Tommy Gabrini_A Family Man by Mallory Monroe

Author:Mallory Monroe [Monroe, Mallory]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Austin Brook Publishing
Published: 2019-05-13T18:30:00+00:00

“You’re going to lunch with us, Daddy?” Destiny asked him as he walked them to Grace’s Bentley.

But before Tommy could answer, his cell phone rang. When he pulled it out, and saw that it was Sal, he knew he had to take the call. “Give me a minute,” he said to Grace, and moved away from her car.

“He’s not going with us,” Destiny said dejectedly as they piled into her mother’s car.

“You don’t know that,” TJ responded to her.

“I do know it! He never goes.”

“That’s enough,” Grace said. She was still feeling the excitement she felt having Tommy in church with them, and wasn’t going to let anything ruin that wonderful gesture he made. She knew how hard Tommy worked. He would be with them twenty-four seven if he could, and she knew that.

She also understood his hectic schedule would be the deal when she decided to remarry him. Coming to church with them was a baby step he took today, but it was a step in the right direction. She was grateful.

But when she looked over at Tommy talking on his cell phone, and the concerned look on his face, she also knew Des was right. He wasn’t coming with them. And she couldn’t help it. She was disappointed too.

When his call ended, he made his way back over to Grace’s car. Even women in the parking lot were still eyeballing him, as if they just might stand a chance themselves. It used to bother Grace mightily. But no more. She was confident in Tommy’s love for her.

She pressed down the driver side window when he arrived at her car, and he stood at that window. Grace glanced through her rearview mirror. Destiny, who sat in the backseat with her baby brother, was staring at her father as if she was daring him to prove her earlier pronouncement wrong.

Tommy did no such thing. “I have to take care of a little business,” he said, leaning into Grace’s window.

Destiny shook her head and looked away from him. TJ was disappointed too.

“It can’t wait?” Grace asked, hoping against hope that he could find a way, for his children’s sake, if for no other reason.

But Tommy couldn’t. They’d found that motorcyclist from earlier that morning. He had to handle it. “It can’t wait,” he said to Grace. “But I’ll try my best to be home for dinner.”

Grace glanced at the kids again. That was little consolation to them. She looked at Tommy. “Don’t try,” she said to him. “Be home. We made a deal,” she reminded him.

Tommy stared into Grace’s eyes. She was as disappointed in him as his kids were, but she still, he knew, stood up for him at every turn. It was heartbreaking. “I’ll be home,” he promised, and he was going to keep that word even if he had to move mountains to make it so.

He leaned in and kissed Grace on the lips. He wanted to linger, but he knew the children were watching. Then he looked at his kids.

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