Nikita

Chapter 10

Don't own anything in TFATF just borrowing

Dom's POV

It's poetry. Just watching it's beautiful. She has her eyes affixed on the road, her lips slightly parted as she sighs, her hair in soft curls down her back; just after she shifts she reaches up to push her long bangs from her eye. Yeah she looks amazing behind the wheel like she was born to be there but it's just the way she drives it's just so fluid in motion, also feline like in her grace. Most drivers in a high stakes race like this are jerky in their shifting and look over their shoulder for the other car; she drives like there is no one else there.

I glance back to see how far back the young kid and Mae are. Its maybe two car lengths; the kid has to be getting antsy back there since she got such a great start off the line. Yep he's antsy there goes his NOS and the Honda flies in front. I look at Nick expecting her to reach for her injection button instead she shakes her head and smiles, "Always been quick to the trigger haven't you, Dom. You just gotta wait for it."

She is almost to the end of the quarter mile and still dangerously behind Maelin's car finally as I begin to face imagines of a night with my worst mistake all over again it happens. Nick reaches down from her shifter into the console and must have hit a hidden NOS button. The Shelby Mustang soars over the finish line maybe half a car length in front of the Honda. As Nick spins the car around at break neck speeds, I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding.

She laughs hard at my fear of this race, "Dominic I had this from the moment I saw that bitch."

I roll my eyes, "So you were just toying with her?"

"No I was toying with you. Her, I was fucking her over as hard as I could. Payback's a bitch. Taking that car is going to piss off daddy and Johnny; she can't bat her eyes or spread her legs to get outta that."

Narrator's POV

Both cars return to the starting line to even the score. Dom gets out of the car all smiles but Nick gets out looking like she's ready for a fight. Nick walks right over to the Honda where Maelin has yet to get out, "Alright bitch get out of my car it's time for you to walk home."

Mae climbs out of the car but being the spoiled brat that she is doesn't give up that easy, "Sure take this car; I'll just get another you grease monkey but you know Dom is going to get bored with you. He likes us 'racer skanks' as you call us; we don't play in the dirt or have to race like a man—."

Nick turns on her heel like she is going to walk away from the fight when Mae grabs her shoulder. Almost instinctively, Nick spins around and hits the girl square in the jaw sending her flying back into the side of the car. "You stupid little whore; if Dom ever gets tired of me I hand him right over to you but you have no idea what I am about or why I race unless you really want to learn you will take off without your car or your driver."

Before Maelin could get herself into more trouble a few of her racer skank friends pulled her away as Dom and the rest of the team tried to get Nick to take a step back. Nick finally pushed them off of her, "Chill guys I'm fine. Let's get the rest of these races on. Bri, Mia will drive you car home. You ride with the new kid and Jesse you follow them back to the garage so we can find out if this car can be in shape for race wars."

They all nod then turn their attention to the new kid Nick asks, "Got a name kid?"

"Han "

"Alright you got the same problem as her or are you good."

"Well she was going to sell me out in that bet so no I'm good."

Jesse slings his arm around Han, "So how did you get hooked up with a bitch like that anyhow?"

"She's my cousin," a reply which gets a laugh from the entire team.

At the odd look on Han's face Jesse tries to explain, "So you and Lance…are you brothers?"

"Lance? NO, wrong side of the family. My mother and their mother are sisters, we just moved here after I was displaced from my last school."

Dom smiles, "Displaced sounds like you were kicked out."

"Yeah pretty much."

Hector comes over and interrupts the conversation, "Yo homes party at my place, you up for it or still boxing over here?"

"Nah, we're good Hector. We'll be there."

"Alright everybody head out Brian and Jesse, you guys bring the kid with you when you're all finished up at the garage."

In the car

Nick glances over at Dom as they head towards Hector's, "So do you trust this new kid at the garage?"

"That's why Brian is with him. Jesse probably couldn't take the kid but Brian could hold his own. You were right about him, you know, that day at the store he's not that bad, I trust him with the team and with Mia."

As guilt rages in her stomach, "You trust him…but you still don't trust me?"

Dom raises an eyebrow inquisitively, "You think I don't trust you? You just placed a bet on a race with my body and I don't trust you? That's classic you know that, you do some crazy shit and I don't trust you!"

Nick slams on the breaks, "Dominic that's not what I meant, dammit you are such a pain in the ass. If you trust me so much where were you last night, what did you do?"

When her questions are met with silence she goes on, "See Dominic you think you trust me but when it comes down to something obviously major you just shutdown and depend only on your team."

"It's not that. I just don't want to get you involved, put you in danger or trouble."

"Baby, the day I saved Brian's ass I got involved. You are going to tell me what's going on or I walk."

"Nikita, listen this will all be over soon anyhow. With Race Wars coming up, let's just get through it and then if anything comes up I will tell you."

"Fine Race Wars it is but if something happens before then you will tell me or I'm gone—You have to let me in; I will not stay in the dark when it comes to you or the team." Dominic if you only knew what was really going on. You trust Brian; so this is the only way to stop him from taking you down. I have to put myself in the middle even if it means I lose out on both sides; I hope you realize that I'm doing this for you.

Dom changes the subject, "Since you've come along there are a few additions to my line up for Race Wars."

Nick laughs, 'Well there are just three new ones. It's easier than forfeit those slots and working your team's way up from the bottom."

"I know but don't you think you could have let me decide what to do with my team."

Teasingly Nick eyes him as they pull up to Hector's place, "Well if you have such a problem with it, I'll take the new kid, Bri, and Mia. We'll beat the pants off of you."

"You're forgetting something, Mia doesn't race."

"Oh baby that's where you're wrong she doesn't race because you think it's too dangerous for her. Dangerous is just riding in the car with that girl when she cuts loose."

"Hmm. I'll have to talk to her about that."

"Dominic you will not. She would kill me for telling you; besides it's alright for Letty and I to race why not let Mia have her fun."

"Well first off Mia is the only one I have left that's why but on the other hand if Mia is only screwing around it's not so bad I guess. As long as she is still safe."

"Dom, she would never do anything on purpose but she is not all you have left—you have the team as apart of you family and you have me." As she leans over and lays light kisses on his head and neck.

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