Riddicks-gurl1988 – As always thank you so much for reading. I love that you love this story! I do agree though, I hope that if Letty shows up that Dom tells her how it is!

tfatfreak207 – Lol I know what you mean when you say you don't want Letty back. I feel the same way! Hopefully she will stay away, I doubt it, but I can still hope!

Little Karma – "I never could really see why they stayed together in the movies" You and me both! I've said it before, I've never liked Letty's character, but I don't know why. I think that's why I create her in my stories as someone I can't stand. This way I have a reason not to like her!

starfire192486 – It's just like Letty to come and ruin everything. Lol Thanks for reading! I'm glad you like it!

xxxevilgrinxxx – I agree with you, kids need to know that they will wake up every morning and you will be there! I think that Dom likes Emma for that reason, she allows him to be himself. He's not trying to be some big bad muscle head, Emma sees him as more than that!

Thanks everyone for reading. Enjoy!

Chapter 10

According to Mia, Sunday came way too fast. For four days she complained to Dom that he should have given her at least a week's notice that he was inviting his new girlfriend over to the house.

"You can't refer to her as my girlfriend, Mia," Dom said as he helped her get the meat ready for the grill. "We aren't together like that."

Mia gave him one of her little laughs that she used when she knew something someone else didn't. "Yet…You aren't together like that yet," she sighed. "But it still would have been nice to give me more notice; I didn't even have time to go buy more scented hand soap."

It was Dom's turn to laugh, "Why do you have to buy new scented hand soap for her to come over?" He never understood some of the weird things his sister did.

"It's because I don't want her hands smelling like one of you men, I mean it's okay for my hands to smell like you, but not her." She moved over and got down the big bowl for the salad.

Dom smirked and mumbled, "From what she's said, she likes the way I smell."

He felt Mia hug him from behind. "Than clearly she hasn't smelled your nasty socks after work!" Mia laughed and quickly moved away from him.

Just as Dom was about to throw a piece of lettuce at Mia he heard a knock on the front door. He turned and smiled at Mia. "Behave today, Mia," he said before he wiped his hands and headed for the front door.

Dom could see Emma standing on the other side of the door before he even answered it. He opened the door with a big grin on his face. "Hey," he said when he saw her standing there in a nice pair of jeans and a button up blouse.

Emma smiled back at him. "Hi, Dominic, I hope I'm not too early," she said nervously.

He shook his head and took a step towards her. "Not at all," he said before he gave her a quick kiss on the lips.

A small giggle escaped her when he pulled away. "You haven't seen me in over a week and that's all I get?" Emma's cheeks turned a pale pink as she bit her lip.

Dom chuckled and leaned back into her before he placed his hand on her cheek and kissed her deeper. "Better?" he asked when he pulled his lips a mere inch from hers.

"Much," she whispered, a little breathless, and then smiled.

He licked his lips as he looked down to see Brenden in the car seat looking up at him and a paper bag that sat next to the diaper bag. "Were you watching what your mommy and I were doing?" he asked with a smile.

Brenden gave him a smile followed by a long babble. Emma giggled, "I wonder if he just told you off or gave you his blessing to kiss his mommy?"

Dom looked up at Emma and smirked, "Hopefully the later of the two!" he said before he bent down and picked up the car seat and the diaper bag. "Not sure what you and Mia decided you should bring, so I'll let you carry that bag so I don't squish anything."

Emma followed Dom into the living room and shut the door behind them. Mia came into room and smiled, "Hi Emma, I'm so glad you were able to make it today!"

"Thank you again for having me," she told Mia, before holding up the paper bag. "I brought the pies and whipped cream for dessert."

Mia giggled and smirked, "Good, I told the guys you volunteered to bring homemade cherry and blueberry pies. They have been asking when you were going to be here since about nine this morning." Both girls laughed.

Dom playfully rolled his eyes as he worked to gently get Brenden out of his car seat. "I'm glad to see that you are happy today, maybe you could give some of your happiness to Dallas when he gets up. Little D is very cranky today," Dom said to Brenden as he picked him up.

Mia took the pies into the kitchen and Emma smiled at Dom. "I could have gotten him out, Dominic!" she mentioned as she walked over to them.

He nodded and smiled, "I know, but I figured I was right there." He winked at her and handed Brenden to her before he took her hand and they started to walk towards the kitchen. "Come on, I'll officially introduce you to the guys."

Once lunch was finished everyone sat down at the picnic table to eat. Emma had brought a foldable high chair so Brenden could eat too. The team chuckled as he hit the tray wanting his mommy to hurry up and give him some food. Dallas sat in his wind up swing and watched everyone. Dom said grace before they passed out the food and started to eat.

Dom sat and listened to Emma talk to the team when his phone rang. He reached into his pocket and looked at the caller ID, he frowned. "I'll be right back guys," he said as he stood up and headed towards the house before he answered it. "What?"

Letty laughed into the phone, "Since when do you answer the phone like that?"

"Since I'm wondering why you are calling," he sighed and shook his head. He knew why she was calling, but truly didn't want to have this conversation today.

Letty's end of the phone was silent for a moment, "I take it you didn't get my letter?" she asked, thinking it might have gotten lost or something.

He sat down in the chair and ran a hand over his head. "I got your letter," he said, aggravated that she was ruining his lunch with Emma and the team.

She could hear the change in his voice, "And?" she asked wanting to know what he thought of what she had to say in it.

"And, I got it and read it. I understand that you don't think you are cut out to be a mother. I-I thank you for bringing Dallas to me instead of giving him away, but I don't understand what makes you think you can come back here and be with me and not have anything to do with him?" Ever since he had received her letter he had been thinking about what he would say to her if she called or showed up and he was finally getting to ask her the one question he kept thinking about over and over. Just stay calm, be nice, and don't yell. He thought to himself.

Letty sat up on her small twin size bed and raised an eyebrow. "What makes me think I can do that?" she asked as if she was making sure of what he had said. "I think I can come back to you, since I am your girlfriend-"

Dom cut her off, "Ex girlfriend," he said and cleared his throat.

"No, just because I left doesn't mean I'm no longer your girlfriend, Dom. I still love you and always have. Like I said in the letter, I only left because I didn't know what else to do, Dom," she said not liking what she heard from him.

"I'm sorry, Letty, but when you just up and left and didn't call for all of that time, I finally gave up thinking that you were coming back," he stated as calmly as he possibly could. "A part of me will always love you too, since you are Dallas' mother, but I've moved on. I don't want to be with you again, Letty."

Her teeth pushed against each other as she flexed her jaws. "What do you mean you don't want to be with me? We have always been together and from what I remember we said we would always be together."

Dom smirked knowing she was pissed, but for once in his life he wasn't about to let her walk all over him and get her way. "That was until you left me, but I've done a lot of thinking and I've decided that it would be better if we weren't together."

"That's fucking bullshit, Dom. I want to be with you and that's final," she said clearly not going to back down.

He sighed and ran a hand over his head, "Look, I don't want to fight with you, but I'm not going to give in to you either, Letty. So just forget it. Since you don't want to be a mom, then just move on with your life too and forget about us. Dallas and I are perfectly happy together. Like I said, I've moved on, found someone else..." He trailed off and knew he shouldn't have said that.

Letty stood up from the bed and clenched her fist. "What do you mean you've found someone else? You can't move on, that's not part of the plan," she paused for a few seconds before she smiled. "If you won't take me back, then maybe I will just take Dallas. Then you will take me back."

"Like hell you will," he said in a stern voice as he bolted up from the chair, like she was right in the room threatening him. "You can't take him from me; you have no fucking right to."

She grinned a little, knowing she had him. "I'm his mother; I have every right to see him."

Dom knew he was going to blow a gasket if he kept this up, "You said so yourself that you don't want to be a mom, so who the hell do you think you are, trying to take my son from me? And you are insane if you think I'm going to just give him to you."

"If I can't be happy, then you can't be happy either, Dom. And there isn't a damn thing you can do to stop me from having him."

He could tell in her voice that she wasn't going to give up on this one, but he was damn sure he wasn't going to willingly give up either. "Hell will freeze over before I let you take him from me," he said before he flipped his phone shut.

Dom started to think as he paced the floor. She can't take him from me. There's no way in hell I'm giving up my son like she did. And there's certainly no way in fucking hell I'm getting back with her. No fucking way.

He took a deep breath to calm himself before he returned outside to the wonderful lunch that he had left.

Outside, Emma looked up and smiled as she saw Dom coming back out from inside the house. She quickly frowned a little as she saw the look on his face. When he sat down she leaned over towards him and put her hand on his arm as the others chatted and laughed.

"Everything okay, Dominic?" she whispered, concerned he had received bad news from that phone call.

Dom looked up at her and smiled, "Yeah, everything is fine for now, I'll fill you in later." He took a drink from his ice tea and saw that Mia was now holding Dallas. "Are you enjoying yourself?" he asked Emma as he turned his attention back to her.

As Emma nodded, she grinned. "I am. While you were inside, I was told that there are some blackmail type pictures of you inside the house!" she said and giggled.

A sly smirk appeared on his face, "What kind of blackmail pictures?" He chuckled when he saw her smile again and for a moment he pushed the conversation with Letty to the back of his mind.

"The kind that show your supposed cute naked bottom when you were a baby." She laughed as she witnessed a surprised look wash over his face, before it turned red.

After lunch was eaten and cleaned up, Dom and Emma decided to take the kids for a walk. Dom placed Dallas into the stroller and grinned when the little boy cooed instead of crying. He pushed the stroller down the driveway and stopped it near Emma's truck.

"Here, let me help you with that," he said with a smile when he saw Emma trying to get the stroller out of her truck while holding Brenden.

Emma giggled, "Thank you, I will never learn to put Brenden into his car seat and then get the stroller out. I always think I can manage to get it out while holding him." She shrugged and smiled at Brenden.

Dom chuckled, "I'm always willing to help." He got the stroller out and unfolded it for her.

He stood there and listened to Emma hum a song to Brenden as she sat him in the seat and buckled him in. She tucked a blanket around his little chubby legs and gave him a toy to play with.

She stood up straight and smiled at Dom, "What?" she asked, as she saw how he was staring at her.

"Nothing, I was just admiring how good you are with him. It's cool to see such a loving mom," he smirked at her and turned back to make sure Dallas was still sitting up straight.

Emma nodded and gave Dom a small grin, "Thank you, I must say that's a smart idea to put blankets by Dallas' sides to keep him propped up."

A big smile faced her when Dom looked at her, "Thanks, he kept falling over and he hated lying down in this thing."

They began their slow walk down the sidewalk. Dom knew he should tell her what Letty threatened to do, but he hoped Emma wouldn't get scared away.

Emma noticed that Dom was in deep thought and she saw how he looked at Dallas with a worried expression. "Dominic, I know you said you would fill me in later and I don't want to seem like I'm pushy or anything. But is there something you want to talk about?"

Dom let out a big sigh. "Yeah, I guess I should tell you that Dallas' mom is trying to come back into my life," he said calmly as they kept walking.

Emma bit her lip and looked down at Brenden who was mumbling 'mumma'. "Oh," she half whispered not sure what else to say.

As he heard the disappointment in her voice, Dom put his hand gently on her arm and stopped her from walking. "It's not like that though. I don't want anything to do with her." He looked at her seriously, "Last week I got a letter from her and she basically said she wants to be with me, but wants nothing to do with Dallas. But that's not going to fly with me."

She nodded her head, knowing he had told her he wanted to find a woman that was willing to be nice to Dallas and treat the boy like he was an important part of her life too.

"That was her that called today. When I told her I didn't want her back, that I moved on and found someone else, she got mad and threatened to take Dallas from me," he said and then looked down at Dallas. "She only wants him because she thinks I will then go back to her if she has him."

Emma was shocked that someone would do such a horrible thing. "Wow, Dominic, I-I don't know what I would do if Brenden's dad threatened that." She put her hand under his chin and gently moved his face back to look at her. "What are you going to do?"

Dom's eyes met hers and he shrugged a little. "I'm not sure, but I'm not letting her take him from me without a fight."

She nodded her head and gave him a small smile, "I'm here to help you with anything if you need me, I know a good family lawyer that will help you too if you want."

Dallas started to whimper and Dom smiled, "Thanks, Emma, I have a feeling I'm going to need someone other then my sister and friends to vent to," he said when they started to walk again.

"Well you have my number and you know where I live!" She winked at him and rubbed his back a moment with a loving touch.

Dom felt relieved that Emma seemed so understanding of everything. He truly hoped that whatever Letty did wouldn't force Emma away from him and Dallas.