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Little Toy Bikers and a Woman on the Run

Chapter 186 Oswald

Within seconds, Elliot Oswald experienced the worst minutes of his life followed by the best minutes of his life. Tristen had been saved before . . . He just couldn't even think about the horrors that those men were going to inflict on his little girl. He was so thankful that they had gotten to her in time.

Once Jax told Scarlett that Tristen was OK, Scarlett handed her phone to him.

"She's really OK?" he asked.

"She is better than OK. The prospect was telling her silly kid jokes and she was laughing. She's a strong little girl."

"I can never thank you enough."

"Just another day of fun handing out beat downs to low life pedophiles," Jax said. "There is going to be a lot of deputies and paramedics here soon. Hale and I agreed it would be best for Tristen to avoid that. I'll bring her to you through the woods to that place on the dirt road where there's the hill and the dip."

"I know the place."

"Bring Scarlett with you. I'll see you in a few minutes."

"Thanks, Jax."

Elliot told Scarlett the plan to bring Tristen to him through the woods. They began to walk through the carnival to get to the parking lot. In his haste to get to his SUV, he had left Scarlett somewhere in the carnival.

He remembered that she had told Tristen that she hurt her back. She did seem to struggle walking. He waited for her to catch up to him.

"I'm sorry," Elliot said. "I forgot about your back injury."

"It's frustrating, but I'm lucky. I can get better. It's just going to take some time."

"Why don't I go get my SUV and I'll pick you up at the entrance?"

"Thanks. That would be a big help."

Elliot hurried away. He just couldn't get to his daughter fast enough. From his conversation with Jax, he knew that Tristen seemed her normal self because she had no idea what the clown and his friends were going to do to her. One day when she was older, she would understand, but she was still far too young for him to explain it to her. He gave thanks for that.

He had just brought the SUV to the entrance when Scarlett appeared. She climbed into the front passenger's seat and he drove to the dirt road.

"Thank you for saving Tristen."

"Jax, the MC and David Hale did the hard part. They put themselves at risk."

"You saw what was happening and did something about it. How did you know?"

"If I hadn't met her, I might have just thought it was a guy with his kid. When I realized it was Tristen, I knew something was wrong. I had seen David Hale nearby, so I told him. We saw four more guys follow them into the woods. David told me to get Jax and SAMCRO. He went into the woods outnumbered. That was brave."

"I think she really did have an angel watching out for her.

He drove down the dirt road until he reached the hill with the dip that Jax had described. They got out and waited.

They heard Jax and Tristen coming before they saw them. In her high, little girl voice she was singing "The Itsy, Bitsy Spider" she was even doing the hand gestures that went with the song while she was riding on Jax's shoulders.

Elliot shut his eyes and once again gave thanks that his little girl was safe.

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