Sorry for taking so long to get this up. School started for me and ugh. Hope you all like and thank you to those the time out to read/review/like. I really do appreciate it.

Dom walked into the kitchen smelling the food, his eyes traveled along Lux's backside, she was small yet had curves in all the right spots. Sneaking up behind her, Dom lets his hands roam, hearing her gasp and jump back into his chest. "Stoooppp." Lux whined. "I have to cook dinner." Lux tried to concentrate but the feel of Dom's hands was overwhelming.

"Is Mia getting Ariana tonight?"

"Mia gets Ariana every night I have to work." Lux turned to face Dom, his hands pulling her close.

Kissing Lux's collarbone, Dom smirked hearing Lux's shaky breath. "When do you get a night off?"

"Tomorrow….but then Ariana is home." Dom lowered his lips to meet Lux's, her back leaning back bumping the stove. "Eep!"

Dom laughed a bit and stepped back. "You get burned?" Dom turned Lux around and lifted her shirt.

"No, no don't even try it. Go get Ariana please? I can't finish cooking with a touchy feely in the kitchen."

"Where is she?" Dom furrowed his brows as if just realizing the 3yr old had been MIA for the past hour.

Stirring the food, Lux blew a piece of hair out of her face. "If she isn't in her room playing she is probably in her fort."

"…Fort?"

"In the back of my closet. Bunch of pillows and a sheet, can't miss it."

Dom nodded as if he understood and made his way to Lux's room. "Ay kiddo you in here?" Dom flicked the light on in the dark walk in closet. A small smile played on his face when he heard the tiny giggle but Ariana didn't come out. Assuming she was hiding, Dom quietly snuck up to the fort, looking down there was a space between the pillows and Ariana sat with a coloring book.

Ariana squealed with laughter as Dom picked her up and spun her around. "Gotcha!" Reaching out for something to grab, Ariana pulled hangers and shirts off the rack before her hand locked on a shoe box pulling it and its contents to the ground.

Dom stopped spinning and his smile faded. At his feet were stacks of money. Putting Ariana down, Dom started picking up the money, scanning over the wads of cash he knew it was over a grand and that was about $900 more than waitress would bring home in tips. "Dom?" Lux called causing him to shove the money back into the shoe box and put it back in its place.

"Do you ever race?"

Lux was setting the table and looked up at Dom with a laugh. "Do I race? Yes, because I would win so many in my mini suv with a car seat in the back." Picking Ariana up so she could wash her hands, Lux blew a piece of her hair back. "Why would you ask that? I rarely raced when we were younger."

"I was just wondering." Dom brushed it off, he was hoping she raced that way there was an explanation for the money in the closet. "Why don't I drive you to work tonight?"

Lux gave Dom an odd look as she went back to the kitchen grabbing the food. "Dominic…..let's not get ahead of ourselves acting like this is a relationship okay? You don't have to drive me to work, make the beds or give me foot massages. We're not dating so….."

"You're still mine." Dom sat down across from Lux as she came back to the dining area.

Lux smiled a bit. "I'm yours?" Lux sat down and grabbed both Ariana and Dom's hand to say grace.

Dom bowed his head and quickly ran through grace before reaching over and grabbing a tortilla wrap and putting it on his plate. "You're mine." Dom repeated as he began to make his fajita.

"What does that exactly mean?" Lux leaned over putting together Ariana's plate.

Dom gave Lux a look before pushing back from his seat and walking around behind her. Leaning over, Dom licked his lips and whispered in her ear. "It means everywhere I touched, kissed and held last night is off limits to everyone but me." Slipping his hand beneath the table, Dom dragged it up Lux's thigh coming to rest between her legs. "You're mine."

"Mommy? I thirsty."

Dom kissed Lux's neck and removed his hand before going back around the table to his seat. Throughout dinner Dom thought about the money. Was she selling drugs? Hooking? Because Dom knew she was doing more than serving up burgers and fries.

"Alright say goodnight Ariana." Lux had thrown the duffle bag over her shoulder and Ariana walked out with her little backpack.

"Goodnight Dom."

"Wait." Dom stopped the two from leaving. "Mind if I tag along?"

Lux raised a brow. "What?"

"It gets boring being here with nothing to do, drop me off with Ariana. I'll hang with Brian for a bit and come back here."

Lux blinked at him confused. "I have a TV with nearly 400 channels, a kinect, computer with internet, a Jacuzzi tub, there is a gym downstairs and a pool and you get bored? Whatever did you do on the run to keep you entertained?"

"I ran." Dom retorted with sarcasm.

"You're risking it." Lux sighed, hoping Dom knew what he was doing by going back to the house he once called home.

"Don't worry about me." Dom grabbed his jacket and offered to take Lux's bag which she protectively held on her shoulder.

Locking the door, the trio headed for the elevators. "I always worry about you."

"Don't."

Lux looked up at Dom in annoyance as they made their way through the parking garage.

Pulling up to Mia's house, Lux got out and grabbed Ariana's bag and a sleeping Ariana. Walking around the back of the house and through the kitchen, Lux passed her baby to Mia. "Your brother is retarded, I am going to be late, she should be out for the night." Lux kissed Ariana's forehead and Mia's cheek. "Tell Brian I said hi."

Mia held Ariana and looked confused when Dom walked in the house. "You are retarded! What are you doing here?"

"I need to talk to you." Dom watched out the kitchen window was Lux's car backed out of the driveway.

"About?"

"Something is going on with Lux, I found a stash of money in her closet." Dom followed Mia through the house.

"And?"

"If she's really a waitress, she wouldn't have that. Matter of fact she wouldn't be living in the apartment she has. You waited tables once how much did you make?"

"Uh around $3 an hour….and whatever tips I got."

Dom nodded, turning to Brian who sat sipping a beer. "Brian, can I borrow your car?"

"What? No, no you cannot borrow his car." Mia scolded. "I am putting Ariana to bed, you better be here when I get back downstairs."

Mia rushed putting Ariana to bed, removing her socks and shoes and putting her PJs on. Just as she lay the 3yr old in bed, Mia heard tires peeling. "Dominic!" Mia yelled and stomped her feet and ran out of the room. "Brian you let him take the car?"

"He's his own man babe."

"He's his own man? He's your best friend and soon to be brother in law that is a fugitive and should be keeping a low profile." Mia stressed. "Did he say where he was going?"

"Mia, he hasn't gotten caught so far I think he can handle a night out. He's smart, give him credit."

"Oh if I wasn't marrying you!" Mia stormed off.

Some 15 minutes away, Dom pulled into the parking lot of Café 50's the diner Lux had said she worked at. Driving through the lot, Lux's car was nowhere in sight. Parking, Dom made his way inside the semi empty diner and looked around. "Can I help you?" A short waitress dressed in a 50's attire approached.

"I was looking for Lux?"

The woman looked just as confused as Dom. "Lux?

The anger started to grow realizing Lux had lied to him. "She said she works here?"

"Blonde with gray eyes? A bit short?" The waitress asked for confirmation they were talking about the same woman.

Dom found himself breathing a sigh of relief. "Yeah."

"Lux stops by sometimes around closing and grabs something to eat but she hasn't worked here in nearly 2yrs. Not since that guy offered her a job at the club down the street an-."

Before the woman could finish her sentence, Dom had walked away. Driving slowly down the street, he kept his eyes peeled for clubs. Dom's teeth grinded together, when he saw the large sign with bright flashing lights that read Masquerade. "Lux what are you doing?" Parking, Dom slammed the door shut so hard he was surprised he didn't break a window.

Dom walked into the dimly lit club that looked like it was modeled after the lamp in I dream of Jeanie and immediately two women were at his side. One in a bra and panties set while the other was topless but both wore elegant masks to hide their faces. With their hands on his chest each fought for his attention with nicknames like daddy and big boy. Easily pushing both their hands off, he leaned in towards the girl on his right. "I'm looking for Lux. Is she here?" Immediately her face became hard.

"I don't know anyone by the name of Lux." With that she turned and walked away. Dom didn't even get the chance to ask the second girl as she had walked way just as quickly. Opting not to make himself known to everyone by asking about Lux, he took a seat in the very back of the club hoping he was wrong. On second thought, Dom really didn't know what took place in those chairs. Dom assumed any extra-curricular activity took place in the back but still, rather safe than sorry.

After standing through three performances and turning away just as many lap dances Dom was ready to leave. Maybe his suspicions were wrong but he doubted it. Dom felt it, he knew Lux was somewhere in that club. Walking around a bit he saw women in their platform heels and thongs, breast out for anyone to see, the masks on their face covered more than their outfits did.

Dom walked by feeling his stomach turn at the middle aged man moaning as the woman grinding against him. "That's nice baby." The balding man complimented as she laughed. That laugh, it stopped Dom in his tracks as he turned to look at the woman. Her back was to him as she straddled the customer but as he walked around the side he saw the familiar tattoo wrapping around her ribcage.

The rage that was boiling inside of him came to a point when she reached back to undo her top. "If you even think of untying that I will break your fingers, Lux." Dom's voice was venomous as he grabbed Lux's arm and ripped her off the man's lap.

"Hey!" The man stood in protest.

"Sit down!" Dom's voice boomed before directing his attention to Lux. Lux couldn't tell if he was more angry or disgusted.

"D-."

"What the fuck are you doing here? Are you out of your mind?! Huh?! This is how you make your living?! Grinding on some man old enough he probably takes Viagra just to get hard from a lap dance? Do you feel good having their hands on your body? Touching you? Treating you like a skank only worth their crumbled dollar bills!" The entire rant Dom held Lux's wrist in his hands as he shook her back and forth.

"I paid for my dance and it wasn't cheap." The man stood again. "And I don't like the way you're treating the lady. Let her go."

Dom chuckled a bit. "This doesn't concern you." Dom held Lux's arm in one hand as he removed his jacket and put over her. "Let's go."

"I paid for my dance!" The man began to follow Dom as he dragged Lux through the club.

Dominic's nose flared as he held Lux's arm tightly in one hand as the other balled up and slammed into the man's face. "DOM!" Lux screamed. Trying to break out of his grasp, and check on the regular, Lux was pulled back.

"You! Stop!" Security yelled at Dom as they ran towards the middle of the club. "Let go of the girl!"

"Which way to the back?" Dom asked as Lux pointed and Dom rushed to the door, literally dragging Lux behind him, through the door and down the hall.

"I can't walk that fast!" Lux tried to hold back. "Stop! I need to get my bag!" Lux fought with Dom as she rushed to grab her duffel bag, not missing the dirty looks and whispers she got from the other girls.

"Let's go!" Dom yelled making a few women jump. "You're moving too slow, take off those fuckin heels." Dom shouted as he picked Lux up over his shoulder and pushed open the side door with his free hand. "Give me the keys." Lux dug through her duffel bag. "Hurry up."

"Stop yelling at me! I can't really find them upside down you know!" Lux finally grabbed the keys and handed them over. Lux was dropped in the passenger side like a sack of potatoes and barely had the door shut before Dom was around the other side and speeding in the opposite direction of the club. "What the fuck is wrong with you?!" Lux screamed.

"Don't start Lux."

"Don't start?! You started it! You followed me to work, you punched a customer a-."

"I said don't start!" Dom yelled while reaching over to snatch the mask off of Lux's face. "And take this stupid shit off." Dom put the window down and tossed it into the wind.

"Don't yell at me!" Lux screamed back. Dom slammed on the brakes causing Lux to jerk forward. The look on his face told Lux to stop but her anger wasn't allowing her to think straight. "You're a fuckin idiot! Are you trying to get me killed?" Quickly putting her seat belt on, Lux punched Dom in the arm. "Answer me!"

"If I open my mouth, what comes out you won't like."

"I didn't like you literally dragging me out of my job either."

"You call that a job Lux? You work hard in there? Are you using an ounce of the education you have? Are you using any piece of that brain in your head?" Dom took two fingers and pushed Lux's head to emphasis his point. "It really takes something to take off your clothes for perfect strangers. To dance and swing on a pole like you have no self-respect and not even acknowledge that fact you have a daughter at home that you're supposed to be a good example for." Dom scoffed looking over as Lux pulled the money out of her bra and waistband to her panties. "And you use to call the racer chasers whores."

The look Dom saw on Lux's face, he knew he went too far but his anger wouldn't allow him to apologize. The rest of the car ride to Lux's was quiet and Dom half expected her to kick him out on his ass. Yanking out her duffel bag, Dom waited as Lux shoved on sweat pants over her bare legs and dropped Dom's leather jacket on the parking garage floor. Pulling a top over her head, Lux grabbed the bag and started walking in long strides in front of Dom. In the elevator she wouldn't even make eye contact and the second the entered the apartment Lux locked herself in her room.

Dom could hear Lux crying through the door and his anger was replaced momentarily with regret, but only for a moment. "Lux, open the door." When Dom didn't get an answer he shook the handle a bit.

"It's locked you dumb fuck!"

"Well unlock it." Dom dug around in his pocket looking for something to pick it with. It took a few minutes and a trip to the kitchen for a knife but Dom managed to open the door. Seeing Lux curled up on the bed made Dom want to say he was sorry but he couldn't because truth be told he wasn't. If tonight were to happen all over again, Dom wouldn't change a thing, he would've dragged Lux out of the club kicking and screaming if he had to. She didn't belong there. "Lux?" Dom walked closer and he saw the damage from his struggle to get her out of the club. Fingerprint bruises were forming on Lux's wrist and arms.

"I don't want to talk to you." Her voice was muffled as she pulled the blankets over her head.

"Don't talk then, listen."

"I kind of think I heard enough in the car."

Sighing deeply Dom reached out for Lux but she jerked away. "I'm sorry for calling you-."

"Let's not repeat it k?"

Dom nodded. "I'm sorry, I was mad, I was disappointed….I was jealous."

Lux ripped the blankets off and sat up straight. "And I don't care. Whatever you may think about me stripping, it gave you no right to come in my place of work acting like that, you hit a customer!"

"You were on top of him!"

"It's my job Dominic! I work less than 20hrs a week and I have a beautiful apartment, a car that is paid off, nice clothes for my daughter, more toys than she knows what to do with and food in her stomach. I don't do handjobs, blowjobs and there is no kind of sex whatsoever. So what is so wrong about it? You want to say I'm not a role model for my daughter? You have nerve! The reason I work nights is so I can spend every waking moment with my daughter! You have no right to look down on me or my life! Last time I checked you're a wanted man, am I wrong?"

Dom looked at Lux. "When I said you are mine, I thought you understood."

"I've wanted to be yours since I was 14, I wanted nothing more than for you to want me too but explain to me how this works. I'm yours because I had sex with you? Or was I yours when you broke into my house 3 nights ago and I didn't kick you out? I was doing this job before you came along, before I was 'yours' so after one night I'm supposed to up and change that? What about when you leave Dom? Am I still yours then? Do I wait another god knows how many years for you to come back to me? Explain to me how this works because I don't know if I understand and if I do I'm not sure I like it."

Dom didn't have an answer because what he was going to say would only piss Lux off more. Yeah, he expected her to wait for him but for how long? "L-."

"How come I wasn't yours after our first time together? When I was 19." Dom took a breath ready to speak when Lux interrupted. "Please don't say it was a mistake."

"Not a mistake, just bad timing."

Lux nodded. "Well maybe now it's bad timing for me."