Thank you for your reviews/favorites/follows. I really appreciate everything. I have a another account on FF and my username is yarx.2x. I've written another Fast and the Furious story there and I hope you guys check it out and give me some ideas. It's sat untouched and unfinished for quite some time and I need some inspiration. Enjoy!


2 days later, 9:00 AM

Mia lived by the phone day and night. She kept her phone next to her at all times, afraid she'd miss Letty's call.

She made breakfast quietly, while the boys sat at the table not talking.

Things had changed with Letty's absence. Everyone seemed to be pissed at Dom and Mia couldn't even get Jesse to crack a smile. She'd been giving her older brother the cold shoulder for the past two days and Vince was barely talking to him.

She served the boys their pancakes and went to grab the syrup when she felt her waist vibrate. Mia dropped everything she was doing and grabbed her phone looking at the screen and smiling when she saw the name on the screen.

"Hello? Letty?" Mia asked frantically.

Everyone in the room stopped what they were doing and for a second Mia thought she'd hung up.

"How you living girl?" She heard Letty's voice on the other line. Her eyes filled with tears at the sound of her voice and she held herself back from crying.

"I miss you Letty," Mia sighed.

Letty went silent on the other line and Mia feared she'd hang up on her. "I had to do this." Were her only words.

"I know. How are you? You're okay right?"

"Yes mom," Letty laughed. "I'm in perfect health."

Mia laughed with her when she noticed Vince standing by her. "Hey Letty, Vince wants to talk to you."

"Put old coyote on the phone. I'll call you when I can girl."

Mia handed Vince the phone and he made his way towards the living room.

Twenty minutes later Vince made his way back into the kitchen. He handed the phone back to Mia and began to make his way out of the kitchen when he heard complaints from both Jesse and Leon. "How come we didn't get to talk to her?"

"She said she'd call back in a few days." Dom looked up at him with a blank expression. "What? You didn't want to talk to her?" He bowed his head and Vince left the room.


2 days earlier, 6 AM

Letty had been driving for about an hour. She had no idea where she was going, all she knew was that driving calmed her down. LA was long behind her and as she felt the wind in her hair, she felt free for once. She had fought herself from going back a few times already, but she knew she needed to do this.

Dom needed to realize that she wasn't something he could play with. She needed to prove to herself that she didn't need him. She could make it without him.

By 1pm Letty was settled in a motel room in Phoenix, Arizona. Laying down she started thinking about her options. She soon realized, how much she hadn't thought this through. She didn't know what she was doing. She'd never been on her own. For as long as she could remember the team was always there with her. But she couldn't go back now.

Letty decided to get some sleep and then hit the road again later. She finally had a plan.

She'd drive until she figured out what to do next.


1 day later, 3 PM

Dom was miserable. He'd gotten no sleep the night before and he doubted he'd be getting any sleep again tonight. The bed felt empty, their room felt abandoned. The spot on the bed next to him was cold and her pillow still smelled like her shampoo.

Mia had come in the night before while Dom lay drunk and alone on the couch and cleaned up the mess he'd made. She'd put all of Letty's things back in their place, and she'd taken all of Letty's laundry and washed it. He couldn't even imagine her in their room anymore. It was too neat. Letty's hair ties weren't scattered around the room like they usually were. Her socks, weren't left on the floor from her kicking them off in her sleep. It was something he'd always complained about, but now he wanted to see it more than ever.

He'd been slow at the garage today. Vince had yelled at him to get his head out of his ass at least twice already.

Dominic felt ashamed. His sister wanted nothing to do with him and his best friend could barely look at him for more than a few minutes. His father would have been disappointed in the man he turned out to be. He'd raised him better. To be the man his father was, to be the man he'd want his sister to marry. He'd left them both down.

Dominic had called Letty at least once an hour. She never answered. He left her messages until her voicemail filled up. When that happened he began texting her. Still no reply.

He knew he deserved this.


2 days later, 9 AM

Letty was in Texas. She didn't think she'd stay long but she thought she owed Mia a phone call.

She grabbed her cell phone out of her pocket and began to look through her messages. A few from Mia, one from Vince and the rest from Dom. She quickly deleted them and rang Mia's phone.

She talked to Mia for a few minutes before the phone was handed to Vince. Vince was the big brother Letty never had.

"Hey Letty, how are you mama?" She heard Vince's deep voice on the other end.

"Tired, lonely, sad, and pissed off," Letty said to him exasperatedly. Vince was the one she could talk to about anything.

"Come home Let," Vince tried to convince her.

"I can't come home Vince. I can't do this anymore. This was the last straw."

"What happened?" Vince asked her.

Letty explained to him everything that had happened two days ago.

"Let, this is not the first time he does something like this. Why now?"

"I haven't been happy for a long time Vince," Letty felt her voice crack. "I love him so much but I don't have anything left to give. All he does is take and I don't have anything else he can take from me." Letty finally let the tears roll down her cheeks. "I'm done." She whispered.

"So you're just never going to come back?" He asked her.

"Of course I am, I can't leave family. I just need some time to figure out what I want and clear my head." Letty reassured him.

"If it makes you feel better, he's barely spoken a word since he realized you were gone."

Letty felt her heart twist at the thought of Dom, "I don't want to talk about him Vince."

"I'm just pissed off Letty. I know this is something you need to do but you wouldn't have to if Dom knew how to keep it in his pants." She felt the sting of his words and Vince realized his mistake right away. "Shit Letty, I'm sorry. You know you can call me for whatever you need. I don't care what it is. You know that right?"

"I do. I'll call back in a few days." She said before hanging up the phone.


3 days later, 6 AM

Dom had been up all night.

When Letty had called the day before he didn't know what to think. First he was shocked. Then he was pissed that she was calling Mia and not him. Hearing his sister tell her how much she missed her brought him shame.

She wouldn't have to be going through this if it wasn't for him. Dom was ashamed of the way he'd treated Leticia Ortiz. Letty wasn't some side chick he could toy with. She was the woman you respected and came home to every night. She was the woman you married.

She had her flaws, she wasn't perfect. But in his eyes she was a gem. This was the woman he'd dreamed of having by his side. Letty was smart and witty, she didn't take much shit from Dom. She was tough and demanding and he loved every bit of her and her temper. So why was he so dumb to throw that all away for some fun nights with a few skanks? Something he always regretted instantly.

He wasn't a man, he was a boy. That's what his father would have said.

A man takes care of his family. A man treats his lady like a princess every single day. A man comes home to his family every single night. A man makes sure he makes his woman the happiest she can be.

Dom had done none of these things. And Letty deserved just that, Letty deserved to be treated like the princess she was.