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Little Toy Bikers and a Woman on the Run
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Chapter 340 Worry, Worry, Worry
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Scarlett was almost positive she was borrowing trouble thinking that Jax might be Clay's son. Still, she couldn't shake the thought. There would be no way to get the idea out of her brain until she got their DNA tested. This was the last time she was going to let crazy thoughts cloud her happiness.
They stopped and picked up a blow up bed, bedding, towels and some other necessities. In addition to the furnishing, Jacob Hale was also leaving the washer and dryer in his condo.
"It's going to be so nice to not be living in a motel anymore," Scarlett said.
She had used the garage door opener that Jacob gave her with the keys to the condo to open the garage door so Jax could park her car. She closed the door behind them and unlocked the door.
"This is nice," Jax said looking around.
"It's kind of bland, but I'm just so happy that I don't have to get furniture."
The condo was done with beige furniture and white walls. Nothing to love and nothing to hate was the way Scarlett saw it. She could add little splashes of color and transform the look of the place.
The door opened into the kitchen and living area. There was a sliding glass door in the kitchen that opened on a small patio. On the other side, there was a small hall leading to a bathroom and another room. Scarlett was going to use that as a bedroom until she was more physically able to go upstairs. There was a larger master bedroom and a loft that Jacob had made into an office.
He'd left everything including flat screen TVs in the living room, downstairs room and upstairs master bedroom. The only things he took with him were household goods like dishes, cleaning supplies and bedding.
"The bed is going to go in the room downstairs. I've ordered a king sized bed for upstairs, but it isn't coming for a few days."
"Such a big bed," Jax said with eyes sparkling with mischief.
"I like a lot of room when I sleep."
"Just for sleeping?" he asked raising an eyebrow.
"Uh-huh," Scarlett said with a grin.
Jax carried the box the bed was in into what was going to be the downstairs bedroom. He was walking without crutches but he had a pronounced limp.
"I don't know if I have enough air to blow this thing up."
Scarlett laughed.
"It comes with this device that does that. It also sucks the air out too. This one is high like the height of a regular bed. If it was on the floor, I'd never be able to get out of it. I'm going to go wash the sheets."
The washer and dryer were out in the garage. She put the all white bedding in the washer and added detergent. By the time she returned to the bedroom, Jax already had the bed up and he was laying on it.
"I thought the blow up bed was kind of crazy, but I think this is more comfortable than my bed at home."
"It's great because you can make it softer or harder. The only thing is you have to put a blanket on it because the cold from the vinyl will come through and make you cold."
For dinner, they sat around the white kitchen table eating fried chicken, potato salad, Cole slaw iced teas with brownies for dessert. It was a tradition beginning with her father. Whenever they moved, they would always get fried chicken on their first night in a new place. She still followed the same tradition when she moved into her own place without her father.
"My dad's coming tomorrow for a couple of days."
"I was going to go to TM for awhile tomorrow."
"Can you come for dinner? My dad's making Thai food."
"Your dad knows how to make Thai food?"
"When I was thirteen, we took a couple of cooking classes together. We were kind of fighting a bit then and the cooking classes kind of helped bring us together."
"I'm not sure I've ever eaten Thai food. Just tell me what time."
"I'll call you."
Jacob and Scarlett transferred the utilities including the cable into her name. He'd made it as easy as possible for his tenant. Scarlett was sure that having David give her a reference had helped.
Jax and Scarlett watched DVDs in bed. Jax fell asleep early. Scarlett had drugged Jax with a heavy dose of sleeping pills in his iced tea.
She felt great guilt over what she'd done to him, but until she knew he wasn't her half brother, she couldn't get romantic with him.
It shouldn't take too long to get the DNA tests. Just a few days and she'd know. She was just being crazy, but she had this haunting feeling that she was right about Jax's paternity.