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Little Toy Bikers and a Woman on the Run
Chapter 173 Déjà Vu
Clay was looking at the woman with Jax. The tilt of her head and the shape of her face brought back the memory of Eden and his time in Hell.
He'd been on a run with SAMCRO to the Laredo, Texas chapter. A low budget horror movie was filming nearby. They had hired some of the SAMCLO guys as extras. The MC guys invited most of the women in the film back to the clubhouse for a party. Eden was playing a starring role and was one of the few cast members who would make it to the end of the film alive.
She had black hair that had a blueish shine when the light hit it just right, large beautiful green eyes and a smile full of promise. The second he saw her, he wanted her. It had nothing to do with love. It was lust.
When he fell in love with Gemma, it had happened over time as he got to know her. By the time she married JT, he was in love with her. JT was more of the romantic dreamer kind of man. That was what Gemma thought she wanted in an old man.
When JT fell apart after the death of his son, Thomas, Gemma was done with him. He provided the strength she needed to get through losing her son. He was a real man.
He and Gemma were happily married when he met Eden, but it didn't matter. He was drawn to her like a drug. She was intoxicating and he couldn't get enough of her. Six months later, she told him she was pregnant with his daughter.
That dose of reality was all he needed. His sanity was back. He never saw her again, never heard anymore about the baby and he never returned to Laredo until the night he killed her.
Years later, Eden returned to the Laredo SOA clubhouse following a divorce. She discovered the chapter was sex trafficking children. Eden went under cover for the Feds and brought down the Laredo SOA chapter for sex trafficking little girls and little boys. No member condoned child rape, but a brother is a brother and in good times and bad, you stand by your brother.
The Sons of Anarchy couldn't allow a rat to live. An outlaw MC couldn't exist if people were free to rat on them. It was the threat of death that kept the rats' mouths shut.
He'd gone to Laredo to Eden's house to kill her. He couldn't let anyone else do the job because he was afraid she might reveal more about their relationship than he wanted known in an effort to save herself or her daughter.
Just as he finished choking the life out of her, he saw the daughter that she claimed was his. She'd seen him kill her mother, so she had to die. A teenaged girl pepper sprayed him in the face after he chased them out of the house.
For many months after that, he expected the police to come knocking on his door in Charming. As more time passed, his anxiety lessened. He convinced himself that the girl didn't know who he was or someone knew that if the girl went to the police claiming he killed her mother, she'd be killed and kept her silent.
Still, every so often he'd see something in a woman's face that reminded him of Eden or his daughter and he was gripped with fear and the need to remove the danger from his life by finding and killing the witness.
Jax held onto the woman's elbow, guiding her through the thinning crowd towards Gemma and him. Gemma was studying the woman carefully. Clay knew that no woman would ever truly get Gemma's approval.
Coming face to face with the woman gave him a jolt. She did look a little like Eden. She had her green eyes. The girl that saw him kill her mother had green eyes.
Jax introduced the girl as Scarlett. The name meant nothing to him.
"You look familiar," Clay said. "Have you ever been to Texas?"
For a moment, Clay thought he saw shock and some fear in her eyes.