Chapter 10 – Vows
Letty and Nola walk into the mansion and are swarmed by help taking their luggage, jackets and asking them their needs.
Letty bypasses all of that attention and heads up to her quarters unaccompanied. She wasn't in the mood for anyone tonight.
When she gets inside she finds Marla sleeping with her bedroom door slightly ajar. Letty closes it since she is no longer needed.
She walks over to another cracked door and pushes it openly gently and silently. She walks lightly over to the bed and looks down into the face of her sleeping baby girl.
Girl baby was rapidly beginning not to apply to this angel faced creature. She was growing up fast. Two and a half year old Antonia Lucia Ortiz, Ana as she was called, was the perfect child. Everything about her brought joy to Letty.
She was the very image of her mother. She looked like a clone almost, just like Letty had of her own mother. Ana had his nose and lips but Letty had found those features easy to ignore over time.
Her manners were perfect, her clothes were perfect, her hair was perfect and the capability of filling nook and cranny with her light was perfect.
Letty still found her as breathtaking and fulfilling as the day that she had given birth to her and held her in her arms.
She was never ever going to let the ruined mess that had been her and Dom's 'love' touch Ana. He would never know she existed and Ana would never see what he was capable of doing to her mother emotionally.
When she threw the pack of birth control pills away she never dreamed that pregnancy would be days away. More likely that same night. She also never dreamed that after standing in front of her and pledging his life to her he would be days away from abandoning her. Nothing that started that day had turned out as planned.
Letty and Dom hurriedly rush out to the alter and wait for the minister and his wife to join them. Letty keeps raking her fingers through her hair and pulling down her shirt.
"You nervous?" Dom asks looking over at her.
"Yes. I can't even shallow my throat is so dry."
Dom crosses himself and says a silent prayer of forgiveness at the thoughts that went through his mind at the word 'shallow'.
"Don't be nervous. Letty I got you!"
Letty looks over at him taking in those words and decided right then to fully trust him. She kisses him on the cheek without saying anything. She just nods slightly.
For the first time and a long time she completely trusted him. Even though she was nervous, she was sure. More sure than ever before. She liked the feeling of this freedom and weightlessness that trust offered her.
The minister and his wife, acting as witness, come out to join the couple in the sanctuary.
Dom and Letty hurry over and prepare to get married.
After the traditional words are spoken by the holy man, Dom looks deep into Letty's eyes.
For the first time he wasn't looking at her in fear. He could see a normal and happy future for them.
"Letty you are my life. You are everything that makes me me. There is no Dom without Letty. I'd be a barren wasteland with no sun. I always want you next to me keeping me alive."
"How the heck do I follow that?" Letty smirks with glistening eyes. "All I want for the rest of my life is this right now. Whatever we're feeling in this moment. Whatever brought us to this time and space. I never want this to end."
"It won't." Dom unknowing lies to her.
"Do you two have rings?"
They both reach into the pockets of their respective jeans and pull out the other's ring.
"Dominic place the ring on Letty's finger and repeat after me. I give you this ring as a reminder that I will love you, at all times, in all places, and in all ways."
Dom takes Letty's hand and clears the emotions from his throat before speaking. "I give you this ring as a reminder that I will love you at all times, in all places, and in all ways."
Tears runs down Letty's face and her hand shakes.
"Letty, place the ring on Dominic's finger and repeat after me. I give you this ring as a reminder that I will love you, at all times, in all places, and in all ways."
With a voice that's cracking, Letty says, "I give you this ring as a reminder that I will love you, at all times, in all places, in all ways."
Letty puts the ring on Dom's finger and kisses the back of his hand. Looking at her so filled with joy and love brings warm tears to his eyes.
"Dominic and Letty you have vowed your love and your lasting commitment to that love in front of God. What God has joined together, let no man put asunder. I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may kiss your bride."
Dom leans down and kisses Letty for the very first time as her husband. His lips joined with hers has never in his whole life has ever given him more fulfillment. He stands completing the puzzle of his heart with the connection of their lips.
Dom scoops her up and runs out of the church yelling thank yous over his shoulder.
"I love you Mrs. Toretto."
"I love you Mr. Toretto."
Letty kisses Ana's forehead and leaves her room and walks over to her own bedroom. She kicks her shoes off and balls up in bed. Then she begins to cry uncontrolled.
How could things have gotten this way? She had loved this man with everything she had inside her. She had trusted him wholly and completely. Why would he do this? Why would he put so much time into convincing her and then once he had all of her, give it back? No. Throw it away to die.
That night she had known. She'd known that it was on his mind and in his head on leave. But he'd promised her. So she decided not to plead or argue. He had begged her for her trust. So she decided that she would give it to him like she'd promised.
Big mistake.
Now he was back in her life. Trying to reclaim ownership of her. Trying to be her husband. Forcing her open her body to him and order to weaken her defenses. It wasn't going to work.
No matter how right the times after the first one felt, she knew better.
No matter how much she wanted to accept his promises, his comfort, the life he offered her. She wouldn't.
No matter how good the physical felt when they were together or how terrible the emotional felt when she left. She knew things could be much worse and she damn sure knew they could be better.
The better was right down the hall. He would never touch Ana. That was her vow.
Dom and Letty pull up to the villa that is situated perfectly on the side of a cliff that overlooks nothing but vast amounts of ocean and absolutely nothing else.
Letty gets out of the car and looks out at the view.
"Wow. Did you spend our time apart driving all over the island trying to find the most beautiful places you could take me?"
"I spent our time apart knowing that nothing man made or touched by human hands could ever compare to you. So I sought out things made by God to get me through being without you."
Letty walks around the car and they grab each other's hands. Dom pulls her in front of him interlocking their left hands and bringing their wedding bands together. As the approach the front door. Dom pulls out the keys and scoops Letty up again.
"Gotta carry you over the threshold. It's our wedding night."
"This isn't our house."
"No?"
He carries her inside and straight the bedroom looking out on the spectacular view of the sun slowly dipping behind the ocean.
He settles her back onto her feet. She steps up to have a better look at the view.
"I know we can't stay here after we're done these jobs. But I want the place I spend this night with you untouched until we can come back to it."
Letty stares out the double doors into the twilight and tries to picture what her life is going to turn into in the coming months. For the first time it's an easy and beautiful picture. She wanted this marriage. His kids. The picture he'd painted vividly with his words.
She turns to say something and forgets all words when he is standing closer than she had anticipated.
She reaches out a hand to him and he grasps it immediately and firmly. Answering her unspoken question with something more powerful than words. He was there.
Dom slowly leans down and kisses her lips and doesn't close his eyes. He watches the love she has for him and finally feels deserving of it.
He deliberately lifts the tank top over her head and slides the bra off her body. He gets on his knees and front of her and starts kissing her stomach.
Taking his time to remove her jeans, panties and sandals.
He guides her body over to the bedpost and allows her to leverage herself against it. He picks her leg up and kisses it from thigh to knee to shin to toes. Making sure not an inch of it goes neglected from his kiss. Once that leg is fully appreciated he moves to the other and does the same.
Dom gives her arms and shoulders and sides the same treatment.
Then he spends a long time sucking and pleasuring the breasts that would soon be used to provide sustenance for the child she'd promised him.
He turns her around and she rests her head against the bedpost. As he kisses her back and trails his tongue along it she rubs her face against the post.
On his knees he removes his shirt and encourages her to open to him. He rubs his hand up the liquid that has left a path from her legs to her dribbling prize.
"Hold on Letty." He advises.
It takes her a moment to process the words. Then she grips firmly to the bedpost.
His advice was sound. The second he attaches his mouth to her, her legs buckle and lights flash before her eyes.
She finds standing up to be a nearly insurmountable task as he gorges himself on a feast of his wife.
Her legs are rubber and her mind is mush and still he takes her pleasure higher and higher. Licking and sucking and nibbling at her.
Finally, when she collapses against him he grants her reprieve to rest. Momentarily.
He lifts her easily into his arms and carries her around to the bed. He lays her down and scoops up his shirt to wipe his face that is entirely soaked from her satisfaction.
She smirks up at him and lays her head back knowing this is the last time for catching her breath tonight.
Letty sits up and reaches to unbuckle Dom's pants. He slaps her hands away and removes his own boots and pants.
"No work for you tonight. This is your party."
"If it's my party…"
"No work for you!"
He readjusts her body to the top of the bed so she's resting on the pillows.
On his knees between her legs he looks down at her beautiful nudity and knows no artist has ever gotten the human form right. Since none of them have used her as their model.
He tilts down and kisses her. She was awaiting his mouth hungrily. Her hands go to his ears and she locks him to her mouth. Twisting and moving and tasting his lips from every angle imaginable.
Dom takes the opportunity to put their perfect alignment to use. He slides inside her and sucks in a deep breath at her saturated center.
He has to stop and refocus to keep from spilling over into her immediately. Then he is able to move. In and out of her. Feeling every pronounced movement Letty starts to writhe beneath him.
He doesn't attempt to hold her steady, he lets her reach up and lock her fingers into the ornate design of the headboard. Still huffing and thrashing beneath him.
His hands go to her breasts and begin fondling her firm nipples.
Continuing his motions inside her, he begins to silently beg for her to hurry and come. When he can't hold on anymore a stream of warm, warmer, liquid flows out of her. Finally, he allows his hot release to drench her on the inside as she soaks him on the outside.
He places light pecks on her mouth that change. They intensely try to devour each other with their mouths until finally beyond breathlessness they surrender to the will to stay alive.
Dom lies awake thinking about that night and its contrast to the night that he had just spent with Letty. The night he'd thought he wanted but that had nothing done for the longing in his heart for her.
Why the fuck had he left her? He couldn't think of one reason good enough now. He'd rather see them both dead together than what they had become to each other living apart.
He looked into her eyes last night and saw a spark, a hint, of her love for him. But he knew that the next time he saw her was it. He'd either use that spark to set ablaze the love for him she had once had or he'd completely douse it and lose her forever.
If that happened he was dead. He'd never live without her again. That vow he intended to keep.
A/N - Oh how I love the love in this chapter! This are my favorite FBs! I just couldn't wait to post!