Page 56 of Tommy Gabrini: All Fall Down
Tommy laughed that time. “Very funny,” said Sal.
Then Mick looked at Tommy. “What you make of her? You believed her?”
“She said she didn’t know Barbell and she didn’t recognize the renter.”
“That’s what she said,” said Mick. “That’s not what she showed. She’s hiding something.”
“I agree,” said Tommy. “That’s why I want a tail on her.”
“She’s sneaky, I’ll give her that,” said Sal.
Tommy looked at him as Robby drove up in Mick’s SUV. “Sneaky?”
“Hell yeah she’s sneaky. She knew your son’s nickname, but she didn’t know your wife owns the biggest trucking company in the northwest? Give me a fucking break.”
But as they climbed into the SUV, Tommy was baffled. Why would Vera be involved in a school shooting and a kidnapping and implantation technology that only a few people were supposed to even know about? It didn’t compute with the woman he once knew. But he hadn’t seen her in decades. And he knew long ago you could never put anything past anybody.
“Put a tail on Orrie Neal too,” he said to Sal when he sat down.
Sal looked at Tommy. “You don’t think we should pick his ass up?”
“And ask him what? It’s too soon. We need to know who he answers to. We need to know, if Vera is involved, who she answers too. I want the head of this snake, not the tail.”
Mick looked at Tommy. “Sounds like you believe this COO might be involved.”
“It seems like a stretch to me,” said Tommy. “But Vera didn’t rule him out. She couldn’t rule him in either, but she didn’t rule him out. Besides,” Tommy added, “it’s a hellava coincidence that her renter also happens to work at Trammel. And be the new guy at Trammel, which Orrie Neal is. Which makes it no coincidence at all.”
“I know that’s right,” said Sal, as he gave instruction to Robby Yale.
But as they drove back to the house, Tommy kept feeling that he was missing something. Something obvious. Something right in his face. But he just couldn’t put his finger on it.
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
Grace was sitting up in bed, her reading glasses on, as she reviewed contracts for Trammel on her iPad. She could hear the shower water blasting, and then turned off, and then she could hear Tommy getting out of the shower and drying off.
But it wasn’t until he entered the bedroom from their ensuite bathroom and made his way to her bedside naked and aroused, did she realize the little work she was trying to get done was over. She only had to look at Tommy, and then at his well-formed body, and then at his member in full attention, to close her iPad. But it was Tommy who removed it from her lap, removed her glasses, put both on the nightstand, and then got in bed beside her. And they both laid down.
“You might want to lock that door this time,” she said to him as he removed her gown. “TJ gets around,” she added.
“He’s downstairs with his cousins. He said he got some good sleep while I was gone, and felt refreshed. He won’t be looking to share our bed any time soon.” Then he rubbed her soft hair.
They were lying on their sides face to face, and Grace could see the stress still on his face. But instead of talking about it, which they both were tired of doing, she leaned over to his midsection, took charge of his member, and let her mouth do the talking, nonverbally, for her.
It was exactly what Tommy wanted as he moaned and arched as she did him. They still had no reasoning behind whatwas happening to them, but they knew in time it would all come to light. It always did. But right now, they needed relief.
That was why, when it became too much for Tommy to take without cumming prematurely, he pulled Grace on top of him, entered her, and began a lovemaking session that lasted nearly an hour.
It was painstakingly slow on purpose, as Tommy was intent on making Grace feel as good as she made him feel. He held onto her and she held onto him and they both made sounds that only heightened their passion. But they kept it slow and steady.
But when they finally came, their movements went from slow and sweet to fast and urgent. It was an electrifying cum. They were still at it for several minutes into their orgasms as if they couldn’t stop the feelings even if they tried. Which they didn’t. They were thrilled to let it linger on. As if they were going to go another round before it all eased up. And they probably would have. But they didn’t have the stamina.
It took several minutes for the sensations to ebb, and for their breathing to regulate. And then, after several more minutes, they both collapsed.
After they laid there with Grace still wrapped into Tommy’s arms and Tommy’s penis still very much inside of her, it didn’t take long before reality returned and they began talking about their situation. It didn’t take much longer after that for Tommy to bring up Orrie Neal and the fact that he was mentioned.
Grace’s head immediately popped up from his chest. “Orrie was mentioned? What do you mean?”
“We met with somebody I used to know.”
