CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SIX

Website where all photos of all outfits mentioned is on my profile. I did a one-shot of Happy/Cam as per the request, I'm not completely satisfied with its posted.

Pulling into Jax's driveway just before 10 I'm shuffling bags around on my arm and trying to fish the keys out of my pocket when a voice startles me to the point I drop the bag holding the 2 dozen free range eggs I'd just brought. "Well fuck you very much."

Spinning on my heel I know there's a glare across my face that doesn't lessen when I see Happy standing behind me "What?" I practically growl finally getting the keys out of my pocket.

Happy holds his hands up in surrender "I came to tell you Cam's gone to the airport already, but if you're panties are in that much of a twist you might wanna go fix that."

The narrowed eyed glare on my face doesn't lessen when I push the door open "Cool, thanks, go buy me another 2 dozen eggs to replace the ones that just got footpath scrambled."

Happy steps through the door behind me and grabs the bag that's about to fall off my fingertip "What?"

I put the bags on the table and retrieve the one from his hand "You heard me. You scared the shit outta me and made me drop them and I need them to do the baking for Gem's dinner tonight. No eggs, no baking."

"Ahh fuck." Happy groans "2 dozen?"

I nod sitting down to take off my shoes "Make sure they're free range organic ones. The ones I like come in a green carton."

Snickering as Happy's bike rips out of the drive a few minutes later I put everything else away and pull the ancient mixer from the cupboard "I miss my shit." I mutter softly turning the stereo on and cranking the volume while I get all the ingredients out, including the last four eggs in the house and turn the oven on.

10 minutes later the cupcake batter is made and they're in the oven but I'm sitting waiting for the eggs before I can start on the cake. Hearing a bike pull into the drive I roll my eyes waiting till the door opens before muttering "Finally."

"Finally what babe?" Jax's voice from the doorway startles me and I spin on my feet.

"What the fuck is it with you bikers and sneaking up on me today?" I snap my heart racing.

"What?" Jax looks truly confused and the expression doesn't lessen as Happy's bike pulls into the drive beside his and he walks towards the door a bag in his hand.

"Thanks Hap." I say smiling at the shrugged shoulders. Turning to Jax "Happy scared the shit out of me already today, causing the death of the eggs I'd just brought to make a cake for tonight. Hence the shopping trip I just sent him on."

Jax looks over at Happy "She what?"

Happy chuckles "She looked like she was gonna skin me alive if I didn't do it, besides she couldn't do bakin' if she didn't have 'em."

Jax laughs "The taming of Hap, achieved with a single cupcake."

Happy pulls the finger at Jax and stomps back towards the door "Anyway, like I said Cam's gone. She said she'll be back Friday."

"Hold it!" I call just before he passes through the door. "Come back here."

Happy spins on his heel, his eyebrow rising as Jax looks between us. "What?"

Crossing the room I look into his eyes, the darkness that hides in his gaze shocking me for a second but glancing down at his collar I narrow my eyes again "You didn't?"

"Didn't what cupcake?" Happy asks.

Blinking slowly I shake my head "You did. That's okay, I'll find out from her. Please tell me you didn't completely corrupt her?"

Happy laughs the husky sound unusual "I'm not gonna say shit about what I did or didn't do."

I shrug "That's okay, Cam will tell me. Just answer this, did you pop her cherry?"

Happy looks shocked, his mouth falling open "What did you say?"

I laugh, my shoulders shaking with humour "I asked if you popped her cherry. She'd never been on a bike before…or a biker for that matter." I mutter the last part quietly but Happy's eyebrows shoot up showing he'd heard me.

"She rode with me to the airport if that's what you're asking." He says with a distinct 'don't ask any more questions' vibe to his voice "And that's all I'm gonna say on it. See you at 4."

I nod silently and let him leave before turning to Jax and laughing at the expression on his face.

Stepping between his arms I slide mine under his kutte as he kisses my head "Only you could get away with that shit with Hap. Anyone else and he woulda buried them."

I shake my head "Hap wouldn't do that to me."

"I know babe. You and your cupcakes have him wrapped around your little finger. So much for the tough enforcer." Jax says wryly.

I giggle "Maybe we should threaten him with cutting off his cupcake supply."

Jax shakes his head furiously "I will not be a party for that! I like breathing."

Pulling out of his arms I pull a clean bowl out of the cupboard and start cracking eggs into it "I wouldn't do that anyway. I much prefer the Happy I've had to deal with since I came back. I never would have thought a mixture of eggs, flour, sugar and butter would make him so amenable."

Jax shakes his head "I'm gonna go pack up some more shit while you do that. Holler if you need anything. I checked with D she said to meet them at the park at 12, they'll bring the monster."

"And the kids and Doj I hope." I reply, adding butter and sugar to the mixer and setting it going.

Jax laughs as he opens the door to the Abel's room "I'm gonna tell Ope you called him a monster."

I shrug, even though I know he can't see me "He won't care as long as he gets food."

The cake batter is made and sitting in the tin as I pull the cupcakes out, sliding the cake in I start the coffee pot and walk down the hall to see what Jax's is up to.

Pushing open the door to the Abel's room I can't hold in the laugh when I find him surrounded by the remains of one the hideous pictures his mother picked, is KA-bar still in his hand, the tip aimed towards the next painting.

"What the fuck did you do?"

Jax looks up to where I'm leaning against the doorframe "I don't know how the fuck it ended up in here but it's ugly. I wouldn't put any of them up here and I sure as shit am not putting them up in the new house, but if I didn't do something with them then Ma would have been insulted."

"So instead you shredded that one?" Shaking my head slowly I lean down and start picking up the bits of canvas from the floor. "How exactly are you going to explain that?"

"Umm, mice?" Jax says with a grin "Or careless movers. Oh I know, a table leg fell onto them and pierced a hole right through them all."

I snort at his made up excuse "If you think your mother will fall for that you've got an issue."

Jax shrugs "Oh well, we'll just pretend we forgot them when we moved or some shit. I love Ma but her taste and mine are so different."

I giggle and nod "I know baby, but you're better off being honest with her and telling her you don't like them."

Jax frowns "But she'll hate that I don't like them."

"Spare rooms!" I say with a grin "We'll put them up in the spare rooms, that way they're up and Gem can see them but we don't have to look at them every day and if we get a few different ones we can alternate with the ones we like and the ones she brought."

Jax nods "Sounds like a plan babe, we'll just tell her that one got damaged moving." Getting back to his feet he pushes a pile of boxes towards the rocking chair with a sigh.

Picking my way through the bits of canvas on the floor I slide my arms around him, linking my fingers over his stomach and leaning my head against his back "You okay?"

Wrapping his hand around mine he sighs again "Yeah, it's just a big thing."

"What?"

"Moving house. With having to sort out the shit we don't want here just makes it a bit harder getting it all done."

Pulling my hands out from under his I step around him so I'm looking up into his eyes "Jax, don't worry about it so much. You tell me not to stress. Well the new house won't be ready for at least a month. Even if we did a room every week we'd be done well and truly by then. And I'll bring Juice and Al in during the week and find out if they want any of the stuff we're not taking."

Jax chuckles "So all of it?"

I poke my tongue out at him inhaling a startled breath when he leans down and sucks it into his mouth, pushing his tongue into my mouth and kissing me with a heat that boarders on aggression.

Cocking an eyebrow when he pulls away "Told you what would happen if you did that."

I take several breaths to steady my heartbeat and grin "I'll have to remember that. But I have to go take some cupcakes out of the tray. You go back to whatever it was you were doing."

Jax shrugs, the leather of his kutte creaking a little "I was trying to work out if there's anything in here that we can pack up yet."

I glance around the room "I would say that you can take the letters off the wall, and the pictures down, Abel's not gonna notice them. Umm, other than that there's nothing we can really pack up in here cause we'll need it all when he comes home in 2 weeks."

Pulling me out of the room he closes the door behind us "I'm not taking the stuff off the walls, that painting you did will be the last thing that comes outta here when we go to the new place. And it'll go straight back up on the wall when we get there."

I smile up at him, my arm resting on his belt "Okay baby."

Jax leaves me in the kitchen and sits at the table pulling his gun out of the holster and leaving it sitting on the wooden surface, leaning through the door to the laundry he pulls an unfamiliar box with him and sets it on the table as well, pulling out the tin of gun oil he looks up startled when I stomp my foot at him.

"What?" Ejecting the clip he sets it on the table and watches with wide eyes as I pick up a few sheets from the pile of newspapers that Gemma had dropped off with the boxes.

"We may not be taking the table with us, but at least cover it before you get shit everywhere."

Jax laughs and sets the clip on the paper "Okay babe. Keep your panties on." Resting my hand on a cocked hip right by the stove he wiggles his eyebrows "Or not."