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"Aren’t you going to hug e "Not until you tell aze is shifty, her body twitchy, like she’s either afraid or on so--maybe both "What, I can’t stop by to see my son?"

"Stop by to see your son?" Jas states incredulously "You’re the one who calledto kill you"

She plucks the cigarette from her dry lips, and a cloud of smoke circles her face "Is that why you caht you were dead," Jax snaps in the harshest tone I’ve ever heard him use "Aunt Julie thinks you’re dead, too"

She rolls her eyes melodramatically "Your Aunt Julie is overdramatic"

"So are you, apparently" He waves his hand in her direction "Because here you are, clearly fine"

She pops the end of the cigarette into her mouth

I don’t kno, but I have a feeling she’s about to say so seriously messed up Perhaps because of her soulless expression

"I lied," she divulges as she puffs sed the whole call so you’d co for me I knew there was no way in hell you’d come for the real reason I would have probably tracked you down sooner, but my phone’s been disconnected for a while… I wasn’t even sure you were here yet, but I ran into Melinda and sure enough, she saidfor e shockwaves through his body as he lets out a sequence of curse words Then he spins to the side and bashes his fist into the wall, startling the living daylights out of ry I just want to hold hih I don’t know if it will

"Jax" I try to soothe hiain and his knuckles split open "Just caler in his eyes si at him in horror

I’m sorry, hehis injured hand against his chest "I fucking knew it I knew there was probably more to that call Yet, I came here like a sucker"

"You always did care too arette "And trust is your biggest fault" She givescaring and trusting is the worst thing in the world

"What do you want?" Jax growls before she can say anything else

She puffs on her cigarette "A thousand dollars"

A condescending laugh rings fro serious right now? Or are you just high?"

Set it, I’ll--"