Worlds Collide

Hell Hath No Fury: Part 2.

Jax's POV:

"Have you seen Kar?" I asked as I walked up behind Tara, wrapping my arms around her waist as she stirred the massive pot of spaghetti sauce she had been working on all day. "She slipped out without Phil to make a run to mom's to grab the extra highchair and hasn't got back yet."

"No," said Tara, placing the spoon in the stovetop and turning in my arms, "but its not like her to be late. Want me to run over to your moms and make sure that she's okay?"

"No, you're busy here. I can run over there. Probably better for me to run interference with her and Gemma if that's what's holding her up. You and mom don't have the best track record with behaving when you two are together."

"I don't want to fight with you again about her but you know how I feel about her and how I see her. with that being said, can you blame me?" asked Tara, her chocolaty brown eyes locking with my blue ones. "I know she's your mom and but even you can see now what a menace she had been to all of our lives, Karli's included."

"I know." I sighed.

"Anyway, go find Kar and come right back. Everyone will be here soon." she said with a gentle smile.

No one knew it yet, but the purpose of tonight's get-together was so that we could finally tell everyone the secret that she and I had been holding onto for a couple months. Tara was pregnant and today marked the end of her first trimester meaning it was safe to let the cat out of the bag so to speak. I'd be lying if I said that I was just a little upset that mom wasn't going to be here when we told everyone, but I learned a long time ago that when it came to being let down and disappointed, my family were professionals at it.

Leaning forwards, I placed a quick kiss on Tara's lips as I slipped a hand down onto her still flat stomach. People who looked at her couldn't tell that she was pregnant but since I knew every inch of her body like a preacher knows his bible, I could see the subtle changes already taking place in her. "Be back as soon as I can. I'll call you as soon as I see what the hold-up is." I said, breaking the kiss.

"Okay but take someone with you." She said. "I know you can take care of yourself but I don't like you out alone right now."

"Yes ma'am." I smiled.

With one last kiss, I stepped out of her arms and began making my way into the bar area of the club house. Seeing Chibs, my VP, sitting there, I walked over and clasped his shoulder, making the Scotsman spin on his barstool. "Kar ain't back from moms yet and I have to go check on her, make sure her and mom aren't killing each other." I said, explaining what was going on. "Tara doesn't want me going alone. Want to go check things out?"

"Yeah." Said Chibs, standing from the barstool. "Got half a mind to tan Lil' Bit's arse for leaving without an escort."

"You and be both, brother." I said as the two of us walked out of the clubhouse. "I just hope that Kar hasn't killed Gemma."

"I'd rather her have killed Gemma than the alternative. With the home invasions still high and getting more violent by the day, I gotta be honest Jackie Boy, Lil' Bit being gone without an escort worries me." Said Chibs, always one to tell me what I needed to hear, even if it wasn't what I wanted to hear. Rage, whit-hot and all consuming, flowed though my veins as I thought about Chibs' words and the possibility that whoever was behind all of this had done something to my baby sister. If that was the case, there is no corner of the earth too remote for them to hide from me and the club. For my family, I'd travel to the ends of the earth to make whoever hurt one of them pay for their actions, jailtime bedamned.

"It does me too." I said, swinging a leg over my bike and grabbing my helmet from the handlebars as I tried to reign in my temper.

The roar of my bike turning over seconds before Chibs' filled the parking lot and the night air as I did something that I haven't done since the day Abel was kidnapped; I sent up a prayer for my sisters safety, begging the Lord above to make it where Karli had just gotten caught up at the house and lost track of time.