15. Endgame

                                    

                                          

'That was fun.' Alfie said shaking hands with Tommy, Cora looked between them. 
"One more thing.' Tommy said.
'Oh he makes demands now?" Alfie questioned looking to Cora. 
"He is very bossy.' She confirmed. 
"I want Cora here.' Tommy told him. 
"No.' Cora said as Alfie said. 
"Sure.' Alfie stared back at her. 
"No.' she repeated. 
"Come on, you know you want to spend more time with me...' Alfie reminded her with a wink. 
'If I'm going to suffer through this little testosterone show, I'm going to need a stake in all this.' Cora told them. 
'What were you thinking?" Alfie questioned. 
'23% should be fine.' Cora told him. 
'You pull that number out of your fine ass?" Alfie questioned. 
"I did,' she smacked her ass with the smuggest of smirks. '23 or it's a no.' Cora told him. 
'That's more than I'm getting.' Tommy remarked. 
"We all know I'm going to be doing all your work since you will be going back to Birmingham.' Cora reminded him and Tommy shrugged. That was another reason he wanted her on this little partnership, he was almost confident that she would have his back if anything happened, keep him in the loop. 
  
'look I haven't got long I have got to get back to the boat. I will be back in four days just in time for pols birthday.' Tommy told Arthur over the phone.
'you should be in hospital with nurses and doctors and medicine. Last I saw you, you were looking like death!'
'I'm not gonna lie I'm still in bad shape but it needed to be done.' Tommy told him. 'the longer I stay here the more danger I'm putting myself in.' tommy told him. 'arthur put polly on the phone so she knows I'm alive..' 
'yeah just a sec.' 
'Tom?' pollys voice was even more worried then Tommy had imagined. 
'hello pol, how are you?'
'How am i? what happened? where are you? What's going on? Why did you leave hospital! Hospital Tommy!'
'I'm fantastic pol,'
'don't start with that. And what are you doing in London? What business requires-' pol went on
'polly,' tom said already annoyed. 
'I swear to god-' polly warned, she swore she was the only normal one in her family and she spoke to the dead at times. 
'don't worry pol I will be back in a few days and everything will be right in the world once again... right now I am in sabinis territory so if you keep me any longer I am dead. You hear me? I wont be coming back at all.'
'fine' polly agreed, hanging up.
  
'Ollie!'  Alfie shouted. 
'Yes sir.'
'You and fine ass Ms Cora.' Alfie began and Ollie swallowed the lump in his throat. 
'Yes sir?" he answered nervously. 
'I just wanted to let you know something.' Alfie said standing up. 
'Yes?'
'You are the rebound but I'm going to be endgame.' Alfie told ollie with complete certainty