although she
wasn’t. She was weighing him. She was taking the measure of this man’s core
and was deeming him to be exactly the man she wanted to spend the rest of her
life with. And she said yes. Without reservation.
And
then, later still, after they had made love like two teenagers and she had
fallen asleep, she woke up briefly to find him seated in a chair by the
bed. He was half-dressed, in his pants,
but his shirt was wide open, and he was staring at her. What she loved about Tommy was that he didn’t
try to smile or pretend to be insanely happy when she opened her eyes. His look was too grave. And she understood why immediately. This proposal was a major undertaking for
him, and he undoubtedly feared, as she did, that he could blow it.
She,
instead, decided to not even go there. “You’re still here,” she said.
“Yep,
I haven’t left yet.”
“It’s
only Thursday night. You aren’t due back
to work until Monday. Why don’t you
spend the night?”
“Would
love to. But I need to check on some
things at the office early in the morning. You need your rest. Between
giving you those shares in Trammel and the proposal, that was a lot I laid on
you last night. I want you to rest. I’ll come over to get you tomorrow morning,
after I leave the office.”
Grace
smiled. “What are we going to do?” she
asked. “I haven’t had a Friday off work
in so long I wouldn’t know what to do with myself.”
“I
know what to do with you,” he said with a smile, “so don’t worry about that.”
“Yes,
sir,” she replied.
“How
did you sleep?”
Grace
stretched her naked body beneath the sheet. “Fabulous,” she said with a grin. “The best fuck, I mean sleep, I’ve ever had.”
Tommy
grinned and then laughed outright. “Yeah, me too,” he said with a lift of his eyebrows.
“So,
Mr. Gabrini,” Grace asked, “what time should I be ready tomorrow?”
“Be
dressed and ready to go by noon.”
“Oh,
okay. I get to sleep in for a change. Wonderful.” Then she stared at him. He looked
so sexy, she thought, so buff, as he sat there. “I’m going to miss you while we’re apart,” she said with a smile.
Tommy
looked at her soft, pretty face. He
wasn’t smiling, however. This was all
too real for him. “Yeah?”
“Oh,
yeah.”
He
looked at the outline of her naked body beneath those sheets. And just like that he began to get an
erection. “Come and show me how much,”
he said with that hooded look she knew so well.
Instead
of playing around with him or pretending to need clarification, she got her
naked brown body out of bed and walked over to Tommy. He pulled her onto his lap, and held her in
his arms. Grace remembered how
comfortable she felt. How relaxed and
protected. And although he eventually
unzipped his pants, pulled his already aroused penis out, and guided it deep
inside of her yet again, she was more in tuned with his arms around her. She loved his arms around her. His cock might have warmed her insides, but
his loving arms warmed her all over. And
that warmth caused her to fall right back asleep, with the feel of his dick
massaging her pussy, while the feel of his arms massaged her heart.
When
she woke back up, she was back in bed, her pussy cleaned and dry, and he was
gone. She thought she remembered a kiss
on the forehead, and the sound of Tommy talking and then the door closing, but
she wasn’t sure. She fell asleep
again. And then Nayla’s early morning
banging on her front door woke her right back up.
Now
she had prepped and showered and was fully dressed, ready to face the world,
not alone anymore, but with her future husband at her side. On Monday morning she would be in the board
room facing the astonished, maybe even hostile faces of the people who used to
be her superiors. On Monday morning she
would assume command of
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