CHAPTER SIX

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warnings:  language, mentions of past drug use & withdrawals, jealousy, smut, minor character death

warnings:  language, mentions of past drug use & withdrawals, jealousy, smut, minor character death

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Breyanna jerked awake the next morning. She anxiously eyed her surroundings, realizing that she hadn't woken up on a lumpy, single bed at the rehab facility she'd been at for the past two months, but sitting in the rocking in her son's nursery of her former home.

After Gemma left last night, Breyanna tried her best to get some sleep, as today was a big day. Abel was finally coming home from the hospital. But for Breyanna that sleep didn't come easy.

She tried to stay in the guest room, but the room was too dark and cold. She wouldn't dare step foot into the room that she once shared with Jax. Too many painful, lonely memories in there. Definitely not that couch. So, the only place that felt the safest was Abel's nursery. It was the only place that wasn't tainted by her past.

Sighing heavily, Breyanna stood from the chair and made her way to the kitchen to make her a fresh pot of coffee. She was never that big of a coffee drinker until her first group meeting at the facility. It was the only thing that settled her nerves when it came for her time to spill her thoughts and feelings.

While the coffee was brewing, Breyanna found herself sitting down at the kitchen table, looking over her divorce papers that Gemma presented her with last night. She was still in shock. Jax had told her —although it was via text message— that he had filed those papers. Of course, she never bothered to confirm or even ask for a copy since she was always in a total state of inebriation. She just assumed that this was what Jax wanted.

Breyanna had no idea what she wanted to do. Knowing that there was a chance that she could get her family back —a chance at her and Jax raising Abel together, she should have felt happy. But this feeling of dread sat heavy in the pit of her stomach. She loved Jax, yes, but her love for him doesn't erase all the hurt and pain he caused her and that she caused him.

When Breyanna told Gemma that she and Jax were toxic for each other, she meant it. They're relationship was just a string of miserable one night stands thrown together. But that didn't mean that they hadn't shared some great moments either. The beginning of their relationship was pretty damn near perfect —if perfect ever existed. It was when they exchanged vows that things began to unravel at the seams.

Releasing a shuddered breath, Breyanna pushed the papers out of her line of sight. All of this was starting to give her a headache. She figured she'd just deal with all of this later. She had a much more important thing to handle today. Today, her little boy was finally coming home and that's all that mattered at this moment.

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While Gemma was left to decorate the house for Abel's homecoming party later on in the evening, Breyanna found herself making her way through the halls of St. Thomas. She was needed to sign more paperwork before Abel was to be officially released.

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