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Jax Is Really Alive
Chapter 32 Recap
Jax meets the three team members Ryland sent with Kozick. When they get close to the rendezvous point with Nero, two of them leave the SUV and find tactical spots. The other guy takes the driver's seat in case they need to make a fast exit.
Nero comes to the rendezvous tired and dirty from being on the run. He tells Jax the sad tale of the farm. His son didn't like the farm. The animals were afraid of the wheelchair and even throwing feed to the animals proved physically difficult. Nero realizes that if he had been a better father, he would have talked to his son about the farm. He believes he should have realized his son's love for animals meant that he liked to hold them on his lap. His son missed his friends and the only life he had ever known. His son was happy when Nero returned him to the state facility.
Nero tells Jax that Wendy didn't want to be a mother to Abel. She was using him to get back with Jax. She didn't bring the clothing and the other necessities for the boys. When she found out Jax wasn't coming to the farm, she took Nero's car and left and didn't return that night. When Brooke came, she was upset over the break-up with Rat. Wendy took her out to biker bars. When Nero left the farm, he was going to call CPS to come in and take the boys because he knew Wendy was neglecting them. He didn't have to do that because the kids were kidnapped.
Jax gave Nero the packet containing a new ID and money. As he was walking away, a van drives up, flash bang grenades are thrown and guys dressed in black including black masks grab Nero and stuff him in the van.
The grenade detonations knock Jax to the ground. Two of the team run to Jax, grab him and drag him backwards.
Chapter 33
Jax's was trying to figure out what had happened. The flash bang grenade had done it's work. He felt disoriented.
It didn't make any sense. Why did someone need to grab Nero with such a show of force? The people after Nero could have waited until they were gone and taken Nero easily without all the dramatics.
Before Jax got any more thinking done, the guys who dragged him away stuffed him into the backseat of the SUV and driver took off.
"You're going the wrong way. We have to get Nero back," Jax said.
"You're not going after Nero," Ryland said through Jax's ear piece.
"We need to help him. We don't know what they are going to do to him," Jax said urgently.
"He's not the objective."
"Get out of the SUV," Jax told the three men. "I'll get him myself."
"Their job is to protect you."
Jax tried to climb into the front passenger's seat of the SUV. He was determined to go after Nero. They needed to move now or they would never be able to catch up to them. He remembered how hard it had been to follow the car when Tara had been taken. Seconds counted.
The next thing Jax knew one of the guys grabbed him from behind in a chokehold and everything went black.
Next Up: This chapter wasn't very long. The recap from the previous chapter is probably the same length. I am going to post several short chapters this week. I've been away from this story for awhile and this is a good way to get back into this story. I'm experimenting with shorter chapters.