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Taming Ava & Fixing Jax - A Modern Fairytale

Chapter 41 Ava's Plan

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Jax's face was gray with exhaustion. Riding all over town with Ava was just too much for him in is current physical condition. He should have known better.

"I'm going up to your room and get some sleep."

"You do look pale," Ava said sweetly. She gently brushed his cheek with the tips of her fingers.

"Expressing concern for me? Is this a new version of you?" Jax asked skeptically. Any other woman and he would have believed her concern for him was real. Not Ava. She had to be up to something.

"I'm not heartless. I was thinking that you aren't going to be able to get a proper rest in my bedroom. I watch TV and listen to music. I'm kind of loud. Why don't you take a nap in the guest bedroom next door? You'll get a much better nap. I'll wake you up in plenty of time for dinner."

Jax knew he would get a more restful nap alone, but he hated to let Ava have her way about anything. At the moment though, his desire for sleep outweighed his desire to fight with Ava.

"I'll take a nap in the guest bedroom, but I won't be sleeping in it tonight. Am I clear?"

"Yes, Jax," she said demurely.

Ava wasn't used to having someone around her all the time. She thought it was because she'd been an only child so she was used to being alone. It didn't matter, she was just glad to be rid of Jax for an hour of two.

Once she'd gotten him to sleep in the guest room for a nap, it wouldn't take long to get him to sleep there permanently. Marriage might not be so bad if they each had their own room and lived with her father. All the cooking, cleaning and laundry would be done and her life wouldn't change that much. All she had to do was sell Jax on the idea. If it came down to it, she might be willing to have sex with him just not very often if he would agree to her suggested living arrangement. It would take some doing though because she sensed that he had a lot of pride and it wouldn't be easy to convince him to live with her father.

She knew there was no way in hell that she would ever agree to live with Gemma. Gemma would try to make her life a living hell because she hated her. That woman would never accept her son's wife or girlfriend. She'd meant it when she told Gemma she wanted to be the only woman in her son's heart. It was pretty sick. She wondered how much of a mommy's boy Jax was underneath that tough guy façade. She hated a mommy's boy.

As far as Lowen was concerned, there was no doubt in Ava's mind that Jax and her father would destroy her. Her father was ferocious in the courtroom. He would destroy Lowen's career.

Ava fell asleep watching a Hallmark romance movie. Jax woke her when he tapped lightly at her door. When he came into the room, his blonde hair was rumpled. Ava thought he actually looked attractive if she liked the muscled overly male type. She didn't of course. She liked slender modern men who weren't steeped in toxic masculinity.

She needed to wait for the perfect moment to suggest their living arrangements. She decided that wasn't the moment. Maybe after dinner when he was stuffed with delicious food.

"When do we have dinner?"

"We eat at 7 every night unless there's a schedule change. Alan is the chef. He makes lunch and dinner. Jeeves makes simple breakfasts, but I usually don't eat breakfast."

"You ever cook?" Jax asked.

"No. We've always had cooks. When the cook has days off, he leaves stuff in the fridge or freezer or we got out."

"You've never cooked?"

"No."

"I can cook a little. Scrambled eggs and toast."

This might have been a good time to mention how nice it would be if they lived with her father, but she let the opportunity pass. Wait for a couple of days when he had a chance to fall in love with Alan's cooking. Then she would bring it up.

"You're lucky I walked in on you and Gemma when I did," Jax said eyeing his wife. "I have a feeling there was about to be a fight."

Ava smiled and shrugged her shoulders.

"She was just telling me that you aren't in love with me. She thought that would hurt my feelings," Ava said.

Jax chuckled.

"Any other woman, it would have hurt her feelings, but not my cold blooded wife."

"Come on Jax, don't act like that. You aren't in love with me. This is just a marriage of convenience. You got the best of the bargain because my father got you out of jail without you having to spend any of the money I gave you."

"I'm not sure I got the best of the bargain because now I have to spend almost three years with you."

Ava's blue-green eyes narrowed.

"Would you rather be in prison or married to me?"

There was a long pause.

"What?" Ava demanded.

"I'm thinking it over."

Ava gave Jax a playful shove.

"Bastard."

"I'd rather you spend three years in prison than you being out, but I'm working on the adjustment."

"Cheer up," he drawled. "maybe I'll do something to land me back inside."

"The sooner the better," Ava said.

"That's what I love about you, darlin'. You are so honest."

Jax had plans for Ava. He was going to crack that icy façade and make her burn for him, make her beg for him to make love to her and show her who the boss was in their relationship.

"Time for dinner with dad," Ava said. "I'm sure he'll be full of surprises."

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Next: Dinner with Dad