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Chapter 4


Gracie drove along the highway. Little Mia was exhausted from crying so hard and she was asleep in the backseat. Tears began to stream down Gracie's face. What the hell was she doing?

"I'm so clueless right now." Gracie said softly out-loud to no one but herself.

She looked into the rearview mirror and saw her daughter. All she wanted was for her to be happy and she realized that doing this to her was just going to make her miserable. She didn't want her to have a broken family like she had had for so long in her life.

Gracie pulled over to the side of the road and shut off the car. She closed her eyes for a few minutes until she knew what the best thing was for her to do. She picked up her cell phone and dialed a number.


*Back at the Torettos*

The phone rang and awoke Dominic from his sleep. He reached across the bed and remembered that Gracie and his daughter were gone. The two loves of his life, everything had crumbled to pieces. He picked up the phone.

"Hello?" he answered sleepily.

"Dom?" Gracie asked through silent falling tears.

This is it Dominic thought. She's gonna come back to me and everything's going to be the same. We can forget about all of this happening. And I can have my baby girl back.

"Yes...Gracie are you ok? Please come home." Dominic pleaded with her

I cant come home...not just yet Dominic. I don't know if I can ever come home..." She said solemnly into the receiver.

"What do you mean you don't know if you can ever come home? I love you! What the hell did I do wrong!" Dominic screamed into the phone.

"I want you to take Little Mia, I cant bare to see the pain that she's in when she's not with you." Gracie told him.
"Why isn't she coming home? I love her more than anything. I need her!" Dominic thought to himself.

"Alright tell me where you are and I'll come get her." Dominic said in a calm voice.


An hour later Dominic pulled up next to Gracie's car and got out. Slowly he walked to meet her. He looked like a puppy dog that had just been punished needlessly, and that's exactly what Gracie had done to him.

"I can't believe I'm doing this to him." Gracie thought as she looked into his deep brown eyes.

"Can I have my little girl?" Dominic asked breaking the silence.

Gracie nodded her head and opened the back door of her car. She gently lifted her sleeping daughter and carefully placed her in her father's arms. She didn't want to wake her up and have another screaming fit.

"Gracie please come home. I love you..." Dominic trailed off with tears starting to well up in his eyes.

"Dominic...please just let me do this." Gracie said standing on her tiptoes to kiss him on the top of his head and then getting into her car after she whispered, "I love you" to Little Mia.

She drove away leaving Dominic holding his daughter in the dust on the side of the road. He kissed her head and put her in her car seat in his car.

"I love you Gracie". He said to himself as he drove away.


Gracie drove on mindlessly for a few hours when she found herself parked in the lot of a hotel.

"Time for some shut-eye." She said lifelessly to herself.

She checked into a room and hoped onto the bed.

"I can't believe I did this!" She screamed to herself.

And without knowing what else to do she headed to the mini-bar in the hotel room. She opened the door and observed the contents. She hadn't had a drink in 3 years, not after she and Leon got drunk and almost had sex, and they would have if Dominic hadn't intervened. She then realized how screwed up her entire life was.

"Bottoms up." She said to herself as she opened a small bottle of vodka and sucked it dry.