| 9. Letty stalked around in the garage until some guy showed up wanting an estimate. He wanted his ride tricked out to the max and had the bank to roll it. Letty gave him the sweetest smile she had and didn�t bat a single sooty, long eyelash when she told him the price and how much the deposit was. The man coughed at the number. Letty reached up to pull her hair off the back of her neck stretching so that the tank top she wore gaped a little at the neckline exposing just a hint of more cleavage, smiling all the while and pretending to be trying to cool off in the mid-summer heat. The dude handed over a stash of cash that could have fed a third world country for 6 months, dropped the keys in Letty�s hot little hand and left with the now very pissed off woman who had followed him to the garage. Letty walked back into the garage laughing at how much money she had just made. Easy money. Leon and the boys were clapping like she had just won an Oscar. Dom and Mia were just now coming out of the office. �Damn, girl! Those things are POWER! You should have them registered as deadly weapons!� Leon laughed as he referred to her breasts. When she threw him the roll of hundreds he immediately tossed it to Dom. �What the fuck is this?� Dom looked ready to kill. �What the fuck does it look like? I just got us another job and�� She started before Dom cut her off. �You just whored yourself for a roll of bills, Letty. Since when do we get jobs like that?� Had he just called her a whore? The shit it the fan and Letty screamed at him. �Since you went away and business dried up, Dom. And I am not a fuckin whore! I have never, NEVER let anybody touch me. I smile, show a little skin, take their money and do the fuckin WORK. That�s all!� Oh, God he thought she was a whore. She wanted to die. Where the hell did he get off anyway? Leon and Vince jumped to her defense. They stood beside her as she yelled at Dom. �Dom, she�s right. No body ever touched her. We�re always here. Nobody ever even tried. And she is pretty much the only one who brings in any business. We would have had to close if it weren�t for Letty, Dom. She�s kept you in business.� Shit! What had it been like for them for the last two years? He never dreamed that business would just dry up without him being there to back it up. Why hadn�t Mia said anything? All this time�it had been Letty holding everyone up. He owed her. He owed her big and he had just made her feel like some reject 20-dollar crack whore. �I�m sorry Letty. I didn�t know. I just thought�� �We all know what you thought, Dom! I�m outta here.� Letty flipped him off and left the garage as quickly as she could, needing to just get away from him. Leon, V. and Jesse turned and watched her go, understanding her need to escape. Turning back, they scowled at Dom. �Oh, man! You just royally fucked us over. That�s it! She aint coming back!� Jesse sounded like he just might cry. Vince was obviously pissed. He picked up a wrench and considered hurling it at Dom before going to work on a busted up Toyota. Leon walked out of the garage without a word and started kicking gravel around in the parking lot. 10. Dom felt lower than dog shit. He and Mia went back into his office and sat down. He took Letty�s forgotten coke and popped the top. He looked at it but couldn�t bring himself to drink it. �Mia, why didn�t you tell me things got so bad?� �Letty didn�t want you to know. She just wanted to do the work, keep the garage going so when you got back it wouldn�t be so hard on you.� �If I had known�� �Things have changed a lot, since you been away, Dom. Its almost like Letty stepped into your shoes. Hell, she tells Leon when his hoes are too skanky and he dumps them no questions asked. She got Jesse to start taking his Ritalin everyday, she cleans V. up when he gets shitfaced and she helped me not lose it completely over the last 2 years.� Mia let it all pour out. About how Letty had kept them together while he was gone. That they had lost their center of gravity without him and Letty had become it in his place. Dom didn�t know what to say except, �Why?� Mia huffed at him. �You really are an asshole, Dominic! She did it all for you! She�s only been in love with you since she was 13 years old. Like you didn�t know!� She loved him. Letty...loved...him. He had just committed the single worst fuck up of his entire life. He sat at his beat up desk and hung his head. How the hell was he gonna fix this? �Oh, God, Dom! You really didn�t know, did you? Geezus, I knew you were pretty think headed but damn! How could you miss it? You poor bastard�� Mia patted his smooth head affectionately, mockingly. �She never said anything. She never came to visit.� He couldn�t believe it. �What was she supposed to do, Dom? Declare her undying love and affection for you? She was still a kid! You would have laughed her out of the garage! She didn�t visit because she was afraid you would see through all of her shit. THAT was the one thing she couldn�t handle. That was why she didn�t visit.� �What do I do Mia? How can I fix this?� He hated to sound desperate but he was. Mia felt sorry for him. The day had started out so great. Boy, had it taken a wrong turn. �Dom, next time you see Letty, you should thank her. Start with that.� Mia kissed the top of his head and left him to his thoughts. 11. They threw a huge party that night to welcome him home. Mia said she didn�t care about the mess because it was the first party they had thrown since he had left. Everybody was there. Even Letty. She and Mia were in the middle of the living room crowd dancing together. You know in THAT way. The way that says one of three things; 1.�Look at us! Don't you want us?� 2. �We don't grind with guys� or 3. �It�s girls night out and we don't want any of your testosterone enhanced bullshit at the moment so back the fuck off.� Dom knew the latter applied. The Puerto Rican greaser obviously didn�t. He kept trying to dance up on them wanting to be in the middle of a Letty/Mia sandwich. He really couldn�t take a hint. Dom watched from as distance nursing a corona. Some blonde bitch was trying to get his attention, but he didn�t want anything to do with her. He kept watching what was happening in his living room. He just had to signal to Leon and Vince and they would take the trash out. Granted it would be after breaking half the furniture in his house and Mia would pitch a hell of a fit if that happened so he waited to see what the grease ball would do next. He didn�t have to wait long. He watched as Mia tried to pull Letty away from the dude. They guy grabbed Letty�s arm and spun her away from Mia. Mia started to jump him but saw Dom make his way over and stepped back. She really hoped Dom would play Prince Charming and not turn it into a caveman pissing contest��Uhg. Woman�MINE� If he started thumping his chest, she�d just puke! Grease Ball had Letty by the hips and wasn�t letting go. He kept grinding on her and she kept trying to push him off. Grease Ball�s hand slid down and he tried to get under her short black leather mini skirt. Dom came to stand behind Letty, he had seen more than enough. Grease Ball didn�t know what hit him. Mia yelled for Letty to duck, which she did on instinct knowing somehow that Dom was behind her. When fist connected to face blood sprayed and Grease Ball dropped like a box of rocks. Leon and V. dragged him outside, Jesse walked with them occasionally kicking the greasy jerk in the gut. Dom grabbed a clearly shaken Letty and led her to the downstairs bathroom. He had to get two half naked chicks out first. When they were gone, he pushed Letty through the door, picked her up and sat her on the counter top next to the sink. Neither of them said anything as Dom got a washcloth, wet it and started to wipe of the droplets of blood that had gotten on her. He took her face in his large hand and turned it this way and that looking for any spare drop that he might have missed. He had to get it all off of her. He was careful not to mess up her make up too badly as he washed her face. She just stared at him with those huge, dark soul searching eyes. He didn�t know what to say to her and he didn�t know what to do when she leaned in close enough for her scent to overwhelm him, herbal shampoo, oil, sweat and vanilla? Cinnamon? She smelled spicy. He wondered how she would taste. The mist of blood that had landed on her stunned Letty. She was glad Dom stepped in, that greasy jerk had been more than she could have fought off and that left her more than a bit shaky. She didn�t protest when Dom led her down the hall to the bathroom. When he opened the door and found two skanks going at it, he had turned her around so she wouldn�t see. As if he were protecting her from that kinda scene. She didn�t make a sound when he pushed her threw the door and sat her on the counter top. She wasn�t used to Dom giving a shit. It was strange. He had gotten a washcloth and cleaned her off, washing away the Grease Ball�s stain. He was so close that she could smell him. She had snuck up to his room enough times over the past two years to know his scent well. It made her head spin. She couldn�t help herself. She pop kissed him softly and pulled back waiting to see what he would do. �Ball�s in your court, Dom� she thought. 12. He took her face in his hands and studied her. Smooth, pale caramel colored skin, perfectly arched eyebrows, those haunting eyes and full soft lips. She was incredible. He kissed her back. Very softly at first, then he nudged her knees apart and stepped between them pulling her to him. His hands went to the back of her head and slithered into her hair. He nibbled at her lips until he couldn�t stand it any more. �Open your mouth for me, baby.� He growled into the kiss. He almost died when she did. His tongue slid into the warm depths of her mouth and dueled with hers. She stiffened at first but then relaxed and put her arms around his neck. She bit at his bottom lip and then pulled away breathless. He had pulled her so tightly to him that their crotches were mashed together, Letty�s mini skirt pushed practically up to her hips. Hell, she could probably FEEL every dirty thought going through his sex-deprived brain! How much he wanted her was painfully obvious. They stared at each other and she smiled at him shyly. Her lips were swollen from his kisses. �Letty?� She waited for what he would say next. Probably something like �Letty, you kiss like a 12 year old virgin� or the equally stupid �Damn, Letty! Now things are gonna get a weird in the garage�. Or maybe something like �Call me when you�re grown up.� �Do you love me?� NOT what she expected. Oh, shit! She was totally busted! She could play it off and laugh at him. She could� �Yeah, Dom, I do.� She couldn�t lie to him. She dropped her head embarrassed beyond words. �Then it�s just you and me from now on, Ok?� �Ok, Dom.� She almost purred. 13. An entire week passed before Dom got up the nerve to feel her up. They had been sitting on the couch after dinner watching a movie with the crew. He sat on the far end and Letty sat with her back to him and her legs stretched out so that V. had had to sit on the floor. He bitched and moaned about it till Dom slapped him on the back of the head and told him to quit being such a big baby. They got half way through the movie before Mia left to go up stairs to study for a test. Dom told her to hit the lights on her way out. They sat in the darkened living room watching vampires chase a bunch of blonde bimbos through a creepy old house. At one point Letty had jumped at a scary scene and Dom had put his arms around her. She sat so still waiting to see what he would do next. Only he didn�t do anything. He just sat there watching the damn movie! Geezus, Dom! Fish or cut bait, dude! She thought to herself slightly disgusted that he hadn�t tried anything. When she had gone to get up, Dom angled himself behind her and tightened his grip, crossing his arms protectively over her chest. His right hand slid down the front of her shirt. His actions were shielded by his other arm, which rested over top of it. If any of them had looked they would have only seen Dom holding her. Sneaky, Dom�real sneaky! Letty held her breath and waited. Dom stared at the TV. She tried to watch the movie but pictures on the screen weren�t making sense. She nearly fainted when his fingers moved over her lace-covered nipple. It peaked immediately wanting more of his attention. Dom shifted his position behind her slightly getting more comfortable and pulling her closer to him. God! He smelled so good! Letty thrust her chest out so that her breast filled his hand. Dom coughed. Ha! She thought. Take that! Which of course he did and then squeezed slightly making her sit still. He obviously didn�t want the guys to know they were fooling around even if it was only some PG-13 version of what she wanted to be doing. He held her like that until the end of the movie when Jesse sprang up off the floor. Dom moved quicker than Jesse did and untangled his arms from around Letty before the kid could turn the lights on and bust him. Letty looked at him with a pout on her face that would have gotten a five-year old anything she damn well wanted. �Damn, what time is it, man?� Jesse yawned. He rubbed his eyes like a little kid and headed for the door. �See ya, tomorrow, guys. Night, Letty.� Leon stood up and kicked a snoozing Vince who was busy drooling on the floor. �Shit, dude! That�s nasty! Wake up, dawg. Time to go.� Leon stood over V. and flipped him over. �Dude! Dammit, wake the fuck up!� Vince started to snore. Leon looked over at Dom and Letty who hadn�t moved off the couch and then back to Vince. �V. Better get up. You don't want Mia to know you drool in your sleep�Dude, here she comes!� Vince bolted upright and wiped the side of his face. �Mia?� �You fall for it every time! Get your ass up and lets get outta here. The newlyweds wanna be alone.� Leon knew! Dom almost choked on his corona. Letty slapped his leg lightly silently telling him to be cool. Vince yawned. �Oh, I was wondering when they get around to that. Yall have fun! G� Night.� Leon grabbed the bigger man by the back of the shirt and pushed him out the door, but not before Vince glanced longingly up the stairs. Mia was upstairs. Vince loved Mia. Dom didn�t move till he heard their cars start and drive off in opposite directions. Then he hauled Letty into his lap and kissed her hard pushing his tongue past her lips and into the warm, wet depths of her mouth. Letty put her hands on the back of his head and kissed him back. She nibbled on his tongue and bottom lip and then worked her way along his jaw to his ear. She flicked her tongue into the crescent and whispered lustily, �Now we�re getting somewhere�� Letty moved from his ear down the side of his neck and over to his collarbone licking at him. His skin was salty and his kisses tasted of corona. Dom grabbed her thigh through her cargos and groaned. �Dammit, Letty, don't do that!� �Letty�� Dom put his hands on her hips and pushed her down into his lap letting her feel his response to her. �Is that for me?� Letty was playing with him. He liked it. He threaded his hands through her hair and tugged it gently pulling her head back and exposing her long neck. He kissed the spot where her pulse raced and then moved his hands down and around to cup her breasts. Again she surged into him, filling his hands and wanting more. �Yes, Lett. It is. But not tonight.� He groaned into her mouth, kissing her again. Dom knew he was crazy. He knew he could take her upstairs, tear her clothes off and she would let him. He also knew she was a virgin. He wanted her first time to be right, to be good. Not like his first time, which had lasted all of three minutes and pretty much been a real fuckin disappointment, no pun intended. Dom drew her in for one last kiss. He held her softly and inhaled as much of her as he could take in before dragging his hands away from her body. �Letty, you really need to go.� 14. The next 2 weeks were pure hell. Dom and Letty worked side-by-side by day and by night�Letty was still a virgin and royally pissed off at the fact. Letty paced the length of her girlish childhood bedroom and back again. What the hell was Dom waiting for? He kept saying she wasn�t ready and blah, blah, blah. Letty swore she would scream and tear her hair out if she heard it one more time. Ready? Who the hell died and left Dom the guy in charge of whose ready and who isn�t? She thought. Couldn�t he tell she was ready? She was more than ready! She wanted to rape him! Tear-his-clothes-off-with-her-teeth-and-have-at-it ready! They made out all the time. All the fuckin time! Every time they accidentally brushed hands while reaching for a wrench Dom ended up carrying her out of the garage and kissing her senseless. The guys and Mia were even used to it. She figured they thought that she and Dom were already doing it. Little did they know! She loved it when he touched her but he never made a move to go THERE. Did she have to draw him a fuckin road map? Didn�t the man know where SOUTH was? If he ever made an attempt he would know exactly how ready she was. There would be no way to hide the flood! Letty plopped down on her bed and stared at the ceiling. Even the damn ceiling was pink. Little girl pink. She wanted to paint that ceiling red. She huffed and punched the pillow. �What is he waiting for, an invitation?� she thought. A giant catlike grin spread across her face. Ideas formed and grew into well-laid plans in Letty�s mind. �If an invitation is what he wants then an invitation is what he will get.� She said to the little stuffed bear at the foot of the bed. She stripped down and headed for her bathroom. Letty took a shower and shaved her legs. All the way up. She used the scented soap and girly shit that Dom had recently given her. It smelled really nice, like gardenias. Dom had picked it out so he must like it, she thought. After she was squeaky clean and smelling good she hopped out of the shower and walked naked across her room to the closet. She needed an outfit that pretty much said �Take me, I�m yours!� She pulled out a soft cream-colored suede halter-top that tied at the neck and in the middle of her back. That way she figured Dom wouldn�t have to struggle with her bra and they could get down to business quicker. She grabbed a creamy lace thong, pulled it on and went for the brown leather pants hanging in the back of the closet. Special occasion pants her mother had called them when she had given them to her for her birthday. This was definitely a special occasion. She put them on and paired them with a pair of clunky brown shit kickers. The result was totally sexy. She piled her hair up on top of her head, did her make up and gave herself a once over in front of the mirror. Pretty damn good, she thought to herself. She raced down stairs, kissed her father goodbye and tore off in the Nissan speeding toward the garage. It only took a few minutes to get there and Letty had it all planned out in her head. She would probably find him bent over some banged up piece of shit and she�d just have to slide in between him and the car. Once she had his attention, she had HIM. And when she had him�well, she certainly wouldn�t be a virgin anymore! When she arrived at the garage there were two cars parked out front. Dom�s and a Toyota she didn�t recognize. Late customer? It was getting dark out. Surely someone had dropped it off right before closing. Yeah, that was it. That was why she hadn�t seen it earlier. She parked and walked up to the door. It wasn�t locked. Letty took a deep breath of fresh evening air and silently said �So long� to her virginity. She quietly opened the door wanting to surprise Dom. Putting on her sexiest smile she prepared to strut in there and get her man. Only her man wasn�t alone. 15. Dom was in his office with the door closed. An Asian chick was sprawled across his desk with her legs spread and there was Dom between them going at it like a man possessed. They were obviously having a very good time. Letty blinked several times not believing what she was seeing. Dom wouldn�t sleep with her but here he was fucking some skank on his desk after hours. She pulled the door to and went back to her car. She sat there a few minutes stunned. Oh, God why didn�t he just tell her he didn�t want her and be done with it? What was wrong with her? Wasn�t she pretty enough? Smart enough? Dammit! Everything she had done since he went away! What the fuck!? Letty started the car and sped off. The tears came. All the pent up emotions and shit she hadn�t dealt with over the past two years came flooding in. She didn�t know where she was going. Didn�t even know what street she was on. She had a vague notion of running a red light doing 85 mph, but other than that she just saw Dom screwing that�other�girl. She was shaking so badly she couldn�t drive anymore. Funny, somehow she ended up at the fort. Mia. Mia would take care of her. Letty entered the house quietly closing the door being her. Her hair was messed up and her make up was shot to shit, mascara ran down her face and rimmed her eyes. Mia took one look at her and knew. Dom had seriously fucked up. Mia led a visibly shaking Letty upstairs to the bathroom and ran a tub of warm water while Letty sat on the fuzzy blue lid of the toilet. �Letty?� Mia didn�t really know what to say. �I don't wanna�� Letty trailed off starting to cry again. �Lett, get in the tub and soak awhile. When you�re ready we�ll talk. I�ll be downstairs if you need me for anything.� Mia left her to collect herself wondering what the hell Dom had done. Everything had been going so well. She suspected that her brother hadn�t yet slept with Letty so it had to be something else. What the fuck had her stupid Shithead of a brother done? Mia called Dom�s cell while Letty soaked in the tub. She was punching in the numbers when Vince, Leon and Jesse came rushing in. All three of them looked pissed. What the fuck was going on? �Letty here?� Leon asked quietly. �She�s upstairs in the tub. She�s pretty messed up but she wouldn�t say anything. Why? What do you know?� Mia was starting to get worried. �Uh, we drove by the garage and saw her flying outta there. We tried to follow her but she was driving like a maniac and we lost her. She OK?� Leon looked over at V. and Jesse. Mia held the phone waiting for Dom to pick up. She let it ring and ring, finally hanging up. �I don't know. What was going on at the garage?� Mia looked from face to face. They knew. Jesse and Vince slumped on the couch. Leon stood next to Mia in the living room entry- way. He reached out and put his hand on Mia�s shoulder. �Dom wasn�t alone, Mia. Tran�s sister�s car was there.� Leon�s voice cracked. He knew Letty would be trashed if she knew Dom was cheating on her. �Dammit!� Mia punched in Dom�s number swearing a blue streak. Jesse covered his ears. He hated when Mia swore. She only did it when she was really, really mad. Like the time he accidentally set fire to one of her homework assignments. This he knew was going to be worse. 16. He didn�t know why he did it. Maybe a moment of weakness, seriously poor judgement. She just showed up and offered it to him on a sliver platter so to speak. His mind had shut off and he had spread her on top of his desk in the office. There were no thoughts of love or anything like that. No foreplay. Nothing. Just straight fuckin. At some point the fog cleared. They were still going at it but Letty�s face was the only thing he saw in his mind. The actual scene before him was suddenly almost grotesque. The woman obviously had the morals of an alley cat. Not that that had ever bothered him before. He had whored around plenty but now it seemed so�wrong. Why was he screwing this woman when Letty was waiting at home for him? Because Letty wasn�t ready he told himself. Bullshit! Letty was more than ready. HE was the one who wasn�t ready. He was scared shitless of Letty�s love for him. Her devotion was almost more than he could stand. He didn�t know how to deal with his feelings for her and�then it hit him. He loved Letty. He loved her and yet he was here banging a skank in the very office where he and Letty worked on a daily basis. Shit! What the fuck was he doing? He got control of the beast and pushed away from the woman he had only moments before been so hot to screw. She hissed at him and said something in Chinese that he couldn�t understand. Oh fuckin well, he hoped to God he�d never see her again. His cell phone rang. �What?!� He sounded out of breath and up to no good. Please don't be Letty. �Letty knows.� Two simple words, that was all Mia had to say. �On my way.� Dom barked. Shit! O� Holy Shit! Why couldn�t he just waited a little longer and kept his dick in his pants? Tran�s sister, Tisha�Trish�Tracy�whatever the fuck her name was watched him throw on his clothes. �Didn�t she like the show?� She had the nerve to smile at him. Dom swung around and glared at her. �What?� �Yeah, she came by a little while ago. Cute little thing. She got quite an eyeful. So, uh, when are we gonna do this again?� She ran a fake red fingernail over his chin. It made his skin crawl. �Never.� |