// I love
There was a kingdom and there was a king. Birmingham was Tommy's Kingdom and he was the one who wore the crown. Everybody knew about the Peaky Blinders and everybody knew about Tommy Shelby OBE. Michael didn't find sleep that night. Gina was sleeping next to him, relieved and satisfied after the demonstration of love that her husband gave her. Michael couldn't sleep mostly because he couldn't shake the immense rage he was feeling towards Tommy fucking Shelby. Michael felt robbed of his promising life. He had a future, he was destined for greatness from birth. Michael was a Shelby, the son of the Gypsy princess Polly Gray. He was clever and cunning and on top of it all, he had guts and a vision. He could have led the family to new heights. Polly warned him before he went to the USA. There would be a war between Tommy and him. One of them would die but she couldn't tell who. Michael was certain that Tommy hated him from the moment he knew of his existence. Tommy and his mother were close, and Michael suspected that he saw Polly as a substitute for his late mother. In a way, Thomas had stolen his life and refused to give Michael what was his due. He couldn't bear the thought of having Polly share her love and affection with someone else and that could explain why he was so hellbent on destroying Michael's life to the point of starting a war.
Michael tilted his head to look at his beautiful young wife who was baring her back at him. He told her before that he was with her when they were in bed. He told her that he was fucking her and when she wasn't home, he was thinking about her. Lies! Lies! He was lying his ass off. He liked Gina. She was gorgeous, she was wild and she knew how to talk to him and stroke his ego. She was the one who made him feel invincible as if nothing could ever happen to him. She was the one who made him realize that he had something to bring to his family and that he should be the Future of the Shelby Family. Yet... Yet, Michael couldn't help but covet Mary. When his cock was deep inside Gina, he imagined that he was with Mary instead. When he was holding her neck while his hips snapped hard into the slender blonde, he was thinking about the curvy brown nurse of Birmingham. Mary drove him crazy! Mary caught his attention in a way that no other woman could. It was something about her voice that sent shivers down his spine when he heard her. It was sultry when she spoke, soft and silky when she sang and he had wished to listen to it when he had her. He imagined her moans, he imagined his fingers holding a fistful of her brown locks, and he wanted to lock his blue gaze into her green ones. It was something about her curves. Most women he knew were slim, especially the ones of his childhood village. They were skinny and most looked alike but Mary stood out.
She should have been his. Michael knew it! He saw her first when Tommy had only eyes on Grace. He was the first to see Mary's true potential. Her beauty, her charm, and how good of a wife she could be. He was the first to be smitten with her voice and genuinely fell in love with her upon meeting her. Tommy knew, he even teased him about it but you know, in the way Tommy always did -without really caring about who Mary was- But she was too closed off and worried to give him a minute of her time. Mary didn't see Michael as a potential suitor. She laughed with him, she teased him, she talked to him but she wasn't with him. She rejected his demands. She never went on a date with him, somehow, he felt that she didn't see his worth. Instead, Tommy came through. Tommy, with Grace dead, decided to set his eyes on Mary and he convinced the rest of the family to root for them and make sure they ended up together. Tommy, again! Tommy the King! Tommy the fucking God of the Peaky Blinders and the Shelby Family! Michael couldn't help but clenched his fists and roll on his sides so he wouldn't look at his wife. She couldn't see how upset he was, not after such an intimate moment together. she would ask him questions, and he didn't want her to be upset with him. So he hid.
He hid like he hid his true plans from his mother. Polly couldn't be brought into this war because she sat in the middle of it. While her loyalty was to her son, he didn't want to put her through the pain of choosing between him and the other Shelbys. He held no grudges against Arthur, Ada, and Finn. He wanted them alive, they were his family after all. The only one he wanted to overthrow was Tommy Shelby. He expected his deal with Archibald to be a good idea and to help sort this situation out. Archibald would take the Gin Distillery from Tommy, he might even shake things up with Mary and take her away from Tommy. It was a risk, something that didn't sit well with him, that she would fall for Archer but at least she wouldn't be with Tommy, and Michael was fine with it. He was fine with it. He was fine, right? He was his own person. He proved he could handle himself well. He married into one of the biggest crime families and Uncle Jack was not to be trifled with. He had power through alliance. He had a legitimate business in the USA and he helped his family to earn money. lots of it. So much so that they could burn some of it at their leisure and would still remain rich. But he was using drugs and he was drinking too much, and he was partying with his wife. Was he miserable?
Well, yes. He was, because, despite all the power and the booze he could have access to, he was missing something crucial. He was missing his home. He wanted to come back home and settle in the UK. He wanted to go back home, to his mother and step up as the next heir of the Shelby empire. He wanted to go back home and to listen to Mary's voice, to use her as he wished so she could pay for all those years she had been ignoring him. He wanted her, not because he loved her -that love was dead and gone by now- but because he thought he deserved her and he should have. He wanted her to become his and to keep her around him. She'd been pining over Tommy for years, eh? why wouldn't she do the same for him then? why wouldn't she? He wanted to go home. That's what he wanted and that was what he would manage to have. Tommy is damned.
-TBC-
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