A Racer's Blood
Dom and the guys didn't have any apprehension the next day as we rode over to China town. On the contrary they laughed and joked over the 2-way's as if we were going to the beach, it was only me that seemed a bit on edge.
"You ready to roll Let?" Dom asked as we pulled up to Johnny's garage.
"Yup." I lied
We got out of the car and met with the guys.
"Nice to see my new workers are here on time." Johnny said stepping out from behind a Honda, followed of course by Sarah and Lance
"Nice to see you again Dommy." Sarah purred
"Someone still hasn't learned their lesson." I scoffed at her
"Letty, I see you're still playing lap dog." She said sweetly
"Oh and I see that you're still a skank." I said
"Careful princess, Dominic can't protect you here." She laughed
I lunged forward quickly, and both Johnny and Lance drew their guns.
"Learn to control your dogs Dominic." Sarah snickered
I made another move for her, and this time heard the click of the safety switch on one of the guns.
"Drop the gun Johnny." Vince's gruff voice said, I could see his gun pointed at Sarah from the corner of my eye.
"You first." Lance snarled
Vince simply laughed and pulled the trigger, Sarah screamed a little as the bullet zoomed past her face into the wall behind her.
"Next time I won't miss." Vince warned
Slowly but surely both Johnny and Lance dropped the weapons.
"Are you all done playing cowboys?" Dom asked
"Yeah," Vince laughed, "We're done."
"Good." Dom said. He came up beside me and slipped an arm around my shoulders
"We've got your engines." Dom said to Tran
"Where are they?" Tran asked
"You'll see them when we have our cash." Dom said
"You aren't in the position to be playing games Dom, where are my engines?" Tran said
"Where's my money?" Dom said firmly.
Lance tossed a brown envelope at my feet and laughed.
"Go on cutie, why don't you bend over and pick it up?"
"Bite me chink." I snapped
"such a foul mouth." Sarah scolded
"Shut it." Johnny snapped
Dom bent down quickly and picked up the envelope, opening it to count the cash
"You kept your word, my father taught me to keep mine, so your engines." Dom said gesturing to the guys.
One by one Leon Vince and Jesse unloaded the engines from the back seat of their cars.
"Beautiful." Tran said snapping for some of his goons to come and take them from us.
Jesse was getting really antsy and I could sense the uneasiness in Dom as well.
"Now Dominic, you know that I'm a business man." Johnny Tran said
"And?" Dom said
"Well it would be bad business for me to spend so much money on these engines, which is why we have to kill you." He said simply
It happened very fast, Vince and Leon took off for their drivers seats and Dom dragged me out of the way just as shots began ringing in my ears. I drew my gun and took aim for Jonhhy Trans left arm.
"Letty be careful." Dom screamed at me as I pulled the trigger.
As I'd expected the bullet grazed him and he went down holding his cut arm.
"Let's roll." Dom ordered as I slammed my door shut.
"Let's go man." I heard Leon yell into the 2-way
"Lance is still shooting." Vince said
I turned around in my seat to see Lance on his crotch rocket gun aimed at Jesse's back windshield
"Circle back behind Jesse." I told Dom
He turned the wheel roughly and the car jerked over to the side, we slowed up until Jesse passed and then Jumped back into the line between Jesse and Lance.
"What the hell are you doing Dominic?" Leon's voice came through, "You got my baby sister in that car you moron."
"Shut up." I yelled at him
I leaned out the window a little and just like I'd hoped Lance took a shot, missing me by a inch and loosing control of his bike in the process. I aimed for his front tire and pulled the trigger, before I even felt the gun recoil I was laughing at the sliding bike.
"You crazy?" Dom asked me when I turned back around
"Yeah, a little." I said
"You could have gotten hurt pulling a stunt like that!" He shouted
"Yeah well I didn't, and I managed to put that jerk in his at the same time." I said simply
"Letty." He said slightly defeated
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We got home around 7 that evening all a little shaken up by the day's activities.
"I have no idea why you would engage in a shoot out with Johnny Tran?" Mia scolded after Dom and Vince told her what happened
"We didn't exactly start it Mi, Tran's a damn maniac." Vince said
"What the hell do you want all that money for anyway?" She asked
"Nothing really." My brother lied
Mia could tell right away and I knew she wasn't gonna let this rest. "Letty, can you please explain to me what's going on?" She asked
"It's nothing Mia, it's just a little extra cash for some finishing touches on the charger." I said
"Letty, you don't really expect me to buy that do you?" She asked me
"Mia, it's not something I want you to be involved in." Dom said taking the heat off of me
"Not something you want to be involved in?" she shrieked, "Dominic, have I not shown you the respect that you have asked for. I have never gone against your wishes, and you can't trust me enough to tell me why you needed money so badly that you had to run off and get into a gun fight?"
"Mia it's not like that." He tried to explain
"Dominic, if you can't trust me enough to tell me what the hell is going on then I'm out of here." Mia said grabbing her purse off the kitchen counter.
"Oh for God sake Mia, can you just sit down and let me explain this to you?" he said
"I'm not playing around Dom." She warned
"We wanna race Mia." He shouted
"Race where Dom? You were kicked off the track, remember?" She asked
"Street races Mia, they race for cash and they pay day is almost instant." Dom said
"Yeah so is death in a car crash." Mia said
"Mia this isn't up for discussion, I'm a grown man I'm going to do what I want." He told her
"Oh I know that, I just think you need to understand what the hell you're getting into, you're a part of our family Dom, what you do effects all of us." She said
"Mia…" he trailed off as I jumped in
"Mia, if Dom promises to be careful and to bring you along so that you can keep an eye out, will you relax?" I asked
"I'd feel a bit better" She said
"Dom?" I asked
"Letty I don't think it's a good idea for you or Mia to be there." He said
"Dom!" I scolded
"Letty I'm serious…"
"DOM!" I said
"Fine." He bit out
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