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Chapter 112 Fired

Jax had to deal with another round of media attention when the truth about Clay killing Allie Lowen and being behind the attempts on his life was spread across the news media. Jax wrote up a statement with TB's assistance that expressed surprise that a business disagreement could lead to the murder of his former attorney and the numerous attempts on his life.

His statement mentioned that while at times his relationship with his stepfather might not have been perfect; he never thought it would turn murderous. He discussed taking control and renaming Teller Morrow Teller Motorworks and announced some renovations and a different spirit and a new day at the new TM.

Ava convinced Jax that women needed to feel comfortable and that extended beyond new waiting room furniture. It meant that the calendars and pictures of scantily clad women tacked up in the garage needed to come down. Jax hated to make the guys take down the pictures and calendars, but he realized that Ava had a valid point. Women often brought their cars in and they did need to feel at home at TM.

Clay had always handled the business side of TM, so it was a new experience for him to think like a business owner and make decisions based on what was best for his business. It was a lot like the MC. He made decisions based on what was best for the MC; now he made decisions for TM. He was really enjoying being in charge of both the MC and TM.

There was steady progress on the renovated Teller Motorworks. Ava's furniture fit perfectly and the new paint spruced up the place. All the guys were proud of how nice Teller Motorworks looked. It was a big message to the town that things were going to be different. The guys even had new uniform shirts, dark blue short sleeved shirts with a yellow TM patch with their names in white.

Once all the renovations and the new electric sign was installed, Jax held a small grand opening. He had ice cream, snow cones and root beer floats as refreshments and a lot of the town came out to see the new TM and get a delicious treat. That was followed by an almost 20% upturn in business. Jax was determined that TM was going to be the premier place for auto repairs. To that end, he had even purchased a navy blue van to take people to work and to their homes when they needed to leave their cars for longer than they wanted to wait in the new office area/waiting area.

Jax halfway expected Gemma to turn up to the grand opening but she surprised him by staying away. He was grieving the loss of his mother, but he knew that she could never be part of his life again. It would be a betrayal of his murdered father.

Ava continued to surprise him by being supportive. He did his part by being attentive and romantic, but not sexual thanks to his damned ribs. Ava insisted he wait six weeks before any intimacy between the two of them. At least in prison, he didn't want to have sex with the person he was sharing a space with.

Spending night after night with Ava so near and so unavailable was driving him crazy. He just wasn't cut out for celibacy especially when he had a sexy beautiful woman within reach.

Finally he was healed. The MC and TM were running smoothly and he and Ava were going to get away for a one week road trip. He wasn't taking his bike because he wasn't sure he had the physical strength yet to ride the heavy Harley. Ava's car was too flashy, so Jax decided to take the TM passenger van. Any customers that needed to be ferried to work or home could go in the tow truck or the parts van.

He expected to wait until tomorrow night when they were at a motel because that would be exactly six weeks. He was settled into bed lights off, waiting for Ava so they could start watching a movie. She emerged from the bathroom dressed in her nurse's costume including the white stockings with her hair tucked up and her nurse's hat pinned to her hair. Jax looked at her with an ear-to-ear grin.

"Ava."

"How many times do I have to tell you that you are to address me as Nurse Ava?" she asked sternly.

Jax loved the stern side of Nurse Ava. He had deliberately gotten her name wrong just so she could correct him.

"Yes, Nurse Ava."

"I think I should check your ribs to see how well you've healed."

"Yes, Nurse Ava. You think I should take off my T-shirt so you could get a really good look at my ribs?"

Ava looked at him and pretended to give that some thought. She hadn't seen Jax's rib and ab area since she had quit putting the arnica gel on his skin. She really should get a look at him to make sure he was all healed because his six weeks was up tomorrow and she knew that he had romantic plans with her.

"Yes," she said coolly. "I think that would be best."

Jax took off his T-shirt. There was no pulling or pain in his rib area. He was confident he was healed and he knew part of that was thanks to Ava making sure he didn't overexert himself. She seemed to enjoy taking care of him and he liked having someone care for him.

Ava sat down beside him on the turned down bed. She was finding it hard to keep her professional composure. She had actually missed having sex with him. It was the first time she'd ever felt that before.

She looked at the area where the bruises were as her fingers gently touched the skin. His skin always surprised her by how warm it was and how firm it was under her touch.

"Does that hurt?" she asked.

"No."

"What if I press a little bit? Does that hurt?"

"No. How does this feel? Jax asked running his hand up under Ava's white nurse's uniform feeling her stockings under his hand.

"Inappropriate," she said tartly. "I'm your nurse and that isn't allowed," she said trying to remove his hand.

"I'm firing you as my nurse. I'm well. I don't need a nurse anymore, but I do need my wife."

Ava gave up trying to remove his hand. She kind of liked it when he referred to her as his wife. When they first got married, the idea of being his wife made her want to throw up, but not now. She liked the sense of belonging that she got when they were together.

Jax's hand travelled up Ava's leg. She was wearing those stocking with the wide lace bands rather than a garter belt, but they were still stockings and he was into it. Ava kept her nurse's hat and the stockings on after he'd removed all his clothes and hers and he was into that too.

He wasn't sure what the deal was with Ava, but he did enjoy sex with her more than he had with any woman before. Maybe it had something to do with never having had sex with one woman as much as he had with her. Normally, he was with a girl a few times at the most and he moved on to the next. He didn't really want to move on with another girl. He liked just being with her.

Afterwards, he held her in his arms and kissed her softly.

"You hurt my feelings when you fired me as your nurse," she said in a pouty voice.

"I had to fire you or you wouldn't have slept with me," Jax pointed out reasonably.

"It would have been unprofessional."

"I know that's why I had to fire you. How about I rehire you as my nurse and then fire you when we do things that are not appropriate for a nurse?"

"I don't like being fired."

Jax kissed her neck in the spot she enjoyed it the most.

"How about I show you just how much I appreciate all your nursing?"

"How are you going to do that?"

"I'll show you. It's more fun that way."

Jax began kissing his way down her body until he got to the area between her legs and then he showed her.