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“You know, you never told me the whole story of how you learned to fight?” Onyx asked. “New Mexico, but why learn?”
Their drive through nowhere was less of an escape at this point and more ofwhere the hell are we.
Topaz wiped her tears from her cheeks and flipped down the visor. Of course, the shitty old truck didn’t have lights on the mirror. It didn’t matter at this point. She was a mess and who was she trying to impress? Right now, basic survival was needed. Food, directions, hell for all she knew they were in Canada. Conversation really was the only thing they had at this point.
“Um, Dell taught me, well all of us, in New Mexico. After she was kidnapped, she didn’t want us to just be hapless victims.”
“What! Really? Now you got me curious what happened there?”
“Dell was kidnapped by a MC called the Ghosts. They took her and put her in a cage like an animal. They were a human trafficking ring and thought they were going to sell her.”
“Dell? As in Steel’s wife?” he asked.
“Well, before she was his wife,” Topaz said.
“Still, were they morons or just stupid? That woman doesn’t walk like one who you’d just snatch up and run with.” Onyx shook his head. “If she hadn’t been laughing when I first met her about something, I might have clutched my purse and crossed the street.”
Topaz let out a light laugh. Dell wasn’t a woman to be trifled with. She was a hard as nails woman and even when she pulled out pictures from her past, there weren’t many where she seemed quiet and reserved. “Some men are shitty hunters when it comes to picking prey. We could ask the guys at the cabin if they regret their choice in us, but I’m pretty sure the rain washed away the last of them off the truck.”
The morose and sick humor had gotten Topaz through more than one bad situation in her life. It hadn’t always been there. Only darkness and the need to push past it could help a woman through. “Dell escaped and on her way out, she found her sister Salina, so she had to stay and fight them to get her out of there too. She is quite the lady. She was in the military and had learned to fight, unlike Sal. After her rescue, she insisted that all of us girls learn to be able to fight enough to escape a situation like what we just went through.”
“That’s interesting. She’s okay mentally after all that?”
“Well, she was in the hospital for a while, she was pretty messed up. But she recovered both physically and mentally just by being Dell. Plus, she had Steel who was by her side the entire time.” Topaz turned her head to take in the sight of Onyx, a slight beard was appearing along his jaw, with dark black hair on the side and a bit of silver mixed in on his chin. He wasn’t old, not by a long shot, maybe a few years older than her. The silver must be premature and could explain why the man is usually shaven. No matter the reason there was only one thought rolling through her mind as she took in his strong frame. “I want what she has.”
“What does she have that you don’t?” Onyx asked and the two locked eyes for a moment before he refocused on the road.
“She has Steel and a whole houseful of babies.”
“You want that someday?” Onyx’s right hand dropped from the wheel.
Her heart sped up. Wanting to hold it, or better yet have him reach out and pull her to his side. “I do. Just like everybody else wants it, don’t they?” She turned away and tried to make out anything through the window where darkness covered the land.
“I wonder how long we were out? Topaz, how much do you remember?”
“Not much. I know they drugged me because I remember the needle. I woke up and we were tied together in the cabin.”
“Shit,” Onyx said, his eyes fixed on the gauges in front of him. “We’re almost out of gas.”
“Let’s pull off this road and find somewhere we can hide,” she suggested, “We have to conserve what gas we do have.” Topaz could feel the exhaustion bearing down on her and knew he had to be in a similar state. “It’s dark and we’re just wandering at this point.”
“You’re right, okay let’s find somewhere.”
Up ahead was another road. He put on his right blinker and hit the turn lane. After turning onto another dirt road, they were both trying to find a gate or spot where they could be more than pulled off to the side.
“Are you trying to hide us?” Topaz asked. “What if a sheriff comes along, we could get help and tell them what happened.”
“Let’s see, I’m in butt fuck Montana, one of three black men in the state with a woman…” He glanced at her before he continued. “While stunning normally, looks a bit—”
“Like a teenage boy?” she challenged, not forgetting his comment about her earlier. Her safety aside that one still hurt. Maybe it was the men who wanted Lyna and her size F breasts that had Topaz hurt by the comment.
“Wow, seriously? You’re mad about that?”
“It stung a bit,” she confessed. “I’ve thought about, you know, adding a little—”
“Don’t.” His voice came out harsh and hard. “You’re perfect. All women shouldn’t be the same and personally, I like your body. Probably, more than I should.”
