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Little Toy Bikers and a Woman on the Run

Chapter 210 Love Interest

Tara got a burger, fries and a Coke at the hospital cafeteria Sunday afternoon. She'd had a long and difficult emergency surgery assisting Dr. Namid. He was having another off day. It made the surgery more nerve wracking than usual.

For now, all she wanted was to eat her lunch, head home and take a nap. She hadn't slept much last night. She kept thinking about how Scarlett had saved Tristen from being gang raped by carnival workers. She couldn't dismiss her anymore as just another empty headed blonde that would quickly bore Jax. She might have to face the unpleasant truth that she had lost him forever.

She was thinking like high school Tara again. She was always jumping to conclusions with little or no evidence. She would get herself all worked up over nothing especially when it came to Jax.

It was always did he look at that girl like he might like her? Did he look down the front of that girl's top because she had bigger breasts? Why was he talking to that girl? Was he making a date with her? She had driven herself crazy.

She had tried to control some of her crazy by not fighting with Jax over every little thing, but they did have fights over girls. Even now, she didn't know how much jealousy was earned and how much was just her insecurity altering her view of reality.

When they split, she'd actually felt like a weight was lifted off her shoulders. Jealous crazy Tara was gone. She didn't have to live with the fear that Jax was going to dump her. Back then, it seemed like every day she was sure that would be the day when Jax would look at her and realize he was Jax Teller and he could do a hell of a lot better than Tara Knowles.

Coming back to Charming was a mistake. Professionally, she could recover, but it was the mental toll on her that was the problem. All the old feelings from high school came flooding back.

Back then, she'd hated herself, the town and just about everything else except Jax. Not much had changed except instead of hating high school, she hated work. She thought she'd grown up but at the core, she feared she was still the same old Tara.

"Do you mind if I sit with you?"

"No."

Few women would have turned this guy down. He wasn't Jax Teller hot, but Charming was a small town and Jax filled the town's quota of lethally hot guys.

He was an inch or two under six feet with red hair, freckles and hazel eyes. Tara estimated he was around thirty and probably single since he wasn't wearing a wedding ring.

For the first time in a long time, she felt her heart beat a little faster. This guy might be exactly what she needed.

Damn. There she was doing it again and acting like old Tara and jumping to conclusions. She was already imaging a romance before the guy could even put his tray down on the table.

Maybe what she really needed was some counseling. She'd keep that option in mind if things didn't work out with the guy at her table.

Is this the guy that will mend Tara's broken heart or will he cause her more heartache?