Chapter 18,

Tommy's POV,

I can't believe the bitch is so deluded that she thinks someone else sent the first letter to her! I have no idea where this has come from because I haven't given the bitch the time of day, I never paid her any attention even when we were at the races I was always focusing on Kimber or watching out for Arthur. So, the bitch truly is deluded if she thinks I'm going to leave my wife for her! I have the best woman I have ever met like I would give that up for anyone or anything, Ness truly is my other half she knows everything about me she knows what I need before I do. Her touch sends shivers down my spine and she can calm me like no other can. With all this shit the barmaid has done taking her to the races was not worth it she didn't even do what I needed her to do! I truly was regretting ever taking her now I should of just took my wife and played Kimber another way.

Listening to my beautiful wife plan a trip to London tonight I couldn't help the smirk on my face, my wife truly is fucking devious and I loved it about her. I can't wait for the whore barmaid to see us tonight in London, I can't wait for her to see us laughing about her and discussing the letter she sent me and I fucking hope our room is close enough that the bitch can hear me fucking my wife tonight because we wouldn't have to keep our noise down and worry about the family overhearing us or Finn cause I knew Ness always worried about Finn hearing us, the others not so much. But tonight, she could be as loud as she fucking wants and I was going to make it my mission to have my wife screaming my name in pure fucking pleasure so not only the barmaid hears but every fucker on the floor would hear her and knew it was me fucking the most beautiful woman on this earth. I was brought out of my thoughts by Ness's hand on my cheek pulling my face towards her,

"You ok Tom?"

"Couldn't be better my love,"

I kissed her lips softly then fished my pocket watch out checking the time, seeing it was close to 2pm I knew we would need to leave for London soon.

"We need to leave soon my love, shall we go pack an overnight bag?"

"I'll do that Tommy, you speak to John and Pol make sure they both have this place under control and Arthur too! Cause you know his going to kick off big time when he finds out were leaving for the night again."

"I really don't care about Arthur my love, his been acting more erratic since our father turned up and he gave him all that money. He can't even blame it on the fucking Flanders blues because this is something different his fighting against us at every opportunity and I just don't give a fuck what he has to say anymore until he changes back to my brother."

"I know my darling, maybe once we've dealt with this Grace bullshit you and John can take Arthur out and have a boys night and sort some shit out with him?"

"It's a good idea sweetheart but I'll see how he reacts to us leaving again before I make any decisions."

"Right, I'll go pack us an overnight bag you speak to John and Pol."

"Ok, love. Once I've done that, I'll go get the car and bring it round then we can just leave straight away."

"Ok Tom."

She kissed my lips again then stood up and walked out of the office. I sat for a moment longer before packing away the books into the draw and locking it once they were in. Not that I didn't trust my family but they couldn't watch the office when we get busy cause there's just to many people in here and no way in hell was, I letting anyone get their hands on the books for the betting den or Ness's businesses.

I stood up and walked out of the office closing the door behind me, I saw Pol at her desk,

"Pol?"

She looked up at me, so I nodded my head in the direction of John which had her nodding at me and standing up to follow me. We got to John who was just hanging up the phone, he looked at me and smiled walking down to meet us knowing I didn't want Esme hearing anything just yet. I know I arranged the marriage doesn't mean I trusted her just yet in fact the woman had to do something to prove herself cause right now all she has done is screw John and sit watching him work. But that would be for another day,

"Ness is packing us an overnight bag, once I'm finished talking to you two, I'm going to get the car and bring it round. Are you two sure you've got this? Cause you know Arthurs gonna kick off once he knows were leaving for the night again?"

They both looked at each other but it was John that spoke up,

"Don't you worry Tom, we got this. We're keep Arthur busy so he doesn't have time to piss us off, just go sort this shit with the barmaid before Ness loses her shit and ends up killing the bitch."

I smirked at that and nodded,

"I wouldn't mind seeing that but as the Inspector still has some sort of soft spot for the bitch, I don't want Ness getting into shit for now."

This time it was Pol that spoke up,

"We're be fine Tommy, go get the car so your wife doesn't have to walk in this weather."

I nodded my head and slapped John on the shoulder, walking off to fetch my coat before leaving the betting den called to John once last time.

"Don't let Ness wait outside on her own John-boy I'll be back soon."

"Wouldn't dream of it Tom you know that."

I knew that of course, since Ness was the nurse that treated John back in the war, he had grown a soft spot for her and started treating her as his little sister more, and with all this bullshit with Arthur they had got even closer. I knew it upset Arthur that him and Ness weren't as close anymore but he had no one but himself to blame with all that bullshit he had been sprouting about dad then telling me to cheat on Ness in the back room of the Garrison it just all lead to them not being what they used to be and the only one that could fix that was Arthur. I grabbed my coat and left the house going straight to the garage where we keep the car. I pulled off the cover and got in the drivers seat. I started her up and pulled out of the garage I was pulling up outside the house within minutes to see Ness and John stood outside with John's arms around Ness keeping her warm.

I pulled up outside, John opened the door and helped Ness in throwing the bag in the back, he then grabbed the blanket that was over his shoulder and covered Ness's legs up. He nodded at me and kissed Ness's forehead.

"Have fun lovebirds."

We both laughed softly at that, I shook my head Ness scooted across the seat to sit next to me as she always does when were in the car and her hand went to my thigh. I smiled at her leaning to kiss her lips softly,

"You ready my love?"

"Oh, I'm ready Tom!"

I knew she was because I felt the same, I was ready for this shit with the barmaid to be over and I was hoping she would finally get the fucking clue that she had no chance with me because I was right where I needed to be with my wife and nothing and no one was ever going to come between us especially her. It would take us about two hours to get to London, so I pulled away and we were on our way.

Time skip-I am not going to do their journey to London.

I pulled up outside the hotel we were staying at, I got out of the car and walked to Ness's side opening her door and offering my hand to help her out of the car I grabbed our bag with my other hand and we walked into the hotel going straight to the Reception desk. The woman behind the desk saw me and smiled, I just looked at her waiting for her to speak.

"Good afternoon, sir, how can I help?"

"We have a reservation for Shelby?"

"Ok,"

She looked down at her book and found my name, grabbed the key for the room and handed it to me,

"If there is anything I can help you with or that you need Mr Shelby please don't hesitate to contact me."

I could see the double meaning to that from miles away which had me glaring at her,

"My wife is right next to me, if I need anything she will provide it for me and I think you should be ashamed of yourself hitting on customers like that when they clearly are not single!"

I was sick of women ignoring my wife next to me and if this Grace situation had taught me anything it was to show all of them, they had no chance with me from the beginning and I would damn well show them to show respect to my wife!

"I'm sorry Mr Shelby,"

"Yeah, I bet."

I turned to look at Ness who was looking at me with nothing but love on her face, and a soft smile.

"Come on, love lets go."

Before we could walk away the manager was walking over to us clearly not happy that he could see there was an unhappy customer.

"Is everything ok here?"

I looked at the receptionist who was just about to speak up and I knew she was going to say no which I was having none of so I spoke up just before she could.

"No everything's not ok, I don't think its very professional for a hotel like this to allow their receptionist to flirt with the customers especially when she can clearly see I have a wedding ring on my finger and my wife is right next to me. I don't like when people disrespect my wife like that."

I could see the manager was pissed off and knew he would be talking to the receptionist and rightly so, she may be able to convince some married men to fuck her but I am not them my wife is fucking beautiful and no woman could compare to her in and out of the bedroom.

"I'm sorry Mr Shelby, dinner is on the house this evening please accept my apologies? Mrs Shelby, I am sorry for such disrespect from a member of my staff!"

Ness looked at him and nodded her with a soft smile on her face, I could see in her eyes she was still pissed off with the woman but she wasn't about to take it out on the manager. I held my hand out to the manager who shook my hand,

"Thank you, your apology is much appreciated, and so is the dinner this evening."

I then turned to look at Ness and held my hand out to her smiling,

"Shall we retire to our room my love?"

"Let's darling husband of mine,"

She took my hand and laced our fingers together, we were on the second floor so we made our way over to the stairs and slowly made our way up to our room. When got to room 206 and I opened the door with the key, I then waved my hand in letting Ness in first. I walked in after her closing and locking the door, I fished out my pocket watch to check the time,

"Ok love, its 4pm so we have an hour before dinner."

That had her smirking at me and slowly walking towards me, she put her hands on my chest and ran them slowly up towards my neck to wrap her arms around my neck.

"An hour you say? Whatever shall we do!"

This had me smirking at her and putting my hands on her hips pulling her closer to me and crashing my lips onto hers, I knew my wife better than I knew myself and I knew where her mind was going without her even having to say anything but even without her having said anything I would still be pulling her closer to me because we were alone and my wife could be as loud as she wanted to be without having to worry about Finn hearing us. I knew it was only Finn she was worried about overhearing us too cause there had been plenty of times Arthur had just walked into our room without knocking.

My hands went to the back of her dress slowly unbuttoning it I slowly slide it down her shoulders to pool at her feet leaving her in her slip. Her hands went to my jacket sliding it off my shoulders to the floor and unbuttoning my shirt sliding that off to join my jacket on the floor I then slid the straps of her slip off her shoulders leaving that to pool at her feet with her dress.

There is nothing better for me to look at in this world then my wife stood in front of me smiling at me with so much love in her eyes. I took the rest of my clothes off and put my hands on her hips pushing her back gently towards the bed once we reached the bed, I pushed her backwards softly so she landed on the bed with a slight bounce. She moved herself back towards the top of the bed and I followed her moving to kneel between her legs.

I looked into her eyes and saw nothing but love shining through, it was moments like this I would always cherish with my wife because these were the moments that meant the most to me. People thought my business was the most important thing in my life but that's simply because that's what I want them to think to protect my wife as much as I can even though she is part of the business and has more to do with it then the rest of the family.

I grabbed both of her hands in one of mine and moved them to the top of the bed keeping them there while my other hand went to my cock pumping a few times before placing it at her entrance moving my hand to her hip to hold her in place, I looked into her eyes one more time before thrusting hard and fast deep inside her pussy. I loved being inside her pussy, I moved my lips to hers crashing mine against them and thrusting my tongue into her mouth instantly.

I knew my wives body like the back of my hand, I knew exactly how to angle her hips to hit that right spot deep inside her, I knew the minute her legs started shaking she was holding back not wanting to let go and I knew one look into her eyes while like this would have us both cummin so fucking hard it would be almost impossible to stop. Sex with my wife was like nothing else in this world, and I knew a lot of men that had cheated on their wives, in France and even now with the whores around Small Heath and even having a few mistresses. A few had tried to talk me into it too but I knew no woman could make me hard like my wife and no woman would be able to make me cum like she does either.

"Hmmm Tommy, fuck me please!"

I looked into Ness's eyes and moved my hand that wasn't holding hers above her head to angle her hips in the right position that had her eyes rolling every time. Once I had her hips where I wanted them and her hands still above her head, my other hand moved to her throat putting enough pressure that she knew I was there but not enough to hurt her. I pulled my cock out of her leaving just the tip inside her pussy, I looked deep into her eyes and snapped my hips hard against hers thrusting into her roughly.

"Oh, God! Yes, Tommy please!"

"Do you like that my love?"

I knew she did her eyes had rolled and her pussy walls clenched me so hard I felt it all the way to my balls.

"Yes, please Tommy I'm".

She couldn't finish her sentence because I had started thrusting harder and faster inside her knowing she was close and so was I! I moved my hand from her throat to between our bodies roughly rubbing her clit, I put my forehead against hers and staired deeply into her eyes.

"Cum for me, my love let go let me feel you soak my cock!"

We both let go cummin at the same time, I kissed her lips softly then moved my hands to her hips holding her tightly and rolling so I stayed inside her and pulled her to straddle my hips. She laid against my chest placing her head in the crock of my neck and her hand on my chest over my heart. I had one arm wrapped around her waist holding her in place and the other running my fingertips along her spine. The quiet moments with my wife were the most important to me just us in our bubble of being in love, of being husband and wife and if we listened to Pol and the gypsy tales soulmates. Both me and Ness were proud of our gypsy heritage and we took any moment we could to live in our ancestors ways which is why we referred to the other as our soul mate a lot.

It wasn't long before Ness was speaking up and taking us out of our quiet moment,

"Tom?"

"Hmm?"

"I've been thinking, what if we sent word to Grace make her think you're here for her?"

Once again, my wives devious mind was at it again, I knew she would want to take this moment to ruin Grace without physically hurting her in a roomful of witnesses and this would be her one and only chance to do just that because after this we would never be mentioning the barmaids name again ever! Once we had dealt with this here and now it would be the last time the barmaid ever played a part in our lives.

"What do you have in mind my darlin?"

She sat her making us both groan at the feeling of me still being inside her, her eyes closing for a moment before opening them and looking into mine. I knew my eyes would be reflecting the same love and lust hers are right now. My hands moving to her hips holding her in place.

"Well, think about it. She's probably kept herself in her hotel room not leaving thinking you were coming to her. So even with us being here she might not come down to dinner, so maybe you could pay some of the hotel staff to tell you what room shes in and write her a note to meet you down in the dining room for dinner, then once shes there I will walk in and well we can go from there and see how it plays out."

Her idea had me thinking it had merit cause we all knew how fucking desperate Grace was for me to choose her but did I want another woman to believe they had a chance with me over my wife? It was bad enough having to play Lizzie the way I did even though Ness was in the back of the car and listening to it all it still left a foul taste in my mouth and a guilty feeling in my gut. But I also knew she wanted to do this her way because Grace had been asking for this from the fucking beginning all those snide remarks to me, the lingering looks the glaring at my wife, the fucking singing at the Garrison. I moved my hands to cup her face and bring it towards my own placing soft lingering kisses on her lips, I pulled back and she put her forehead to mine staring into my eyes waiting for me to speak.

"OK, love we will do this your way. If that's the way you want to play it then that's the way we do it but I think we should put some plans in motion not just let it play out. Grace, it seems could be unpredictable and the last thing we want is for her to get the upper hand or worse hurt you!"

"Well, I don't really care what happens Tommy but the bitch has to be humiliated and left hurt after everything she has done, I want her to know she never stood a fucking chance with you and that I am the only woman that will ever be married to you and have your cock deep inside my pussy I want her to know she never stood a chance of being Mrs Shelby."

I could see the deep-rooted anger she had for the barmaid and I can't say it wasn't turning me on to fucking see. Everyone thought they knew my wife, they thought she was this nice, sweet and innocent young woman now don't get me wrong to a degree she could be but there was also the side of my wife I only knew and that was her vindictive side, the side that claimed me as hers and would set the world on fire to make other women aware of it just like I would for her. I grabbed my pocket watch from my waist coat on the floor and saw it was about 15 minutes to dinner time, if we were going to do this it would need to be now.

"OK, my love you get ready while I set everything up and I shall see you downstairs."

I kissed her lips softly and rolled us over so I was once again on top of her, I pulled out of her slowly which had us both sighing in displeasure I got up off the bed and walked over to our bag pulling out my other suit and getting dressed quickly. I knew Ness liked me in my suits but I also knew she liked me when I was full on leader of the blinders as she put it once when I asked her. I looked over to her and saw her looking at me with love, adoration and lust in her eyes which had me sighing in awe of my wife whenever she looked at me this way it always made me feel like I didn't deserve her not that I would ever that to her of course cause she would have my arse. I smirked at the look of lust that shot through her eyes when I put my peaky cap on and walked over to her bending down and kissing her lips I pulled away and brushed knuckles against her cheek smiling at her.

"I'll see you soon my love. "

I left the room and made my way down to the reception desk, hoping the same woman was behind the desk knowing she would do I wanted without having to pay so much money to her. Once I got down, I smirked seeing her stood behind the counter so I walked over to her turning my smirk into a smile, once she saw me, she looked away quickly then looked back noticing my smile.

"What can I do for Mr Shelby?"

"I need a favour sweetheart do you think you can help me?"

I could practically see the wheels turning in her head after our conversation earlier, but that's exactly why I had come to her because now she had something to prove not just to me but herself and also to her manager to keep him happy and to keep her job. She smiled at me trying to be seductive,

"Of course, Mr Shelby what can I do for you?"

"I need to know of a woman staying here, Grace Burgess?"

"Hmm let me just have a look for that name Mr Shelby."

She looked through her book and came back to me,

"Her room Mr Shelby is three doors down from yours, would you like me to let her know you're looking for her?"

"No can you please make sure she gets this note before dinner? I know it's short notice but this is the first time I have been able to get away from my wife."

Throwing that in I knew would get her to help me quicker I could see earlier that she had took an instant dislike to my wife. I held out the note along with three pounds to her, waiting to see what she would do. She reached forward slowly watching me to see if this was some sort of trick, she took the note and the money quickly putting the money in her pocket so no one would see it she held the note in her hand and I knew she was wanting to read it but I also knew she wouldn't because as much as she didn't want to admit it, she feared me and what I would do if I saw her doing it.

"I'll make sure she gets it Mr Shelby, I shall deliver it myself now."

I nodded my head and walked away with a smirk on my face, instead of going back upstairs I went into the dinning room and called over a waiter.

"Can I help you sir?"

I held some money out to him and nodded towards a table that was in the far corner, it was far enough you could still be seen from the entrance but also far enough that you would get some privacy.

"I want that table reserved for Thomas Shelby, you understand me? I want a bottle of Champagne on that table with some Roses, I also want some Rose petals spread over it do you think you can do that for?"

He took the money and nodded his head,

"Of course, Mr Shelby it will be done and ready for you in the next ten minutes."

With that he rushed off and started ordering people around and getting things ready, I noticed him put a reserved sign on our table which had me nodding in approval and walking away. Once Grace had left, I was planning on a nice romantic evening for me and my wife, it had been a long time coming for us. I walked over to the bar ordering a whiskey just waiting for the evening to begin,

"What can I get you sir?"

"whiskey, Irish!"

Once the barman had placed that in front of, I nodded my thanks and downed it placing some coins on the bar top and leaving. Walking back over to the dining room I knew it was time I walked right over to my table removing the reserved sign and sitting down waiting. You didn't have to wait long before you saw Grace making her way into the dining room with a big smile on her face and my note in her hand. This had me laughing internally knowing after today she would finally know I would never choose her over my wife. The waiter made his way over to her,

"Can I help you, Miss?"

I knew this would be the perfect table to sit at, I could hear everything here.

"Yes, I'm here to meet Thomas Shelby?"

"Of course, Miss this way."

I saw them making their way over to me so I stood up, once they were within distance the waiter pulled her chair out for her which had her sitting down instantly. I sat down and faced her I could see she was taking in the table and the Champagne, there was no way in hell I was opening this for her so I asked the waiter to bring me a whiskey and Grace a Gin.

I just sat staring at her waiting for her to speak, thankfully I wasn't waiting long.

"It's so nice to hear from you Tommy. I knew you couldn't have wrote that last letter to me, I knew you felt something for me I've always known there was something between us your wife was just standing in the way but now you're here we can talk about us. Does she know you're here?"

The way she spat the word she had me instantly on protective mode but I knew I couldn't do that right now so I just sat back in my chair and picked up my whisky waiting for her to speak some more.

She reached across the table for my hand that was saw there, grabbing it with both of hers.

"We can be together now Tommy, no interruptions no wife, no Campbell you don't even have to get divorced from her you can stay married I just want to be with you."

Before I could speak up and tell this bitch how delusional she was movement from the entrance caught my eye, I let Grace continue rambling while I looked to the entrance and what I saw once again took my breath away. My wife was walking in wearing a vibrant red dress, with lace detailing she wore the pearl necklace I had got her before we left for war and her wedding ring was shining brightly on her left hand. I snuck a look around and noticed everyone was looking to my wife, the woman looking in awe of her and the men with lust in their eyes and as much as I wanted to blind them, I couldn't blame them for looking at her. Not wanting Grace to see Ness before she should I looked away from Ness after she sent me a kiss and put my attention back onto Grace.

She was still waffling away thankfully I didn't have to wait long before Ness was making her way over which had me pushing my chair back ready to welcome her onto my lap. Grace still hadn't noticed me moving my chair back in fact she hadn't shut up since sitting down spouting the same bullshit about us belonging together and Ness standing in our way hearing a throat clear behind her had her shutting up and looking behind her to see Ness stood there with her arms crossed glaring at Grace and the saying if looks could killed popped into my head because Grace would be fucking dead right now.

"Well, what do we have here? Trying to steal my husband again are we Grace? Not very lady like, is it?"

By now we had peoples attention because Ness was speaking so loud, I knew mostly everyone could hear what was being said I also knew Ness was doing it purposely so people could hear what type of woman Grace was.

Grace went to stand when Ness slapped a hand on her shoulder pushing her back down, she looked over to me which had me smirking at her and patting my knee, she instantly walked to my side of the table and sat down on my lap my arms going around her waist holding her in place. Thankfully once Ness had sat down everyone looked away, I knew they were still listening in but at least they weren't blatantly looking at us while doing it. I could see Grace was confused but I could also see the hurt in her eyes but did I feel guilty? No because she had this coming, I had not made it a secret how much I love my wife and how no woman could or would come between us the fact that she had got it into her head that there was more going on was all her own doing.

"Well Grace what do you have to say for yourself? Going after my husband after you have already been warned so many times before!"

Grace looked to me expecting me to say something so I simply pulled my wife closer to my chest placing a kiss on her neck and my chin on her shoulder, raising my eyebrow at her waiting for her to speak up.

"Me and Tommy have connection Ness you know it as well as I do! That's why you've been jealous of me from the beginning because you knew you could see it! Once you finally admit it Tommy will finally be fucking happy with me!"

My wife pulled forward a bit so she could turn to look me in the eyes raising an eyebrow at me which had me smirking at her she then looked back to Grace bursting out into full blown belly laughter. I chuckled watching my wife laugh to the point she had tears running down her face, once she had stopped and calmed down, I kissed her neck again and watched Grace's face again. I could see the frustration building in Graces eyes and knew it wouldn't be long until she burst,

"See Grace the thing is my husband and I come from the same background, we have the same beliefs, we know each other better then we know ourselves! Tommy and I are not just husband and wife but we are soulmates, you can't break soulmates apart because they will both die of broken hearts! You may not believe but that just goes to show how naive you are when it comes to Tommy, you believe you love him after spending a measly ten minutes with him, you believe you love him but what do you truly know about my husband hmm?"

Soulmates were not something to take lightly in our world, to Gypises soulmates were everything they should be celebrated, when Ness and I first got together the party that was thrown for us by Johnny dogs was one we would always remember! If the gypsy community knew Grace was trying to come between us, she would be hunted down by all of them and they wouldn't stop until they knew she was dead. My wife had a point though, Grace knew nothing about me well except for the things she had heard about me from others but that doesn't truly count because no one other then my wife truly knew me.

"I know enough about Tommy to know he loves me not you Ness!"

Ness leant forward slamming her hands down on the table, making not only Grace jump but those around us too which had me pulling her back to me snuggling her against my chest.

"ENOUGH!"

The word slipped out of my mouth before I could comprehend it was me speaking, I didn't want to speak because I knew Ness wanted to handle this but I could feel how upset my wife was becoming and it was something I didn't like feeling so I snapped and Grace was going to get everything from me.

"Enough Grace! I have no fucking idea where you've got your delusions from but that's exactly what this is! Delusions in your own mind, you've fabricated bullshit in your head there is nothing between us now or ever! I love my wife more then anything in this fucking world, I will burn the world to the ground to make her happy and if I have to make you disappear to make her happy, I fucking will! The only thing I wanted you for was to use you for Kimber and you couldn't even fucking do that right could you. I want you to stay out of Birmingham away from me and my wife! I want nothing from you and I never will! Get that through your stupid thick head because this will be the last time I ever sit down and tell you. Next time I will fucking kill you do I make myself clear?"

"But the note."

That had my wife laughing and me chuckling with her,

"My wives plan to make sure you came down for dinner Grace! She wanted you to believe you had a chance with me and we could fucking throw it back at you so you could finally see there was nothing between us!"

Before anything more could be said Grace stood up and stormed off out of the hotel, Ness standing up immediately and me following her both of us following after Grace. I nodded to the waiter to keep our table and we made our way out of the hotel to find Grace stood in the alleyway against the wall breathing heavy.

Ness made her way over to her pulling her knife from her boot as she went and stuck it to Grace's throat, I stood at the entrance in ear shot but made sure no one would stumble down there seeing what my wife was about to do. She pulled Grace's hair holding her head back so Grace would look into her eyes,

"I won't fucking tell you again stay away from my husband Grace or I will kill you, I'll chop your body up so no one will know it's you and feed you to the fucking pigs of the lane! Tommy is mine!"

The whole scene had me fucking hard in seconds, my wife was scary as fucking hell but fuck me did she turn me on like crazy! I couldn't fucking wait to get her back into our hotel room and fuck the shit out of her! It seems though Grace wasn't as bright as I first thought because she spoke up mentioning the note once again,

"But the note! It said to meet Thomas here and that."

She didn't get to finish her sentence because Ness pulled her hair so hard Grace whimpered in pain,

"Don't fucking call him Thomas! His name and mine is Mr and Mrs Shelby to you!"

She then ran the knife down Graces cheek pulling a scream from her mouth that she put an instant stop to by putting her hand over Graces mouth. The mark would leave a scar but hopefully it would be a reminder to Grace to stay the fuck away from me and any other married man in the future.

"I am not playing games with you Grace stay the fuck away from what is mine!"

She threw Grace away from her and wiped the blood off the knife on Graces clothes she put the knife back in her thigh holster and made her way back over to me my arms out waiting for her. She walked into my arms and I pulled her tight against me slamming my lips down on hers,

"Do you see what you do to me? Fuck!"

That had her giggling and shaking her head at me,

"Later Mr Shelby, I am actually hungry since our lunch was well never happened and our dinner was interrupted."

"Hmm it's a date Mrs Shelby."

Leaving Grace on the floor and walking away I waved over the blinders that work for me around the London area, they would take care of Grace and made sure she wouldn't be talking to anyone about what happened here. We made our way back into the hotel and went straight to our table me pulling Ness's chair closer to mind and holding it our for her to sit on, once she was sat down, I pushed her in and made my way to my own chair, sitting down and grabbing Ness's hand placing soft kisses to her knuckles.

I could feel her still shaking from the adrenaline rush of the evening and knew tonight's sexcapades would be a hole lot of fucking fun for us both! Ness took in the table looking at me softly,

"Did you do all this for me Mr Shelby?"

I reached for her hand that was sat on the table between us linking our fingers together pulling her as close to me as she could possibly get.

"Nothing more then you deserve my gorgeous wife!"

I would aim and promise not just Ness but myself that this business wouldn't get to far and that I would never allow it to hurt my wife in anyway shape or form so the fact that these people had quite obviously been following her for weeks it made him made to the point he wanted to kick the shit out of him and everyone around you but that wasn't who you were and you didn't react to things like that. I pulled her hand to my lips kissing her knuckles softly while keeping eye contact.

Thankfully the waiter interrupted our moment before it go to out of hand.

"Are you ready to order?"

We both ordered our food and I grabbed the Champagne bottle opening it and pouring a glass for her which had her smiling at me and then pouring some into my glass, I handed her, her own glass and picked up mine raising it in the air and looking at her softly.

"To us my gorgeous wife! My soulmate, my wife, my partner, my best friend and my confidante you are the world to me and I wouldn't change it for anything thank you for being my wife and always sticking by my side. I promise to love you forever and always forever staying faithful to you and you only!"

The tears in your eyes and the smile on your face, he knew he had said the right thing you leaned forward kissing him softly, pulling back slightly so your lips still touched,

"Forever and always my love,"

He saw you drink some Champagne but knew you hadn't swallowed so when he placed his lips against yours again, he opened his mouth instantly with you opening yours and letting the Champagne flow from your mouth to his and Tommy loved every moment of it because to him he felt the intimacy of the moment and it always touched his heart and made him feel that love between you. Tomorrow you would both make your way back to Birmingham and back to business but tonight he would share with you the ideas he had running around his head because he couldn't work with his mind all jumbled and he knew you were the only one who could help him sort through the chaos that was his mind.

AN

I am so sorry it has taken so long to write an update, my life has been pretty crazy and hectic which is no excuse at all unfortunately I lost my inspiration for writing after reading so many of the same story plot lines on peaky blinders such as Tommy always cheating with Grace etc I didn't know whether I wanted to continue this story but then I thought no it would be a nice change to finally be able to read a story where Tommy doesn't cheat on his wife.

So, this update we see Grace in London finally having a confrontation but is it the last we see of Grace? Who knows, there is still so much more to come for Tommy and Ness and I hope you stick with me. Just to be clear this is not a Grace and Tommy flick it will follow the same kind of timeline as the show but Grace does not get to be with Tommy and neither does Lizzie. Be warned though this has a lot of Grace and Lizzie bashing if you don't like that then you have been warned!

I hope you like and enjoy the update I am already planning the next chapter there might be a time skip but I'm not sure as of yet. Thank you for sticking with me,

V

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