Mass Destruction

Chapter 81

Gemma sits in the dark of her kitchen finishing up the last cigarette in the pack. She downs the glass of whiskey and pours herself another one. It's been a month since her grandchild was taken away from her. Corrie has a fucking cheek to keep Abel from her, he's not even her fucking blood.

Gemma won't take it, she won't accept it.

Abel will come back to her, even if it means getting rid of Corrie forever.

**

Abel swims with the only friend he was able to make in the pool while Corrie and Lyla sit on the porch drinking coffee.

None of the parents at Abel's school wants their children to hang out with him outside school because of what Jax do. The little boy is still too young to know why, but Corrie can see that it breaks his heart.

"Have you heard from Gemma?" Lyla interrupts her thoughts. Corrie nods her head with a sigh, "She's called the gallery like 20 times; harassed me a hundred times more. She doesn't dare call Jax, too smart for that."

"Have you told him that she's harassing you?"

"No" Corrie shrugs, "I can handle Gemma. He has enough on his plate"

Lyla doesn't look convinced, "Corrie"

"I'm fine Ly, I promise. Hey, how's it going with Red Woodie? Jax says you're killing it as manager"

"I try. I love my job now – wish Opie was here for this right now. He'd be happy I stopped being on screen"

Corrie chuckles, "He'd be proud of you Ly, I know I am."

"Thanks" Lyla smiles

**

Lyla and Corrie enjoy a few hours of normalcy where they watch the kids have fun while drinking coffee after coffee and eating chocolate cake. Jax, Happy and Quin come home to find the women on the porch and the kids playing ball. How the kids' energy hasn't run out is beyond him.

"Hey babe" Jax bends down to kiss Corrie on her head. He gives Lyla a hug as the other two also greet the women.

"We have some shit to handle, gonna be in the garage okay?"

Corrie nods her head, "Have fun. There's cake on the kitchen counter boys. Have at it"

"Thanks Corrie" The two boys drawl out making Corrie chuckle. She knows the cake she baked would be finished before this evening.

**

Abel's friend, Peter's, mom comes to pick him up hours later. It's already dark out. Lyla has left already and the kids were playing in Abel's room. Jax and the guys are still cooped up somewhere in the garage.

Abel's now with Corrie reading a book while she's preparing dinner. The peaceful silence gets broken when the rowdy boys walk into the house.

"Corrie" Happy grins as he comes over to hug the blonde, "Cake was amazing, you need to be mad at Prez more so we can have more cake!"

Corrie laughs even louder at the look on Jax's face. He must have told them that she was angry the previous evening because he teased her about her painting. Poor Jackson slept on the couch as well.

You don't tease Corrie about her art.

"If he doesn't stop pissing me off then you'll get your cake Hap"

"I'll make sure he doesn't stop" Happy grins, he gives her a kiss on the temple followed by Quin doing the same.

"Bye Cor, see you soon" The guys give Abel a hug as well and leave.

Jax still has the same 'pity me' face so Corrie walks over to him and wraps her arms around his middle. "Aw baby, what's wrong?"

"You made me sleep on the couch. Do you know how uncomfortable that thing is?"

Corrie smirks, "You shouldn't have pissed me off"

Jax rolls his eyes, "babe, you should know by now that I piss you off more times than I want to have sex, and that's a lot, a lot a lot."

Corrie grins and stands on her toes to give him a kiss. "Well I'm not mad anymore"

He smirks, "Can we put sleeping pills in the kid's food so I can do unspeakable things to you?"

Corrie laughs and slaps his shoulder. "You're terrible, and no. You won't drug your son"

"You're no fun" He sulks and goes to sit next to Abel on the couch in the living room.

He switches on the TV to some bike show as Abel continues to read.

Corrie grins as she takes a photo of the back of her boys' heads. They look so cute.

**

Abel is staying the weekend with Lyla and the kids, something he was extremely excited about.

Corrie is planning to keep Jax on house arrest the entire weekend, she already made a deal with Chibs and Tig to cook for them the following week if they'd keep the club above water without his input. She's going to confiscate his phone as well.

Corrie is dressed in a white lacy see-through teddy and is waiting for him by the front door.

"Hey handsome" She says in a sultry voice. He swallows and lets his keys fall as he takes in her appearance.

"Oh my God" He whispers, his fingers crave to touch her. "What is this?"

Corrie wraps her arms around his neck bringing his lips down to meet her own, "Well, you and I never had a honeymoon, so I had Lyla take Abel for the weekend, the guys are going to handle the club. You and I are enjoying our entire weekend together, no interruptions."

Jax smirks, "Sounds perfect."

"I have a present for you Jackson, you can unwrap it and do with it whatever you want"

Jax's smirk gets even bigger as he takes her in his arms, "Oh I'm going to enjoy this present."

Corrie's laughs echo through the house as Jax picks her up and runs to the bedroom.

He's going to unwrap his present, slowly.