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Epilogue
Onyx laid next to Topaz as the morning light crept into her room at the clubhouse. She watched the bright rays travel up his leg, to his hip and found herself snuggling in closer to the warmth he provided. Dreamer and Freaky’s wedding, that had been a scheduling nightmare for her at the bar, was finally here. Topaz couldn’t believe how things had changed for her in only a few short weeks. One of the most wonderful things being, she hadn’t had a single nightmare about her past since she and Onyx started sleeping in the same bed. True, the bed might change between the clubhouse and Hollywood’s, but Onyx promised her unless they had an overnight run, they would never sleep apart.
Sadly, she had a lot to do before the two actually walked down the aisle. Topaz turned glanced up at the sleeping man. Onyx had become her life and she refused to take it for one minute for granted. “Hey, Onyx, wake up,” she said pressing her hand on his bicep and wiggling. “I have to get breakfast and get ready for the wedding. It’s in only a few hours.”
“Six, at least six hours, and I’m awake. Have been for a little while. Was just keeping my eyes closed and enjoying your body against mine.” His voice a bit more gravelly in the morning in the most wonderful of ways. “Want to bring me real joy this morning?”
“Want? Have the time for?” she asked with her palms up as if she were measuring the scales of justice.
“Go do your thing. I’m going to find you later.”
Pushing up on his chest, she gave him a chaste kiss before slipping from his arms. She had too much lifting and helping in a hot kitchen this morning before the wedding to take a shower Instead, she slipped on a pair of cut offs that fell at her upper thigh and snagged a V-neck T-shirt before heading down to the kitchen.
* * *
“Baby,”Onyx called to Topaz two hours later as she arranged food in the large walk in fridge at the clubhouse. “The wedding isn’t for a few hours, any chance I could talk you into a ride?”
“Um.” Topaz was mentally calculating the premade stuff. It seemed so small since Dreamer and Freaky were wanting a simple wedding by the creek outback. Not having a few hundred members revealing in their joy made it hard to know if she was getting stuff right. “I guess. I feel like I’m forgetting something.”
“Are you forgetting the sexy Black man asking you to go for a ride?”
“No,” she replied with a smile. “Him, I remember. Even put him on a mental list of things todotoday.”
“Did you now?” he joked. “Come on, take a ride, I’ve got a surprise for you.”
“Stop it,” she gushed a bit more than she expected to. “People are going to think you like me.”
“Pretty sure they already knew it, even before I did,” he replied.
She took his hand. “Hey Zoe, I’ll be back soon,” she called and waved to Zoe working the bar with a couple of prospects.
The gravel driveway was full of chrome and metal, with Onyx’s bike a little outside the pack with a leather coat dangling from one of the handlebars. It wasn’t large like one of the men had taken theirs off and placed it for safe keeping. No, this was one of the women’s cuts given to Ol’ Ladies.
Topaz’s heart sped up as Onyx plucked a brand new leather coat with a cut declaring she wasOwner and Operator of Onyxon the back and Topaz on the front.
“Let me see how this looks on you,” he said holding it out, so she could slip the leather up her arms.
On the porch Roadkill stood, her long blonde hair already pulled back and styled in a French braid as she gave her a nod of approval for the new leather. Bringing Topaz into an even tighter group than she had been in before.
“Looks good there Topaz,” Dell said.
With a gasp, Topaz spun on her heel to see the woman who’d taken her in so long ago with her husband behind her.
“Every time I come up here, I get more and more tempted to make those for our women.”
“Yeah, because people really question who I belong to,” Steel joked. “Good to see you again Onyx.”
The men clasped hands and came in for a quick hug.
“See you’re finding your place here,” Steel said.
“Yes, Sir I am.”
“Fuck that sir shit,” Steel replied. “Topaz is practically a sister, take good care of her.”
“I plan to, we were about to take a ride before the wedding,” Onyx said. “Got a little surprise for my lady.”
“This wasn’t it?” she asked her hands holding tight to the lapels of her new jacket.
