Chapter 3
Dom's Women
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Mia's
I watched Letty as she got in the car. Letty had grown up with her and Dom yet she
was still a stranger to her. Letty was
the tomboy hanging with the guys on the block since she was old enough to walk
and talk. Somewhere around the age of sixteen, Letty became a woman and the
guys sat up and noticed especially Dom.
During that year, Letty and Dom became an unspoken item. When he went to jail a year later the
assault charge, I was sure that Letty would be peace. Much to my surprise Letty stayed faithful him and ran both the
shop and the block like a Gestapo. No
one dared questioned her or objected because she was Dom's woman.
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Letty
I could feel Mia watching me. She has turned out well overall.
I remember she was always one of those girly girl types when she was
younger. I guess that was partially her
moms fault, she always dressed her in dresses, patent leather shoes with bows
and clips in her hair. She was barely
sixteen when her mom just up and left one day, after that she spent most of her
free time cooking for Dom and her dad and taking care of the house. At that point, Dom became fiercely
protective over her; I can't remember the number of times he scared away
potential boyfriends. We used to argue
over her constantly. We'd be on going
to a party and I'd suggest we invite her and he would have a fit. I could never understand what he was so
afraid of, the night before his sentencing he told me that Mia being alone
without his protection was more frightening to him then his impending
sentencing. I tried to push him to open
up but all he did was tell me to look out for her. I kept my promise to an extent, I made sure she was okay and
wasn't in any serious trouble, I wasn't going to be like Dom and try to stifle
whatever personal life she had. She
dated occasionally while Dom was locked up but most of the guys didn't last
long. Two or three dates before they
were out of the picture. Now looking at
her I knew something was wrong, in all of the years I've known her I've never
seen her so out of control of her emotions before.
"Mia? You okay"?
"Yeah, I'm fine, do you want to go back to our
house?"
"No, I'm really don't want to see Dom tonight."
"That makes two of us Letty."
"Let me guess you had a fight with him over
Brian?"
"Yeah, Brian showed up to see how Jesse was doing and
Dom went off on him."
"Mia, he's a cop he lied to all of us."
"Shit, don't you start now too. He risked his job to save Vince and to go
after Johnny and Lance after they shot Jesse."
"Mia, let's not go home tonight. We'll go to a liquor store, get some booze
and chips find a room and just hide out for the night while Dom gets his shit
together."
"You sure you want to do that? He's going to be pissed when he gets home
and we're not there."
"Mia, you already stood up to him once tonight, don't
pussy out now."
"I don't know Letty"
"Mia, Dom owes you this night. He's been in control of your life since
you've been sixteen. Are you going to
let things go back to the way they were?"
"Okay let's do it."
We hit the liquor store and decided to spend the night at
the Marriott, which was about a mile away from the airport. It had a parking garage so we were able to
tuck Mia's car out of sight just in case anyone came looking for us. Mia went and checked us in using the
corporate American Express card from the shop, I watched as she exited the
elevators with a wicked grin on her face.
"Okay we're all checked in. We've got a suite."
"You booked us a suite. Dom is going shit when he sees that."
"It's all they had and I wasn't go anywhere else. Besides, he owes me right?"
