Chapter 3

They had driven through the night. He had watched her sleep next to him. He had thought about stopping over night but Nicole's answer was just that she wanted to go home. So they stopped for some food, which he noticed that Nicole had just pushed around her plate where V-Lin and Phil inhaled there's.

She was still asleep as they pulled into her drive way. He stepped out of the truck as Phil and V-Lin pulled up. He instructed them to stay with her while he went in as checked the house. Happy wasn't risking anything. Once he was satisfied that the house was clear he came back out. He got V-Lin to take the bags in. When they were alone he turned to Phil.

"Shit you may have heard, bout her. You say nothing, you hear." Phil nodded.

Phil had frequented the hospital a lot to check on Nicole, and he had heard things that his brothers and Nurses were saying, Nicole Teller was pregnant, and he knew that the farther was no other than Happy Lowman. He still remembered the first time he caught them together, he had kept that secret then and he would keep their secret now.

Once Phil and V-Lin had left Happy walked round to the to the passengers side of the truck. She was still asleep. Carefully he scooped her into his arms and carried her over the threshold and made his way down to their bedroom.

There was still a mess from the events that had unfolded the last time the two of them had been in the room. Ignoring it he placed her on the bed pulling the covers over her. She looked peaceful, but first thing tomorrow he was taking her to


Using his stealth Happy had quietly cleaned up the mess in the bedroom the best he could. He was just about done when he heard a dull knock on the door. He stole a glance at her, she was still flat out, with that comfort he exited the bedroom pulling the door closed behind.

When he opened the door he wasn't surprised to find Jax standing on the other side.

'Hey." Happy just nodded at stepped away from the door and over to the fridge, Jax followed him taking a seat at the table. "Where is she?"

"Sleeping." He responded giving Jax a beer as he took a seat opposite him.

"Looks like you could do with some yourself." Happy shrugged, he could sleep when he was dead. Years on the road he had learnt to survive on the bare minimum sleep. "How is she? Jax continued knowing he wasn't going to get an answer.

"Healing." Jax nodded. Happy raised a brow there was another reason why he was here. "Tara?"

"Lowan is working on it. Bail hearing tomorrow." Truth was Jax didn't know much more as Tara was refusing to see or speak to him, which was pissing him off. Lowan kept telling him that she was doing ok but he needed to see that for himself, especially when Lowan dropped the bombshell that Tara thought that Gemma was the one behind this.

"Clay?"

"He's in PC." Jax took a moment to light his cigarette. "They are not why I'm here though." Happy nodded, he knew was here for a reason. "Lyla." This caught Happy's attention he wasn't expecting to hear that name.

"She ok?" Jax shook his head as he took a pull on his beer.

"She showed up at Diosa. Covered in blood. She took a gig, turned out to be torture porn thing, she didn't know." Happy was pissed hearing this. "We are heading there in morning. I need you with us brutha." Happy was going to be there without a doubt but he couldn't help look over his shoulder in the direction of her room, Jax noticed this. "I'm putting Phil on her, we'll bring her to the clubhouse."

Happy was unsure but at the same time knew that he couldn't say no and he also didn't want to miss out on revenge for Lyla. But he knew she needed to check in at . He would speak to Phil.

"I'm there."


After draining their beers Jax left and Happy headed down the hall to their bedroom, he stood still when he saw the bed was empty until he heard the door open. His eyes went to hers.

"Hey." She spoke just above a whisper.

Nicole had woken when she heard muffled voices. Ignoring the pain in her side Nicole got to her feet and walked over to her bedroom door, quietly she opened it and straight away knew that it was Jax.

Nicole hadn't spoken to him since that day in the clubhouse, the day he had got physical with her. Jax was the last of her worry though. Happy, the baby they had to be her focus now. Her and Happy had also ended on bad terms the last time that they had been in this room he had also laid hands on her too. But he had been good to her, kind. She heard him refer to her as his girl as he delivered his threat to Victor.

She got back under the sheets. It was 30 minutes later when she heard him enter the room.

"You ok?" Her eyes went directly to his and she nodded.

Happy could tell that she was nervous, and he knew it was because of what went down the last time they were in this room and also the shit that followed/

He had been so angry at her but seeing her lying in that hospital bed had done something to him. He wasn't angry anymore , not with her anyway. But he could tell by looking at her that she didn't know that so he had to stand up as her old man and prove that. He walked over to her and caught her lips with hers. He felt her hesitant but he placed his rough hand on her face pulling her to him, he felt her fall into the kiss and he allowed it to linger for a moment before parting. He didn't move away from her.

"Hap…"

"We're good kid."

"You still want me?" Nicole hated herself for asking but she was weak. Happy had been the best part of her life recently. Yes she had lied to him and try to abort their baby but that was her, it had nothing to do with the man standing in front her. Nicole knew she had deal with getting her head around being a Mom but Nicole needed him.

"Yeah." He rapsed pulling her from her thoughts.

"I'm sorry." Happy knew that she was referring to her trying to abort the baby, he didn't miss her hand subtly going to her stomach.

Knowing Nicole Teller as long as he had he knew she fucked up shit when it got hard, and she had told him that she was worried about the life and with all the shit going on right now he couldn't blame her shit was kicking off from every angle at the moment in the club and he still had to tell her about Lyla which he knew that she wouldn't take well but full disclosure was the only way they were going to get through this. If he was going to be able to protect her and their kid he needed her to do that so he reminded her.

"Full disclosure, only way this will work."

This would be the second time she was agreeing to this, but this time she meant it. She loved him and some of the worse times she faced was because she didn't tell him shit. She was making that mistake again.

"I promise." She kissed him again but as she tried to deepen it she felt him pull. She looked at him questioningly. "Hap."

"We need to talk about Lyla."


Tara sat in the room waiting for her visitor. She knew that It wasn't Ally Lowan as she had already been to discuss her bail hearing, and she knew that it wasn't Jax because she had instructed Ally to keep Jax away.

She knew that her resistance would just fuel her husbands anger but she just couldn't see him right now. She needed to do this on her own.

The door opened and Tara turned to face a man she had met only once before. Lee Toric and that's when she realised that she had been wrong. Gemma may have threatened to go to the police about the her involvement with Otto and the fact that she had snuck in the cross which he used to inevitability kill the sister of the man standing in front of her, but it was him.

He was talking to her but Tara wasn't listening- at first anyway- as she tried to get her head around what was happening. When she thought that this was Gemma, she felt confident that Lowan would be able to get her out of this but knowing that it was him, Lee Toric, who had gotten her arrested and he was connected, he could make sure that she would never see the outside, never see her boys.

"What do you want? Tara asked trying to gain her composure.

"I want to use you." Toric took a seat across from her. "You need to give up your husband."

"Jax had nothing to do with this and Jax would never order a member to kill a woman."

"Because he's so noble." He remarked bitterly.

"Otto killed your sister with that cross to hurt Jax not help him."

Toric sat back in his chair, he was surprised by her response when he had followed her he had seen the cracks in their relationship, and that was backed up when she took their kids out of Charming alone. But here she was defending him. He needed to approach this differently.

"I can offer you and your boys witness protection. You can go wherever you want, you'll be protected. I know that this wasn't the way that you wanted to do it but it's still an out."

She thought about it only for a second or two, Toric spotted it even if she never admitted it so he continued.

"Women who are related to this club get hurt. What if you are the next collateral damage, what if your sons are?" Toric got to his feet. "You have two weeks to decide."

"I don't need two weeks. I'm not guilty and I'm not a rat."

"Fair enough. Take care of yourself Doctor." Toric walked towards the door be pausing. "I hope you don't end up like my sister."

With the sound of the sound of the door closing behind him Tara let out a shuddered breath before tears started to fall. She needed to get out. She needed to get her boys out. Whatever it took. She needed to speak to Wendy.