"Jax" I spoke feeling the side of the bed dip in as his large body slipped in behind me to hold me. It had already been such a long night all I wanted was to rest.
"What time is it?" I mumbled looking over to the bed side table to see the analog alarm clocks bright red numbers read 3:05 am. Sighing I sat my head back down on the pillow and rolled over to face him.
Only it wasn't him...
Kohn lay their in our bed looking right at me. His sickening smug smile spread wide across his face.
"JAX!!!!" I started to panic not being able to breath as the tightening sensation in my chest became worse.
Kohn quickly grabbed me by my throat and pinned me to the mattress. " Not so tuff without prince charming, aye princess?" He questioned as he squeezed harder on my neck.
"JACKSON!!" I thrashed about as I tried to scream. My mind running a mile a minute as I fought to get out from his grasp. He chuckled darkly before leaning in to place his lips on mine.
I scrunched up my face in discussed and shook my head back and forth trying to stop him from kissing me again. As he went back in for another kiss I bit down hard on his lip causing it to gush blood as he backed off. "Stupid Bitch!" He screamed back before turning away from me to wipe it on his shirt.
In his fit of rage he cocked back his arm and decked me right across the face my nose spewed out blood as I became dizzy.
"Jax..." I called out
"Jax...."
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"Nick"
"Nick"
"Nicole wake up." Jax spoke as he grabbed a hold of my trembling body. "Nicole baby, it was a bad dream I'm here." He whispered into my hair as he pulled me up into his lap from the bed.
"It felt so real Jax....he was there...he was all over me." I cried as I burrowed my face deeper into his tee shirt.
"I'm so sorry baby." He whispered as he lifted my face from his shirt and gently kissed at my still swollen lip. " Your lip looks better today."
"Your such a horrible liar." I replied as I poked at my lip with my fingers. It was still obviously swollen but it didn't feel as sore as the other day. Standing to look in the mirror above the dresser I raked my hands threw my messy hair and took in my appearance.
My lip was still slightly bruised but no longer looked as bloated as it was before. Now it didn't look like I held a marble in my mouth. My eyes were dark and sunk in from the harsh night of no sleep as bags now formed under them.
"I like to think I'm a pretty good liar." Jax chuckled as he slipped his strong tattooed arms around my waist before nibbling at my neck.
" I look like shit and you still want to get some?" Looking up in the mirror I watched his blue eyes meet my reflection. "Damn you must be in love with me."I muttered.
"You have no idea sweetheart." He uttered before he kissed the side of my face and spun me around to face him.
His hands gripped at my waist as he pulled me into his body and kissed my lips again. Resting our foreheads together as we pulled back from the kiss he sighed. " I got some club shit to handle that I don't want to do but we got to get Cameron straight if we want to even think of moving on with new business with the Irish."
" Go, I'll be fine here I promise. I'll find my mom and Donna to hang out with, but what about Able?" I questioned as I watched him pull on his cut.
"Sacks watching the kid. I told him to call you if anything comes up he'll come get you. Your not going back out there alone."
" Trust me I don't want to."
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" Oh thank god your here! I thought I was about to slap a crow-eater" Donna said as she ran over to hug me.
"And start all the fun without me?" I laughed as I squeezed the short brunette with all my might. We pulled back from embracing each other and looked around at the crowded bar. Their was member every where from every charter not to mention the hang arounds, crow-eaters and sweet-butts to boot.
"Where's the kids?" I question taking in the lack of her two miniature shadows. "Their with Piney, figured he would spend some quality time with them while we were here since he's always up at the cabin." Donna answered as she wrapped her arm threw mine to lead us outdoors.
It was so much more quieter outside compared to how obnoxiously loud the club house was. Not that the noise wasn't something Nicki was accustomed to having spent her fair share partying with Jax when the club had cookouts, but this was different. Everyone here knew something serious had to of happened to put the mother charter on lock down and bring sister charters in. Most Old ladies didn't know but Nicole was just happy that their wasn't an attempt to blow Jax's head off or else maybe the both of them would have been dead that weekend.
"So what's going on?" Donna questioned as the two sat down on the picnic tables outside. Lighting up a cigarette I looked over towards her and tilted my head to the side in confusion. " I thought you didn't wanna hear about club shit."
" No you know I don't really care about club shit, I wanna know what's going on with you?" She leaned in and grabbed my hand as she spoke. " Nicole you look exhausted."
"Been dealing with a bunch of bullshit D." I said as the cigarette smoke exhaled out my mouth as I rubbed the sides of my forehead.
"Let me guess, Tara ?" She questioned already knowing the answer. " Isn't it always." I answered taking another drag of my cigarette.
" Her fucked up ex I told you about was one of the God Damn feds looking into the club. Motherfucker broke into our house trashed Ables room- "
" Not to mention he started to stalk you." My mom answered as she walked over to where we were sitting balancing three whine glasses in her hand. Her purse hung off her shoulder slightly weighed down by the bottle of Pino Grigio she had in it.
"Anyways the creeps gone never to be heard from again." I carried on before tossing away my cigarette.
If only you knew... My brain echoed as I staired between the two women.
" I am so grateful for that. " My mom spoke as she poured us out three glasses of wine. " So what's this I heard from one of my girls that you forced your way into Tara's house and beat her ass?" She question quirking up her eyebrow at me.
" I didn't beat her ass- "
"Yet" Donna snorted as she laughed sipping on her wine. " I just went an told her that I wasn't going to tolerate her shit coming into my life anymore."
" So you didn't vandalize her car?" My mom pondered as she downed her own glass of wine. "Or was that exaggeration to?"
"Y'all know me..." I answered before sipping on my own glass. "I shattered the front windshield of her car." I lowly muttered as I went in for another sip of my wine as the two females in front of me laughed.
The roar of Harleys came closer as the three women came to the end of their wine bottle. As the front gate slowly opened Donna,Nicole, and Luann watched as as Jax and Opie's bikes drove in escorting a familiar black cutlass.
Irritatedly Nicole rolled her eyes and gripped her wine glass hard in her hand before throwing back the last swallow of wine she had. Tara was the last person she wanted to see to say the least. It was obvious that she completely ignored her warning. Fortunately for her Nicole knew that if she had to have been escorted by sons into a locked down club house there was a reason for her to be there. Although regardless of that reason it still didn't help Nicole's attitude.
Tara stepped out of her car and glanced over at Nicole before waving and following Opie inside the clubhouse. " So I'm guessing this is the club shit you didn't want to deal with." I huffed out as Jax came up to the three of us.
"Nick she's here for business and then she's gone. You can kick her out yourself if you want to when she's done." He ushered out as he leaned up against the picnic table. " Good, because I was going to do that with or without your permission. Now if you excuse me I have a whore to go talk to."
Angrily Nicole's heals clicked across the parking lot as she approached the club house door. Many old ladies already knowing her and how her attitude was parted like the Red Sea upon her entrance. They all knew she was going for Tara and so did every local club member.
Leaning up against the bar she waited until Clay finished talking to Tara before she approached her. Grabbing her by the back of that stupid little ponytail before dragging her into the kitchen.
" Owww." Tara squealed trying to jerk my hand away before I released her hair. "Maybe I wasn't clear enough to get it through that thick head of yours but, I'm done with your shit and Jax is done with your shit. You do what you need to do here and you leave." Smugly Tara smiled before inching forward to get into my face.
" If you haven't noticed the club need's because I'm the only one who can help." She breathed out as she crossed her arms across her chest.
"You're exactly right they need you here they don't want you here. Don't even try to take it as you're welcomed. So like I said before you do your job you leave and you don't come back."