. I fought with her but I'm not anywhere near full strength. I shouted for help. Finally some nurses ran into my room."

"Where were you?" TB demanded looking at Vince.

"On my meal break. One of the nurses on the floor was supposed to be covering for me."

"It wasn't his fault."

"Where the hell was the guard?" Gemma asked.

"Asleep," Vince said disapproval in his voice. "Claims the coffee the nurse gave him put him to sleep. We retrieved the syringe and paper coffee cup and turned them over to the police. We did get them to agree to give us a small amount of the liquid in the syringe. Our lab would be able to identify the syringe's contents faster. It was a heart medication that would have given him a heart attack. It would have looked like natural causes."

"There must be video of the nurse," TB said.

"Law enforcement got the video from security. It's supposed to be good quality. An orderly tried to catch the nurse, but she lost him," Vince said.

Gemma stood on one side of Jax's bed and brushed his hair back from his face.

Not to be outdone, Ava went to stand on the other side of Jax her fingers on his arm.

"What about his medical condition?" Gemma asked.

"The surgeon is here and is getting ready for the surgery. We'll take Jax into the OR in about fifteen minutes. He'll go in and repair any damage he finds. In the fight, Jax pulled and ripped some of his stitches. There's some internal bleeding."

"He's going to be OK right?" Ava asked.

"So nice to know you care," Jax said smiling at his wife.

"Of course I do, darling," she said.

She'd watched "Hart to Hart" on TV a few and that would be two too many times. They were always calling each other darling. It made her want to gag. It was so fake.

"The surgery should go well," Vince said.

"I need to speak with Jax privately for a few minutes."

Gemma looked at Jax wondering what was going on between Jax and TB that he would want these precious minutes before Jax had to fight for his life again in a surgery.

"I need to talk to TB," Jax said.

Vince nodded and left followed by Ava and Gemma.

"What's that all about?" Gemma asked Ava.

"No idea," Ava said.

TB closed the door, pulled the blinds and got his phone out of his pocket.

"I have something I want you to see."

TB turned his phone on and pulled up the video he'd received last night.

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Author's Note: Getting Jax out of prison takes some work. Just a couple of more chapters. How do you think Ava finds out her husband is out of prison and now she can't just play wife, she has to be a wife?