No One's business chapter 4
When Dom woke up again, he realised his plan for an hour nap had failed and they'd actually being asleep for three more hours. Dom looked over at Letty and she was still fast asleep with her hand tightly wrapped around the cross chain he never took off. She loved him, was all that kept going through his mind as he pressed a kiss to her forehead. Letty slowly blinked herself awake and looked up at Dom, who was already looking down at her.
"How are you feeling?" His gruff voice asked.
"Still feel like I've been hit by a truck."
"Want to take a shower?"
"Hmm" Letty hummed, not really wanting to get out of bed. "You're so warm and comfy, Dom."
"Well, we'll have the house to ourselves for the next six hours, so how about a shower, I'll make us some food and we watch a bunch of movies cuddled up on the couch?"
"You want to cuddle me? You really are a changed man." Letty laughed.
"I will do anything for you Letty, but if you tell anyone I cuddle you I will seek my revenge." Dom replied nipping her earlobe.
After showering Dom made the couple some toast and let Letty pick the first film they were going to watch. As he expected she chose Pretty Woman. He knew it was her favourite, but he also knew he was the only other person except for Mia to know that. He remembered walking in on her when she was having a bad day and had skipped school, she was curled up on the couch watching this very film. Whenever she was sad, angry, ill she watched the same film. He had watched it that many times with her that he was starting to remember they words off by heart. He turned the volume so low that they barely could hear it, but he knew that she was going to fall asleep sooner rather than later since she still felt off.
After they ate and the film was running, he leaned back on the couch; shuffling back as much as possible so his back was resting against the back of the sofa and he had pulled Letty to lay in front of him, his heavy arm laid across her waist as they snuggled under a blanket and watched the film. Dom loved that he got to see this side of her. As much as she tried to be tough, she was still his sensitive woman.
Halfway through the film, Letty had fallen asleep. Dom kept drawing soft circles on her belly as he thought about how they got to this moment. How she kept him alive during his time in Lompoc and she didn't even know; he knew he would never be able to repay her for everything that she has done for him. He knew he wound her up when they were younger, teased her and borderline bullied her; but he also realised now maybe his need to be around her stemmed more to feelings he didn't realise until now.
Dom stiffened when he heard the front door open and quietly close. Mia. Dom sighed, suspecting her reappearance at the house was to either interrogate him or Letty, no doubt backstepping the progress he and Letty had made over the weekend.
"Dom?" Mia whisper shouted as Letty stirred beside him.
He kissed her forehead again before climbing out from behind her and making sure she was covered up. He grabbed Mia's arm from where she stood at the bottom of the stairs and dragged her into the kitchen.
"She's sleeping Mia. What do you want?"
"You and her?"
"Yes."
"And that's why you kept telling me to keep my nose out. Because you were already hooking up with her."
"We're not hooking up. I love her. I just need to get it through her thick head."
"We'll have you tried showing her?"
"Yes! She just thinks I'm going to abandon her and get bored."
"Well look at it from her point of view. You were getting close to each other then you went to prison and she wrote you so many letters and you never once sent her one back. She was heartbroken and felt like she was just there to entertain you when your skanks weren't available."
"We talked about that when I got out."
"Yeah, but that doesn't change the thoughts and feelings she had for two years. Guys, you just seem to think that because you said sorry, I fucked you over that everything is fine."
"Language Mia. How do I show her then?"
"First of all. No skanks. Show her you're serious. That you want to spend your lives together. That she never left your mind while you were in prison. That everything you do you are thinking about her."
"You need to cut back on your romance novels."
"You do want to spend the rest of your lives together, right?"
"Mia, I do, but I don't know if she does."
"Are you an idiot? That girl in there has been in love with you since she was ten years old. Get your head out of your ass once in a while. I'm going back to work. You treat her right" Mia said spinning on her heel and walking out with a large smile playing on her face.
"Dom?" Letty's small voice came from the living room.
"I'm coming baby."
That night while Letty was in bed Dom went into the spare room where they kept all sorts of crap and things that didn't really have a place. He was sat ferreting through the boxes with his name on, looking for the box he came home with from Lompoc. Along the way he found a few photo frames with pictures from when they were younger. He knew his mother had framed the photos because that was just the type of person she was. He found a few photos of him and Mia and then Mia and Letty. He stopped his search when he found one of him and Letty, she was barely fifteen and he was a few years older. He had his arm looped around her and she was looking up at him like he was her world. Dom was looking back at her exactly the same and he remembered that day clear as owt. Letty had been harassed by some girls at school and Dom was trying to cheer her up. He had succeeded only when he had offered to take her for ice-cream and that is when his Mom must have taken what the photo. He packed everything away grabbing his box from Lompoc and the photo frame before heading to the kitchen. Everyone was either in their rooms or out, so Dom took his time looking through the box. Trying to find the exact thing to make Letty believe she was the only one for him.
The next morning Letty woke up alone in bed. Dom's side was completely untouched. Panic raced through her until she realised, he probably fell asleep downstairs. When she headed downstairs still in her pyjamas, she noticed Dom was still missing. Frowning she went into the kitchen and found her family all except Dom.
"Hey Sleeping beauty."
"Knock it off Vince. Have you seen Dom?"
"He's probably still in bed. I head him up until stupid O clock this morning."
"Oh, you're right. Any way I'm going to get ready for work."
On the way upstairs she called Dom's cell only to get no answer. She tried again, just in case he was under one of the cars and didn't hear it. By the third call she threw her phone on the bed frustrated that he was ignoring her after a relaxing day. She felt bile rise in her throat at the thought of upsetting Dom somehow. Maybe he realised that he did not want her after all and went out looking for a skank. Shaking her head, she got ready and stormed out of the house.
At the garage, there was no sign of Dom, until she got closer to the office. She heard his gruff voice and stood stock still.
"Fuck, I'm sorry. I never meant to hurt you." Letty gasped at his words, tears burning her vision.
Anger took a hold of her and she stormed into the office only to find Dom sat on his own. She did a double take to make sure she had not missed anyone.
"Dom?"
"Shit Letty. I didn't hear you come in."
"Who were you talking to?"
"No one. I was practising."
"Practising telling me that you never meant to hurt me? Did you sleep with someone? Are you ending us?"
"Letty, no don't do that. Don't assume." He took note of her watering eyes before taking her hand and pulling her onto his lap.
One hand snaked on her thigh the other held onto a box big enough to fit a4 paper in, with a red bow on it.
"Letty, I love you. I always have and that will never change. But I know that my past actions may also affect your opinion on us and why you might not have as much faith in us as I do. So, I wanted to show you these."
Dom slid the black box closer to Letty and watched as her hands trembled opening it.
"Mia saw us in bed and reminded me of how much of a dick I was to you when I went to Lompoc. Truth is I wouldn't have survived in that place without you."
Letty looked back down towards the box and saw letter after letter on crumpled paper addressed to her. All from Dom's time in Lompoc. Glancing through the letters he was telling her about all the things he wanted to do with her when he got out. How they would have the most amazing life together. And how he loved her.
"Why didn't you send these?"
"I didn't want you to waste two years of your life waiting for me to get out. I knew you thought I was a player and I saw how much I hurt you in the letters you wrote to me. But I wanted you to be happy to have a life and telling you how I felt would have affected that. But when I came home and saw you, I knew you were my life, and I would do anything I could to have you in my life. I don't care how selfish that sounds Letty. It's you I have always wanted."
She turned to him and pressed her lips against his hard, trying to convey all the emotions she felt.
"I love you, Dom."
"I love you too, Letty."
Dom pulled away slightly and pulled his chain off his neck. And wrapped fastened the clasp around Letty's neck all while speaking.
"I know we aren't traditional people, but I promise you Letty, for the rest of my life it will be me and you. Ride or die."
"Ride or die." Letty replied clasping the cross in her small fingers.
Their make out session got heated after that and only stopped when all the guys were stood at the office door confused at the sight before them.
"Are you two back to hooking up?" Vince asked smirking.
"No dick, we're together." Letty called back, turning her attention back to the desk. "Hey where did you get this?" She asked pointing at the photo.
"I found it in the spare room, I guess my mom put it in a frame."
"No, I found the picture in one of her photo albums and asked your dad if I could have it. I put it in the frame and used to have it on my bedside table, while you were away until it vanished."
"So, you've always loved me then?" Dom asked cockily.
"Ride or die baby."
Hi everyone, long time no update. I'm hoping to update more if anyone has any suggestions. There's going to be one more chapter of this story with everyone adapting to their relationship and then I'll be doing some other stories hopefully.
Let me know what you think.
Lou x