Hey my pretty people. So it's the long weekend here and I actually managed to get some writing done! I'm loving all your reviews, and I'm glad you're enjoy the story. Maybe about halfway through this story, and I'm thinking about starting another one. I'll let you guys know when I have ideas :) This one is a little something on the background of Letty and Jacob.
Whatever had happened last night had put Dom in a worse mood than his usual ones over the past few weeks. Everyone wisely stayed out of his way at work, although there were a lot of questioning looks. Letty wasn't angry, or hurt, by what had happened last night, just confused. She had harbored a crush toward Dom since she was about six, and there had never been any sign that he had reciprocated her feelings. And then last night, with the way he was looking at her…And she knew for a fact that his bad mood was because she had turned him down. Her hand clenched around the wrench that she was using as she thought back over past few weeks and realized that there had been several moments between the pair of them. She had always just put it down to his typical male possessiveness, not the fact that he had actually felt something for her.
"Dom, you need to stop acting like you've been kicked in the balls," Letty finally snapped after he had a go at Jesse for dropping a relatively cheap car part. Letty gripped him by the arm and dragged him out the back of the building where she could scold him in private. "What the hell is your issue?"
"The fact you dragged me away from work—that's my issue!" He snapped back at her.
"No! That is not your problem because you've been acting shitty all day!" Letty hissed at him. "In fact, you've been shitty since I didn't kiss you last night—so whatever the hell it is that you have up your ass, it has nothing to do with the boys." Dom's eyes flashed at her comment about their moment last night and his lips tightened. Letty stopped talking, staring up at him defiantly, challenging him to tell her she was wrong.
"You don't know what you're talking about," Dom's voice was dangerously low. Letty's eyes narrowed at him.
"You get the same way as you always do with everything else in your life," she sneered at him. "Someone started playing with a toy that you think belongs to you—"
"So in your words, you're a toy?" He asked, eyebrows raised.
"I'm using a fucking example, Dominic Anthony Toretto," she snapped and Dom defensively crossed his arms over his chest. "You think that because I live with you, and because I'm part of your team, you own me. And you're absolutely fine when I'm only interested in you, but the second that someone else shows interest in me, you start giving me eyes and making little comments. That shit don't by me, Dom. I'm not dealing with it." Dom had been leaning against the building watching her, but he straightened up as he realized her speech was coming to a close.
"Okay, first of all, I never knew you were interested in me—"
"That's absolute bull!" Letty exclaimed. "I remember you would tease me endlessly with the boys—"
"You were about thirteen!"
"So you think the reason I would let you walk all over me up until last year was because I was some little bitch?" Letty shot at him, eyes flashing.
"You make my life hell, Let, since when do you let me walk all over you?!" Dom shouted. Their argument was skipping through so many topics, his brain was having a hard time keeping up. So Letty had liked him, in the way he liked her, but from the way she was talking to him now, it didn't sound like that was her current feeling. His thinking had sent him off into another world, and he blinked when he realized that Letty was shouting at him once again.
"—Maybe like every time a guy would show the slightest bit of interest in me and you would tell him to piss off, and I would let you! It's a miracle I managed to loose my virginity without you knowing about it! And don't think for a second that I didn't know about the boys you would have watching me and reporting back to you when I went out to parties alone!" Letty was fuming, he could see her clenching her fists at her side and wondered if she was holding herself back from hitting him. It was a definite possibility from the way she was glaring at him. "You think if I didn't like you that I would've stood for that shit?" She stopped her rant and Dom suddenly realized that her eyes were glowing—with anger, hurt and…tears. He had only seen Letty cry once, at his parents funeral. And here he was, staring at her with his mouth open slightly, like an idiot, while she stood there with tears in her eyes. He went to take a step toward her but she pushed him away harshly. "No, Dom, no," she spat. "You don't get to do this to me—not now," the last two words were almost whispered as she pulled her keys out of her pocket and pushed past him.
He wanted to call out after her, ask her to stay, but he was confused; confused about how she was feeling, about how he was feeling…About how he was meant to feel.
Letty wasn't sure how long she drove for and she didn't know where she was going. All she knew was that she had to get away—away from the garage, and Dom and the way he made her feel. She hated that man with an absolute passion sometimes, the way he gave her a lazy smile and it would start a burn deep inside her, or the way even when she was angry at him she wanted to press her lips to his and feel his teeth digging into her skin. For too long she had waited for him, hoping he would notice her. She hadn't stopped herself from having fun—she had slept with enough guys to know she loved sex—but more often than not she had found herself thinking about Dom and how it would feel if it was his head buried between her legs or his arousal slamming into her. Just thinking about it would make her wet. But she had given up, she had heard too many sighs and moans come through the thin walls to ever think that he would be interested in her. And then she had met Jacob, and he had been funny and sweet—in a completely obvious way that was opposite of Dom. But no matter how hard she had tried, no matter how close she had gotten to Jacob, Dom was always there in the back of her head.
She hated it—hated him—for that fact. She felt guilty when Jacob gave her these long looks that had absolutely nothing to do with sex and more to do with something a lot deeper. When she started getting those looks, she felt herself putting some distance between them. Jacob had noticed her distance and they had come up with the rules, with the fact they weren't doing to be doing anything more than a couple of friends who fucked. A couple of times when they were drunk and laying in bed after they had both climaxed, he would touch her face softly or brush a strand of her hair away, and she could see that he wanted so much more.
And part of her did as well—she saw Brian and Mia together and the love between them was clear. She wanted that, and from the tenderness in Jacob's eyes, he wanted that too, with her. And every part of her wanted to want that with him, but as hard as she tried, she just couldn't make herself feel that way.
He wasn't Dom.
She tried over and over again to tell herself that she was over Dom and that she wasn't using Jacob and taking advantage of his feelings for her. But she just wasn't sure. And so when Jacob had gotten a date, and then a second, and then a third with the cute girl she had heard him mention several times, she had concluded that it would be a good idea to cease their little arrangement. It stung a little—she did like Jacob, he was always there when she had a shit day and was great in bed—but he wanted more, and it wasn't fair of her to hold him back from that.
Letty blinked as she heard a horn honk behind her and realized that the traffic light was green in front of her.
"Oh, fuck off," she hissed, pulling the fingers over her shoulder. She had ended up on the completely opposite side of town, almost at the highway. She sighed as she pulled her Jensen Interceptor into the closest car park and killed the engine.
Part of her couldn't believe what she had said to Dom, how she had talked about the fact she had liked him so flippantly. But had been so angry, at the fact he thought he had a right to be angry when she had stopped them from kissing, every thing had just come spilling out. Her phone started signing and snapped her out of her trance, and she looked down at her cell.
"What's up?" She muttered.
"Baby girl," Leon's voice was comforting. No matter the shit he gave her and that she delivered back, there was something big brotherly about him that made her feel better. "Where'd you go?"
"Just sick of Dom's shit," she replied. Leon was quiet for a moment and she knew he was considering whether or not to get involved. Finally it looked as though he had had made his decision, because he said,
"He's not really been the same since he found out you had a man on the side—"
"Sleeping with someone when you're single is not someone on the side," Letty interrupted angrily.
"Yeah, but, come on, Let," he told her easily. "We always just assumed it was going to be you and Dom in the end. We still do."
"Oh yeah?" Letty replied wryly. "How the hell do you figure that?"
"Well, you've been in love with him since, like, forever—" he ignored the hissing noise she made at her end. "—and apart from Mia, you're the only other steady girl in his life. And have you seen his face around you lately? He looks as pathetic as Brian. And we've all seen him checking you out."
"I'm pretty sure that the only female Dom doesn't check out is Mia," Letty retorted. They fell into silence once more before Leon sighed.
"Whatever the case, come home. Don't talk to Dom if he's being an ass. Mia has made lasagne for dinner," she knew he was tempting her just to come home. He took her silence as a good sign. "There's garlic bread," he added in a sing song tone. He heard a sigh on the other end of the phone and grinned. "See you soon, baby girl." He hung up the phone and then raised his eyebrows at Dom who was sitting opposite him, glaring, probably about the asshole comment. "You be glad that Mia did make that for dinner tonight," Leon advised with a smirk. "Coz you fucked up baaaad, brother."
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