And without further ado, here is chapter 42 of WLA. =)
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~*Connector Chapter*~
The team didn't notice Letty was gone until it was too late. Dom read her note and didn't quite understand her reasoning for leaving. No matter how hard he tried, he always felt that there was something missing, something she didn't tell him. He was in denial for a while, and kept thinking that Letty would be back in a few days. When a month passed he realized that she was not coming back, so he decided to look for her.
Dom left for the states a little while after that, leaving the rest of the team with the house and the garage. Mia had started to go to a local college, and the guys handled the garage well enough. They had all the money they would ever need anyway, so it wasn't too much of an issue.
After Letty left they wondered whether they should file a report against Priya, but they couldn't, because then their criminal transgressions would reappear. So they were stuck, but they never did see Priya again. Dom knew that if he ever saw her again he would probably kill her. The thought didn't worry him much, because death was the least that she deserved.
Once he was back in the states, Dom was pretty much lost on where to go, so he decided to go back to Los Angeles. Not a very good idea, but it was basically the most he could do at the moment. He went to Hector's house, and he told him that basically no one had seen or heard from Letty since she left for Mexico.
Letty had some family in California, something he found out from Sandy, so he went to visit them, to no avail. Letty was still nowhere to be found. Dom's next destination was Puerto Rico. It wasn't a very practical place to be looking, but he was completely desperate. When he got there, it wasn't too hard to communicate since he had learned some Spanish from Letty over the years, and more so while they were in Mexico.
In Puerto Rico, Dom went from town to town, looking for any trace of Letty. Anything that he could find out from Sandy or from Letty's family in California, he would use as a clue to see if he could find her in her native country.
A year of searching, a year of nothing. He had looked in various places in California, and all over the place in Puerto Rico. And still Letty was no where to be found. Dom was so tired, the urge to give up was too strong for him to bear. He found a desolate place in Puerto Rico, where he decided to settle down for a while, at least until he got up the strength to pack up and go back to Mexico. The nearest village was 50 miles away, and the little house was right on the beach.
He would sit on the quiet beach by himself, almost every day, sometimes crying, sometimes remembering, but always hoping. All he needed was to gather a little strength to go back home, but he would never lose hope, and he would never just "move on." Letty was his life, and his life ended when she left.
Dom would run every morning. Running would make him forget, and keep him in shape, the burn of his muscles would dull the pain in his heart. He had his phone with him constantly, always on, always charged, always ready to give him the information he needed to find Letty, should it ever arrive.
Unfortunately for him, days passed and there was no news, weeks passed and there was more pain, months passed and his hope faded. It would be two years in two months, two years without Letty, two years without air, two years that he spent wandering aimlessly through empty roads.
Then he received the phone call that would change things forever…
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Hey I know this chapter was short, but it's basically a connector chapter. (Like I said at the beginning.) So that you guys would know what was going on. I'll have the next one up as soon as possible! =)
-Zuleyka
PS. Glad you're all still with me. Muahz to all!!!!!!