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Little Toy Bikers and a Woman on the Run
Chapter 170 Discovery
Jax wondered what the hell had gone wrong last night. He'd returned to the clubhouse, drank a lot and buried himself deep inside a couple of crow-eaters—just a normal Friday night. It just hadn't been that much fun.
He had even tried pretending one of the girls was Scarlett. It hadn't worked. Part of that may have been his choice of crow-eater. Connie was pretty enough; she just needed to bathe more often and not use cheap cologne to cover up body odor.
Scarlett always smelled clean and sometimes she wore perfume. She didn't smell like flowers like the stuff most girls used. She wore something more exotic. It always made him want to pull her closer because she smelled so good.
Sex was OK with Connie, but it just seemed like something was missing. Seeing Tara reminded him of how much better sex was when there was an emotional connection.
That emotional bond that had seemed so unbreakable between him and Tara had vanished completely. When he talked to her, there wasn't a shred of it left. She didn't see it because she was holding onto the past and to a version of him that no longer existed.
Maybe losing Wendy and Bella had caused this sudden wave of maturity and insight into life. Maybe he would never go back to being the carefree Jax Teller. If that came with Scarlett, he might be OK with being more mature.
He had spent the last ten years in pursuit of quantity and wondered why he always felt empty inside. He thought it was loneliness and foolishly tried to fix that with Wendy when it was really love that he was missing.
Women were supposed to be the romantic ones, but the Teller men had a big romantic streak. When JT was away from Charming on MC business, he would write Gemma love letters.
He had never done anything like that, but he did like to do thoughtful things when he cared about a girl the way he did things for Scarlett from getting her soft drinks to help her blood sugar to taking her walking to help her back.
He couldn't get the picture of Scarlett and Hale out of his mind. Son of a bitch. He couldn't really be worrying that Scarlett would prefer Hale over him.
Yeah, he was worried. Scarlett lived a dangerous life on the run from her psycho ex. Hale could give her some security. She might even believe a relationship with Hale would fix her psycho ex problems for good.
There was no fucking way he was going to lose Scarlett to Hale or any other man. Oh, hell. He wasn't falling in love with Scarlett. He was already in love with her. He wanted love in his life, he just hadn't expected to find it with a girl he thought was just driving through Charming.
He knew one thing; he didn't want to end up like Juice when he was in love. That happened a couple of times a month. Juice would walk around the clubhouse with a goofy smile on his face. He'd seen him walk into walls when he was on the phone with the current great love of his life. It gave love a bad name.
Jax knocked on Scarlett's door to take her to Fun Town and then off to the lake house for a nice romantic weekend. He was determined to find out exactly what was going on between her and Hale and put a stop to it. There was no way in hell he was losing her to him.