No I haven't forgotten about you guys, here's the next chapter to WLA.
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Letty was in the process of getting up from the couch when she heard a knock on her door. She was still in her pajamas, short boxers and a black wife beater, but she went to the door anyway. No one would dare try to hurt her now, there was too much to lose, and as always, she had her knife strapped to her thigh. Without even asking who it was, Letty opened the door. "What is it?" she asked, not looking at the person.
"Hi Let," Dom's deep voice went through her like electricity.
"Dom…I told you to leave me alone," she mumbled.
"I can't," he replied simply.
"Why not?"
"Because I love you, and I always will."
"We've gone over this. You're beginning to sound like a broken record. And anyway, aren't you supposed to be with Priya somewhere? Extremely happy and finally rid of me? I did you a favor and now you suddenly find me and everything's supposed to be the same as before?" she whispered, afraid that if she said it any louder she would cry.
"What the hell are you talking about? I haven't even seen Priya since the moment she…she…shot you," Dom said, sounding very confused.
"But…but she told me…when I was in the hospital…she came and said…How could this be?!" Letty stammered.
"She came to see you at the hospital? When? For what? Why didn't you tell me?!"
"I don't…I don't know. God I don't know anything anymore."
"If she said I was with her, she lied. Whenever I wasn't with you at the hospital I was at home sleeping. And it was only because Mia forced me. I never saw Priya again after she tried to kill you."
Letty tried really hard to keep back the tears that were threatening to spill. She went to sit on the couch again, and Dom followed her, shutting the front door behind him. She needed time to rebuild her walls and be the tough chick again. "Dom," she said with a calm she didn't feel, "What exactly do you expect from me?"
"I want you back Leticia, I just want you back with me," he sighed.
"It's been two years!"
"You were the one who ran away!"
"She killed my baby, god damn it!!!!" Letty screamed. This time she didn't hold back her tears, this time she didn't care if Dom saw her cry. Letty had been through a lot of pain in her life, but losing her unborn child was the worst kind of pain she could ever imagine. She lost her dad, she lost Vince, she lost her baby, and she lost Dom. Her whole life was full of loss but nothing had hurt her worse than losing her baby, the child that was a product of the love Dom and her had shared.
"She killed my baby too," Dom whispered. He gathered Letty into his arms and rocked her back and forth. "Letty, I'm sorry you had to go through all this, but it's over now. And I'm here, you don't have to be alone."
Letty pulled back and roughly wiped her tears away, "You don't understand Dom. I'm different now, I am not the Letty you used to know," she looked down at her lap and her hair cascaded forward to tickle her knees.
Dom looked at her, he was at a loss for words, so he sat there just starting at her and drinking in what she had become. Eyes. Cheeks. Lips. Breasts. Legs. The knife. Arms. She has a scar…what the hell happened to her arm?
She saw him looking at her arm and quickly got up and went into the kitchen. He followed her once again, "What happened to your arm?"
"Long story."
He decided not to press the issue, "I've missed you…we've all missed you."
"How did you find me?" Letty changed the subject.
"Sandy got a tip or something. She called me. I came."
"How long have you been looking for me?"
"One year, nine months, and 28 days. Not counting the days from when I found out you were here to today."
"Wow," Letty said with a small laugh, "You kept count."
"I could probably tell you the hours, the minutes, and the seconds, but that would just make me sound sad. So anyway…you wanna go to lunch or something?"
"I got stuff to do," she answered quickly.
"Work?"
"Yeah."
"At a garage?"
"On my car."
"Oh…well my car needs an oil change, you think I can join you?"
"Whatever, I don't really care either way."
"Whose garage is it?"
"Mine."
"Yours?"
"Yeah."
"Then wouldn't you have customers and stuff?"
Letty sighed, Dom sure knew how to ask a lot of questions, "It's closed on Mondays. That's when I get to wake up late and work on my car all day." With that, she left him and went to change. "Make yourself at home. I'll be out in a minute," she continued, nonchalantly. Dom nodded and went to wait for her in the living room. When Letty returned she was wearing black baggy cargo pants and a black baby tee.
"You got any color in your wardrobe these days?" Dom asked when he saw her.
"Black's a color," she answered smartly.
"Yeah…I guess it is," he shrugged.
"Alright…let's go then."
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Wooooooooo!!!!!!! New chapter new chapter!!! Please review. I'll definitely have the next chapter up soon cuz I already have some of it written. Special thanks to all the people who have been with me since the beginning, or close to it. I really appreciate it. And thanks to all who are new readers and have reviewed. Furthermore, thanks to those who are readers and don't review. I know there are some of you out there. I take everyone into account! See y'all again soon. =)
-Zuleyka
