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Chapter 18

Upstairs in the bedroom Vince had lain Chloe down on the bed and was slowly working his way up her legs, kissing her as he went.

Vince quickly pulled his jeans and boxers off and got onto the bed with Chloe. Gently removing his t-shirt that she wore every morning he kissed her slowly, the passion increasing with every soft caress.

Chloe knew that there was something different about Vince but she couldn't put her finger on it. Every other time they'd had sex he'd been domineering and possessive but this time he was taking his time, savouring every moment. Vince moved away from her lips and kissed her lightly along her collar bone and down onto her breasts. His hands were slowly moving all over her body, touching her arms, her sides and then dipping between her thighs. Normally he'd have made some smutty comment but this time he simply smiled at her and nuzzled his face into her neck.

"Do you really want me Chloe?" Vince sounded almost desperate when he spoke, almost as if he was unsure about what he was doing.

"I'll always want you Vince, I told you at the hospital 'I'm not going anywhere without you'." Chloe wasn't sure what had gotten into Vince normally he was full of confidence but he seemed so unsure of himself.

"You can't leave me Chloe, not ever. You're mine and I'm yours. No-one else will ever get to see you like this, or make you feel like this." Vince had never felt like this about anyone before, he could honestly say he loved Chloe and the thought of anyone else getting to see her naked or to touch her drove him crazy. "Forever Chloe, forever."

"Forever sounds good, babe." She whispered, grinning at the look on Vince's face. He looked like all of his dreams had come true and had a huge smile across his beautiful face.

Chloe was in heaven, she knew that Vince was a good lover but that morning he was surpassing himself.

Kissing her one last time he slowly claimed her as his. "Oh god babe, I love you." Vince wasn't sure where that had come from but as soon as he'd said it he knew he meant it. "I love you Chloe." Having said it once, he couldn't stop himself from saying it, over and over again.

Chloe would have waited a lifetime for Vince to say that but now that she knew she wanted him to keep saying it. "I love you too Vince." The look on Vince's face told Chloe that she'd said the right thing. Vince might be a tough guy, but like everyone else he just wanted someone to love him. "I'm yours baby and I'm never leaving you."

Chloe pulled Vince's head down to her shoulder and whispered in his ear "mine" before running her hands through his hair and kissing his neck.

Hearing Chloe claim him as hers was all that it took to push Vince over the edge. He'd never thought of himself as needy before but now he found himself loving it when Chloe said he was hers. She was a beautiful woman and being her man was better than winning any race.

Lifting his head from Chloe's shoulder Vince looked her dead in the eye and told her "I always thought I was in love with Mia but now I know I was wrong. What I felt for her was love but I wasn't in love with her. I am in love with you though Chloe. You and me forever baby, you and me"

An hour later Leon and Brian decided to take a chance and go back home, Brian was desperately hoping that Vince and Chloe would have finished but Leon was half hoping to catch them at it. It had been a long time since he'd walked in on Vince getting freaky and it was about time he had some new ammunition to tease him with.

Unfortunately for Leon, Chloe and Vince were fully dressed and eating breakfast when he and Brian got back to the house.

"Sure you got enough food there V?" Leon couldn't get over the amount of food on Vince's plate. Sure the big guy always ate a lot but he'd never seen him with that much food before.

"We've got a busy day at the garage today and I've got to unload a delivery so I need to keep my strength up." If it had just been sex that Vince and Chloe had had, he would've made some sly comment abut 'building up an appetite', but what had just happened between them was too important to cheapen like that.

"A delivery that will be arriving in about 40mins so we need to get a move on." Chloe was grateful that Vince hadn't made any reference to what they'd just been up to. She was finding it difficult adjusting to having so many people know about her sex life and she really appreciated the efforts he made to keep it between the two of them.

Chloe insisted that Vince drive her Tuscan to the garage. She knew that he missed driving (he'd not driven since he took his Maxima when they went to buy his suit) and as her car was right hand drive it was easier for him to manage than his Maxima. Little did Vince know that she had an ulterior motive for getting him to practice in a right hand drive car.

Whilst Chloe was working in the office checking out Jesse's disks, Leon, Brian and Vince were trying to decide what they could get her as a thank you present. Vince already has his own gift in mind but they wanted to get her something as a group.

"I can't understand why she's doing all this for us dawg, I mean, she barely knows us." Leon laughed at the look he got from Vince for his final comment, "Ok so she knows you in the biblical sense, but you've still only been together a few weeks yet she's shelling out all this money on us – I'm not complaining you understand but I don't get it."

Vince knew that he had to give the guys some kind of an explanation but he wasn't sure how much detail to go into. In the end he decided to tell them everything about why Chloe was helping them.

"Chloe doesn't have any family, well she's got a sister somewhere but they're not exactly close. Not since her sister got a little too close to Chloe's husband, if you know what I mean. Chloe got divorced and her parents brought the sister back here to live. The following year her parents were killed in a botched car jacking and Chloe came back to LA to be with her sister." Vince then continued the tale of how Chloe and Mia were on the same course in college and of Mia inviting Chloe to the beach that day. He told them how Chloe had been on the verge of giving up and returning to the UK when Mia asked her to join the team at the beach and how he'd fallen in love with her when Letty had taken the photo of the two of them.

"Oh my God, Chloe's the girl in the photo?" Leon couldn't believe it. Vince took the photo everywhere with him and always swore that she brought him good luck. When they'd gotten to Race Wars and he'd realised he'd left it back at the fort he was full of foreboding – he kept telling Leon that something was going to go wrong that weekend. That was the weekend that changed their lives forever – Jesse had died, Vince had been badly injured and Dominic had run away.

"Yep, that's my girl." Vince couldn't help the pride that shone through in his voice when he spoke about Chloe being his girl. He still didn't understand why she wanted to be with him but he wasn't going to question it – they loved each other and that was all that mattered.

Vince then went on to tell the others about how Chloe had come back from a run to find a message on her answer phone from Mia about the 'accident' and how she'd endured hours of questioning before the police would let her see him. He told them how she'd saved him not once, but twice from the sadistic Dr Matthews and how she'd stayed with him the entire time he was in hospital only leaving to arrange Jesse's funeral and visit his father in Lompoc.

"That should've been me doing that dawg, not Chloe." Leon couldn't help but feel guilty that he'd not been there to make the arrangements for Jesse. They'd been together through thick and thin yet when Jess had really needed him he hadn't been there.

"You didn't know Leon; don't beat yourself up over it. I was glad to help." Chloe had finished looking at the disks and was coming out to tell the boys the delivery would be arriving soon when she heard Vince talking to Brian and Leon. "Besides, I didn't do it all myself – Hector helped. He drove me to the warehouse to get yours and Vince's cars and then put the word out amongst the other racers about Jesse's service."

"Everyone was there man; Jess would have got a real kick out of how many people came." Vince couldn't help smile at the memory of all of the colourful racing cars parked along the driveway to the cemetery. There had to have been 200 cars at least, all of them there so their owners could pay their respects to the Mad Scientist.

"I still don't get why you're doing this for us, Chloe." Brian was still confused. He could understand why Chloe had stayed with Vince in the hospital, she was a Dr after all and he'd needed looking after, but he didn't understand why she'd done everything else – sold her parents house, bought a new property and put it in all their names, bought a new business. None of it made sense.

"Because my sister betrayed me, just as Dom betrayed you. I know what it's like to lose everything you've got at the hand of a loved one. My sister took my husband from me and Dom took your livelihoods, home, health and in Jesse's case life away from you. Dom said I wasn't to be trusted as I wasn't a member of the team – well, he made me a member of the team when he ran off and left me to look after Vince. The team always struck me as a family unit and you don't betray your family like that. You guys are my family now, so that's why I've done what I've done. It's only money at the end of the day, and it's not as if I'm going to run out any time soon!"

Vince was stretching his arm out to grab hold of Chloe and pull her in for a kiss when she darted out of his reach and ran outside. "Look sharp, boys – the delivery's here."

When Leon, Vince and Brian got outside they were greeted by a car transporter with 4 covered vehicles on it.

Climbing up and puling the cover off one Chloe announced "Say hello to your new race cars boys."