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Little Toy Bikers and a Woman on the Run
Chapter 179 Angel
Jax could understand how a little girl might mistake Scarlett for an angel. She was wearing a white ankle length sundress, her pale blonde hair shimmered in the sunlight and she was beautiful.
"I'm not an angel," Scarlett said.
"I read to Tristen every night before bed and her favorite book has an angel in it and the drawings look a lot like you," Elliot Oswald said.
"You look like the angel lady," Tristen stared at Scarlett, her brown eyes wide with excitement. "Can I hug you?"
"Sure, but I hurt my back and I can't bend down," Scarlett said.
"It's the angel wings that keep her from bending," Jax said.
Tristen stared harder at Scarlett as though she were trying to find her wings under her dress.
"He's teasing you," Scarlett said.
"I'll lift you," Elliot said, lifting his daughter under the arms until she was face to face with Scarlett.
Scarlett and Tristen hugged and Scarlett smoothed the hair back from the little girl's face before Elliot set her down. Tristen had an ear to ear grin.
"You smell good."
Scarlett laughed.
"Let me smell you," Jax demanded.
"No. You are a strange man and, Tristen, you never let strange men sniff you."
Tristen giggled.
"Is he your boyfriend?"
Scarlett blushed.
"He wants to . . ."
"Who wouldn't want an angel for a girlfriend?" Jax interrupted.
"Stop it," Scarlett scolded Jax. "You are confusing her. My name is Scarlett."
Tristen giggled again.
"Is he your boyfriend?" Tristen whispered to Scarlett.
"Well, I guess he's sort of a boy," she replied.
"Sort of?" Jax questioned.
"I was thinking he's more of a man since he has hair on his face."
Tristen looked at Jax's beard.
"Do you use shampoo or soap on it?"
"That's a good question," Jax said. "No one has ever asked me that. I use soap."
"He combs it too," Scarlett added.
"You comb your face?" Tristen asked with amazement.
"He has a special comb and everything," Scarlett said.
Scarlett and Tristen laughed together at the idea of Jax combing his face.
Elliot and Tristen left Jax and Scarlett to search for the food stand that was selling deep fried Snickers bars.
"Do you hear that?" Jax asked Scarlett.
"Hear what?"
"It's the sound of the thin ice you're on with me cracking."
"Oh, come on, you can't be mad that your combing secret has been revealed."
"How can I be mad at an angel?"
"That was going to be my next point."
"You are lucky that you are beautiful and I'm a man with a lot of patience," Jax said.
Scarlett laughed.