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Little Toy Bikers and a Woman on the Run
Chapter 10 Wait
Jax left messages on Scarlett's cell phone's voice mail and her motel room's voice mail. He rode by her motel. Her car didn't look like it had been moved. It was still parked in the exact same spot.
He went home and downed a beer before jumping in the shower. He couldn't shake his fear that something had happened to Scarlett.
He could easily have dismissed his fear as being irrational, but a little over two months ago, a woman he knew had been found dead. It took him a moment to remember her name—Violet and her face—a pretty brunette with gray eyes.
They had been together a couple of times and then she disappeared. He thought she had left town and not given her another thought until he heard from Unser about her body being found.
That kind of stuff seemed to happen too often these days. Some girl meets up with the wrong guy who kills her, but Violet hadn't been in the high risk hooker/stripper group. She was just a nice girl who worked as a nanny and visited the Sons' clubhouse occasionally. Murder wasn't supposed to happen to girls like her.
Since she'd died in the county, the sheriffs were investigating. They couldn't be doing much about her murder since they hadn't talked to him or anyone in SAMCRO. It could be the killer was an ex of Violet's. He couldn't recall her mentioning an ex, but everyone had an ex.
He checked his cell phone to see if Scarlett had called while he'd been in the shower. Nothing. There was probably a logical explanation.
He forced himself to think of someone other than Scarlett—Tara. She shouldn't have come back to Charming. She had always hated the town and its smallness. He could only think of one reason for her to return to Charming—him. She had decided after ten years that she wanted him back. He knew Tara too well to believe anything else.
The three years they had spent as a couple had been great most of the time and horrible some of the time. She'd made a choice to leave and he'd made it clear to her that they were done for good. He had been dead serious about that.
Over the ten years they had been apart, his heart healed and his love for her that had once burned so passionately had turned to ashes. There was nothing there anymore. He just didn't care. He hoped Tara would leave town. He didn't hate her, but he also didn't want to make a place for her in his life.
Scarlett was right when she told him that men and women can't be friends. He could see that with Tara. If he and Tara tried to be friends, she would think it meant she could get him back. It wasn't going to happen. The past was in the past. They had no future. He didn't want to hurt her, but he didn't owe her his love. He wasn't going to get back together with her just to keep from hurting her feelings. She was the one who gave up on them.
Jax left another message on Scarlett's cell's voice mail asking that she call him even if she never wanted to see him again. He added that he just wanted to make sure she was OK.
He ought to be getting drunk with his brothers and banging crow-eaters, but all he could think about was Scarlett and the naked body of a blonde woman.
He had to find out whether or not Scarlett was still alive. He was going to bang on her motel room's door until she opened it. If he got no answer . . .
He'd figure out what he was going to do if that happened.