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Taming Ava & Fixing Jax - A Modern Fairytale

Chapter 30 Nuclear Option

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TB once dreamed of fighting for the little guy against big corporations. He'd done some of that with his class action suits, but at some point it had become about getting bigger and bigger jury awards. He'd accumulated more money than he would ever spend.

With each round of Ava's misbehavior from wrecking cars to trashing homes, he was forced to realize that when he died, all his hard work would be for nothing. His daughter's biggest regret at his death would be that he didn't leave her more money.

In meeting Jax and deciding to entrust straightening his daughter out to him, he'd rediscovered his passion for helping someone screwed over by the system. Getting Jax out of prison was now his crusade and passion. He felt energized, not just to get Jax out of prison, but to reform the system that had been corrupted while getting every penny he could out of them to partially compensate Jax for all that he'd endured.

"Before I show you this, you have to promise that you will not tell anyone what I'm showing you or say anything about my new plan to get you out of prison. I haven't told Ava anything. Ava wouldn't tell anyone anything, but she could let something slip. That's one of the reasons I'm keeping her in the dark."

"I haven't said anything either. I don't want my mother to get her hopes up. I wanted it to be a surprise."

"Who knows you're here other than the prison?"

"My MC."

"Who benefits by keeping you in prison?"

"I've been thinking about that too. Clay, Gemma's husband, benefits if I stay in prison. I was bumping heads with him over some of the MC's activities. I don't like some of the things he's trying to get the club into and I have a lot of influence. With me stuck in prison, he gets to run it anyway he wants."

"Does he have influence with your attorney?"

Jax rubbed his beard with his hand as he thought about that.

"Yeah. He's known the law firm for years and from what you've said, Lowen was bribed."

"I think that there are going to be more attempts on your life. Last night, the investigators sent me this. This version's cropped.

TB showed him the short version or both June Stahl's and Joshua Kohn's video.

"That's it, right?" Jax asked. Despite the pain and drugs, Jax felt a jolt of excitement and hope charge his body. "This proves I was set up."

"Good news. The bad news, it makes that target on your back bigger."

"Federal prison. Federal agents. This is a double black eye to the ATF. I don't like the odds of my coming out of prison alive."

"How do you feel about a nuclear option?"

TB outlined his full scale war designed to destroy the two ATF agents and the prosecutor that if successful could see Jax getting out of prison before he got out of the hospital—the downside was they could be making a lot of enemies.

"What do you think?" TB asked when he explained what he had in mind.

"That's going to cost you a fortune," Jax said.

"Don't worry about that. I don't think we have a choice. Once the ATF finds out about what we have on their agents, they may send in a hit on you only they'll use guards, turn off the cameras and they'll get away with it. What do you want to do?"

"Nuke em till they glow," Jax said.

"And that's why I needed to talk to you before you had surgery. I couldn't afford to lose a day waiting for surgery and not getting a chance to discuss this with you until tonight. I need to order the media buys and get the reporting team working on the program. We don't have long to get this put into place."

"Best father in law ever," Jax said with a grin. He had no idea when he agreed to marry the annoying, spoiled princess Ava that he would hit the father in law lottery.

"I'll move some work around and we'll hit this hard. I'm going back to the hotel to work. Will your mother look after Ava?"

"More or less," Jax said.

TB smiled. "I get that."

TB took some video of Jax and his bandaged arm where he'd ripped the IV out of his arm to save his life. He also asked him to recount how he'd had to fight for his life in the hospital and how the guard outside his room had fallen asleep. It would be a great addition to the video TB had planned.

"I'll let you have a few minutes with your mother and Ava."

"Thanks for everything," Jax said.

"We'll nuke em till they glow," TB said as he left Jax's hospital room.

He only had a few days to get his team to perform a huge amount of work. That was OK. That was why he hired the best.

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Author's Note: What TB is telling Jax may not make sense but it will when his plan hits.