The Dangerous Curves Series

Chapter 14

Aidan leaned back, crossed his large arms. It was crystal clear that what Jax wanted more than anything was to see Sarah again, and the necklace was the perfect excuse. Sadly, the man wasn’t really known for his relationship skills, so he maybe needed some encouragement. But Aidan was going to play with him a bit first; it was almost always slow between ten a.m. and two p.m. and he was firmly in the dead zone.

“Well. Her car’s still out in the lot. I can always break in, and leave the necklace on the front seat.”

Jax glared at the reasonableness of that suggestion. He racked his brains to find an objection. “Uh. I don’t want you to break into her car.”

Aidan grinned to himself. Jax had never had a problem with his hard-won skills before, and had made good use of them on far more than a single occasion. “OK. Well, you know her address, right? You can mail it to her. Like, in the post.”

Jax was stumped. “Yeah. I guess I could.”

Aidan waited a few seconds. “Or…”

Jax looked up.

“…you could always just drive on over there and drop it off.” Aidan uncrossed his arms. “Deliver it in person.”

Jax was silent.

“What?” Aidan said. “Any reason why you don’t want to do that?”

“I don’t know.” Jax stared at his hands. “Something… something’s weird over there.”

“Weird how?”

Jax explained, and Aidan listened, mystified. When Jax had finished talking, Aidan was intrigued.

“Well, I think you need to go over there and see what’s what, don’t you? Make sure she’s OK.”

“You think?”

“I do.” Aidan took Jax’s empty coffee cup. “Look, I don’t believe for one second she has a husband. I mean, she has a recent ex-boyfriend, right? And Red doesn’t strike me as the cheating, lying kind. It must be something else, and maybe we can help.”

“Help?” Jax said.

“Yeah,” Aidan said. “Wouldn’t you help her if you could?”

“Yeah.”

“So, go, man.” Aidan resisted the urge to shove Jax’s stubborn ass out the door. “Go see her. You know you really want to.”

Jax glared. “I’m busy right now.”

“Like hell you are,” Aidan said. “Go on, Stud. Go see Red.”

Jax glared some more, but he got to his feet.

Aidan grinned.

Just call me the Love Doctor.

****

Jax pulled up outside Sarah’s house and lowered the motorcycle kickstand. He reclined on the bike for a few seconds, just looking around. He spotted a group of teenagers lounging around the vacant lot, and made eye contact with each and every one of them. They tried to give back as good as they were getting, but Jax was an expert at the ferocious stare-off. They backed down pretty damn quick, and he got off his bike then, sure that nobody was going to lay a finger on it.

He walked up the narrow path to the porch steps, taking in the gardening efforts. It looked like someone actually cared about the state of the grass – such as it was – and had tried to plant a few flowers. It was pretty grim, but Jax was sure that it had been Sarah’s handiwork. His heart squeezed at the thought of her giving a damn about such a bleak and depressing patch of earth.

He got to the door and hesitated. You still have time to get out of here, man. Just leave the necklace in the mailbox and bolt. And even as he had the thought, his hand was reaching up to knock on the door.

The door swung open, and Sarah stood there. She looked completely, totally shocked to see him there, and despite his own tension and uncertainty, he smiled at her. She looked beautiful in jeans and a blue t-shirt that picked up those incredible eyes, and Jax wanted to run his hands over her breasts, pull her in tight and close, lick her pink lips. Both sets.