The Blood War, Peaky Blinders

𝟎𝟑𝟒 Illicit Affairs

The blood war
chapter thirty four, Illicit Affairs
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-1924
Cheshire, England
Tatiana and Tommy were in his room whenever Milly got back home from being out with James. She see's a light in the window of Tommy's office and she can hear shouts. "And I do not want your mad fucking Russian brains all over my fucking wall!" Tommy shouts as Milly peaks her head around the door frame. "Get the fuck to bed, now" Tommy said, taking the gun off Tatiana and turns around to see Milly and his face drops. "Milly-" Tommy said. "What the fuck is going on?" Milly asked. "Nothing, she was just going back up to bed" Tommy warned, looking back at Tatiana. "I know your weakness, Tommy" Tatiana taunts, "It's freedom" she smirks, walking off. 

"What the fuck was that about?"  Milly asked. "It was nothing... She's drunk." Tommy said. "I recognise her... she was at the dinner... she was the one who told you about the fucking sapphire" Milly said. Tommy looked at Milly's ears and neck and didn't see the sapphires she usually wore. "You don't wear them?" He asked, his fingers tracing her neck. "...not after what happened..." Tommy didn't know what he could say, he still loved Milly and he couldn't deny that... but he couldn't say anything because she was hurting. "You know I'm sorry, right?" Tommy said. "Tommy- It's too late for fucking sorry's" Milly sighed, "Do you know how hard it's been on me? Your son calls for his mummy every night and she can't come... he doesn't understand that because he is two. And everytime I come in when he asks for Grace, he calls me mummy. Do you understand how fucking hard it is to hear that?!" Tommy can see tears of frustration in Milly eyes.

"Mills-" Tommy said. "I have no one left. No one. It's just me" Milly said. Tommy sighs and pulls her close, their lips barely inches apart. Tommy presses his lips against hers and they stay like that for a couple seconds before Milly pulls away. "I'm uh- I'm going to bed" Milly said, a little flustered. "Milly-" Tommy said in a loud voice as she left the office. "Good night, Thomas" Milly said, rushing up the stairs.

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Tommy drives to Birmingham the next morning and drives to meet John and Arthur. "Alright Tom... How was she?" Arthur asked, smirking. "Talkative" Tommy said. John and Arthur chuckled quietly. "I was working fuck up- where's Khloe?" Tommy said, noticing the room was too quiet. "She was feeling sick" Arthur said. "Wrong" Khloe said, walking through the doors. "My hormones, that's what I said" She corrected. "I stand corrected" Arthur said. "Hell yeah you do" Khloe said. "Right, enough. From what she said when she was drunk out of her mind, I'm pretty certain the treasury is underneath the house. What have you got?" Tommy asked, lighting a cigarette. "Our Ada got this from the British Library using her scholar's pass" John said, unrolling a floorplan of the house. "She talked about her aunts coming upstairs to have her breakfast in the morning which means it has to be in the building somewhere" Tommy said.

"Wine cellar" Khloe said. "Septic" Arthur said. "Kitchen cellar" Khloe said, at this point she was just fighting Arthur to be right. "And a tunnel under the river" John added, tracing his finger up the page. "They don't trust a soul in this country" Khloe said. "How fitting, neither do you" Arthur teased. "Fuck up" Khloe said, nudging him in the elbow. "My guess is that they've turned one of the cellars into a strong room" Tommy said, "Did you find someone Arthur, Khloe?" "Moss got us this" Khloe said, handing a file to Tommy. "Stephan Radischevski" Arthur said, "He's a kid from Greet, lives in Cheltenham. His dad's a Russian." "He has dreams of owning a pub but got a record" Khloe said. 

"Breaking and entering. And he speaks Russian?" Tommy asked. "Yeah" Khloe said. "Their butler drinks in a pub called the Mason's arms. Get to him, tell him who we are and offer him money if he gives the kid a job in the house"  Tommy said. There was a knock at the door and Tommy shouts "Wait!" but the knock continues. "Fuck off a minute!" Khloe yells and the knocking suddenly stops. "Talk to the kid, offer him one of the pubs we took off the Italians if he works in the house for four weeks, keeps his ears open. Alright?.. Come!" Tommy shouts as the door opens and in walks Lizzie. "The Executive Committee of the Union of Bookies and Allied Trades will see you now, sir" Lizzie smirks. "What does he have his dick in her too?" Khloe asked, heading for the other door. Arthur and John pick up the papers and walk out with Khloe. Tommy makes his way back to his office after explaining to the women about a part of the robbery. He picks up the bullets on his desk and looks at the one with "Hughes" engraved into it. He loads the chamber and takes the gun with him.