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Taming Ava & Fixing Jax - A Modern Fairytale

Chapter 39 Lowen Threats

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Ava wasn't a morning person. This was especially true when there was an unwanted man in her bed. She'd hoped like hell that when she opened her eyes that morning she would be alone, Jax would still be in prison and last night had just been some strange nightmare. It was foolish and unrealistic and she hadn't really expected it to work.

Jax suggested giving her a tour of the city on his bike. She'd liked riding on a bike the night she'd gone to the bikers' clubhouse and invited them back to the house. She'd agreed because riding on his bike might be fun and she didn't have anything better to do. There weren't any clubs, decent shopping or places to go in this dull hateful town.

She hoped that as they rode around Charming, she would suddenly come up with a solution to her marriage problem. If only Jax could go back to prison, everything would be perfect. She never believed he was going to get out before the three years was up or she wouldn't have married him. Why didn't she just marry a serial killer or someone on Death Row? Those guys weren't going to get out early. Live and learn.

Jax drove up to a small strip mall. A man was scraping the lettering off a window of a law office.

"Wait here," Jax said to Ava.

She looked at him, her lips twisted in a mocking smile.

"What cave did you crawl out of? No one tells me what to do," she said swinging her legs off the bike and standing up.

"You're my old lady and I expect you to obey me."

"Never going to happen," Ava said laughing in his face. "I do as I damned well please."

Jax frowned at her, the muscles in his jaw clenched. In the MC world, old ladies were expected to do as they were told. If an old lady stepped out of line, her old man was expected to do whatever it takes to get her back in line even if that meant physical force. Ava needed to learn her place. Unfortunately he promised her father that he wouldn't harm Ava. This severely limited his options.

Jax ignored her and walked into the law offices with Ava trailing him.

"Jax, glad to see you," Tom Rosen said. "Congratulations on getting out of prison."

"Thanks. I'm looking for your partner."

"Not my partner. I dissolved the partnership. I'm getting my windows redone. She's not going to be practicing law much longer. She's about to get disbarred."

"Couldn't happen to a more deserving person."

"Yeah, live and learn. I should have caught on to her years ago."

Jax didn't believe Rosen didn't know what his partner was up to. There was just too much heat around Lowen so Rosen had to cut her loose to save his law practice.

"Thanks for the info," Jax said.

"Jax that was really an excellent documentary on you."

"Yeah, I'm practically a saint now."

"If you or the Sons need any legal assistance, I'll discount my rate significantly to make things up to the MC."

"Yeah, that will make up for the months I spent in prison," Jax said sarcastically.

He and Ava left.

"Where are we going to next?"

"I want to find Lowen."

"Just call her."

"She isn't going to want to talk to me. That's why we're going by her house to see if she's there."

"What are you going to do if you find her?"

"Give her a stern talking to," Jax said facetiously.

She climbed on the back of his bike and put her arms around him. She could feel the ripple of muscles under his T-shirt. It didn't do anything for her. He was too tall and his body too powerful for her tastes. She preferred guys just a couple of inches taller than her with lanky muscle free bodies.

When they got to Lowen's small house, Jax got off his bike. He didn't bother telling Ava to stay with the bike.

Jax left his black leather gloves on when he pounded on Lowen't door.

"I know you're in there," Jax said.

Lowen opened the door.

"Jax, this is a surprise," she said opening the door only a few inches.

He pushed the door open shoving her back in the process. Ava followed him into the house.

"Glad you got out," she said trying hard to sound like she meant what she said.

"No thanks to you."

"Jax, you know I did my best for you," she said.

Ava walked around the small living room and stopped standing behind and a little to the left of Lowen. She noticed the gun bulge in the waistband of Lowen's pants.

Ava mouthed the words "she's got a gun" to Jax so he would know to be careful. To make sure he got her point, she pointed at Lowen and made a gun with her hand. Jax gave her a slight nod.

"No, I don't know that. I think you threw my case, overbilled my MC for legal services and wanted me to rot in prison. Who paid you off?"

Jax was guessing about someone paying Lowen off but by the frightened expression on Lowen's face, he knew he'd guessed right.

"I don't know what you're talking about. Jax, I'm a lawyer in Charming. You had to know you weren't getting a top criminal defense attorney."

Jax's face flushed with fury.

"I thought I was getting someone competent and not someone who had taken a pay off. I sold everything I had for my defense and you told me there hadn't been enough money to hire an investigator to look into the two dirty ATF agents. You lost my case deliberately and stole from me by billing for hours you didn't work."

"I'd never do that."

Jax crossed over to where Lowen was standing and shoved her so hard against the wall that she bounced. She reached behind her into the waistband of her pants and took the gun. Before she could raise it, Jax caught her wrist, twisted the gun out of her hand and kicked it away.

He pinned her against the wall holding her by the shoulders.

"Who paid you off?" he hissed the question in her face.

"No one."

"Is it the same person who tried to kill me in prison and the hospital?"

Jax was taking another shot in the dark and by the stunned expression on Lowen's face, he knew that he'd guessed right.

"I don't know anything," Lowen protested.

"I will find out," he growled, his face two inches from hers. "The only reason I'm not beating the answer out of you now is I promised I'd let TB handle fucking you over using the law. If it's too hard to do it his way, one night I'll drop by alone and I'll get the answer out of you no matter what I have to do to you to get it. You'll be lucky if you only end up disbarred and in prison."

Ava looked on in horror as Jax threatened Lowen. She'd been glaring at Lowen because she believed Lowen should have warned her that Jax could get out of prison. Now, Ava was scared for her.

Jax's toxic masculinity was on full display and Ava didn't like it one bit. There was no doubt in Ava's mind that Jax would carry out his threat to harm Lowen if he couldn't get the information out of her.

This whole confrontation was outside anything Ava had ever seen in her life. The men in Hallmark movies didn't behave the way Jax behaved. He was so uncivilized.

"Jax, I think we should leave," Ava said.

"You think about what I told you," Jax said to Lowen his face still inches from hers and his hands gripping her shoulders pinning her to the wall. "Maybe I'll even cut you a break if you tell me what I want to know."

Jax spit in Lowen's face. It was the ultimate sign of disrespect in the MC culture.

"Let's go," Jax said to Ava.

As Ava followed Jax out of the house, she saw Lowen's pale panic stricken face. Ava realized that Lowen had the information that Jax wanted. That's why Lowen was so scared.