Blood vs. Loyalty

Sovereign

Jax stood in the doorframe of the bathroom, watching Holly in the shower, listening to her singing to herself, their song playing through the waterproof speaker she'd bought for herself for in the shower. He was lucky and he knew it. He knew he was on thin ice after cheating on her, but he had an amazing woman on his side, three great kids and his club was doing well. He smiled to himself as he took off his clothes, stepping into the shower. He turned Holly around in his arms and kissed her deeply. He pulled her close as he held onto her face gently, not letting her say a word as he picked her up and carried her into the bedroom, laying her on the bed, ignoring the mess they were making as he kissed her deeper, pouring as much love as he could into the kiss. Pushing into her, it felt like home. Like his own little slice of heaven on earth. The best part of being inside of Holly was seeing the look on her face. If anyone else were to see it, all they would see were the effects of them having sex. But he knew the truth. After what happened with Greg, Holly didn't trust anyone enough to sleep with them for the longest time. She didn't let anyone in because she didn't want to be hurt again. Every guy after Opie and before Jax had hurt her in a way that she never thought she'd recover from. She'd abused, humiliated and insulted to the point where, though Jax was the only one that knew, she would hate herself. Jax had watched her go through it all. The eating disorders, the depression. Knowing that he added to that hurt him more than he'd ever be able to explain to Holly, but at the time it made sense. But he'd saved her from it all. So the look on her face when he was inside of her was pure trust. He was just happy to know that she trusted him again. Slowly but surely, he was coming home.

Holly sat at her desk at the firm, using her downtime to look at wedding dresses. She'd never been the kind of girl to plan out her wedding. She knew that the guys she'd been with before Jax were never gonna last long in her life and Jax wasn't someone that was gonna get dressed up for anything. So she never saw the point. But Gemma asked how things were going between her and Jax and where things were headed for them. And it made her curious. She was halfway through her lunch break, eating the sandwich she'd made for herself as she looked through pages and pages of wedding dresses and the only thing she knew for sure was that the idea of tulle made her head hurt. But, just as she found a style of dress that didn't make her cringe, she heard her cell go off, jumping as she hadn't expected that. She looked at the number and answered, seeing Laroy's cell number.