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A week later, Mia's scream echoed round her garden causing a flock of birds, that had been nesting in a bush, to fly away quickly.

'Mama?' Jack asked, confused to why his Mom was happily jumping up and down on spot and clapping her hands.

'Finally! Come on, show me the ring!' Mia squealed.

Letty held out her wrist, revealing the necklace entwined round it, the cross sparkling in the morning sun.

Mia stopped her jumping up and down and shot them a confused look. 'You're supposed to have a ring...' She said, looking at them.

'Not us. We want something different, something... something that represents us' Letty explained, smiling up at Dom.

Mia watched their interaction and smiled. 'Oh, you're finally engaged that's all what matters!' Mia squealed before grabbing then both in a tight hug.

'Congratulations guys. You do know Mia will be insufferable till the big day right?' Brian said, as he hugged them both.

'OI!' She squealed, before turning to Letty. 'Right dresses-'

'Already got mine!' Letty interjected, causing a smile to erupt on Dom's face, while Mia's fell.

'What? But... since when?' She asked, confused.

'Doesn't matter, but I need my maid of honour to look at some dresses for her part'

'Where would you-' Mia cut herself as Letty's words registered in her mind. 'Oh my god! Of course I'll be your maid of honour!'

Letty smiled and accepted another hug, while she flashed Dom and Brian an playful roll of the eyes behind Mia's back.

'What colour do want me to wear?' Mia asked, pulling Letty in doors to start discussing the upcoming nuptials, leaving Brian and Dom outdoors round the pool with Jack, who had gone back to playing with his toys.

'Where you going to have it?' Brian asked, sipping his Corona.

'Back in D.R, on the beach this time though'

'Thought I so...' Brian said, smiling.

'You and Jack can be best men' Dom said, tilting his beer towards Brian, who knocked his against it, silently agreeing with a smile...

'Well that was eventful' Letty commented, as they entered their apartment, later that day.

'Why? You knew Mia was going to go all bridesmaid-zilla on you' Dom told her, as he reached into the fridge. He smiled at his wife's laughter that erupted from her mouth and turned to face her, handing her a Corona.

'Yeah, well... thank god we agreed there and then what she going to wear... don't think I could've coped with months of her trying on dresses only to go back for the first one she saw' Letty said, accepting the Corona and taking a sip.

'When you going to get the dress?' Dom asked as he caged her against the counter.

'Don't know. Mia said she'll pick it up one day this week' Letty said.

She had left Mia in charge of the wedding, with instructions on what she and Dom wanted and she trusted Mia to not go overboard, so she allowed her complete control.

'You're still wearing your dress, aren't you? The one in the chest?' Dom asked, placing his Corona next to her.

'Course I am! Why?'

'Just making sure... you looked stunning in it last time... my wife' he said, his voice full of love.

Letty let out a small laugh before Dom connected their lips. She wrapped her arms round his neck, pulling him closer to her as he pressed her against the counter gently.

She stripped herself of her leather jacket, as Dom kissed his way to her throat and to her sweet spot behind her ear, causing her utter a small moan and clamp a hand to the back of his head.

'Dom...' She whispered, as he kissed his way down her throat, unbuttoning her shirt as he did, leaving little marks on her newly exposed skin.

He lifted her off her feet and into his arms, making her laugh.

'You practising already?'

'Got to be perfect hasn't it?' He asked, with a wink before his wife covered his lips with hers, passionately.

He got to the bedroom door with his tshirt hitting floor and both of their eyes wild and dark, when the knock at the front door interrupted them.

Letty pulled away sharply, Dom's head following her lips before the knock sounded again and had him looking to the door.

'You've got to be kidding me!' Dom grumbled as he set Letty on her feet and headed to the front door.

He swung it open to find his daughter stood on the steps, a nervous smile on her face.

'Hi... is this a bad time?' She said, raising an eyebrow at her shirtless father, befre an amused look crossed her face. 'Oops' she said, before laughter filled the air, as she realised what she had interrupted.

'Come in' said Dom, quickly checking over his shoulder to see if Letty was decent.

'I thought only young people had sex in the daytime, not old people' Mariella joked, as she closed the behind her.

Dom and Letty both looked at each other, and then at their daughter, in shock.

'Excuse me, missy! I'm not old!' Letty exclaimed, standing next to Dom, who looked too shocked to speak. 'And your father isn't either!'

'Thankyou babe' Dom answered, pulling his shirt over his head.

'Well, not that old' Letty said cheekily, laughing when Dom pulled a face and grabbed her, tickling her sides.

'You're going pay for that later!' He whispered into her ear, watching as a slight blush appeared on her cheeks.

'Anyway, I did actually want to talk to you guys... I thought maybe we could have that talk now?' Mariella asked, looking between them.

Dom and Letty straightened up and nodded.

'Yeah, course we can' Dom said, heading to the sofa.

'Do you want a drink?' Letty asked her daughter.

'A Corona?' Mariella asked sweetly with a smile.

Letty smiled back. 'No' she said, making her daughter scowl and pout.

'Fine, I'm okay for a drink' Mariella sat down on the sofa, curling her legs beneath her with her elbow on the sofa back and resting her head in the palm of her hand...

Dom and Letty sat down on the right side of her and took a deep breath.

'Where do you want us to start?' Letty asked gently, leaning back into Dom's arms as he wrapped them round her.

'How about this?' Mariella asked, pulling out a piece of paper and unfolding it, causing Dom to bite back a groan. 'When you left last week, something told me that if you could pay Darcy then you must be have a successful buisness or something, so I did some research and found all this...' Mariella continued, pulling out more pieces of paper with various bits of news surrounding the Toretto's throughout the years.

'Mariella-'

'You're criminals. What kind of a life is that?' Mariella asked, looking between the two of them.

'At the time, the only one we knew. When you've lost both parents and you have a little sister to support, you'll do anything to keep your family together. Running a shop and a garage at the age twenty while trying to keep your sister in school, wasn't exactly ideal. I spotted a way of making big cash, I took it' Dom answered, honestly.

'But... why didn't you ask for help from other family members?' Mariella asked

'Because our family was scattered, most of them six feet under. I'd lost my mother and father, I'd be damned if I lost Mia as well!'

'Well... what's all this about this Kenny Linder bloke?'

The name had Dom tensing and even Letty tensed a little at the name.

'I'll do it' She whispered to Dom, kissing his chin gently, befre turning to their daughter. 'Your grandfather, he was Street racer, like your father and I. Anyway, one day, he was at a race coming up on the final lap, pro stock car circuit, last race of the season... and Linder...' She broke off when Dom gripped her hand.

'What's wrong?' Mariella asked, seeing the action.

'Linder put him into the wall at a hundred and twenty mile per hour. He died on impact before the car exploded... Dom saw him, Linder, a week later and hit with a wrench. He came back to the house and I found him... hidden in the garage, covered in blood. I sat with him until the police took him away'

Mariella was silent. Part of her was horrified at her father's actions, but the other half of her could understand why he did what he did.

She took a deep breath and pointed to the obituary with a small paragraph about Letty. 'What about that?' She asked, changing the subject to get the images out of her head.

Dom sighed. 'That was my fault. We were still on the run, having kept a low profile for a few years. We'd meet up whenever we could for a week or two or just a few days. She found me in the Dominican and we ended up on a job, a gas heist. Your mom nearly died and it put things into perspective'

'What did you do?'

'I left her there. I left her behind because the cops were closing in and I couldn't bear to see her been taken away. So I left her. And unbeknownst to me, when she got back to L.A, she went undercover to bring me back and clear my name in exchange for Braga...'

'Who?' Mariella asked, frowning.

'He was a known drug runner, part of a cartel. If I brought him down, Dom could come home with his name cleared, back his family, back to me...'

'But there was an accident, one what led us to believe that she was dead... until two years ago'

'What kind of accident?'

'A car accident. A guy who was running with Braga, called Fenix, clipped my car and upturned it. I was trapped until I could get my leg free and he had a gun. I managed to free myself from the car but Fenix pulled the trigger and the car exploded, I remember hitting the ground and then someone finding me, who later turned out to be Gisele, and she got me to the hospital in Mexico'

'So, why were you believed dead?'

'Because all that remained in the car were some necklaces what I used to wear and my DNA. I obviously wasn't in the car, so they thought I'd burnt to death... When in fact I had amnesia and living whole new different lifestyle.' Letty told Mariella, who was listening intently.

'You okay? Do want to take a few minutes?' Dom asked, watching as Maria shook her head.

'So, what was this all about? You going missing after a bus attack?' Mariella asked Dom, pushing a newspaper clipping towards him.

'I was going back to Lompoc. While avenging your mother's death, I managed to get them... and I killed the man who I thought had killed her. Crushed him with a car'

Mariella visibly flinched at that and Letty reached out an hand to calm her.

'You killed him?' Mariella whispered

'Yeah. And you know what at the time, I was happy. The man who 'killed' the love of my life was dead and I was ready to go back to Lompoc rather than run. I'd lost Letty and I didn't have a reason to live'

'What about your sister?'

'She didn't need me. She had her own life by then. And she knew herself that there would be a possibilty she wouldn't see me again after that'

'How does that lead-'

'She and Brian hijacked the bus and we high tailed it to Brazil, Rio... We ended up coming up with a plan to disappear for good by robbing the dude runs the country' Dom told the two occupants of the room, one of the bursting out laughing.

'Rob the dude who runs the country? Yeah right!' Mariella laughed.

'We walked away with eleven and a half million dollars. Cash.' Dom stated, silencing the laughter from his daughters mouth.

'Seriously?' She asked, when she realised Dom nor Letty were laughing with her.

'Honest'

'Fucking hell!' Mariella laughed gleefully, before clearing her throat and apologising for her language. 'Anyway, where do you come back into the picture?' She asked Letty, who smiled a small smile.

'By the time your father found me again, I'd been 'dead' two years and I was working with this miltary group, having no idea about Dom or my life back here... first time I saw your father again, I shot him. After that, he wouldn't leave me alone. Challenged me to a race before explaining every scar on my body and making me question everything in the past two years'

'What and you came back with him, just like that?'

'No... He saved my life without a second thought by leaping from a bridge and catching me mid air. We hit a car and that was it, I knew then that it was this team I should be with' Letty answered, leaning her head back and gazing at Dom, who kissed her head.

Mariella looked between them for a few a seconds before she spoke. 'Can we take that breather now? It's a lot to take in and I've got some questions I want to ask myself?' Mariella asked, watching as Dom and Letty nodded.

Mariella got to her feet and headed outside to the watch the sunset, sliding the glass door shut behind her.

Dom and Letty watched her closely, trying to decipher her body language from the sofa.

'What are you thinking?' Dom asked her gently, kissing her hair.

'That the next few questions are going to worse than these...' Letty replied criptically, biting the inside of her cheek...

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