Page 25 of Tommy Gabrini: All Fall Down
Grace was puzzled. So was everybody else. “What will happen, baby?” she asked him.
Browne pressed the mute button. “Keep telling him to release the hostages.” Then he released the button.
“Baby, release the hostages. Just release them please. Do it for me.”
“I can’t.” There was no doubt he was crying now.
“TJ, why can’t you release those students? What is it, baby? What will happen?”
“No,” TJ said.Then he screamed.“No!Stop!No!”
All of the police brass moved closer to Grace and that phone. “TJ, what’s happening?”
“Noooo!” he screamed again and then all they could hear was gunfire. Rapid, unrelenting gunfire.
“Go!” Chief Browne ordered and nearly every one of the rank-and-file officers in that crowded command center began pulling out their weapons and running out.
“Don’t hurt my child!” Grace yelled after them. Then she got back on the phone. “TJ, are you there? TJ?”
Chief Browne grabbed the phone from Grace. “Talk to us, young man. What’s happening? Young man? Young man?TJ?!!!”
But all they heard was gunfire.
Trina, who had been forbidden to go inside when she first arrived at the command center, ran in when all of those cops ran out. Because she was hearing the gunfire too.
When she saw Grace, she ran to her. “They’re shooting, Grace. They’re shooting!”
And both women hugged in tears.
“Young man, talk to me!” the chief was still saying.
Grace found the strength to grab the phone again. “TJ, say something. TJ? TJ? Please son say something!”
But all they heard was the unyielding sound of out-of-control gunfire.
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 avirilewoman 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 manytemptations 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 restof 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!
