Jax doesn't say that he'd be grateful for it. The last time, with Gemma, he'd barely finished the deed. It'd taken his mother's coaching, her reminders that it was who they were, for him to pull that trigger. If Gemma shows up in Darrow, he doesn't doubt that Tara will be crueler and colder.

"If I were smart, I'd probably fuck off," he admits. Fuck off, never taint her life again. "When Ope died...then you...I forgot how to be anything but what the club wanted."