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Little Toy Bikers and a Woman on the Run
Chapter 244 Scarlett Rage
The walk back to the picnic table had done little to cool Jax's temper. Gemma was gone leaving Opie and Donna at the table alone.
"Did you get your key in Scarlett's ignition?" Opie asked with a grin.
"All the sun gave her a headache," Jax said sourly.
He wasn't about to admit in front of Donna that Scarlett left him to be with Hale. Motherfucker! This was humiliating. This didn't happen to Jax Teller.
Donna laughed.
"You do know that women get headaches," she said.
"First time for everything, brother," Opie said.
Jax shook his head and mumbled under his breath.
"Scarlett and Tara are really friends?" Opie asked his wife.
"I was surprised too when Tara told me. Tara's in a good place now. She met a new guy. He writes and illustrates children's books."
Jax and Opie exchanged glances and laughed. That was about as far away from an outlaw biker as Tara could get. He hoped that worked out for her.
"Sometimes girls like the quiet, shy, sweet guy," Donna said defensively. "You're like that."
"Yeah and I'm a biker," Opie said.
Jax and Opie laughed again. Jax could never imagine writing a child's story and drawing pictures to go with it. He preferred a more action oriented life.
"What was your part in the fake cat fight?" Jax asked Donna.
"Tara called and told me what they were thinking of doing. They hadn't figured out an ending and I suggested that I would just go over to them and clap."
"You could have told me," Opie said, a trace of annoyance in his voice.
"They weren't sure they were going to do it. Everyone kept watching us waiting for something to happen. Maybe now, everyone will let Tara live her life."
"She definitely made a statement," Opie said.
"Tara's grown up a lot over the years. She's not the crazy jealous, cat fighter anymore," Donna said.
"You're all about sisterhood," Jax suggested skeptically.
"Why can you guys be all about brotherhood, but women can't be about sisterhood? Women aren't all backstabbing bitches."
Jax lost interest in the idea Scarlett, Tara and Donna forming some sort of sisterhood. He doubted it would last and he wasn't sure he bought this new version of Tara. He had a more pressing problem—wondering what the hell Scarlett was doing with Hale right now.
"Mary and Piney are taking the kids for three days starting tomorrow. We're going to just get in the car and go somewhere," Opie said.
Jax was happy that Opie and Donna seemed to be close. His stretch in prison had tested their marriage. She only managed to visit him once a month when he was in Chino due to the drive.
Maybe it was about time to check out the crow-eaters and figure out which one was going to get lucky with him tonight.
He wondered if Hale were going to get lucky with Scarlett tonight. Son of a bitch! Surely she wouldn't sleep with him. She'd told him that he was the first man in four years whose touch hadn't made her skin crawl. Could she have been playing him?