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JAX IS REALLY ALIVE

Chapter 4 Recap

Tara explains to Jax that he is also a hybrid like her. She reveals Meg has been watching him and disguises herself as a homeless woman. The Paralorns have been watching over them for many years.

Once the alien side is activated, humans don't see the person as the original person anymore because unconsciously they sense the alien part of the person.

Jax still has seduction on his mind and decides he can seduce Tara by taking a sexy shower. She could never resist him when he took a shower. He leaves the door open, so she could check him out.

CHAPTER 5 Jax Gets a Dose of Reality

Harsh Truth

Jax was momentarily taken aback, but he quickly returned to his original plan to have sex with Tara. She was playing hard to get, but that would just make the victory sweeter. No woman had ever been able to resist him.

"I'll help you with your blouse and the buttons."

"Yeah, I was having trouble figuring that out," Tara said. From the tone of her voice, it was impossible to tell whether she was being sarcastic.

Jax slipped her blouse back over her shoulder, slowly brushing her warm, soft skin. Next, he began to carefully button her blouse making sure to check out her breasts in their pale pink bra with a tiny white bow in the middle.

"It's always easier to unbutton."

"You excel at that."

When Tara laughed at him, he thought she was backing him off, but she'd let him button her blouse, so maybe he was misreading the signals.

He moved closer and kissed her a little on the neck. Just the slightest pressure and Tara was underneath him. Just as he was about to run his hands underneath her blouse, she moved quick as a flash. The next thing he knew, she was straddling him. Tara with the alien upgrade was pretty awesome. Jax smiled at her.

"I like your new strength," he said. "I'm your prisoner."

"Jax, baby," Tara said, leaning close and whispering in his ear. "Go take a cold shower and then put on some pants."

She got up and left. Just like that. That brought him back to reality. Sex with Tara was no longer on the immediate horizon. And he'd taken a sexy shower! What the hell?

He took a cold shower because he really needed something to cool his blood. When he discovered this woman really was Tara, it never occurred to him that she wouldn't sleep with him. It was only a temporary setback. He was still Jax Teller and Tara could never resist him. Well, at least not for long.

He continued to block all thoughts about SAMCRO, his kids, the people he'd killed and everything else out. He was only thinking about the present. There would come a time when he would have to think about everything, but that time hadn't come. For now, he was focused on fixing things with Tara or, at least, patching things up enough so she'd have sex with him.

When he walked out of his bedroom, he heard Tara talking to someone. She was sitting at the counter talking to someone on a flat panel screen that had descended from the ceiling.

As Jax walked closer, he got a look at the screen and the person on it. He should have known it was a guy by the way Tara was looking at him and smiling. The guy was attractive enough with dark hair, high cheekbones and dark gray eyes. He estimated the guy was in his early to mid-thirties.

"Teller, I can see Tara got to you before you got squashed on the freeway."

"This is Ryland," Tara said.

"First or last name?" Jax asked.

"Just Ryland," he said. "I have something for you. I got your rings. Since you're alive, I thought you might want them back."

Jax didn't know this guy and should have no reason to dislike him, but the way Tara was looking at him and the way he was looking at Tara clinched it—he hated this guy.

"Thanks," Jax said, attempting to sound somewhat grateful.

"Tomorrow," he said. He lifted his index and middle fingers to his lips and held them up to the screen.

Tara did the same thing. The screen went dark and a message came on the screen saying "communication ended".

"What is that some alien way to say good-bye?" Jax asked.

"No, it's the way he and I say good-bye. That was nice of him to get your rings back."

"Yeah," he agreed.

"I will never know how those SONS rings stayed on your father's gravestone every time you left them there. I would have thought the wind would have blown them off or someone would have stolen them. It's crazy."

"I don't know. It never seemed strange to me."

"Ry said you left the SONS rings on Opie's gravestone and your wedding ring on mine. How long do you think they would have stayed there? Eternity?"

"I don't know. I wasn't thinking straight. I just wanted to visit you and Opie before . . . " he broke off. He didn't want to remember that moment or the moment when he realized there was only one way out for him. He lifted her hand and rubbed her finger where her wedding ring had been.

"You aren't wearing your ring."

"It belonged to your mother. I can't bear the sight of it."

"I get that," he said. "Tara do you still love me?"

He expected a quick reassuring "yes". That's not what he got.