CHAPTER THIRTEEN
TWO DAYS EARLIER
Their grunts and groans filled their bedroom as Grace was on top of Tommy and Tommy was deep inside of Grace.
They held onto each other tightly as they made love for the second time that Saturday morning.
The first, when Tommy came home around two that early morning, was a quickie that put them both to sleep afterwards.
And this time, Grace woke back up to find Tommy already inside of her.
Which didn’t come as any surprise to Grace.
It was their usual morning routine. Because no matter how long they’d been together, Grace knew that Tommy was and would always be the kind of virile man that had to have it constantly.
And although she was nowhere near a virile woman before she met Tommy, she quickly became one after they met.
At first it was just to keep up with him and, inwardly, to keep him.
Because she knew those women were on the prow.
But then she was craving him just as much as he was craving her.
He rocked her world when they first met.
She’d never met a man who knew how to treat a woman and how to make love to a woman the way Tommy did.
For nearly twenty minutes they made the kind of love Tommy adored.
He was moving deeper and deeper inside of her with an almost cascade of emotions.
The sweetness of Grace, the gentleness of her spirit, and that feeling she gave him every time he was inside of her made him crave her more.
He had so many temptations in his wake every single day.
So many ways that he could devastate his entire family with just one decision to give into those great temptations.
It was easy to falter. And many times he nearly did.
But he always thought about Grace and their children.
And how much they loved him and depended on him and looked up to him as the undisputed head of the family.
And those moments of weakness, although he’d been up to and some would say nearly over that line more times than he’d ever admit out loud, didn’t do him in.
That sense of family, and his responsibility to it, kept him from falling.
Since they didn’t allow their children to make excuses for bad behavior, then neither could he and Grace.
It was a conscious decision they both made long ago when they divorced, they went their separate ways with other people, and then they eventually remarried.
For good, they decided, this time. No matter what.
But he wasn’t thinking about anybody else but Grace when he could feel the pulsating of her orgasm, which always made him do her harder because of the sensations it created inside of him. Sensations he could barely control. And then he was cumming too. Her orgasms always took him over.
It was a wondrously long cum for both of them.
They were like two lovers unable to stop themselves from the feelings that overtook them.
They were in love with even the feeling of love as they came.
It was equal parts joyous and equal parts so incredible that it heightened a cum that already seemed so high.
And that feeling, that euphoria every time they made love, never failed them.
It was so high and so euphoric that after they came back down, it took them several more minutes to get back to normal.
Especially for Tommy, who held onto Grace tightly.
He sometimes felt as if she was his security blanket when all the rest of the world wanted was to use him and abuse him and treat him as an object rather than a man.
Grace loved him for who he was, not for how he looked or what he had to give to her, and that made him love her even beyond what he thought he was capable of loving.
It was alarming to him when people insisted he could do better than Grace. Better than Grace? Where? How? And especially why? Was it simply because she was, in their eyes, no beauty queen like all the other black bombshells he used to date?
He’d been with thousands of women in his lifetime.
Literally thousands. Shanks and Liz were two that came closest to his heart.
But Grace was the only one that even during their darkest days of divorce he knew inwardly was that special one.
She was the one that he all but gave away and then got back again.
She was the one, in Tommy’s opinion, that could have done better than him!
And that was why, even after they both had long-since finished their orgasms, he didn’t want to let her go.
It was Grace who pulled away. She had obligations and so did he. But Tommy, being Tommy, was still enlarged inside of her. He could have, remarkably, gone another round. She had to physically take her hand and ease his huge penis out of her.
After she did so, they looked at each other and she smiled that bright white smile he could never get enough of.
And he kissed her with a long, lingering kiss.
But she still wouldn’t be deterred. She got off of him and out of bed.
She was a stickler for taking care of your obligations when sometimes he said to hell with it.
But that was another reason why he loved her so.
“What you have going on today?” he asked her as she stood at the lingerie drawer pulling out the panties and bra she planned to wear that day.
“I’ve got to take GG to Nira’s birthday party, and then I’m driving TJ over to Redmond. He has to be there at ten this time.”
“When the game doesn’t start until three?” asked Tommy. “They usually don’t have to be there until noon.”
“I know. But they lost last week. Coach isn’t taking any chances I guess,” said Grace. “Then I have a meet and greet at the church for our new pastor.” Then she looked at Tommy. He looked so sexy in that bed she wanted to get back on top of him. “I was hoping you could come with me.”
“I have a couple meetings across town. I’ll see him in church tomorrow.”
Grace considered him. She could tell when something was on his mind. “You’re still thinking about that contract, aren’t you?”
He nodded. “I am, yes. If we can’t get her to sign on, we can kiss that dream goodbye.”
“What’s Reno saying about it? He thinks she’ll do it?”
“He says maybe,” said Tommy, “which is the best we can hope for.”
“That’s not much.”
Tommy nodded. “Agreed. But we’re talking a billion-dollar investment, and even more than that on our end.”
“But Uncle Mick could put that in himself if it’s the kind of sure thing you and Reno says it is.”
“It’s not the money,” said Tommy. “It’s the fact that the EU has stipulated that in order for us to operate such a widescale corporation in Europe, we would have to have a current-resident European investor with at least a twenty-five percent market share.
Given our valuation margins, a twenty-five percent share would mean about a billion dollars that the European investor will have to come up with.
There’s not that many Europeans looking to put up nowhere near that much capital in what will be an American-owned company. She’s it.”
Grace exhaled. “So all of your eggs are in her basket?”
“Unfortunately yes.”
“But didn’t you say she was Norwegian?”
“She is.”
“Then why are you meeting her in British Columbia?”
“She’s at her vacation home there. Since we can fly over to her in a couple hours or less, we agreed to meet her there.”
“I don’t understand how Europeans can come to America all the time and start businesses and it’s no big deal, but we have to have a European as an investor for an American company to do it. Everybody crap on us. Trump ain’t wrong about that.”
“But he’s wrong about everything else,” said Tommy.
“Yes he is,” agreed Grace with a laugh. “And I mean everything else. But not about that.”
“But what they’re asking us to do isn’t the standard in Europe,” Tommy said. “It’s the size and scale of our corporation that made them institute these requirements for us. It’s a different standard they’re placing on us.”
Grace looked at him again. “Do you think you and Reno’s mob ties had something to do with these different standards?”
Tommy exhaled. “Probably,” he admitted. “But anyway,” he said, tired of talking about it. “That’s the way it is. We’re meet with her on Monday and see what’s what after that.” Then he looked at her as she closed her lingerie drawer. “Heard from Destiny and the baby?”
“She called late last night. She said they plan on staying a few days longer. She’s enjoying herself. Danny is too.”
“Is she still seeing Alonzo?”
“Nope. They’re on the offs again. She’s seeing this boy named Owen though.”
“After this vacation I expect her to focus far more than she’s doing. She keeps going from job to job. And man to man by the way. She needs to decide what she wants to do and to just do it.”
“She will,” said Grace as she sat her lingerie on the dresser and then began heading for the bathroom. “I’m in the shower,” she added as she walked.
Tommy watched her tight brown ass head for the bathroom, and just watching her made him go hard again. So hard that he got up, went to the bathroom and peed, and then got in the shower with her.
But before long he was inside of her again. And they were at it again. It was quick, but it was no less intense than their other rounds.
And only after that, after Tommy had Grace against the shower wall and had poured inside of her all he had left to give, even down to the last drop, did they finally get around to taking that shower.