Chapter 23 is here! Enjoy and as always, please review, I love to hear what you guys think!

I was woken up out of my slumber to the faint sound of draws opening. I opened my eyes slowly to see Jax with a curious look on his face.

"If you're looking for your sweatshirt, It's in the laundry room. I washed everyone's clothes last night."

He turned around and climbed on the bed. He gave me a light kiss.

"Thanks babe."

"You're welcome. Where are you going so early?"

"A blood drive. The club take part in it every year."

"Really?," trying to hide my surprise in my tone.

"Hey, we're not just outlaw bikers, babe. We like to give back to the community," he replied with a smile on his face.

"Whatever you say," I responded playfully.

His face turned serious for a minute, and he took my hand in his and started stroking it lightly.

"What is it?"

"Jules, when I come back, I want to show you how to use a gun."

My body instantly stiffened. The word gun itself scared me.

"Really?"

"Yeah. In a matter of days, I almost lost you due to a gun. What if I'm not here and something happens again? I want you to be prepared."

"Okay."

He got off the bed and went to the closet. He pulled out a shoebox and revealed a large number of guns.

"Jesus Jax."

"I know. "

He picked up the second his eyes fell on and handed it to me.

"These are half yours, but I want this one on you at all times."

Ya know, any normal woman would have bailed on this relationship right there and then. Having to walk around with a gun because her man has too many enemies? But, not me. I wanted to stick by him. I couldn't even think about leaving him. I guess he has a kind of hold on me too. Keeping me in this relationship no matter how dangerous it gets.

"Okay."

"Really? You're okay with this?"

"I am, believe it or not. If it keeps me and our kids safe, then yeah."

Jax nodded and looked at the alarm clock next to my side of the bed.

"I gotta go, babe. All times, okay?"

"Yes, VP."

And rounded to my side of the bed and gave me a quick kiss. Within two minutes, he was gone. Leaving me, Abel, and Shayna.

I got out of bed to check on the both of them.

Abel was still fast asleep. I leaned over the crib and placed a gentle kiss on his head. Just from looking down the hallway, I saw the blanket Shayna was using was perfectly folded up.

No.

To see if my assumption was right, I went to the living room.

I was right. She was gone. She left a note on the living room table next to a pack of Jax's cigarettes.

Julia, I'm sorry I showed up the way I did.

You have a lot on your plate to begin with, and don't need me added to it.

I'll call you soon.

Love, Shayna.

I knew exactly where she was. She went back to that asshole boyfriend. I crumpled up the note in anger and threw it. I went back into my bedroom and got my pocketbook, containing my cell.

I scrolled to the name Wayne Unser and pressed call.

He answered on the first ring.

"Hello?"

"Hi, Wayne Unser. It's Julia Carter."

"Oh, hi honey. How are you doing?"

"I'm okay, thanks for asking. I need a favor."

"Sure, what is it?"

"I need an address."

"For who?"

Shit. I remember Shayna told me his name when I check on her late last night. What the hell is his name?

"You still there?"

"Yeah. It was Marques..Fuller. Marques Fuller."

"Okay, no problem. I'll get to it."

Shayna stood by the Welcome sign, keeping her eye out for that back truck of Marques's. After a half hour or so, Marques pulled up by Shayna, almost hitting her. He rolled down his window.

"Really, asshole?"

"Easy, baby. You called me, remember?"

"I know I did."

"You getting in or what? I don't have all fucking day."

Shayna just stood there, contemplating what she should do.

"No."

"No?"

"Yeah, you fucking deaf? No. It was a mistake calling you."

She started walking back to Charming.

Marques got out of the car.

"I told you, you never say no to me."

"Looks like I just did."

I started making coffee. Might as well since I was awake. All of the sudden, the door busted open, making me drop the coffee container. It broke all around my feet. The loud sound woke up Abel and he started crying. A man was standing in my doorway with the white mask I will never get out of my head that day I saw the video.

"Remember me?"

"Please... please don't hurt me."

He charged at me throwing me over the kitchen table. He came around the wooden table and leaned over me and wrapped his hands around my throat.

"I was going to use my gun to put you out of your misery. But you, you deserve a slow, painful death. Maybe this will get your boyfriend's attention."

I moved my knee and thrusted upwards, hitting him in the groin, making him fall off of me. I got up and got my cell on the counter, calling Jax. He would make it faster than the police would.

I hit the call button.

Jax answered the phone.

"Hey Jules, is everything okay?"

All he heard was glass breaking and Julia screaming. Jax hung up the phone with a look of fear and went pale within seconds.

"What is it, Jackie?", Chibs asked.

"Someone's in my house."

"What?", Clay asked, actually feeling concern for once.

Jax didn't answer and drove off on his bike, with Chibs and Opie immediately following him.

Clay nodded at the rest of the group.

"You heard him. Let's go."

Tig just looked at him in confusion.

What made him change about how he felt about Julia?

The white masked man grabbed the back of hair and hit my head against the countertop, making a gash by my hairline. The dizziness took over me. I dropped the phone and he kicked it across the room. I fell to the floor, making a loud thud. I slightly turned my body around slightly. I was laying in the glass from the coffee pot, no doubt cutting my back up. He grabbed the biggest knife possible and pulled me up halfway.

"I read what happened to you. Some bitch tried to shoot you in the stomach because you were pregnant. She obviously didn't finish the job. But you don't have to worry about me. Cuz I will. "

My hand grabbed a piece of the coffee pot glass and stabbed him on the side of his neck with it, causing blood to go everywhere. I kept stabbing him until he fell off of me. I had a hard time breathing and blood covered both of my hands. Tears were falling freely. Abel's crying broke me out of the trance. I ran into the room. I dropped the piece of Glass and picked him up, not remembering my hands were stained with blood. I lightly started rocking him in my arms trying to calm down.

It looks like I wasn't the only one who heard the noise.

A ton of cop cars and an ambulance pulled up in front of the house.

Jax was the first to get there, following the club. He got off his bike and tried running to the front door. A new police officer to the force tried stopping him. Unser saw he was holding Jax back.

"Let me through, asshole! I live here! My family is in there!"

Unser yelled at the new officer.

"Let him through!"

The cop moved the side, getting a forceful shove from Jax. Jax saw a man in the white mask on the kitchen floor, not moving a muscle. Blood still pouring from his neck. He heard Julia's voice from Abel's room.

He ran into Abel's room and saw Julia holding Abel close to her, refusing to talk to anyone till Jax came. Jax moved through the paramedics and Julia stood up out of the rocking Chair. Jax threw his arms around her and Abel.

"You okay?"

"No."

Jax pulled away for a split second.

"You still have that packed bag from our postponed vacation?"

I just nodded.

"Once you get cleaned up, you and Abel are coming with me to the clubhouse. "

The rest of the club came into the house. The investigators by the man's body pulled off the mask gently.

"Holy shit," Clay said, dropping his helmet.

"It's Weston," Bobby added.

Gemma stopped by to check on Julia. When she saw the cop cars and the clubs' bikes, her heart sank.

Is she dead? Is Abel?

The cops held her back. She saw Clay standing by the door.

"Clay! Is everyone okay!", Gemma asked through her tears.

He didn't answer her and just walked over.

"Yeah, Julia and Abel are fine. Julia's shaken up."

"What happened?"

"Zobel's right hand man tried killing her, which led to her actually killing him."

Gemma swallowed impossibly hard. Jax and the rest of the club came over to where Gemma and Clay were.

"They're cleaning her up now," Jax stated, his paleness still visible.

"These assholes won't stop, Clay. Especially now," Tig jumped in.

"I know. That is why we are going on lockdown. It's only a matter of time before this happens to other families."

Gemma nodded.

"Before we do, there is something you two should know. Meet me at the house in ten minutes."