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Chapter 11

Dom was stopped short from opening the basement door when he heard Mackenzie call for him from the bottom of the stairs.

"Dwaddy the baby is c-ry-ing." She said holding onto the banister.

"Shoot!" Mia exclaimed and ran up the stairs.

Dom looked over at her, letting go of the knob and sighing deeply to try an cool himself down. He began to walk towards her, but stopped when the door swung open. He stared at Letty as she walked in, a small child in her arms. The little girls once white dress was black with filth, she was missing a shoe and her hair was a mess.

He couldn't move and at this point he was unsure if Letty was real or if his mind was starting to play games with him. Then Mackenzie turned around and looked at her mom, she looked accusingly at Letty as if she'd betrayed her.

"Hold me!" she yelled, tears began to run down her cheeks and she began to jump up and down in front of her, tugging at her arms.

Dom completely ignored his daughter walking towards Letty and putting is hand to her cheek, she was indeed real. He hugged her then and kissed her head, happy and relived that she was okay.

"I was so worried." he whispered in her ear. She noticed all the fear put into those words, yet his face now held a relief only he knew. Once he let her go she looked at Vince who now stood in front of them.

"Here." Letty smiled softly, moving towards him and trying to hand the child to him.

"What?" Vince asked confusion written all over his face.

"She's yours, she's your daughter." Letty said softly, he stared at her dumbfounded. He got closer to her putting his hands on the little girl and trying to pull her from Letty but she had a tight grip on her and yelped when she felt herself being pulled away.

"Baby it's daddy." He spoke softly. She looked up at him recognizing his voice she made a grab for him. He grabbed her and held her to him as tightly as he could giving her soft kisses on her head.

"What happened?" Dom asked Letty, both ignoring their daughter who laid on the floor crying, her face red and her feet kicking.

"Lets go to the living room." Let said, V followed her and Dom picked up Mackenzie from the floor.

"Stop." he warned her, holding her up in the air as she squirmed.

They sat down in the living room, "I was walking right out here and all of a sudden some guy came up behind me. He grabbed me and I tried to fight him off but he was to strong. He dragged me into a black car and blind folded me, minutes later we arrived somewhere and when they took the blindfold off we were in a room. They told me to grab the girl and then they blindfolded me again. They then dropped us off about a block away from here." she explained.

"What about Cynthia? Did you see her?" Vince asked. Letty shook her head no.

"And Layla?" Dom asked.

"No, they weren't there. Although Christina was beyond freaked out when I saw her."

Mia walked into the living room with Ethan in her arms. Her eyes went wide when she saw Letty and even wider when she saw Christina.

"Oh my gosh! What happened?" They explained everything to her and then she handed Ethan to Letty. Mackenzie's tantrum only got louder startling Christina.

"I'mma take her upstairs." Vince said.

"I'll help you give her a bath." Mia put in, figuring that Dom and Letty needed to straighten their daughter up.

Dom sighed as he watched Mackenzie scream, cry and throw things around.

"You deal with her. By the way she scratched and bit Jessica this afternoon." Letty informed him.

"Great." He muttered running his hand over his scalp. If someone had told him before that Mackenzie would act this way, he'd never believe it. Back home she was a well behaved child and obedient too, but it seemed that all that was thrown out the window. As much as he hated to discipline his little girl at this point he didn't have much of a choice.

"Come here." he said calmly looking straight at Mackenzie. She ignored him, grabbed a pillow and threw it at Letty who had Ethan in her arms, making him cry as it hit him.

Dominic got up then, but Mackenzie took off running from him causing him to chase after her. She screamed and cried harder as he grabbed her by the arm nearly causing her to fall, but he held onto her. He proceeded to spank her for her behavior, it's what his parent had done when he was growing up. He then walked back into the living room and put her down in front of him as he sat down.

"You are going to stop this now. I don't want anymore of your crying, or your screaming. And I definitely don't want to hear that you are getting into fights with your cousins. What you did just now was wrong. You are never to throw anything at your mom, much less when she is holding the baby. Do you understand me?" he asked, sniffling and with tears coming down her cheeks, she nodded yes.

"What did I just say?" he questioned her, wanting to make sure that she indeed understood him.

"No crwying, scre-aming, and no hitting mommy or baby."

"Or?"

"Cousins."

"I need you to behave Mackenzie, I know you can do it. You need to start to get along with your cousins, be nice to them and show everyone what a good, wonderful, little girl you are." Dom told her.

"K" she sighed.

"Now say sorry to your mom for throwing a pillow at her."

Mackenzie sighed and walked over to Letty, "I sorry for towin a pillooo at you."

"Apology accepted." Letty smiled softly at her.

"Good, now go up to the room and get ready for bed." Dom instructed.

"But it early." she began to whine.

"You don't get to stay up late if you're being bad Kenz. Go." She walked away and went upstairs.

"Maybe I should have thought it through before having kids with you." Dom teased Letty.

She frowned, "Like I'm the jealous and possessive one."

"You're just as bad as me girl." he chuckled.

"She has your temper."

"And your attitude." Dom grinned making her roll her eyes.

"Whatever." He laughed and she smiled.

"Let me have my son." Dom said taking the sleeping child from Letty.


"Where are the twins at?" Vince asked watching Mia set the water to the right temperature.

"Playing with Jessica in the playroom."

"Oh. Come on baby aunt Mia is going to give you a bath." He told Christina, she looked up at Mia and let her take her. Mia placed her gently in the bubble bath and began to wash all the dirt away from her.

"Jesse wasn't feeling to good after seeing Leon, so Madeline is looking after him."

Vince nodded and watched the way she gently took care of his child. She was a great mother to her two daughters and to their son.

"Thanks." he said.

"For what?" she asked startled by his comment.

"For taking care of Christina and Anthony." he smiled and she returned the smile. "Don't worry about it, you gave me the greatest gift ever, a piece of yourself."

"And you did the same." he smiled, tucking a loose strand of hair behind her ear.

The room fell silent and moments later James stood at the doorway, not too pleased to see Mia attending to a child that wasn't theirs.

"Mia it's time to put the twins to bed, Anthony's already asleep and come to bed we need to talk." he deadpanned.

"I'll be there in a minute." she spoke softly.

Once he was gone Vince spoke up, "Why do you let him treat you that way?"

"The same reason you stayed with Cynthia for so long." she pointed out.

"Because you feel you owe it to him." he whispered. She nodded although he wasn't expecting her to confirm it, knew well.


Mia entered her bedroom after having gotten the twins in bed. James stood in front of the bureau taking off his watch.

"What where you doing washing someone else's filthy child?" His voice was dark and filed with anger.

"For your information that was Christina. You know the child that's been missing for almost two weeks. Vince's daughter." she said matter-of-factly.

"I don't care whose daughter she is and I don't care that she was missing anymore. You have a responsibility to me or has the cop clouded you vision. You're married to me, Mia. You have children with me." with every word he got closer to her until he was face to face with her.

"I'm you wife but you need to stop acting like a 3 year old." she said turning away from him.

"I'm going to my parents this weekend." he said grabbing her arm before she could walk away.

"Well good say hi to them for me."

"No, you are coming with me too. I don't care about your so-called family…"

"I'm not going and that's final." Mia looked up at him.

"You think I'm going to leave you here to whore around with that cop." She slapped him then. Although she wasn't as faithful as she should probably be, she wasn't going to let him disrespect her either.

"Do what you want James, but don't act like you know everything."

"You may keep your past hidden from me. But I know enough about the cop and your relationship."

"Whatever." she said walking into the bathroom and slamming it shut. Hot tears escaped the confines of her eyes.

She didn't know what to do anymore, she'd married him because he helped her forget, because he gave her a home and because at some point he had cared, and because she felt like she owed it to him, after helping her out with all the debt that Dom left behind. But her confusion didn't stop there, in away she felt something for Brian every time she kissed him, but something was missing. And with Vince it just felt so right, so perfect.