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Little Toy Bikers and a Woman on the Run
Chapter 171 Rebirth
Tara had spent the past couple of days wallowing in misery, heartbreak and alcohol. She let herself cry her eyes out. Normally she didn't allow herself to cry. It was a sign of weakness and she hated feeling weak.
She'd earned the right to cry this time. It had taken a lot of courage to go to Jax and tell him she wanted to give their relationship another chance. It had also taken a lot of courage and even more foolishness to ask him to have sex with her one last time. The rejection still stung.
Now, this was the beginning of the new reborn Tara. She showered, washed her hair and flat-ironed it into a glossy mahogany curtain. She carefully applied her make-up to play up her eyes and her warm brown eye color.
Next, she put on a pair of tight jeans and a sleeveless amber colored V-neck top that showed just a trace of cleavage because that was all she had to show. She stood back and looked at herself in the mirror. This was about as good as she could look without adding another inch of make-up, false eyelashes and a push-up bra.
She grabbed her brown leather shoulder bag and headed out the door to Fun Town. It was one of the few instances when fun came to Charming. Residents normally had to venture outside the city's boundaries for fun, movies, shopping and life.
She still hated that smallness and the inability to find anything beyond the basic necessities in town. There were no major grocery store chains, fast food restaurants, office supply supercenters or hardware stores. That was something that hadn't changed in the ten years she'd been gone.
It was all part of Charming's plan to "stay Charming". That was the official city motto. The unofficial motto was no growth, no violent crime and SAMCRO was the unofficial enforcer of that motto. If the city grew, SAMCRO would lose sway and might have to obey the same laws as the residents of Charming.
The lawless part of Jax's life had been hard for her to swallow at first. She'd been raised to be a good little rule follower, but falling in love with Jax changed her, got her to see that life wasn't black and white and rules were made by the powerful to keep the weak in check.
Almost everyone in town made it to Fun Town during it's four day stay. She knew she might run into Jax and probably Scarlett, but she couldn't hide forever and she couldn't make friends with Scarlett from inside her father's house.
She hoped that it wouldn't end in a brawl with Gemma. That woman was such a hateful bitch. Gemma had hated her at first sight. She smiled as she thought of how much Gemma was going to hate Scarlett. It would be a point they could bond over.
Next Up: Scarlett meets daddy Clay and Jax is tested.