“You’ll tour with the band, work for Forever Four.”

She sighs as she looks at me. I get another nod.

“And you are I are moving in together.” I swear my fingers are crossed behind my back.

She looks down as I shut the door. She will. I know she will. She loves me, and I love her.

Forever Steel.

Tales insists I speak to my father and I argue I have nothing to say.

“You have plenty to say,” She smiles up at me with those big sad green eyes, that cat, the one from…Shrek-Puss in Boots. He had younger Tales all ‘aw,’ all the time. Adorable. “Please, just tell him you forgive him.”

“I don’t fucking forgive him.”

“Then tell him that Memphis, just tell him something.”

When she gets off the tour bus leaving me alone, I do.

I get his voicemail, and I tell him, “You fucked up a good thing. You cheated on not only Mom, but Mads and I, too. You also fucked up bad as a man, Dad. You were banging a man who died, leaving his wife and daughter with nothing, and you what? Looked the other way?

“If someone had asked me who taught me how wrong that was a year ago, I would have proudly said, ‘My old man,’ but hell, we both know that shit’s not the truth. Mom taught me that.

“I’m not asking for shit from you, and but Tale’s mom, she doesn’t need to know a damn thing but if you ever feel the need to buy me a fucking car again, do me a favor, give Mrs. Priest the cash. She deserves that, she and my mother are good women. You DAD,” I emphasis Dad, “Deserve shit.”

“I will tell you I love you man, but liking you is a whole different story.”

***

“This is crazy,” Tally says, looking around the beach house.

“Really not crazy, Tales. The Miami house was crazy. This is just—”

“Insane?” She laughs and then squeals as she dances around the stark white kitchen with black marble counters and stainless steel appliances.

“God, you’re beautiful.” I’m getting hard.

“I should be so pissed at you.” She tries to look angry, but then grins as she runs up and jumps on me, wrapping her legs around me and kissing my face over and over again. “We were just looking.”

“And you had a notebook of drawings that showed how it would be perfect. I just took that as a sign.”

“I love you.”

Painfully hard.

“See? I told you you’d love moving in with me, pain in the ass.” I laugh as she continue kissing me.

“We’ve been together nonstop since Bader, and it’s October,” she says, running her fingers through my hair.

“We have three weeks until the craziness starts again.”

“But then a break at Christmas.” She smiles, her legs tightening around me as she raises her hands in the air. “Thank you, God, for this crazy life.”

I look at her, watch her. She hasn’t mentioned God since our fathers’ secret was uncovered. It feels good to see her like this again. My Tales is coming back, and it makes me deliriously happy.

“Garage apartment?” she says after she does her little praise Jesus thing.

“Falcon said a week.”

“He’s the,” she pauses and smiles, “tall contractor who’s—”

“Gonna get fired if you light up like that about him again.”

“He’s nice. He’s making my mom a home, and his kid is adorable.”

“Fired.”

She laughs.

She laughs a lot, and I not only live for her laughs, but I love them.

I set her on the island and spread her legs wide before hiking up that long, flowing skirt. “First meal at the new place.” I don’t wait for her to say yes; I just dive in.

She cries out, “Memphis.”

That’s better than any applause.

~ T HANK YOU~

To the owner of this book, thank you so very much. You are the reason I love what I do. Without your love and encouragement I would just be writing naughty stories with happy endings…for myself.

To Bobbie, a million thanks for being president of the STD fan club.

To my #foreversteel reader group, I LOVE YOU! You are my escape, support, and sisters from another mister...

To C&D chicks Kris and Ali, thank you so much for your hard work and ass kicking turn around.

To Kellie Montgomery WE FINALLY MET!!! Love you even more now. Thank you for your hard work and support.

To Shauna Kruse, Michael Fagone, and Jackie the picture you captured my vision for Memphis perfectly. Thank you so much.

To Mel, thank you for kicking ass for me always.

To Kari, you are a magician and a mind reader as well as an amazing

To Ally, we’ve got this. You and me… always. Love you more <3

A BOUT THE A UTHOR

MJ FIELDS

USA Today bestselling author MJ FIELDS’s love of writing was in full swing by age eight.

Together with her cousins, she wrote a newsletter and sold it for ten cents to family members. She self-published her first New Adult romance in January 2013. Today she has completed six self-published series, The Love series, The Wrapped series, The Burning Souls series, The Men of Steel series, Ties of Steel series, and The Norfolk series.

MJ is a hybrid author and publishes an Indie book almost every month, and is signed with a traditional publisher, Loveswept, Penguin Random House, for her co- written series The Caldwell Brothers. Hendrix is available now, Morrison will be released on December 22nd, 2015.

There is always something in the works, and she has three, yes, three, new series coming out this summer, and fall.

MJ was a former small business owner, who closed shop so she could write full time.

MJ lives in central New York, surrounded by family and friends. Her house is full of

pets, people, friends, and noise ninety percent of the time, and she would have it no other way.

MJ lives in central New York, surrounded by family and friends. Her house is full of pets, friends, and noise ninety percent of the time, and she would have it no other way.

She is represented by Marissa Corvisiero.

M ORE FROM MJ FIELDS

MEN OF STEEL SERIES

FOREVER STEEL

JASE

JASE & CARLY

CYRUS

ZANDOR

XAVIER

Forever Family

And

Family

TIES OF STEEL SERIES

ABE

DOMINIC

SABTATO

The LRHA Legacy Series

A collection of series that follow the Links, Ross, Abraham, and Hines families through several generations.

Each series can be a standalone but is so much deeper read in order.

The Love Series

Blue Love

New Love

Sad Love

True Love

The Wrapped series

Wrapped in Silk

Wrapped in Armor

Wrapped Always and Forever

Burning Souls Series

Stained

Merged

Forged

And the latest releases

Love You Anyways

And Love Notes

Ava links story will be coming out in summer 2015

The Norfolk Series

Irons

Irons 2

Irons 3

C ALDWELL B ROTHERS S ERIES

(Co-written with Chelsea Camaron)