Fly By Night | Sons of Anarchy Fanfiction | Jax Teller x OC

Chapter Eighteen

By nearly 8:00 that night, Allie finally closed the garage door behind her and kicked off her high heels. She closed her eyes at the sweet relief in her aching toes, bending down to rub some of the tension out of them as she tossed her purse and her keys onto the bench in the hallway. After spending the last four hours pouring over her notes from all those interviews with the dancers at Dominic King's club, she needed some food. And a shower. And a break.

It was all just...a little more than she'd been prepared to handle today.

Her brain was just ready to turn off, and her emotions were drained dry.

"Hello?" Dan's voice called out to her from the living room. "God, you're finally home. I thought you would never get out of the office today."

"You and me both, my friend," Allie called back to him.

When she made her way down the hallway and into the kitchen, sweeping her hair into a low messy bun at her neck, Dan was already in the kitchen, setting a to-go container out on the counter for her.

"Oh, is that dinner?" she sighed with relief. "Thank God. I love you."

"You know I love you too," Dan grinned broadly, his eyes flashing as they trailed up and down the length of her. "I must say, Alexandra, you look particularly gorgeous today. Look at you," he gestured to her leather skirt and then tapped her cheek with his hand, "you are glowing. You're glowing!"

"That's a bit much, Daniel," she laughed and scooped up some Chinese noodles into her mouth with a pair of chopsticks. "I've had a day," she told him in between bites. "And I'm glad it's over."

Dan's mouth curved into a knowing grin up the side of his face and he nodded placatingly, his eyes flashing again. "Uh huh, no, I can see that. But I feel like there's something else. Something happened today, didn't it? You're not always so...flushed and luminous when you come home from the office."

"Well, considering I just spent the better part of my day interviewing strippers and then sifting through said interview notes, I'm not sure if I should take that as a compliment or..."

"Ah," Dan nodded, tapping two fingers to his chin in thought. "No, I can see how that might set one off-kilter for a bit. But. That doesn't explain this," he swept a hand around her face. "So, care to explain?"

Her lips parted but then she shoved some more noodles into her mouth. There. That would show him.

Dan, unfortunately, was not deterred. In fact, that only seemed to spur him on that there really was something different about today that, in turn, made her different. He wasn't going to leave her alone until he found out and that would really ruin her dinner and whatever else was left of this night. He knew her far too well to leave well enough alone.

"Alright, fine," Allie allowed. "Something did happen today. But if I tell you, you have to promise you won't freak out."

As soon as the words came out of her mouth, she knew they were wrong. Of course he was going to freak out.

"Yeah. Sure. Whatever," he waved a hand around in the air as if that would somehow prove it.

Alright. Here it goes. Allie took a deep breath and let it spill: "I may or may not have been asked out. On a date."

Dan hesitated for a moment, and his dark eyes narrowed just a touch, like he wasn't quite sure if she was messing with him or actually telling the truth. When her eyebrows lifted in challenge, his eyes flashed, and then his face broke apart into a gleefully sly smile.