Tommy Gabrini: The Grace Factor (18 page)

Tommy laid Grace on the bed and began
undressing her.
 
It turned him on
whenever he did so, and he was turned on mightily tonight.
 
He removed his shoes and lifted his sweater
over his head.
 
After tossing it, he got
down, opened her legs, and licked her.
 
He couldn’t lick her just once, so he kept going.
 
He loved the taste of her.

And then he began fingering her as
his mouth moved up to her breasts.
 
He
began sucking her with long, slow suctions that made Grace want to scream with
joy.

It felt so good to him, too, that he
could hardly wait to get inside of her.
 
And he was about to.
 
He was about
to stand up and unbutton his pants and put it on her.
 
But Grace grabbed him back down, turned him
onto his back, and straddled him.

Tommy felt unbridled happiness as her
big breasts bobbed in his face like juicy juggling melons, and her vagina, with
her legs straddled open, pressed against his rock hard stomach and rubbed
it.
 
And when she began kissing him, when
he felt those wonderful lips against his mouth again, he wrapped her into his
arms and returned the favor.
 
They kissed
for a long time.
 
They moaned and
groaned, with their heads going around and around, and made love with their
lips.

When they had practically kissed each
other dry, Grace moved down further, kissing him as she moved, and began
unbuckling and unzipping him.

Tommy felt like a teenager in heat
when she began unzipping him.
 
He would
never be able to count the women who made this move on him in his lifetime, but
it was only when Grace was making the move did he feel this kind of excitement
before.
 
She never tried to be what she
wasn’t.
 
She didn’t want to be any
empress of sex.
 
What Tommy loved most
about Grace, and what most women never had the humility to understand, was that
she knew he was too experienced to be impressed by anybody’s sexual
mastery.
 
He’d seen it all hundreds of
times over.
 
But what Grace gave to him
that no one else seemed capable of giving to him was her total self.
 
She never wanted to be the best he’d ever had,
she just wanted to be the best she could be.
 
She just wanted to do her best by him.
 
And she always did.

Tommy lifted his hips and ass and
Grace slid his pants and briefs down, revealing that fully erected joy machine
between his legs.
 
She meant to pull his
pants and briefs off of his body, but as soon as she saw his dick again, her
vagina began throbbing so badly that she couldn’t wait a second longer.
 
She wanted to taste him.
 
She used to feel drunk on his pre-cum.
 
She wanted that taste again!

And she did it.
 
Tommy began moaning and closing his eyes in
sensual delight when she put her small mouth around the big head of his penis
and began to lick and suck it.
 
He was
squeezing his ass and moving his hips as her tongue circled around his thick
shaft and rolled across his veins as his rod continued to grow.
 
He kept getting larger and larger. He was in
pre-cum, and she was licking that too.

Tommy felt emotional as she
mouth-fucked him.
 
This was the mother of
his child.
 
This was the woman who was
forced to do unthinkable things because of her connection to him.
 
She couldn’t take it, early on.
 
It was just too much for her to take!
 
And he still knew a part of her was going to
struggle with his lifestyle.

But he wanted that struggle.
 
He never wanted his lifestyle to be normal to
her.
 
He didn’t want her to just accept
death and dying as if they were an art form.
 
Grace was as precious to him as Destiny.
 
She was as fragile to him too.
 
Sal used to joke that he treated Grace like a baby.
 
Sal used to joke that he pampered her and
that was not good for her.
 
Sal was
right.
 
But Tommy wanted a woman he could
pamper.
 
He wanted a woman who could
enjoy the simpler things in life.
 
He
hated what he had to do to Ed, but he’d do it again to fifty other men just
like him if any of them ever tried to harm Grace or Destiny.
 
They were the family he chose.
 
They belonged to him.

And when Tommy pulled Grace further
up on his body, and guided his dick into her pussy, and began moving deeper and
deeper inside of her, he felt so protective of her he nearly suffocated her
with his love.
 
He bear-hugged her as he
fucked her.
 
Grace could barely
breathe.
 
But she loved that feeling of
capture.

Tommy was moving so deep inside of
her, and moving with such deliberate speed, that his swollen balls began
slapping her tight ass and heightening her sensual pleasure.
 
He was in control now.
 
Tommy was in total control.

They began kissing as he fucked
her.
 
And it was for them so much more
than sex.
 
It was a new beginning.
 
It was hope when this day seemed impossible
not all that many days ago.
 
Their love
was their bridge over troubled water, and it was encapsulating them.

The music still played softly over
the speakers as they made love.
 
But it
was the Jackson Five this time.
 
Singing
I’ll Be There
.
 

“You and I must make a pact

We must bring salvation back

Where there is love, I’ll be there!”

And they both felt that song.
 
They felt it as they made passionate
love.
 
They felt it when they came.
 
And they came together.
 
Not one and then the other one.
 
But together.
 
It was fitting.
 
It fit exactly
right.

“I’ll be there to comfort you

Build my world of dreams around you

I’m so glad that I found you!”

They felt it after he poured his last
into her, and her vagina gripped his rod as tightly as she could clench it,
causing
 
his veins to nearly pop as he
continued to cum.

And they felt it still, when they
were well spent and lying in each other’s arms.
 
They looked out at the sea around them.
 
The calmness.
 
The peace.
 
The ship had been righted, and all felt right
with the world again.

“If you should ever find someone new

I know he’d better be good to you

Because if he doesn’t

I’ll be there!"

And
they fell into a wondrously, refreshing sleep.

 
They spent the night on Tommy’s yacht and then, on Sunday, they took a
slow drive to Oregon to pick up their daughter.
 
When Destiny found out that they would be spending the night at her
father’s house, she was happy to hear it.
 
Tommy and Grace both knew that Destiny was more at home at his house
than anywhere else, and they were pleased to know that her first home was still
her real home to her.
 

Later that evening, while Tommy and
Destiny sat at the center island coloring with a mechanical coloring book,
Grace was at the stove cooking them a big Sunday dinner, complete with collard
greens, mac and cheese, and ham that looked to Tommy to be dripping with so
much flavor that he was salivating at the thought of devouring it.
 
Nothing tasted better to him that Grace’s
cooking.
 
Unless he counted Grace
herself, and that juiciness he loved between her legs.

He watched her as she cooked.
 
She wore a pair of sweat pants, a tight
Seahawks t-shirt, and had her hair in a thick ponytail.
 
Yet she looked more beautiful to him in that
moment than Miss Universe ever could.
 
She was an amazing woman to him.
 
It was something about Grace in her bareness that reminded him of
gracefulness itself, and elegance and class.
 
She didn’t have to flaunt it because she was it.
 
She didn’t have to shout it out.
 
And when she looked at him as if she could
sense his stares, it was he who wanted to shout it out.
 
She’s
mine
, he wanted to proclaim.

“I think it’s time,” he said when she
smiled and turned back to stirring her pot, “that you meet the family again.”

Grace hesitated, and turned toward
him.
 
“You mean Reno and Trina, and Sal
and Gemma?”

Tommy smiled.
 
“Yup.”

This was a tough thing for
Grace.
 
She remembered how difficult it
was for them during the divorce.
 
She broke
Tommy’s heart, and they were unforgiving Gabrinis through and through. Reno and
Trina were especially hurt, and Jimmy Mack too, but they eventually came
around.
 
Sal, whom everyone knew was
Tommy’s protector, never did.
 
“You don’t
think it’s too soon?” she asked him.

“It would be,” Tommy said, “if you
were some new lady I was introducing to them.
 
But they know your ass.”

Grace laughed.

“And you know them.
 
I think it’s more of a re-introduction than
anything else.”
 
Then Tommy exhaled.
 
“So no,” he said, “I don’t think it’s too
soon at all.
 
I think it’s long overdue.”

Grace still felt a sense of
dread.
 
The Gabrinis could be some tough
nuts to crack.
 
Especially Sal when it
came to Tommy or Gemma.
 
But Tommy was
right.
 
It was overdue.
 
“When?” she asked.

Tommy started to give a date as early
as next week, but he pulled back.
 
“When
both of us are ready,” he said.
 
“That
could be in several days, or several weeks, or even several months.
 
No pressure.”

“Oh,” Grace said.
 
She was expecting him to have made the
decision for both of them.
 
She liked
this new Tommy.
 
“Okay.
 
Sounds good.”

“That way,” Tommy said, “you will
have time if you decide to change your mind.”

Grace smiled.
 
“My mind is made up,” she said.
 
“You’re stuck with me, buster.
 
But thank you.”

“What about your mother?” Tommy
asked.
 
“We’ve got to tell her.”

“She already knows.”

Tommy was pleasantly surprised.
 
“You told her?”

“Didn’t have to.
 
That night we spent the night with you, when
Ed was still lurking out there, was all she needed to know.”

“She’s not pleased about it I’m
sure.”

“She liked Ed.
 
She loved the idea of her daughter with this
handsome black surgeon.
 
But she’ll come
around.”

Tommy nodded.
 
“That’s what I say about my family too.
 
They’ll come around.
 
And if they don’t, then tough.
 
Then Tommy actually sang a song.
 
“
I’ll
love is here to stay
!”

Destiny looked at her father as if he
had lost his mind.
 
Grace and Tommy
laughed and looked at each other.
 
Tommy
did a playful shake of his shoulder.

Grace turned back to the stove, but
playfully shook her ass.
 
She smiled as
she looked over her shoulder to see if Tommy saw her.
 
He saw her.
 
He couldn’t stop watching that tight, cute ass.
 
And suddenly he needed some.
 
Just like that.

He stood up.
 
“Destiny, stay here for just a moment,” he
said.
 
“I need to show mommy something.”

Grace, knowing exactly what he was
about to show her, turned down her pot of greens, took his hand, and allowed
him to hurry her out of the kitchen, down the hall, and into one of the
downstairs guest bedrooms.
 
He closed the
door, tossed her onto the bed, and was unzipping and pulling out his penis even
as he opened her legs.

But he didn’t remove her
panties.
 
They knew they didn’t have that
kind of time.
 
He, instead, moved the
seat of her panties to the side and slid his big cock into her narrow fold.

“
Oooh
,”
he said softly when penis met pussy, and then he began to fuck her.
 
“Ah, Grace,
aaah
!”
 
He fucked her with
her ass on the edge of the bed and his dick pumping her hard.
 
He lifted her blouse and her bra, leaned down
and began sucking her breasts, as he fucked her.
 
And the feeling was overwhelming.
 
It felt so good!
 
Grace even had an orgasm, as he did her.
 
But he couldn’t get her tight, shaking ass
out of his mind.

After she had cum, and was in the ebb
of her sensations, he pulled out, turned her over, pulled down her panties this
time, and entered her from behind.
 
He
wanted to squeeze her tight brown ass and hold it as he fucked her.
 
And he did.

Grace was enjoying it too.
 
This was going to be a quickie, because it
had to be, but there was nothing missing from Tommy’s technique.
 
And when he came, when he poured into her
with an ejaculation that left him straining it out, she had another orgasm too.
 
She came right along with him.
 
It seemed only fitting.
 
The wonderful way things had been going for
them, made it seem only right.

After they came, Tommy went to the
bathroom across the hall, wet a cloth, and returned to the bedroom.
 
Grace was on her back again when he opened
her legs and wiped her down.
 
He wiped
himself down, pulled up her panties and zipped up his pants.
 
They made it back into the kitchen in record
time, just as Destiny was asking about a fruit.

“Daddy, which color?” she asked as he
sat back beside her.

“Blue,” Tommy said as Grace washed
her hands and checked on her pot.

Destiny thought about what he had
said, but then she frowned.
 
“But it
can’t be blue!”

“Sure it can,” Tommy said, looking at
Grace and smiling as if they had a secret.
 
He felt like a kid again!

But Destiny was unconvinced.
 
“Mommy, is Daddy right?
 
Is an apple blue?”

Tommy and Grace both looked at their
child.
 
Tommy finally took the time to
look at the coloring page.
 
And he and
Grace both laughed.
 
“No, baby,” Grace
said.
 
“An apple is not blue.”

“But Daddy said---”

“Daddy had things on his mind,
sweetheart,” Tommy said with a grin.

Grace, knowing exactly the “things”
he was speaking of, laughed too and shook her head.
 
“Yeah, I’m sure you did,” she said to him.

The intercom buzzed as he
laughed.
 
It was the front gate,
announcing the arrival of Mr. Nagarta.

Grace was a little surprised by such
an announcement, but she didn’t hesitate.
 
“Let him through,” she said into the intercom, pressed the button that
would unlock her front door, and then looked at Tommy.
 
Tommy immediately told Destiny to take her
coloring book and go into the playroom.
 
He would be there shortly.

After Destiny did as she was told and
left the kitchen, he looked at Grace.
 
“What would Barry want on a Sunday evening?”

“I have no idea,” Grace responded as
she walked over to the center island.
 
Her greens were still cooking, and she had just stirred them.
 
“But it has to be important or he wouldn’t be
here.”

Tommy had reached the same conclusion
too.
 
And it was important.
 
Barry arrived, said his hellos, and took a
seat across from Tommy at the center island.
 
Grace stood beside him.

“It’s the board,” Barry said without
hesitation.
 
“That’s the only reason I’m
disturbing you on the weekend.
 
It
couldn’t wait.”

“What’s happened?” Grace asked.

“Sonny Lockett has agreed to vote
with the snakes,” he said.

Grace’s heart dropped.
 
Tommy stared at her.
 
“How do you know that, Bare?”

“A couple of their staffers
inadvertently let it leak,” Barry said.
 
“They have no clue that I am totally devoted to you.
 
And you, too, Tommy, since you planted me
there. I mean, put me there.”

Tommy looked at Grace.
 
He knew she had long ago figured it out.
 
“You can’t hold water, can you, Bare?”

“Not even,” Barry admitted.
 
“But yeah,” he said to Grace, “the staffers
talked to the wrong person.
 
They think
I’m just your boring accountant who wouldn’t dream of spilling the beans.
 
But like Tommy said, I can’t hold water.”

“But how did they get Sonny to flip?”
Grace asked.

“They played dirty like they always
play.
 
They promised to give him a bonus,
to the tune of an additional three percent of the profits after Trammel is
sold, if he threw them his support.
 
They
know they aren’t supposed to make side deals.
 
They know it goes against the bylaws and every other law in every
way.
 
But that’s what they did.
 
They don’t make deals.
 
They deal in dirt!”

“When do they plan to call the vote?”
Grace asked.

“Tomorrow morning,” Barry said.
 
“Bright and early.
 
They plan to let you in on it when you arrive
at work.
 
With Sonny’s seven votes, they
will have forty-nine votes, you will have your forty-eight votes.
 
They will win.”

“What about Flex-Martin?
 
They were still undecided as early as
Friday.
 
Their CEO said they had not yet
decided.”

“They decided to abstain from what
I’m hearing.
 
So they aren’t voting
against you.”

“Oh, please,” Grace said.
 
“They may as well vote against me if they
abstain! By abstaining they give the board the majority vote.”

“That’s true,” Barry said.

“They’re asses aren’t doing me any
favors,” Grace added, and Barry agreed with that assessment too.

Then Grace leaned over the counter,
thinking with a look of deep concentration on her face.
 
Tommy studied her and stared at her.
 
Did she have the mental toughness, he
wondered.
 
This was business.
 
Would she make the shrewd business decision,
one that was obvious to him, or would she go along with the hand she’d been
dealt?
 
He liked the way she sold off
shares to keep her business afloat.
 
That
was the right move.
 
They weren’t
together at that time, but he was pleased by her decision.
 
But would she make the right decision this
time?