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Chapter 472 Watching Scarlett

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When Jax got back to Scarlett's, the condo had the smell of home cooking. He wasn't sure what had been cooked but it smelled delicious. That was the thing he missed most about living at home—the smell of dinner cooking. Wendy hadn't been interested in cooking. It could have been her crank addiction, but they ate sandwiches a lot for dinner.

"Scarlett's in bed," Decker said as he let Jax into the condo. Jax had a key to use when no one was there to let him in, but he always knocked if someone were home.

Jax walked in and took a deep appreciative breath.

"Smells like a lot of good cooking."

"We spent a good chunk of the day cooking and we'll spend a lot of tomorrow cooking. Kip has been a lot of help," Decker said.

Sack puffed his chest out a little at the unexpected praise.

"I appreciate you and Scarlett making dinner for the club."

"Scarlett sat down at the bar and did a lot of the chopping. I wanted to do some big cooking days to get food into Scarlett's freezer since she still can't stand for long. It's nice spending time in the kitchen with my daughter."

"I'm looking forward to dinner tomorrow."

"Scarlett went to bed. I told Kip that you usually watched over Scarlett from her bed. I told him I didn't think this would be a good idea for him."

"Son of a bitch!" Jax exclaimed angrily fixing Sack with a hard look. "You thought you should watch over Scarlett from her bed?"

"No," Sack said quickly. "I would never do something like that."

"Are you saying Decker is a liar?" Jax demanded.

"Uh no . . . not at all," Sack said uncertainly.

Jax and Decker exchanged looks and laughed. Terrorizing the prospect was always fun. He liked that Decker had joined in.

"Get lost. Be back tomorrow at the same time unless I call you and change it."

"OK," Sack said quickly. He left.

Decker locked the door behind him.

"He's a pretty good guy," Decker said.

"Yeah, he is. He might make patch."

Decker sat down on an arm chair. Jax sat near him on the sofa.

"I wanted to ask you something about Scarlett. She's done so much for me, I want to do something really nice for her," Jax said.

He was hoping that her father would have some idea of something he could do to show Scarlett how much he appreciated her.

"Jax, Scarlett sees everything you do for her from the way you pick things up for her without her having to ask, to the way you hold out your arm to help her stand up. When she passed out that evening in her hotel room and you stopped at the convenience store to get her snacks, she remembers all that. It's the day to day kindnesses that you do that mean the most to her."

"I want to show her how much I appreciate her."

"Tell her. That's all she needs. If you want to give her flowers or something, wait awhile so it doesn't look like you're giving her flowers for making dinner for your club."

"It's not just that. She's helped me so much from dealing with the birth and death of the baby I thought was mine and found out wasn't to taking care of me when I got shot. I know it was hard on her physically but she insisted."

"That's how Scarlett shows love. It's who she is."

Jax nodded.

"Thanks for the insight. I'm looking forward to seeing more of you when you move to town."

"Don't worry I won't interfere with you and Scarlett."

"No, you've helped us. I know you told her about men not thinking with our heads when I lost my temper over the acupuncture guy in her motel room. That helped a lot. I wish my mother could be supportive like you are with Scarlett."

"Maybe in time, you can get to that place with your mother."

"Gemma has an unshakable belief that she is perfect and has no need to ever change."

"I have an unshakable belief in you."

Jax gave Decker a tired smile.

"Thanks. I'm going to bed. Got to watch Scarlett."

"See you in the morning."

Jax left Decker. He liked Decker. He would have enjoyed his visit a lot more if he could be romantic with Scarlett while Decker was in the condo. When he'd been in high school, he used to smuggle girls into his room and sneak into girls' rooms. It had never bothered him that parents were close by. He'd even sneaked Tara into his room a couple of times and sneaked into her room too.

With Scarlett, it was different. He just had too much respect for Decker to get romantic with Scarlett. He knew that Decker probably wouldn't mind, but he just couldn't do it. It wasn't completely rational, but it was how he felt.

Scarlett appeared to be asleep, but Jax wasn't buying it. She never went to sleep this early. He also took a shower when he got home from work. He liked to be clean when he got into bed. Scarlett was the same way.

Jax showered, brushed his teeth and got into bed. Scarlett's blonde hair was across her face, but Jax thought her eyes looked ever so slightly open.

"Great. Scarlett's asleep. I can use her computer to watch porn," Jax whispered softly to himself.

He moved her computer out of his way before he kissed her on the cheek.

"You knew I wasn't asleep. That's why you made the comment about watching porn."

"You didn't fool me for even a second."

"You're no fun anymore."

"I'll show you just how much fun I can be when your father's not around."

"I can hardly wait. Really, I can hardly wait."

Jax chuckled.