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Little Toy Bikers and a Woman on the Run
Chapter 217 Scarlett Danger
Clay watched Jax hold court with the MC. The guys were still riding high after the TV news interview at the clubhouse for saving Oswald's kid from getting raped. Gemma had gone into a frenzied overdrive before the news crew showed up drafting crow-eaters and friends of the club to help give the place a good cleaning.
He tried to tell her that no one expected at MC clubhouse to be immaculate, but he'd given up. It wouldn't hurt the clubhouse to get a good cleaning and the guys didn't have to do anything other than be a little inconvenienced.
His time on camera for that interview had been reduced to seconds now that the more photogenic and younger Jax Teller was available. He knew he was being a little unfair to Jax since Jax had actually been the one leading the guys when they beat the shit out of a bunch of kiddie rapists. He wished it had been him, but he got that Jax had to act quickly to save the kid. It was all good because Elliott Oswald owed the MC big and the positive press was great for the club's image.
Jax was smart. He knew exactly how to play the hero with the news media while keeping up the image of an outlaw biker. Once Clay found out the news station was sending a woman for the interview, he knew Jax would work his magic on the woman. He'd never seen a woman resist Jax successfully.
After the interview was over, he saw the woman whisper something in Jax's ear and she went into the bathroom with him. They emerged a short time later. The woman's lipstick was freshly re-applied. Clay had seen it too many times to miss the signs. He wondered if the woman appreciated the clean floor she had just been kneeling on. Clay needed to focus on his problems and not his stepson's sex life.
Right now, the only thing he knew about Bucky was he wasn't dead. He would take care of getting Bucky killed, but for now, he needed to focus on his probable daughter, Scarlett.
He needed to get rid of her as soon as possible. All she would have to do was walk into Hale's office and tell him how she watched him kill her mother and he'd get his ass locked up. He didn't know why she hadn't gone to the police. Maybe she was planning to shake him down for money or she was planning some other form of revenge. She could even be planning to kill him.
He decided it didn't matter why she wasn't going to the police. She was the tie to her mother's murder. Once he killed her, he would never have to worry about getting arrested for Eden's murder again.
There was another advantage to killing Scarlett; it would hurt Jax. He wouldn't kill the girl just to hurt Jax. He wasn't some crazy killer. He killed only when it was important to his or the MC's safety. Scarlett needed to die and the sooner the better.
Next: Jax shows up drunk with Half-Sack at Scarlett's hotel.