Sarah sipped her coffee, and watched Jax listen to Noah. His rugged face showed surprise, then interest, then pride. He looked at Sarah, caught her eye, smiled.“Yeah, of course I’ll be there,” Jax said now. “Whatever you need, man. You know that.”He disconnected the call, and stared at Sarah. “Well. Holy shit.”“No kidding, right?” she said. “Mom’s going to freak when she hears this.”“You think?”“For sure.” Sarah rubbed her eyes. “She’s barely coping with me moving out, you know. If Noah does too, she may well lose her ever-loving mind.”Jax thought about Sarah and Noah’s Mom. Annie Matthews was a tough woman, a woman who had just buckled down and taken care of two kids on her own after her husband had fucked off when Sarah and Noah were eighteen. It would have been OK, probably, if Noah hadn’t been autistic. If he hadn’t been, Annie’s adult kids could have found work, moved out, moved on. As it was, though, both Annie and Sarah had made sacrifice after sacrifice for Noah, and nev
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