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the majority
shareholder in Trammel, and she needs time to get adjusted to that big-ass
headache of a challenge.”
    Sal,
who was following his brother, stopped in his tracks.   “Majority shareholder?   How could she hold the majority of the shares
in Trammel?   You have the majority of the
shares, although I don’t see why you even bother with that tiny little piss-ass
company when we have a conglomerate to run.”   Then Sal got it.   “Are you saying
you gave it up?   Are you saying you gave
Grace your shares?”
    Tommy
exhaled.   “That’s what I’m saying, yeah,”
he said.
    “All
of them?”
    “Yes.   She already owned ten percent of her own,
thanks to her deceased father.   Now she’s
the majority owner of Trammel outright.”
    Sal
could hardly believe it.   “But . . . what
about your chairmanship?   You’re still
chairman of the board, though, right?”
      Tommy nodded.   “For now, yes.”   Then he
smiled.   “Unless Grace wants to make a
change.”
    “But
what about Jillian?   What’s Jilly saying
about all of this?”  
    “We
have a board meeting Monday morning over at Trammel.   That’s when Grace is due back to work.   Everybody will be notified then.”
    “Including
Jillian?”
    “Including
Jilly,” Tommy said with a nod.  
    But
Sal could hardly believe it.   He was
thunderstruck.   “I’ll be damn,” he
finally said, staring at his older brother as if he was seeing him for the
first time.   To give a female an entire
company?   Yeah, it was a company barely
on Tommy’s radar screen in terms of his holdings in various ventures, but it
was still an entire company he just gave to her.   And Sal was floored by that kind of
devotion.   He’d never seen anything like
it before in his life.   “You aren’t
shitting around, are you?” he asked his brother.   “You really love this girl.”
    Tommy
ran his hand across his forehead.   Although he was smiling, Sal could still see that strain in his
eyes.   “Is it that obvious?” he asked
with a laugh that even Sal, his biggest supporter, just couldn’t return.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
    CHAPTER THREE

 
    Grace
stood in front of the full-length mirror in her bedroom and turned side to side
as she looked at the deep gray skirt, and blue blouse tucked-in, that she had
just put on.   The skirt was just above
her knees, tight and snug and tailored to fit her small, curvaceous body.   She placed her hand on her stomach.   She remembered Reno Gabrini, Tommy’s cousin
and best friend, joking about how Tommy loved his women to be tiny and if she
gained so much as an inch he would kick her to the curb.   But while they were in Vegas, even Tommy
noticed that she had gained a few pounds.  
    But
he, instead, said it was a good thing.  
    “I
don’t want you skinny,” he had said.   Which was a remarkable thing to say to Grace, since most of the previous
girlfriends she’d ever known him to have were actual models or had very small,
model-type figures.   She was the lone
exception.
    She
looked at her smooth, dark-brown skin and her big, brown eyes in the mirror
before her.   She looked at the way her
hair rolled down to her shoulders in waves of big curls and bounciness that
framed her face in a way that made her almost look sexy.   Almost ,
she thought with a smile.  
    Then
she thought about last night.   And looked
at that rock again.   After their trip to
Vegas, where ShoShawna Shanks, Tommy’s ex-fiancée and a woman who had been
causing all kinds of trouble for them, was killed, she had expected Tommy to be
cautious.   She had expected him to
reassure her about their relationship and that she was the one he wanted, but
she expected him to take it even slower.   But he, instead, got in a hurry.
    “Will
you make a decent man out of me, Grace,” he had asked, “and marry me?”  
    She
remembered staring at him, as if she was weighing the question,