Topaz: Book 8 of the Steel MC Montana Charter
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“Well, I was thinking,” he murmured. “And I remembered a comment you made before you left for the farm.”
Topaz turned around.
Onyx was kneeling, his good knee on the floor in between his thumb and index finger was a ring.
“We wasted a year already. Everyone else could see how much we wanted each other. I’m not in the mood to waste any more time. Claiming you as my Ol’ Lady isn’t enough,” he said.
Holding her breath, she played with the zipper of her new coat.
“I want you to marry me. Stay in Turnabout and make a home. Will you?”
“Oh, my God!” Topaz covered her mouth with her hands and knelt with him before throwing herself at him. Her hands wrapping around and clutching his head as the beard he was growing brushed softly along the column of her neck and she cried, “Yes.”
When they parted, Topaz glanced around the large open space. The place empty and echoing every word spoken. “Why did you want such a big house?”
“Because I want to fill it up with kids.” He chuckled. “Remember, one son and an undetermined amount, but you clearly stated a group, of girls.”
“I love you Onyx.” Topaz couldn’t stop grinning as he slipped the ring on her third finger and she took his face in her hands. “And I want the same thing. A home, with a man I’ve wanted for as long as I can remember.”
His expression cooled for a moment.
She rushed to explain herself, “All my life, I imagined a man who put me first, who told me daily if not hourly, how much I meant to him. A man who saw the good in me even when I didn’t deserve it.”
“But—”
She covered his lips with her fingers and the shine from her new diamond caught the light, sending shots of rainbows through the room. “I saw you,” she said. “The heart and soul of a man who I’d wished for when I was young and watching the stars. Never had I ever seen that before. And every ounce of me is grateful to God for putting you in my path and for making you just stubborn enough to wait until I saw it too.”
Arriving back at the clubhouse, Topaz quickly showered and slipped on a simple sundress.
“Thank God for sundress season,” Onyx said as he watched her from the doorway before taking two steps. Finding her hips with his hand and her neck with his lips, he whispered, “Don’t forget your ring.”
The combo of hand and lips was a one two punch to her hormones. “Never,” she said slipping the simple platinum band on her finger with the pear cut diamond she had taken it off to for her shower.
They walked hand in hand toward the creek where an arch made of fallen wood had been constructed, covered in flowers for Freaky’s and Dreamer’s nuptials. The babble from the stream was a calming noise as people gathered and stood waiting for the couple to arrive.
Topaz wanted to find Dell and Steel before the ceremony.
True to form, the couple was leaning against a tree with Steel’s hand groping as many parts of Dell as he could at one time.
“Ah hem…” Topaz coughed. “Dell, Steel it’s good to see you.”
Dell peered around the massive shoulders of her husband.
Moving to the side, allowed Topaz to get a real hug from both of them.
“Topaz, I hear rumors about some good news for you.” Dell reached out and grabbed her hand. Bending the fingers to get a good look at the ring she’d received less than an hour before. “I knew it. I knew you were going to find what you needed here. I’m so happy for you and Onyx.”
“Rumors huh?” Topaz asked and glanced over at Onyx.
Onyx shrugged. “Maybe while you showered, I bought a round a drinks.”
“We don’t pay for drinks at the clubhouse.” She raised a brow at him.
“Can’t help it if you have a penny pinching fiancé,” he countered, then stepped away to talk to Hollywood.
Topaz turned to Dell. “Well, thank you. Maybe you could come for our wedding it will be next summer. We want at least a year to plan it.”
“We’ll be here. I promise.” Dell hugged her.
“Come on everybody the wedding is about to start,” Bounty stated as he and Cream stood hand in hand.
Topaz smiled and made her way over to the happy couple. “Cream, I didn’t get to congratulate you yet.”
“For what?” Cream smiled and let out a light sigh.
“The baby.” Topaz laughed and hugged Cream.
Bounty smiled down at his woman and Topaz. “Yes and we can’t wait. Our wedding we’ll have to be sooner than later.”
“Whoa there cowboy, I never said I was going to marry you,” Cream countered.
“Everything? We have to fight over everything don’t we?” Bounty asked with a laugh.
“Only the really good things,” she countered as her mother approached with her walker.
The woman, near catatonic last fall, was now moving around as if little had happened to her. “Annie,” she scolded, still struggling with words but not looks.
“Yes, mama I’m gonna marry him, just, not right now.”
“Thank you mama,” Bounty replied to his greatest ally.
Annie gave him a wink.
“There is going to be so many weddings coming up.” Topaz looked over to see Onyx returning to her side.
“Well, I’ll see you all later on at the reception. We better all hush before the music starts,” Cream said.
Onyx wrapped his arm around her waist as they stood waiting.
When the music started, the only one smiling bigger than Topaz was Dreamer who caught sight of Dell. The wedding crasher who walked Dreamer up the aisle to Freaky who was waiting by the creek.
Looking back, Topaz wouldn’t have wanted it any other way. She needed to grieve her past in order to find her future. Save her man, instead of cowering away. And allow herself the right to fall in love again.
As Freaky took Dreamer’s hands in his, the minister started the ceremony in a way she knew would stick with every member of the Steels.
“They say steel sharpens steel,” he began. “Much like the brotherhood here, the love of a woman can only strengthen and sharpen the man.”
When the ceremony ended… everyone in the crowd yell together, “Steel sharpens steel.”
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With characters yelling “It’s my turn damn it!!!” She tries to explain to them that alas, she can only type a hundred and twenty words a minute and they will have to wait their turn. She knows they’ll eventually find their way out of her head and to her fingertips and she looks forward to sharing them with you.
When Michel suppresses the voices in her head, she can be found cheering for her son in a variety of sports. She owes a huge thanks to her family for always being in her corner and especially her husband for supporting her every dream and never letting her give up.
Michel was awarded Elite Status with Rebel Ink Press in 2013, the service award for her local RWA chapter Midwest Fiction Writers in 2013 and 2014, and Sweetest Romance at IRAE 2015.
She resides in the Twin Cities with her husband, son, and dogs, Bolt and Sawyer.
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