Dom's face turned cold. Brian Spilner was a name that he couldn't care less if he never heard again. There was a story behind Dom and Brian, Christian knew that much, but he didn't know the whole story.
Dom turned away from the three of them and Madison looked at Christian for some sort of explanation, but he just shrugged his shoulders.
Madison went after Dom who had walked away from the group to talk to him. She grabbed his arm, but he shrugged her off. She wasn't going to let him just ignore her. She grabbed his arm and wouldn't let go. When he turned to face her, she could see fire in his eyes.
"What's your connection to Spilner, or should I say, O'Connor?" Madison could tell that Dom was seriously pissed.
"I told you—wait a second, what? He's just a friend. He told me to look you up if I ever came to town. Why?" Madison was confused as to why Dom was acting like this. He and Brian were supposed to have been friends.
Dom took a deep breath before he began.
"Brian Spil—O'Connor was an undercover cop that was sent to take me down. There were some things that I was involved in years ago, some eighteen-wheeler hijackings that I was responsible for and he got involved," Dom paused before continuing.
"He also got too close to my little sister, Mia. When I found out he was a cop, I wanted to kill him. He got me to trust him and let him in my inner circle, and then he betrayed me. And he hurt Mia. I can forgive him for betraying me, but I will never forgive him for what he did to Mia. Never. And that's the story."
Madison's mind was reeling from what Dom had just told her. She had no clue that Dom felt the way towards Brian that he did. This was definitely one of those moments when she wanted to strangle him herself.
She got up and walked away from Dom. He stared after her, wondering what she was thinking. It wasn't everyday that he had a very attractive girl in his way and he wasn't about to let Madison walk out of his life.
He got up and walked after her. He could tell she was pissed as well and grabbed her arm when he caught up with her. She spun around on her heels and glared at him.
"What were you expecting, Dom? Huh? Did you think that you would just tell me about Brian and things would be okay? You don't get to make that judgment call. That's not your place."
"So, what? You just want me to let you get hurt like he hurt Mia? Is that what you want? I'm sorry for trying to protect you from this asshole."
Madison laughed.
"That asshole happened to have saved my ass quite a few times. And you were trying to protect me?" she laughed again.
"Dom, I don't need your protection. If you haven't noticed, I can take care of myself."
With that, Madison walked over to her car, got in and drove off. Dom stared after her for a few moments before getting in his car and driving after her.
Madison was hitting top speeds down the streets of Boston. She didn't care where she was going, she didn't have anywhere in particular that she wanted to be, she just wanted to drive.
Behind her, Dom was catching up to her. She looked in her rearview mirror and she that he was behind her. She shook her head and pushed harder on the gas.
Up ahead, she saw an alleyway that she could pull into. As she pulled up on it, she made it seem as if she were going to keep straight, turning into the alley at the last minute. She didn't realize until she turned into it that it was a dead-end alley and saw that she was trapped.
Sure enough, a few moments later, Dom's car turned into that alleyway. He stopped his car, got out, and headed for hers.
She sat in her car for a few moments before getting out. She was already pissed at Dom, but to have to confront him again, it was not going to be pretty on her part.
He walked up to her and she sized him up. Not a word was said between the two of them for quite some time. Dom was unsure what to say to Madison and she wasn't sure whether or not she wanted to talk to him.
Dom took a deep breath and was about to speak when Madison had her say.
"I thought I told you I didn't want to talk to you. Yet, here you are," she turned around and began to walk to the back of her car.
"Just thought I'd try to straighten things up between us," Dom explained.
Madison smiled to herself. That wasn't why he was here and they both knew it. She wasn't quite sure why he had followed her, but right now she was too pissed at him to be curious.
"You thought you'd try to straighten things up," she paused and looked at Dom. "What do you think I am, stupid? We both know that's not why you're here. So, wanna try again? And Dom, this time, tell the truth."
Madison was starting to piss Dom off.
"You know what, Madison? Screw you. Be a bitch about things. Why the hell do I care. And by the way, have a nice life."
With that, Dom turned around, got back in his car, and left her standing in the alleyway, staring after him. She leaned up against her car, slid down to the asphalt, put her head between her hands, and sat there.
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Dom pulled into the parking lot of the shop and got out of his car. He could see Christian and Kyra bent over Christian's car. He had been having some engine problems lately, nothing too serious, but it needed to be fixed.
Christian and Kyra both watched as Dom walked into the shop and headed for his "office". Before he entered, Christian called out to him.
"Where's Madison?" Dom raised his hand as a sign of ignoring him, walked into his office and slammed the door. Christian started to go after him, but Kyra grabbed his arm. Christian looked at her with a confused look on his face and she shook her head. She knew when Dom needed time alone. This was one of those times.
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Twenty minutes later, Madison got up off the asphalt, got into her car and drove off. Again she wasn't sure where she was going, but as long as it didn't have to do with Dom, she didn't care.
After driving about ten minutes, she spotted a car that looked somewhat familiar to her. She looked around to see if she could find a possible owner and then she saw him. Brian Spilner. Correction, she thought, Brian O'Connor.