I'm back and with a (slight) tan! I've been on holiday, so I havent been updating, but that doesnt mean I havent writing these chapters down in the notes app on my phone!

Enjoy! X

The hot Dominican Republic summer sun beamed down on its residents. Food markets opened, front doors and all the windows were opened to let the light breeze clear their homes of the stuffiness from the heat, even the occasionally breakfast barbecue.

On a secluded beach, about half an hour from the mainland, was a large beach house.

Dominic Toretto awoke to the sound music drifting from the kitchen. He groaned and rolled over, reaching for his wife, his eyes flickering open when he felt cool sheets.

He sat up and grabbed his boxers from the floor, slipping them on and walking for the bedroom door, opening it to find his favourite view.

Leticia, or Letty as she went by to her family, was dancing around the kitchen, dressed in his shirt, which was at least three sizes too big for her and tiny black sleep shorts.

Letty was in her own world as she prepared breakfast, of bacon and cheese omelettes with fresh fruit, whilst dancing round the kitchen. Her hips swivelled in time to the Spanish music as she mouthed the words perfectly.

'Nice view, baby!' Letty gasped and almost cut her finger as Dom grabbed her from behind and spoke to her.

'Dom!'

Dom gently took the knife from her hands and dropped it into the sink, before grabbed his wife and sat her on the unmade table, his wolfish smile adorning his face.

'Why did I wake up without you?' He asked, kissing her neck gently.

Letty tipped her head back slightly, enjoying the moment, before she answered. 'I was hungry.'

Dom allowed a small chuckle at her response before bringing his head up to kiss her lips, feeling her arms wrap round his shoulders as she pulled him closer to her.

His hands gripped her waist before they travelled up her sides, onto her shoulders before tangling into her long dark tresses, tilting her head to the side slightly as he deepened the kiss.

A slight moan came from either one of them as they started to get lost in each other. Dom felt his wife's hand cup the back of his neck, gently scratching it with her nails.

'Ew! No kissing! No kissing!'

Dom groaned as Letty pushed him away from her, leaning back against the counter.

'Morning buddy, you hungry?' Letty asked, as Ruben ran into her arms and hugged her round her waist.

'Yes, Mami!' Ruben told her before hugging her tightly.

Dom smiled at the interaction, before holding his arms out, catching his son as he jumped into them. 'How's my little man?'

Ruben laughed. 'I'm not little anymore, papi! I'm seven! I'm a big man!' He told him, holding up seven fingers to get his point across.

Letty laughed. 'That you are! Now, how about we go sit outside and let papi here sort out the breakfast?'

Ruben clapped and squirmed in his Dads arms to put on his feet, before holding his hand for his Mom.

'I'll be out a minute, Rue' Letty told him softly, watching as he nodded and rushed out onto the sand with a laugh.

'We did good, baby' Dom commented after watching Ruben play in the sand for a few minutes.

'Yeah, we did' Letty said, leaning her head against Dom's shoulder and wrapping her arms round his waist.

He kissed the top of her head lovingly, before speaking. 'So... any chance of a mini you?'

Letty let out a laugh, as she picked up her steaming cup of her favourite herbal tea. 'Not yet, papi'

Dom groaned. 'But baby!' He whined, well aware he was sounding like his son at the minute, when he couldn't get his own way. 'I know you want a little girl. As much as you try and deny it, I can see it in your eyes.'

Letty pressed her lips together to stop the smile on her face. 'My eyes tell a lot of things, Dom...'

'Yes, and right now, they're saying that I'm right...' he said, plucking the cup of herbal tea from her hands and picking her up effortlessly.

'Dom...' Letty warned, but was quickly interupted.

'MAMI! Come on!'

Dom groaned and looked to the ceiling as Letty made her escape with a loud laugh as she ran towards her son, picking him up and swinging him around, with a large, carefree smile on her face...

'How are babies made?'

Letty choked on her tea and sprayed half of it from her mouth as she coughed and tried clear her lungs.

At the same time, Dom's head shot up in surprise, before gently smacking her on the back, while trying to think of a suitable answer to the question of a seven year old.

'Why do you want to know that?' Letty asked, her voice scratchy, as she got herself under control.

'I just wondered. Maya said her mommy is having a baby and I just wondered how they're made... she says she caught her parents wrestling naked, bleugh!'

Letty groaned and fell back against the sand, her arm covering her face.

Dom looked unimpressed that Letty had left him to deal with it. 'Listen, son... you don't need to know anything like that at your age... trust me...'

Ruben frowned before shrugging his shoulders and turning back to look at the sea, eating a piece of fruit.

'That question would've been answered totally different if he was a girl' Dom commented to his wife.

Letty snorted. 'Yeah because you would have left me to explain it to her, I know you, Dominic Toretto!'

'Look... there are just some things in life a mother is better at explaining to children than father's are! Trust me, I should know with...' he trailed off, clearing his throat before changing the subject. 'Never mind. Have you made arrangements for tonight?'

Letty looked sombre, before Dom had changed the subject and a smile crossed her face. 'Yep. He's going over to Pablo's at five... and then it's just you, me and an empty house for our anniversary...' She whispered, leaning over to kiss him.

'Mami!' Came the little warning voice of a seven year old, causing Letty to scowl. However, she couldn't bring herself to argue with him when he flashed her a very innocent smile.

'Okay, okay.. no more kissing infront of you...' Letty promised, before getting to her feet and picking him up, cradling him in her arms. 'Now... how about a swim in the ocean?'

Ruben gasped. He knew what that meant. Letty would gently swing him from side to side before throwing him in air and catching him, although she gave the impression she was going to drop him. 'No! PAPI!' He laughed and squealed at his mother's antics.

'Papi knows you love this, so does Mami!' Letty spoke as she entered the cool Dominican sea until she was waist deep.

Dom watched the interaction and smiled. After the last few years, they were finally settled in the Dominican, opening up a small garage on mainland to keep the money flowing and managing to enroll Ruben into a school.

When he was younger, Dom never expected his life to turn out the way it had at the age of twenty five. Loosing both parents and his younger sister had been really hard, but Letty and Ruben had made the dark days better, giving him a reason to live.

His son's voice brought him back to the present, calling for him to rescue him from Letty. He laughed and smiled, getting to his feet and heading down to the sea to join his family...

Dom's arms wrapped tightly round his wife's back as she slumped gently onto his chest, basking in the glow of their lovemaking.

'I'll never get tired of doing this with you' Letty panted, as she tried to catch her breath.

'Good. Because you're the only one I want...' Dom told her, gripping her hair and connecting their lips again. Letty responded before breaking their kiss for air, as he flipped them over.

After dropping Ruben off at Pablo's, Dom and Letty had gone for a nice meal at their favourite Dominican restaurant, owned by a good friend called Ramsey Emmanual, so they didn't have to wait that long for a table, before driving back to their beach house and watching the sunset, before ending it with their favourite pass time.

'You're so beautiful' he murmured, kissing his way down to her stomach, placing kisses along it, causing Letty to roll her eyes with a smile, knowing his intentions.

'Dom...' The man in question looked up innocently with a childlike smile on his face.

'I can't help it' he placed another kiss to her stomach, before going back for her lips. 'Seeing you today with Ruben, so carefree and happy...' he trialed off, dropping a series of kisses to her lips. 'Got me thinking of our conversation from earlier...' he finished gently, his hand stroking the side of her face.

Letty would be lying if she said she didn't have dreams where she had a little girl that looked like her, their little family complete.

Dom kissed her again, his hand tangling into her raven locks. 'Long dark hair like yours, no doubt your fiery personality and your mouth...' his fingers traced her lips gently, as he said that. 'My nose and eyes...' he continued, looking down to see Letty's eyes glittering, before she sat up, causing Dom to frown.

He watched as she leaned towards the nightstand and pulled something out, in a shape that resembled a evelope. 'I thought we didn't do cards and presents?' He asked, taking the evelope as Letty handed it to him.

'Just open it' he raised an eyebrow at her tone, but he ripped the evelope open to find a blank card with writing on it, written in Lettys hand writing.

'What do you get when you have two, one and seven?' Dom read out loud, a confused look at the maths equation, before flipping the card open. 'Two adults, one child...' he trialed off and flipped the card again, his breathing coming to a stop. 'And another in seven... months' he finished, his gaze fixed firmly on the sonogram picture, before snapping to his wife.

'Happy anniversary, papi' Letty laughed. as Dom pushed her gently back onto her back, the covers of the bed getting pushed away as he rested between her legs again, his kisses trailing along her still flat stomach.

'One of the best anniversary presents ever!' He whispered, his hand trailing down to stroke her stomach as he leaned up to kiss her again, the smile never leaving his face...

'Mami! Papi!' Came the excited voice of Ruben as they pulled up at Pablo's house the next morning.

'Hey, there's our little man!' Dom smiled as his son ran into his arms.

'Missed you, papi!'

'What about Mami?' Letty asked, pouting slightly.

Ruben turned to his Mom, his smile infectious. 'Of course I missed you too, Mami!' He reached out for her, but Dom placed him on him feet.

'Listen, your mami and I need to tell you something...' Dom said, watching as his sons ears perked up.

'A secret?' Ruben asked, as his parents squatted down to his level.

'Kind of. Remember yesterday when you said that Maya's mommy was having another baby?' Letty said gently.

Ruben nodded, his little face listening intently.

'Well... how do you feel about becoming a big brother?' Letty asked nervously. She knew that it could go two ways.

Ruben gasped, once he had figured it out. 'Is Mami having another baby?' He asked Dom, who nodded.

'How do you feel?' He asked his son.

'I'M GOING TO BE A BIG BROTHER!' Ruben screamed excitedly, before turning on his heel and rushing back Pablo's house, repeating his sentence as he did.

'I think he's going to be okay' Dom commented as Letty breathed a sigh of relief. She had been worried when she first found out, that he would be upset because it wouldn't be the three of them anymore, and that half of the attention would be on the newborn and not him.

'Mami?' Letty smiled at her son, as he rushed back towards her. 'Can I talk to the baby?' He asked, his arms round her waist.

Letty laughed. 'Sure. Later though, buddy. Right now, we've got food shopping to do'.

And that one sentence changed the whole mood of a seven year old...

Letty awoke during the night, hearing the front door close. She rolled over and slightly panicked at Dom's empty side of the bed. She grabbed his shirt that she had discarded from him earlier and her sleep shorts and threw them on.

He had almost done this once before, leaving her. It had been the middle of the night and just after everything what had happened, Dom thought it would best to leave her and Ruben, to be safe, away from him, as death seemed to follow him almost everywhere.

While Letty knew he hadn't been in the right mindset, she was still hurt that he ignored her earlier request that night, all them years ago, of figuring everything out together.

She rushed for the front door, almost pulling it off it hinges, in her rush to stop him, when she almost fell over him, as he was sat on the front steps, overlooking the sea.

Dom grunted and turned, seeing a slightly angry and a slightly worried Letty stood behind, her foot resting back on the ground, straightening her leg out.

'Dom... it's quater to three in the morning' She said softly, sitting besides him and curling into his side, his strong muscular arm wrapping round her tightly.

'I couldn't sleep, sorry if I awoke you'

Letty bit her lip. 'I thought you were trying to leave me again' She said quietly, a few seconds later.

Dom turned to look at her, his face sombre. 'I'll never leaving you, Let, I promise... Don't you know what today is?' He asked her, his eyes glazed with unshed tears.

Letty thought for a minute, before realising the date. 'Mia's birthday' She said softly, a look of remembrance crossing her face.

She rubbed Dom's back soothingly, knowing no words would ever help his mood when this date came around.

'I miss her, Let... I haven't seen her since I left for Lompoc...' Letty always knew he'd never forgive himself for what he did, almost killing the guy who killed his father, and then getting shipped off to Lompoc, knowing his sister hated him after promising her he would be there for her.

'You never what's around the corner, Dom... Maybe one day, we'll see her again. But she made her choice, we can't change that'

'But I'm her brother. I should have been enough! She was my baby sister, whether she hated me or not' Dom told Letty, his tone taking on a slight bit of anger unintentionally. He fell silent for a few minutes before continuing. 'The first time I ever held her, I vowed nothing bad would ever happen to her, that I was always going to protect her, always going to love her no matter how annoying she became... I let her down, Let. I let everyone down that day...'

Letty sighed, wishing that she could turn back time and go with Dom to the garage, the day he lost control, because maybe everything would've turned out differently if she hadn't ignored her gut instinct that day...

R&R x