She'd been in Harlan once before, though it'd been years ago and yet she had kept in touch with Boyd. It was strange how she found that she trusted him more than Jax. How she finally pulled herself away from the life only to wander back here, to one that might even be worse.

When he leaned away from her lips, she ran her tongue over her lower one for a moment while her shoulder slumped a bit under an unseen weight. She'd left her kids back where they belonged, if she'd taken them all hell would have broke loose and she didn't want that for them.

"Be lying if I said everything was fine, Boyd." She sighed softly and moved to slip her hand through her hair, while keeping her other in her pocket since it still had the brace on it. "I didn't know where else to go and you said if I ever needed anything - unless you were just being nice and didn't mean it."