Chapter 3 – Symbol of Loss
Letty is in the driver's seat heading full speed back to the compound. She's shaking at how close she was to Han in the night club. She could not get caught before she had a chance to finish this job and disappear.
"Do you think he saw you?"
"No, we were out of there fast. I'm going to stay on the property other than that last meeting with Jamie. Shit like that can't ever happen again."
Nola nods thoughtfully.
"Where are you going to go afterwards? When this is all done?"
Letty thinks for a minute of the plans she's been devising in her head.
"I think I'm staying in Europe. I want to go to Rome. There are no ties there."
"There are no ties in Germany, but you have a big family with a wide reach."
"Yeah, but if needed to I could move hastily after this job is done. For now, I just need to cover my ass."
Letty sighs heavily thinking of if she were to make another mistake like this.
"So tell me about Han," Nola says only half joking. "He's hot."
Letty laughs at Nola. "You have some serious issues."
Mia awakens late in the morning and finds Brian out of bed and the smell of breakfast wafting throughout the house. She pads down the hall to the kitchen and finds Brian there.
"Aww, babe, I was going to bring you this to bed. Go lie down. You're not going to be sleeping too much in a few weeks. I want you to enjoy it while you can."
Mia sighs at the thought of all the good things coming her way over the next few weeks.
She goes over and kisses Brian.
"There's not going to be too much time for this either."
Brian pulls his wife closer to him and deepens their kiss. When he starts to move his hands up her nightgown he is interrupted by a knock on the door.
Brian groans at the timing.
"I'll get rid of them. It's probably your brother."
"Good luck getting rid of him."
Brian makes his way out of the kitchen to the front door. He readjusts his obvious erection before opening the door. He's ready to tear into Dom about his timing and is surprised to see Elena standing there.
"Hey…" Brian says confused at her appearance in his doorway first thing in the morning. "Come in."
Brian steps asides and lets her walk in. He leads her to the kitchen while trying to read the expression on her face.
"What's up?"
"Have either of you talked to Dom?"
Elena's demeanor worries Mia.
"No. Why?"
Elena hands her a receipt that she printed out.
"Because I woke up this morning and he was gone. I thought he had gone for a run or something. I went to pay bills and I had an email from the airline about a flight to Germany."
"Germany!"
Mia reads the receipt; her eyes bulging as she reads down the lines.
"He left in the middle of the night and caught a flight to Germany?" Mia is confused. "Why would he do that?"
"I don't know Mia. I tried calling him and it went straight to voicemail. I thought he may have talked to you."
"I think Han and Gisele are in Berlin. I'm pretty sure that's where Han said they were headed." Brian remembers the conversation with Han about a week ago.
Mia goes in the living room and snatches up her phone off the coffee table. She dials Han's number rapidly.
"Hello?"
"Han, why is my brother on his way to Germany in the middle of the night?"
Han sits in silence thinking over his answer.
"He didn't talk to you?"
"NO! That's why I'm calling you!"
"I saw Letty, alive. She's here in Berlin. I saw her yesterday evening."
Mia whirls around to see Brian and Elena's curious eyes trained on her.
"Are you sure?"
"I saw her. I know it was her. I would have thought Dom would have told you after I called him."
"Elena woke up this morning and he was gone. Make sure he calls me as soon as he gets there. Han…"
"I'm sure Mia. I wouldn't go off half cocked and tell Dom this. I know what it would do to him."
The two friends hang up and Mia exhales deeply. She tries, unsuccessfully, to fight the burning tears that are coming to her eyes.
"Han called Dom last night. He told him that Letty's alive. He says he saw her."
Mia comes undone and tears flow from her eyes. Brian is over to her comforting her in an instant.
"Dom must be going insane right now."
Elena stands with her mouth agape, not knowing what to say.
She snaps from her daze and pulls out her cell phone and dials Dom's number again. When she gets his voicemail again and leaves him a message.
"Dom, I know about Letty. Call me and let me know that you're alright. That's it. I just want to know you're okay."
Elena hangs up the phone.
"I'm going to go home."
Brian reaches out to her and she squeezes his hand in return.
"You don't have to go. You can stay until we hear something."
"I just need a second. I'll be back. Please call me if you hear something."
Elena drops his hand.
"Of course."
Elena flees the house as quickly as her legs can carry her away.
Brian turns to his wife who has slid down to the floor behind the sofa. He sits down next to her and pulls her shaking body into his arms.
"I don't know what to say Mia. I hope it's true."
"I do too. But I'm scared of what Dom is walking into. Why would she walk away and let us think she was dead? Is she is trouble? I'm scared."
She burrows deeper into his arms and weeps uncontrolled. Brian rubs her back and lets her cry.
Dom is in the air heading towards Germany to see Han. He wished he had the strength to ignore the beckon of the words Han spoke to him. He wished he could stay put until it all sorted itself out. But he wasn't capable of such control. No matter what his head told him, his heart pulled him to her.
Even the slight possibility of her. No matter how impossible.
"Damn!"
His heart was so on fire. He needed to go where Han went and see what he saw. This whole expedition hurt him so much he was finding it hard to breathe. He couldn't even think straight. He'd picked up the phone to call Mia dozens of times, but he couldn't form the words. This was inexplicable.
He couldn't make himself understand where he was going and why. So he didn't think he could make it clear to someone else.
He would call Mia when he got his thoughts together.
Nearly 24 hours after leaving the club to avoid Han, Letty finds herself in a hot shower trying to clear her head of the thoughts that have crept into her mind.
Standing there she finds herself thinking on the night in the DR when she had agreed to give Dom everything he wanted.
"Then you'll have my baby?"
Dom's voice in her ear and his promises to her heart melts her resolve.
Breathlessly, Letty replies, "Then I'll have your baby."
Letty's agreement arouses Dom even more and his movements become more frantic and wild. Banging her back into the mirror with his motions.
Finally, when he spills himself into her and she quivers from the heat suddenly inside her.
"Dom! This is insane. I think I'm paralyzed from the waist down. I can't feel my legs."
Dom laughs at her admission.
"You don't need legs. I'll carry you."
He scoops her into his arms and carries her to their bed.
The next morning Letty wakes up and goes to the bathroom before Dom is up. She reaches into the medicine cabinet and takes out the pack of pills. Now that she's confirmed not to be pregnant she should probably start taking these again.
She fills the cup on the sink with water and takes the pill from the pack.
Her mind goes back to the night before on this countertop.
Letty weighs out her options and then dumps the pill and the water down the drain. She looks into the trash at the discarded pregnancy test. She tosses the pills in after it.
"What are you doing?"
Dom's low voice startles her and she jumps.
"Damn Dom."
Letty turns around and dries her hands on her shirt.
"Thinking."
Dom walks over to her and takes her in his arms.
"About?"
"How I think I agreed to have your baby last night."
Dom lifts her into his arms and she wraps her legs around his waist.
"Don't you dare try to back out. After we finish these gas truck heists your body belongs to my baby."
Letty grins down at him.
"Nope, not backing out. Just realizing that I haven't told you what I want from you."
"Anything."
"I want you to marry me."
Dom eyes search her face trying to gauge her sincerity.
"Don't play."
"Does it look like I'm joking?"
Dom puts her back on the ground and takes her hand in his.
"No. It doesn't." His voice and face suddenly serious.
"Well then, are you turning me down?"
"Hell no!"
Dom grabs her by the sides of the face and crushes her lips with his. Letty mimics his enthusiasm.
Letty sits in the bottom of the shower with her hands playing over the ring she wears around her neck. The ring she took off the day she woke up alone in the Dominican Republic.
"Fucking idiot. How could you marry his ass?"
Letty runs her fingers through her hair.
This ring was a reminder to never fall for anyone again. To never fully trust again. Once a symbol of her dedication to Dom. Now it was the symbol of her dedication to herself. Never was she letting him or anyone near her heart again.
A/N - Dom and Letty *sigh*. I could write you two all day!
