Greedy / Luca Changretta

1. The Ex

Marrying Thomas Shelby was a whirlwind. They fell fast and hard but then reality set in. It wasn't the life that put a wedge between them. It was Tommy. He always had to be the one in the middle of everything and everyone. He was never satisfied. Never. Not with her. Not with the amount of money they were bringing in. Nothing. So he kept expanding and kept up with the whores. One day Cora had enough.

She felt more like a maid than a wife. She tended to the house and tommys youngest brother finn. She loved him most nights but she didn't know where he was who he was fucking most of the time. She wasn't his person. She wasn't even his second person she was way down the list of people he would turn to and that made her miserable.

Leaving Tommy was easy, but loving him was easier. But the heartbreak that lasted for months at a time as she was trying to win him back that was painful. She kept his last name because it brought power and she decided that she wasn't going to deal with another man's power she was going to get her own. With a little help from the Shelby name, but she helped Tommy build his empire it was only right that she got a piece of the action.

So Cora built up her contacts taking advantage of her time with the Shelby Co. Limited and created her own empire within just a few short years she was already doing better than the Shelby Co. Limited and the best part was it was 98% legal.

But Cora found herself in Camden town. She found herself competing with Sabini and Solomons that was when she met Alfie Solomons.

Alfie was the rough and tough and gruff gangster. Cora had already had a guy like that and despite how handsome Alfie was she wasn't about to get caught up in a whirlwind romance with a man that was going to break her heart. But she was lonely. Ollie however was the obedient right hand man. Followed orders listen to directions and was part of the life so he knew what to expect.

'I don't want a relationship,' Cora told Ollie. She wanted a rebound. He didn't know what she meant when she stepped closer pulling him to her. 'What do you say? A bit of fun?' He thought she was joking he thought she couldn't possibly want him not when he knew who her ex-husband was. 'Oliver,' she said bring your hand to his head wrapping her fingers gently around the back of his neck. 'What do you say?' He didn't have any words he just nodded and she kissed him pulling him to her. Pulling at his clothes her dress dropping to the floor.

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'Give him peace, amen,' The priest said and every repeated.

'Amen.'

'we are gathered here today to celebrate the life of my friend Freddie Thorne... I promised that if Freddie were to pass before me I would say a few words over his grave. I made this promise before he became my brother in law when we were in France, fighting for the king.' Tommy's eyes locked on Cora, she looked as elegant and beautiful as ever.

'Amen,' Arthur said as Ada sucked in a breath.

'and in the end it wasn't the war that took Freddie, pestilence took him. But Freddie passed on his soul and his spirit to a new generation before he was taken...' Tommy had to force himself to look away from her stare. He knew he had fucked things up, he knew that. It was his fault, he pushed her away but seeing her back in Birmingham, damn if he didn't want her. right here and now on the fucking grave.

Ada didn't have a frown or a smile on her face as she joined her siblings. she should have been bawling her eyes out but Ada's eyes were dry on this very day of her husbands funeral.

'I heard you got married... again.' Cora told Tommy when he approached her.

'Yes,' tommy said bitterly.