Family over everything

Chapter 22

Happy returned home with the little girl in his truck. He walked up to the house with her seat in his hands. He glanced over at Allison's place. No one was outside and the lights were out.

He was hoping they hadn't left again but he couldn't be sure because she had been parking in the garage lately.

He went into his house, surprised that he was met with his wife and all four of the kids. He set the baby down on the couch. Allison was there in his house with his kids and he was completely stunned. The rest of the club was there as well. He pulled the baby from the seat. Emersyn moved closer to him as he held the baby.

Ryder was blatently avoiding him. He was running around with the Teller boys. Allison had Mason in her arms.

"I can't believe you are actually here," he said to her. 

She nodded. She didn't know how to deal with it all. She knew that she had to be there for him when he brought Maia home though. Gemma had come by after she had come over to start working on the little girl's room. Allison had really needed the talk that she got from Gemma. 

"I had to be here for you," she said. 

"Yeah?" he asked. 

"Yeah, I heard you contacted the lawyer and took my advice."

"Gemma told you?"

She nodded. He looked at her. She was actually staring at the baby in his arms. He shifted her so that Allison could fully see her face. He was shocked by the tears that sprang to his wife's eyes right away. 

"She definitely does look like Emersyn," she whispered. 

He nodded. She looked at her daughter standing next to her father. Allison looked at Mason in her arms. He put his head on her shoulder. She had to walk away from Happy. She didn't think it would hurt this badly to see this child. She had been staring at proof that her husband had stepped out on their marriage. It was hard for her and she had really thought after her conversation with Gemma that she would be all right. She stepped out the back door of Happy's house. She felt like she couldn't breath in the house. 

"Al," Tara had stepped out behind her. 

"I thought I could do this, but this reality is not the way that my life is supposed to be," Allison said. 

"I know it's a lot, but you have to remember, Abel isn't biologically mine but he's mine."

"Please don't preach that to me right now. Abel was conceived before you even came back from Chicago. That's a whole different situation. Jax didn't step out on your marriage and get another chick pregnant."

Allison decided what was best for her was to go home. She needed to process this all before really dealing with it. She took Mason with her, leaving the other three kids to come home when they were ready. She felt bad but she just couldn't do it. 

"Al, what's going on baby?" Gemma asked, entering her house. 

"Just let yourself in Gemma," Allison sighed. 

"You left in a hurry and Tara said she messed up."

"I'm fine. I just needed to get a break from everything over there. I thought I could handle it after we talked earlier today but things are hard. Looking at that little girl makes it all real."

"Believe me, I understand that. John stepped out on our marriage. He has a love child in Belfast that not many people know about."

"Really?"

"She was conceived when I was going thru an extremely hard time. I had just lost Thomas and John was making these trips to Belfast more and more. I didn't know what he was doing until I found letters and pictures from Maureen to John. He wasn't very slick with hiding them. I found a picture of the two of them with the little girl and her resemblance to Jax was uncanny."