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fought with
all he had not to shout it out.   And then
Trina came, just as intensely, as she arched up to ease the intensity, but by
arching actually prolonged it.
    After
they came, and his dick was still inside of her and they were still locked in a
tight embrace, Reno eventually looked at his wife.  
    “You
know how to put it on me, girl,” he said, and she smiled.
    But
Reno’s look turned serious.   “But if you
disobey me again, and I find that clown, that Jody Parks, anywhere near you
again, I’m gonna put it on you.   And it
won’t be pleasant.   Understand me,
Katrina?”
    Trina
stared into Reno’s deep, expressive blue eyes.   She married one of the most serious, most sincere men she’d ever
met.   It used to bother her.   She used to want him to let up
sometimes.    But after all they’d been
through, especially after that ordeal with Jimmy, she now believed she
understood.   He was never wrong when it
came to his family’s well-being.   So far,
he was never wrong.
    “I
understand you, Reno,” she said.  
    And
for the first time in their marriage, she knew it was true.   For the first time in their marriage she felt
as if she finally understood her husband completely.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
    THREE

 
    Grace
McKenzie drove out of the parking garage at Trammel’s corporate headquarters building
and headed downtown.   It was evening rush
hour and the streets of Seattle were nearly gridlocked.   With one hand on her cup of Espresso that she
had grabbed from the corner café, and the other on her steering wheel, she
could barely manage when her car phone began ringing.   It required some maneuvering, but she was
able to balance her spill-resistant cup as she pressed the button.
    “Hello,”
she said.
    “Hey,
it’s me.   Where are you?”   It was Nayla Santiago.   Her best friend.  
    “I’m
on my way to Diamante’s.   Cam wanted to
meet with me.”
    “Cam?   Are you joking?   Cameron Birch?   What the hell for?”
    “Hold
on.   It’s not about him.   It’s about his mother.”
    “About
Jillian?   What about her?   She decided to leave Trammel rather than have
you as her boss.   What’s there to talk
about?”
    “She
wants to return.   Cam is trying to
facilitate her return.”
    “She
must be insane.   I wouldn’t let her
arrogant ass anywhere near my business.”
    “Yeah,
but it was her business.   She built that
business. And she still owns a hefty stake in that business. I can’t dismiss
that as easily as you can.”
    “But
thanks to Tommy Gabrini it’s your business now.   He gave you controlling interest in that company.   It’s yours whether she likes it or not.   She was your boss, now you’re hers.   And as to Cam discussing her return with
you?   Please.   He may be her son, and he may own five measly
percent of Trammel, but he’s also your ex-boyfriend.   An ex-boyfriend that your current boyfriend
already had to get straight for putting his hands on you.   I don’t think he’s in a position to
facilitate anybody’s return, Grace.   Especially not that witch Jillian.   She treated you like a dog when she was in charge.”
    But
thanks to Tommy, who gave Grace his forty-one percent shares, coupled with her
own ten percent, she became majority shareholder.   Jillian walked out of Trammel and never
returned as soon as she found out.
    Now
she wanted back in.  
    “So
where’s this meeting taking place?” Nayla asked Grace.   “Please don’t tell me at Jillian’s
house.   It’ll be her and Cam against
you.”
    “You
know me better than that.   I told Cam I’d
meet him at Diamante’s.”
    Nayla’s
laughed.   “At Tommy’s restaurant?   Girl, you’re wrong for that!   You’re meeting your ex-boyfriend at your
current boyfriend’s restaurant?”
    “It’s
not as dramatic as all that, Nay, keep your shirt on.   It’s just that it’s the only place where I’d
feel comfortable meeting Cam.