Jax and V danced slowly to soft piano melody, that neither could place a name too, yet they both felt the song was familiar.

"This is nice." Jax whispered.

V simply nodded slightly and bit her lip, not wanting his arms wrapped around her to feel so right, so natural, and oh so nice. She cleared her throat. "I shouldn’t be dancing with someone that is key to my murder investigation."

Jax tightened his hold on her, he could feel her tensing up, not allowing herself to feel comfortable in his arms, but he was sure she wanted to be. "Does that mean I am a suspect."

"Well, not really, but we can’t take you out of consideration." V said.

Jax nodded, and on an impulse twisted V away from him and dipped her, much to her shock, and delight. As he pulled her back up in his arms, he caught her brown eyes laughing with glee. "That was not fair."

"See I always told you dipping was fun."

"That was still not fair."

"But you trusted me didn’t you. And you weren’t frightened."

V smiled. "That still wasn’t fair, I was so shocked, I didn’t get to enjoy it."

"well we could do it again." Jax said, his eyes playful.

Just then, V’s purse on the their table started ringing.

"Oh that could be work." V said, hurrying to the table and moving her soda out of the way. ‘Ardanowski?"

Jax sat back down at the table, and watched her face, change from a woman having a good time, to a cop.

"On my way to meet Lt. Taggert, Sir." V said, hanging up. "I have to go, Katherine Bell is dead. She was murdered, same MO as AJ."

"What?" Jax stood up. "Be careful."

"I am a trained professional, I am always careful."

~~~

Jax quietly opened the door to Alexis’s study, sometimes she fell asleep while looking for precedents in her vast array of law books, and on the computer, and if that was the case, he didn’t want to wake her. She was awake though, staring at a picture frame.

"Lexie?"

Alexis looked up and quickly slammed the picture into a drawer. "Hello, how was your date, with V?"

Jax laughed good-naturedly, but the feel of V in his arms, stopped him from denying that it had been a date. "V is V, she and I are going to find our friendship and re-define it."

Alexis licked her lips. "Good. Did she tell you about Katherine?"

"Why the evening the cut short."

Alexis nodded. "Well, its late, I think I will head to bed." She stood up and tried to walk past him.

Jax took her by the wrist lightly to stop her. "Why are avoiding me at all costs?"

"Jax, not now." Alexis said.

"Not now?" He questioned. "Then when, Lexie?"

"I don’t know." She whispered. "Ned called me, he wants to meet with me tomorrow for some reason. So I have to get some rest."

"is it about the murders?"

Alexis stared at him. "I think Ned knows something. He sounded odd."

"I am going with you."

"It is client meeting."

"Lexie, I don’t care, I am going to be nearby, when is it."

"Jax, Ned isn’t the killer."

"I don’t have good feeling about it. Did he tell you about Katherine?"

"Yes."

Jax nodded his head, and touch Alexis’s cheek, she subconsciously bent her head towards his caress. "I am keeping an eye on you."

Alexis just nodded, looking up at him, his gently touch on her cheek, hypnotizing her. "Jax, I need sleep." She said, begging him to stop with her eyes.

Jax bent down and captured her lips with his, and held hers between his for brief moment. "Goodnight."

Alexis nodded and touched his cheek lightly with her hand. "Goodnight."

To be continued…….