I sighed and rubbed my head.
"Come on Clay don't put her in the middle of this" Tig said pacing the length of the chapel table.
"She's the best chance at finding out what the hell richy rich wants" Jax said
"Oh yeah would you let Mia go out and do this? If she could?" Tig asked back clearly getting agitated.
Jax sighed and looked away. We all knew he would throw more of a bitch fit then Tig was doing.
"Tig sit down you're making me anxious." Clay said lighting a cigar. "I know you don't like it but it's the best solution."
Tig just sighed and rubbed his face before sitting down.
"Ezra are you ok with this?" Jax asked me.
"If it'll help the club then yeah. I'm good" I said making Tig close his eyes.
"Good then it's settled" Clay said slamming the gavel ending the meeting.
I got up and walked towards Tig as everyone exited leaving us alone.
"Are you ok?" I asked. Tig just sighed and grabbed me putting his face in my stomach.
"I seriously don't want you involved in this" he said.
"I know baby but it'll help" I said rubbing his hair. He nodded before getting up suddenly.
"If you gonna do this I'm going to teach you how to properly handle your gun" he said grabbing my hand and leading me out of the clubhouse. As we got on his bike Mia and Jax walked out holding hands.
"Where you goin?" Mia asked walking up.
"Apparently gun practice" I said putting on my helmet.
"Ok be safe!" she called.
"You know babe it's not a bad idea if you learn how to shoot" Jax said
"Uh I know how to shoot" she said
"Yeah? Well maybe you should practice. Mind if we tag along?" Jax asked Tig.
"Nah." Tig said starting the bike.
We rode together for about fifteen minutes until we reached this old warehouse.
"Where are we?" I asked getting off the bike.
"Uh this is our storing place" jax said.
Two prospects walked out of the building but once they saw it was jax and Tig they waved and walked back inside.
"Some real chatty Kathy's huh" Mia said in reference to the prospects.
"They know not to leave their posts" Jax said before grabbing her hand and leading the way into the brush the surrounded the building.
. . .
"Shit fuck!" I yelled. I heard Tig laugh and turned and gave him a glare. I kept missing the target and was starting to get pissed.
"Shut up!" I snapped at him.
"I'm telling you straighten your arm and loosen your grip and you'll get it!" Mia called from where she was sitting with Jax. She had finished her shooting lesson along time ago and was now just cuddling with Jax.
"Fuck you!" I yelled making her laugh.
"Oh I want to" Jax said making Mia blush and smack his chest.
"Ok come on babe let's try this again" Tig said coming up to me.
After another hour and many bullets later I was finally deemed perfect by Tig. Though I didn't really understand what the point of all this was because Matthew didn't like guns. But still whenever I voiced this to Tig he blew it off and said it didn't matter.
. . .
As we got home I took my jacket off and laid on the couch. I had called Matthew and he agreed to meet up with me.
"Are you and Jax together now?" I asked Mia as she sat down.
She blushed and looked away turning on the t.v.
"Mia?" I said making her sigh.
"I don't know what we are to be honest. We act together yet we haven't made anything official. It's complicated I guess you can say" she said looking a little sad.
"Do you want to be back with him?" I asked
"Yeah. I love him. But I don't know… maybe he doesn't want me? You know what if he just feels sorry for me?" she said tears filling her eyes. I sighed and grabbed her hand.
"He still loves you bro. You know he wouldn't be here if he just felt sorry for you." I said. Mia nodded and leaned her head on my shoulder. "Maybe you should tell him. Tell him you love him. Chase him for once" I said making her laugh. When she didn't say anything else I turned Netflix on and we started watching Grey's Anatomy.
. . .
""So I wanted to apologize for what I said to you the last time we spoke" Matthew said.
We had agreed to dinner. We had just placed our orders and I didn't know what to do. Clay had told me he wanted me to try and get any useful information out of him. But I was so lost on how to start asking.
"Its ok." I said though I really wanted to throw my Sprite at his face and ruin his stupid suit. ""Why do you hate them so much?" I asked.
"Uh well they kind of have a bad reputation." he said
"So? Just because they do doesn't mean you should instantly judge them" I said a little mad.
"Do you know what they do?" he asked.
"What do you mean?" I asked. I knew a lot of what the SONS did but wasn't about to give anything away.
"They kill people Ezra" he whispered.
That should scare me. The fact that it doesn't means I've changed. Which isn't that surprising.
"How could you know that?" I asked. I wasn't about to agree to it. The guys had warned me he could be trying to get information out of me as well.
"I have ears everywhere" was all he said before leaning back. "You should get away from them" he said. I sighed and shook my head. We were getting way off subject.
"Why are you here Matthew?" I asked.
"I told you in buying some land" he said.
"Right. But why here? I mean Charming is a small town this isn't the normal place for people to buy land unless their old and wanting to retire" I said.
"Maybe I am looking to settle down." he said giving me a small smile. Fuck he's really gonna work for this.
"Right" I said. I looked out the window and could see three bikes parked down the street. Clay had told me they were gonna have someone watching me but three people? Freaking Tig.
"How did you come to be here?" Matthew asked making me turn back to him.
"Got kicked out. Mia was moving here already so I came with her." I said
"She never liked me much. Mia."
"Um don't take it personally. She doesn't really like people in general."
"She seemed to like Jackson Teller a lot." he said. The fuck?
"How would you know about that?" I asked.
Matthew laughed and started picking at his napkin.
"Oh Ezra. You really have no idea do you?" he said making my skin go cold. The waitress came and put our food down though I didn't make any move to eat.
"What are you talking about?" I asked.
"I've been keeping my eye on you both. Mainly you though." he said
"Why?" I asked.
"Because I still care about you. And you left Tucson so suddenly. It was pretty hard to track you down. And only to find you here. And sleeping with a biker of all people" he said giving a humorless laugh.
"Were in love not just screwing" I said between my teeth.
"Right. A biker can't love Ezra." he said making me mad.
"How the hell would you know?" I asked.
"Because all those men are killers. Killers can't love" he said.
I snorted shaking my head.
"You don't know what your talking about." I said "Since we're being honest here. Why don't you tell me why you're really here?"
"I'm here to make sure you get far away from those men." he said.
"Uh huh and what buying land helps how?"
"Bigger town, bigger police force, more chances of your boys getting arrested." he said
"Oh yeah? You own a lumber company. What are you going to do sell rights to build tree houses?"
"No. Once I strip the land I'll simply sell it off to housing company's." he said "And they will build and well you know"
"Your an idiot. I'm not gonna leave him" I said grabbing . I got what I came for so now i'm leaving this psycho ass.
"Oh well see Ezra." he said making a chill crawl up my spine. "By the way, tell Mia that Andrew says hello." I stopped and turned back looking at Matthew. Andrew was Mia's ex who went insane and tried to kill himself after Mia broke up with him. We hadn't heard from or of him in nearly five years.
I didn't stop to talk about how he knew Andrew instead I ran out of the dinner we were in.
As I stepped out I took a deep breath of cool air. It was getting chilly. Winter was coming.
I walked down the steps and down the street knowing Tig was there waiting for me. And really all I wanted was to be with him.
As I reached him I saw that it was not only him but Chibs and surprisingly Happy.
I smiled at the other two but went straight to Tig and just hugged him.
"Everything go ok?" he asked rubbing my back.
"Yeah. He's just a freak." I said into his chest.
"Ok. Well we should head back. Clays waiting" he said. I pulled away and took my helmet before getting on. As we rode past the dinner I saw Matthew watching us from his car.
. . .
"Good job Ezra." Clay said from where he sat at the head of the table. I had just given him everything Matthew had said though I withheld the news about Andrew and how he had been watching me.
""I'll see you outside doll" Tig said giving me a slight push towards the door. I knew what that meant. Time to go. I walked out and found Mia and Gemma at the bar.
""Hey" I said walking up.
"Hey baby. Good job today" Gemma said handing me a glass of Jack. "You deserve that."
I smiled and drank a big gulp before looking over at Mia.
"We might have a problem" I whispered to her.
"What's wrong?" she asked. I stayed quiet and looked over at Gemma not sure if I wanted her to know.
"You can tell me baby" she said making me nod.
"You can't tell the guys about this." I said
"Don't worry. I won't" she said making me nod.
"Matthew, he said for me to tell you Andrew said hi" I said making Mia go deathly pale. "Also he said he had been watching me"
"Whos Andrew?" Gemma asked.
"An ex. A crazy one who tried to kill himself when I broke up with him." Mia said putting her head in her hands. "Fuck. I thought he was still locked up"
"Locked up? He went to jail?" Gemma asked.
"No psych ward" I said. "He was deemed mentally insane."
"Shit." Mia said reaching over and grabbing my drink.
"Hey don't worry baby. You know Jax won't let anything happen to you" Gemma said.
"No Gemma he can't know. Andrew he's… he's insane! He'll kill Jax and I'm not putting him in danger again" Mia said a fire in her eyes that I hadn't seen in a long time.
" So what? You'll get killed? That'll destroy him." she said
"That won't happen" she said back making Gemma shake her head.
"And let me guess you don't want Tig knowing Matthew stalked you?" Gemma said turning towards me.
"No. This is something I need to do." making Gemma scoff and pour herself a drink.
"You ladies are going to kill me" she said.
None of us said anything until the guys came out. Jax asked Gemma to check on Wendy because she wasn't answering so she left.
"You ok?" he asked Mia touching her face. She was still slightly pale.
"Yeah. Just tired have a long shift ahead of me" she said
"Ok. Well I'll take you home. Let you rest up" he said.
"Ok baby" she said getting up.
"I think I'm gonna head out too" Tig who nodded and told me he'll take me as well since I didn't come with my car.
. . .
"What are you going to do about Andrew?" I asked Mia later that day.
"Fuck I don't know." she said.
I opened my mouth to say something but Mia's phone rang.
"Hello?" she said.
"Jax calm down what happened?" she said making me nervous.
"What?!" she said making me jump a bit.
"Ok I'll be right there" she said hanging up.
"What happened?" I asked.
"Wendy Jax's ex? Yeah stupid bitch OD. They had to deliver the baby early" she said grabbing her purse.
"But he's be 2 months premature!" I said shocked. Dumb bitch.
"Yeah I know. Come on. I need you to make sure I don't beat the bitch" she said making me jump off my seat.
Crazy thing is she's not kidding she'll probably beat the shit Wendy.