A/N : thanks to Ms Hope for her continued support and encouragement - it's appreciated more than you'll ever know :) Also thanks to everyone who's reviewed so far, Chloe and Vince are very close to my heart and I'm thrilled that you're enjoying their story and to answer both mystikal19 and stars in the sky - sorry, but none of the Miami crew will be appearing in the story.

Chapter 11

"Err, guys." Brian had never been so embarrassed in his life, not even when he'd walked in on his parents having sex when he was 14. "Sorry, to disturb you, but there's someone here to see you." He had heard everything that had gone on in the kitchen and as much as he'd have liked to have told the visitor to leave he knew that they would want to talk to him.

"Who is it Bri?" Chloe wasn't in any hurry to move, Vince was still supporting her against the wall and she could feel him starting to get excited again. "Again?" She murmured as she starting circling her hips to encourage him. Vince had a smug grin on his face as he started to move his hips slowly and deliberately.

"Can you just come out here please?"

Vince carefully lowered Chloe to the floor and helped her on with his shirt. He wanted nothing more than to take her upstairs and make her his all over again but he knew she wouldn't be able to concentrate with a visitor in the house.

"Did you mean what you said?" Although Chloe had declared herself to be his not moments before he couldn't help but feel she'd been caught up in the moment and would pull away from him as soon as her hormones settled down.

"I don't say anything I don't mean, V. I told you I was yours and I meant it. It does mean that you're mine as well though – there's no escape you know, we're stuck with each other. Come on baby, let get rid of whoever it is."

Hand in hand Chloe and Vince left the kitchen and walked into the lounge. Looking at them it was obvious what they'd been doing just moments before – Chloe was wearing Vince's dress shirt and her black strappy sandals and Vince was in his suit pants and dress shoes. Both of them had that 'just been fucked' look on their faces and Chloe had obvious marks on her neck where Vince had been kissing her.

"What the fuck are you doing here Leon?" Vince was furious; he couldn't believe that Leon would turn up that day of all days. They'd only just returned from burying Leon's 'brother' yet he'd not been there.

Chloe moved in front of Vince and placed her hands on his chest "Don't do it Vince, let him explain and then let him leave." Chloe could see the fury in Vince's face and knew that things would get messy if she couldn't get him to calm down. "Baby, please."

"Is it true Vince, about Jesse?" Leon had to know, he'd overheard Mia and Dom talking about Jesse the previous evening and he had to know if he really was dead.

"Yeah, Leon it's true. Tran shot him and he died before he got to the hospital. We've just come back from the funeral."

Leon looked as if the bottom had fallen out of his world when Vince told him that Jesse was dead. All the way back from Mexico he'd hoped it wasn't true, hoped there was some other reason Jesse hadn't been answering his cell but as soon as he'd seen the look on Vince's face he knew it was true.

"When did it happen?"

"The day you left for Mexico. After you and Letty took off Dom and Mia went back to the house. I turned up just as Jesse did. The Trans were just behind him and they shot him as they rode past the house." Brian could have killed Dom when he realised that Leon hadn't known anything about Jesse even being hurt let alone killed. The pair of them had been together for years yet Dom had kept it from him.

When Leon heard that Jesse had been dead 3 weeks he sank to the floor and broke down. His baby brother was dead and Dom hadn't said anything. For 3 weeks he'd lied and told him that Jesse had been calling and was ok.

"Oh Lee, its ok, shhh it'll be ok." Chloe knew that it wouldn't be ok but she couldn't bear to stand by and do nothing. She crouched down beside Leon and wrapped her arms around him pulling him into her chest.

It was half an hour before Leon stopped crying, Vince and Brian had gone out onto the back deck when Leon broke down – they knew he'd be embarrassed by his show of emotion. That and the fact they were both afraid that if they remained in the room any longer they'd start crying as well.

"So, you and V?" Chloe couldn't help laughing at Leon's sudden change in demeanour. Not two minutes ago he'd been sobbing in her arms now he was trying to charm the latest gossip out of her.

"Yeah, me and V. Come on, I've got some Corona in the fridge and I'm sure the boys could do with one." Chloe was well aware of the fact she was sitting on the floor, wearing only Vince's shirt and her shoes, holding a man she barely knew.

Chloe was about to ask Leon to get the beer and take it outside when she remembered that the rest of her clothes were scattered around the kitchen. It was bad enough that Leon knew what she and Vince had been doing but she didn't want him to see the evidence of just how out of control they'd been.

"Tell, you what – why don't you go outside and see the boys and I'll bring the beers out once I've gotten changed."