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Little Toy Bikers and a Woman on the Run
Chapter 32 Relationship
With his wide experience with women, Jax thought he had been with just about every type of woman imaginable until he met Scarlett. He couldn't figure her out.
Each time he saw her the mystery deepened. One moment she was flirtatious and the next she acted like a buddy. He didn't get it. He wondered what was going inside her brain. What did she want out of their relationship?
Wait a minute. What the hell had just happened? He was thinking about Scarlett and now he was wondering what she wanted out or their relationship. What relationship?
At most, he and Scarlett had a friendship. He'd never been friends with a woman before, well, except Tara.
He and Tara had been friends first, but a lot of that was their ages. They had only been sixteen and he took things slow with her. Falling in love with Tara had been an amazing, unforgettable experience.
Everyone assumed that he and Tara broke up because she left town to go to college. It wasn't true. They had broken up because they didn't fit together anymore. It was something that evolved over time until, at the end; there were endless fights over the smallest things. The relationship had just run its course. She left town because their relationship was over.
It had been easier to let everyone believe they split up because she wanted to go to college. He didn't want to look like a whiney little bitch and expose all their problems. He'd done the honorable thing and never said a bad word about Tara.
When he saw her the previous day, all the terrible parts of their relationship came flooding back as he listened to her bragging about college and her surgery career. She hadn't asked him a single question about his life. She was still as self-involved as she had been at nineteen.
There was just emptiness where his love for her used to be. It didn't make him feel sad. He didn't feel anything. He was free of any hold she had on his heart. That freedom did make him happy.
Scarlett was probably right; he should tell Tara that there was no chance of a future for them. Like most men though, he hated emotional discussions. He would give it some time and see what Tara did next.
Scarlett was taking up all the space in his head. It felt like he thought of her constantly, yet he never got tired of thinking about her. He couldn't believe that he'd met a woman that he enjoyed spending time with despite knowing that it wasn't going to lead to sex.
Maybe he was getting old or he just needed to bang more crow-eaters. What he was experiencing with Scarlett couldn't be normal, but he had no intention of not seeing her again. Thinking about her made him smile. Now, he was starting to sound like a stupid, sappy loser.
Just about anything was better than thinking about Wendy. A crow-eater who worked at a pawn shop stopped by the clubhouse to tell him that his soon-to-be ex had pawned her engagement and wedding rings. He knew that not only was Wendy back in town, she was using again. It wasn't the first time she'd pawned the rings for crank. This time, he wasn't going to redeem them for her.
He had wired the money to a rehab place in Arizona because he knew if he'd given her money, she would have blown it all on crank. If she didn't go to rehab, the facility was supposed to refund him the money. He wanted that provision because he knew Wendy would get a refund and then use until she ran out of money.
He was going to have to track her down. She couldn't use while she was pregnant. The kid was going to come out all kinds of screwed up. Having Wendy for a mother would be enough of a challenge for any kid. He wasn't sure what kind of father was going to make either. No wonder he preferred to think about Scarlett.
On top of everything, there was drama with the club. The Mayans stole the guns from their warehouse and torched it. He and Chibs were trying to figure out where the Mayans had stored their guns. They had to get them back because the Niners had bought and paid for them.
Jax called Gemma and asked her to track down Wendy before she did anymore damage to their unborn baby. When he found her, he was going to flush all her crank. At least, he could keep some of it from harming the baby.