Chapter Thirty-Eight Beating the crap out of Gianna had not been a good idea, but it sure had felt good. It made things worse with Jax, though. The word about my fight with Gianna must’ve gotten back to him, because he hadn’t shown up at Jitters with his high school class. Lou was surprised when Jax didn’t come around the coffee shop for the third week in a row. I wasn’t. Jax was avoiding me. The only time I’d see him was in class. He swept in and out of the classroom, always under the department head’s watchful eye. Caroline laughed when I had called and told her what I’d done. She’d had flown back to Boston right after Jax kicked me out and was pissed that he didn’t tell her about it until after she’d left. Nothing she said to Jax could convince him that our relationship deserved a sec

