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Chapter 610 Scarlett Faces Punishment

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Jax was waiting for Scarlett when she got back to her condo. He gave her the kind of stern look that would cause a prospect to shit himself. It had no effect on Scarlett.

"You're in trouble with me," Jax said. He'd already removed his cut and hung it in the hall closet.

"I don't know why. My father told you about the roving band of prankster seamstresses."

"Uh-huh. I know your father would lie for you."

"Of course he would. He's my dad. That doesn't mean he's lying."

Jax remembered Dec's words that if Scarlett had done something to him, he'd probably deserved it. He racked his brain trying to think of anything he might have done to have earned his clothes sabotage. Nothing. She had no reason and she was still in trouble with him.

"Prankster seamstresses?"

"Truth can be strange. Look at politics now. It's late. Why don't we discuss this in the bedroom."

"Distracting me won't work," he warned grimly.

"I wouldn't dream of it."

He followed Scarlett into the bedroom trying to focus on the discussion at hand. He knew if she started to take her clothes off, he would get distracted; fortunately she made no effort to strip. Well, maybe not so fortunately.

"Why don't we assume just in an imaginary world that you did sabotage my poor innocent clothes?"

"Just in a game of imagine, I can do that."

"So why would you do something like that?"

"Much how the MC is all about retaliation, I too am all about retaliation. Now, you tossed Kohn through a window and followed him through it. You had some cuts and eventually you got some SpongeBob band-aids."

"I remember," Jax said. He would never forget that dark day when a little boy pointed at him laughing and saying "SpongeBob onna face". It was the kind of moment a lesser man might have required therapy to overcome.

"You punished me by withholding your special melt my bones kisses and then you turned around and put Disney princesses on Happy's face when he was chasing Esai Alvarez and slid under a four wheeler and was in the hospital."

Jax chuckled at the memory of seeing Disney princesses dancing across Happy's face. There might be more than a touch of hypocrisy in what he and the guys did to Happy.

"And that's why you deserve retaliation and the best kind is sometimes delayed until you least expect it."

"The difference here is Happy was only seen in the hospital while I was seen out in public."

"Happy was a sick man. He nearly lost his life for the club and you all pay him back by putting Disney princesses on his face not once but continually."

Scarlett was good. She'd neatly countered his defense. This was the problem with old ladies with sharp minds.

"The point is you should not have tampered with my clothes and there will have to be punishment."

"Do you have any proof?"

"This isn't a court of law and I don't need proof. I'm not going to wait to punish you. Beginning tomorrow morning, there will be no melt your bones kisses or sex for twenty-four hours. There will be no discussion. My punishment is final."

"I was a very bad girl," Scarlett admitted softly. "Surely your punishment is far too lenient. I think maybe it should start now and last for two days instead." Her blue-green eyes sparkled mischeviously.

"I'll decide on your punishment without any help from you," Jax said sternly pointing his finger at her. "You spend the rest of today thinking about your actions and then you will be punished tomorrow."

"Yes, Jax," Scarlett said with a suitably contrite expression on her face.

"There will be no repeat sabotaging of my clothes or there will be a much worse punishment in your future."

"You've been very fair with me."

Jax wasn't sure why but he didn't feel like he'd won that round with Scarlett, but maybe Dec was right about letting it go.