Chapter 7 – The Calm Before
Letty lies in her and Dom's bed wide awake in the early morning listening to the quiet of the house. She hadn't really slept in days. She was tired. Exhausted. However, she just could not find a peaceful slumber.
Her dreams were plagued with nightmares from the morning they left the island to come here. Of what could be happening to Dom in his absence. So many what ifs and could bes. Dom was right about them driving her crazy. Even though she knew this she couldn't stop it.
She couldn't get comfortable without Dom beside her.
This bed didn't smell like him, like them together. Not like at home. They didn't come here often enough. She needed his smell in her nose to fall asleep.
No, she needed him to fall asleep.
Letty knew that staying was for the best. Caden was only seven months old. Ana was scared. Luci was a wreck and needed more of Mia's attention. She had to stay.
Besides, there were too many unknowns that could leave her children with no parents. She couldn't do that to them.
For now, she'd stay here. She'd take care of her babies and wait for her man. But damned if it wasn't Hell not knowing without a shadow of a doubt that he was alive and on this earth breathing her air.
Letty rolls over in her bed and thinks about the first time Dom ever brought her here.
Letty and Dominic drive up to the front of the ridiculously large estate after entering the front gate.
Letty looks at the giant house, if you could call this monstrosity a house, with her mouth agape. He had truly lost his mind if he thought they were keeping this. It was way too much.
Dom looks over at her and laughs at her reaction. He knew this wasn't something she'd typically go for. He also knew that he had worked hard to make sure she would give in and love it here.
She starts to shake her head. She turns to him slowly still in shock.
"No Dom! Absolutely not! Sell it back."
Dom grabs her hand and pulls her inside the house. He doesn't say a word to her.
"Is it really possible that this house is bigger than it looks?" She asks looking around the entryway.
Dom stands back and watches the emotions play over her face as she looks around. He'd gone for home not grandeur. He knew what his wife liked.
"We don't need all this space," Letty says, trying to be reasonable in this insanely large house
"Really?"
"Yes, really! Give me a good reason."
Dom smiles at the opportunity to deliver his spiel. He had plenty of good reasons.
"Letty we have two kids, you're pregnant. Our niece and nephew. Rosa and Marco and their family. Han, Nola and the twins. Roman, Tego, Leon, when he can pull Nicole away from work. Tej and Talli, Santos. You need more reasons?"
Letty just looks at him with her arms folded. Of course he would use the family against her.
"I love when everyone comes to visit us at home. But we have people at our place and Mia's and Han's. I want everyone together every once in awhile."
Letty shakes her head and walks past him to see more of the house. She walks throughout and studies every corner. She goes into their bedroom and out to the swimming pool with its water slide to the multiple suites and the three stories. She doesn't say anything or give any indication of her feelings.
"You're absurd Toretto," she says, but a smile creeps across her face as they stand next to the pool.
"We have the money, it's growing every single day. We're set. Our kids are set. If things keep going the way they are going their kids' kids will be set. This house is a trinket compared to what to actually have."
"I know that. I'm helping you build your fortune every day."
"Ours. And if it weren't for the shit you did we wouldn't be here. So if you don't want the house…" Dom's voice trails, but smile doesn't leave his eyes.
"You can't manipulate me Dominic. You knew you were keeping it when we got to the movie theater in the basement."
Dom lets out a loud laugh and pulls her to him. Kissing her neck and cheeks and forehead.
"I had that added for you."
"Who was your co-conspirator? Mia?"
Letty pulls back to look him in the eye.
Dom feigns ignorance and shock. "What makes you think I had one?"
"Who decorated this house Dom?"
Dom smiles at her. "Brian and I bought it and Mia made improvements to it."
"I'm going to have to get on her about keeping your secrets so willingly."
"I'm her brother."
"I'm her sister."
Dom nods in agreement.
He pulls her to him again and plants a kiss on her lips.
Letty pulls back and releases herself from his grasp. She turns her back on him and walks towards the pool.
"Want to go for a swim?"
She starts to remove her clothes and tosses them on one of the chairs poolside.
As she walks over to the edge of the pool, Dom eyes her naked body. The breasts already swollen, the stomach barely extended, her skin radiating like the sun itself.
"Be careful with my baby in your belly. Don't slip by that pool."
He removes his clothes but doesn't take his eyes off her form. She walks down the steps and sinks into the pool. She swims out to the middle of the pool and looks up at him.
Dom follows in her footsteps and climbs in behind her. He wades over to her and puts an arm around Letty's waist.
"I love that you wanted to do this for our family. You're a good man and a good husband."
"I love that you let me have my way all the time. I feel like a kid who always gets straight As the way you treat me baby."
Dom moves aside her wet hair and kisses the crook of her neck. Letty moans from his touch and digs into his biceps.
Dom smiles into her skin knowing how good this is about to get.
She had been extra sensitive to touch this pregnancy. He could bring her orgasm from rubbing in sensitive spot on her back. Stroking her cheek caused her to seep through any bottoms she was wearing. A light kiss caused her to try to devour him like a buffet.
He liked that she was getting so much pleasure from him in different ways.
Dom presses her to the wall of the pool and slips into her opening. He shuts his eyes at joining their bodies together again. Letty moans and bites down on his shoulder and starts to grind her teeth into the flesh there.
"Damn baby, already." Dom teases as he starts to move inside her.
Letty shudders at his movements and bites down harder. He hisses from her teeth and pumps into her faster and harder.
"Ahhh Letty!"he says as she draws blood from his shoulder.
Letty pulls back and digs her fingers into him harder as the tension builds within her. She claws at his arms as she comes and trembles around him.
"I can't help it," she groans. "It's this baby. I can't breathe without getting aroused."
Letty pants and starts to gasp and he slows his actions to help her catch her breath. It doesn't work.
"Shit!" She cries out as her as whole body shakes and her breath comes in harder rasps.
Dom separates from her and lifts her out of the pool onto the side. He climbs out and lifts her into his arms and walks them over to a lounge chair.
Letty climbs over him and leans forward kissing him deeply and passionately while he runs his hands over her body.
He guides her hips backwards moving her onto him. She moves into an upright position and moves in fast up and down motions over his stiff penis.
Dom looks at her body and reaches up and massages her breasts in his hands. Letty grabs his hands and presses them harder into her chest. She moves over him faster and feels her pleasure building again.
Dom feels the heat building in the pit of his stomach. He moves his hands down to her hips and digs into her soft flesh as she continues to please him.
"Letty," he hisses out his pleasure. "Letty, you make me fucking insane!"
Letty reaches and pulls her hair off her neck into a messy bun. She puts her head back and her hands behind her, using his thighs as leverage to rock onto him.
He reaches forward and rubs her expanded stomach with one hand and cups her ass with the other one.
"Dom!"
Letty comes again as she feels Dom's warmth coat her insides. She starts to vibrate over him and he reaches up and pulls her flat to his body. He wraps his arms tightly around her body as the tremors continue to move through her.
Dom holds her while her breathing evens out and his heart stops racing.
"I really like the new house Dom."
"I can't wait to see how much you like it in the bedroom." He kisses her hair.
"The kitchen." He kisses her forehead.
"The basement." He pulls her face upward and kisses her cheek.
"The garage." He kisses her lips.
Letty kisses him back in earnest. "Take me to the bedroom Dom. I want another round and I want to make sure I like the mattress you picked out."
Dom stands and takes her into his arms and up to their bedroom.
Letty smiles at the memory of them in this bed that day. She closes her eyes and tries to sleep.
In Han and Nola's bedroom, Nola gets up and goes into the bathroom. Her pain has subsided and the bleeding has completely stopped. The night before she had noticed the difference not too long after her conversation with Han.
She walks into the bathroom and pulls up her nightgown and looks at her bare stomach in the mirror. There are no telltale signs of life growing inside her. No flutters, no flips or even nausea. Just the unmoving bump in her lower abdomen.
As she stands caressing the slightly stretched skin, she promises herself that this was her last pregnancy. No matter how it turned out. The stress and uncertainty and the fear were eating away at her.
She hated feeling this weak, but without Han's arms to hold her up she felt exposed with nothing to cover herself with. She hated that with all her strength and skills when it came to personal life she always found herself coming unhinged.
It was easier when she was able to shoot people to release her frustrations. Maybe she should reconsider working for Anders in a more permanent capacity.
No, she just needed her husband to come home. With Han there she could handle this part of herself. He would pick up every broken piece and love her even more.
She also knew that if she had told him he would be holding her together right now. But he would have been distracted and worried about her and maybe even taken a bullet. It wasn't a risk she could take.
If he had stayed...no, this was best.
She uses the bathroom and nervously wipes and checks for blood, she finds none and can't help the smile that crosses her face.
She stands and feels a sharp stabbing pain and then has a gush of blood. More than she'd had for the past two days combined.
Nola keeps herself composed and cleans up the mess and pulls her clothes back into position.
Every step to Letty's room feels like she's wearing chains around her legs.
She knocks lightly on the door.
"Come in."
When Nola walks into the room and Letty looks up at her she knows that look on her face. She's seen it six other times before and it never came as less of a surprise.
"I think we should probably go to the hospital now." Nola says quietly.
Letty is up, dressed and in gear before she knows it.
She alerts Mia and Rosa of where they are going.
On the way out she stops to talk to Agent Summers.
"Are you sure you don't want to take some of my guys with you?"
"No, we'll be fine. I would prefer you keep them here."
"Letty's right. I'd like my privacy and we'll be less conspicuous this way."
Letty and Nola get in Dom's car and drive into the city to the nearest hospital. They both sit in silence. There is nothing to say on a drive like this.
The house is in up and moving in less than an hour after Letty and Nola leave for the hospital. Mia, Rosa, Marco and Nicole wrangle the kids for breakfast.
Mia sits at the counter tapping her foot against the leg of the stool. She was worried about the guys and what they were walking into in few minutes in Brazil. She was worried about Letty and Nola and what they were about to have to deal with.
She was worried about every child at the table having everyone they loved whole and intact when the day's events were done.
She grabs her cell phone and texts Brian.
I'm in love with you. I know you're doing this for me. See you soon.
A/N - Hi. I hope you all still are enjoying this. I know it's been awhile.
