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Little Toy Bikers and a Woman on the Run
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Chapter 347 Fingers Issue
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Scarlett let Jax into the condo, led him into the kitchen where they took seats at the kitchen table sitting side by side. Scarlett's dad Decker was chopping onions.
"My back injury does have some advantages," Scarlett said with a smile. "I usually end up doing all the prep work, which when you cook Asian food is most of the work, but it's hard for me to stand for much longer than it takes to dice half an onion."
"Are you any good with a knife?" Decker asked Jax.
"Not a kitchen knife."
"I took a class that lasted six weeks learning knife skills a few years ago. There was a woman I thought might make Scarlett a good stepmother."
"Liar," Scarlett said. "If you were interested in a woman, it wasn't to make me a good stepmother."
"I heard you got shot."
"Yeah, I took some rounds including a couple to the vest. Saved my life thanks to you for giving it to me and Scarlett for reminding me to wear it."
"I brought you a new one. I wonder where I left it."
"You put it on my bed," Scarlett said tartly.
"Oh, yeah. That's right."
"Thanks," Jax said chuckling. "I appreciate it."
"I hope you can keep from getting shot for a little longer this time. Where did you get shot at?"
"The butt and the upper thigh," Jax said.
"I noticed you had a bit of a limp."
"I'll never forget that night. Scarlett came to the clubhouse and terrorized the guys."
Her father looked at her sternly.
"We've talked about your behavior."
"Dad you know my behavior is always . . ."
"On point," Scarlett and her father finished in unison.
"Remember what I told you. If you can't behave in MC clubhouses before long you'll get banned from all of them. What did you do this time?"
"This time?" Jax asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Scarlett has a history," her father said shaking his head sadly.
"I didn't do anything. Jax is just being dramatic."
"She threatened to break a bottle and jam it so far up his ass, he'd be spitting glass. She also told him she was going to shoot him."
"What did he do?"
"He almost killed Jax trying to dig out the bullets," Scarlett said.
"Did you have your gun with you?"
"Yes."
"Sorry Jax. I don't see the problem here. The guy was hurting you and Scarlett was going to stop him. She had her gun with her. I taught her to never threaten to shoot someone unless she had her gun with her. She did that."
"So how many clubhouses have you gotten banned from?"
Jax had suspected that she was playing him. She had a mischievous sparkle in her green eyes.
"Yours could be the first. That guy deserved what I said to him. He was drunk and he was trying to cut out bullets. He could have hit arteries or veins and Jax would have bled out," Scarlett frowned. "I just remembered something. He did cut you and you were bleeding. Why don't you tell my father how that worked out for you and the guy with the strange hair?"
Not only had she and her father played him, she'd maneuvered him into a situation where he would have to confess what had happened to him with Juice. She could barely keep herself from grinning at his discomfort. He was going to have to come up with some kind of payback.
"The guy that was trying to get the bullets out—he'd been a medic in the military until he got kicked out—needed to apply direct pressure to the shot area. The guy helping him needed to plug the holes."
Decker nodded.
"So that would mean that the holes would have been in either or both your leg or your butt," he said.
"It was great. The guy with the weird hair was worried that it was gay. Have you and that guy been able to make eye contact yet?" Scarlett asked with a big grin.
"It wasn't bad enough to get all shot up, but Scarlett and Tara were laughing over the . . . fingers issue," Jax said.
"It wasn't over you getting shot. It was that the guy was worried about it being gay," Scarlett said.
"That sounds fair enough to me," Decker said.
"My dad is never going to take your side over mine," Scarlett said.
Decker turned out to be a great cook and Jax discovered he liked the Thai noodle dish he'd made. It had ground pork, shrimp and eggs. What really made the dish were the chopped peanuts and lime wedges that garnished the dish. He'd tried the dish without the lime and it was great. He used a lime wedge over a portion of his serving and it tasted even better.
"Best Thai food I've ever had," Jax said.
"Sometimes I like to make this dish with just noodles and eat it cold," Scarlett said. "It's that combination of spices and that sauce."
Jax found himself enjoying the evening. There was an easy give and take between father and daughter. He fit in with them almost effortlessly.
He felt the strong bond of love between father and daughter. It was even more surprising because they weren't related by blood.