A/N: Just a few more left. Hope you enjoy!

"Wait", Dom said stilling Letty's hand from grabbing his clothes. They had made their way back from the garage to his room.

"What? What's wrong?" She asked him warily.

"I can't move back in there if…"

"You're changing your mind?" Letty blurted out confused. "So what just happened in the garage meant nothing to you?"

"You didn't let me finish."

"What else is there to say?"

"I'm not saying that I'm changing my mind, but I rather stay here if things aren't going to change."

"I already told you that I'm working on it. I'm doing what you've asked me to do."

"I don't think you understand. I can't go back to sleeping in the same bed as you if it's going to feel like I'm sleeping with a ghost."

"Dominic…"

"Do you know how hard it is to feel neglected by the person who's supposed to love you? It's probably the loneliest I've ever felt in my life. I rather be alone here than be alone with you if that's how it's going to be."

"Yes, I do know how it feels. You've done your fair share of rejecting lately." She accused.

"You know why?"

"Because I did it first? An eye for an eye."

"No, it's because I need to protect myself from you." Letty gazed up at him as he spoke. "If I let myself feel over how you've been these past few months, I'd be the most heartbroken man on the planet. I wouldn't function. I wouldn't be okay. You're the only person in the world who can hurt me like that Let. I don't think I can handle having hope in us just to have you take it away."

"The last thing I would ever want to do is hurt you Dom, and I'm sorry that I have." Letty said taking a deep breath and running her hands through her hair. "I really am."

"I just want to be honest with you because I'm thinking of the future, and I can't live like that. Alexus is already out of the house. Jensen will be soon too."

"You know he's never moving out." Letty said cutting him off.

"Yes he will Let, and Mazda is going to follow, and so will Axel. Then it's just going to be you and me, old and retired. I want to be able to enjoy that time with you. I'll love you until the day I die, but I won't be with you if you're not going to be present. That's why I need you to really think about it because if it happens again I'm not just going to move a few rooms down the hall."

"Dominic don't say that to me."

"I don't want it to come to that, but it might. Making love to you tonight was really important to me. It happened against my better judgment because I honestly don't think we were ready for it. Now I'm going to want to touch you and feel you, and you may not want that tomorrow. You may not want me. I can't go back that. So it may be safer if I just stay here a little longer. That's all I'm saying."

"I'm always going to want you baby." Letty said caressing his face. "You need to be patient with me is all."

"I have all the patience in the world for you, but I'm not letting you break my heart like that."

"I won't", Letty said kissing him desperately. "I need you."

"I need you too." He said meeting her intensity.

"I'm going to get better. I promise you."

"I just need you to Let me in even if it's just a little bit." He told her bringing their foreheads together.

"I'll do my best, but I really need you to sleep with me tonight. I want to be held by you and go to sleep with your smell surrounding me." Dom looked at her pensively. "Baby please", Letty begged with a kiss.

"Okay", he obliged.

"We can take it slow."

"What would that entail?"

"What would work for you?"

"You want to date for a little bit?"

"If they're going to end like tonight did, absolutely."

"Maybe we should hold off on the sex for a little bit."

"But what if I'm horny?"

"Then maybe we can talk about it when it comes up."

"Dominic if I want to fuck you, I'm going to fuck you." Letty asserted grabbing his bulge possessively.

"We'll see about that." He teased encircling his arms around her waist. "So you wanna date or what?"

"That sounds like it could be enjoyable." Letty told him.

"But the deal is you have to answer all my questions no matter how hard they are to answer. Do you think you can do that?"

"I'll try."

"That's not good enough Let." She took a deep breath and briefly looked away. "This is what I'm talking about. I can't do it if you're gonna shut down on me."

"Okay I will." She said giving in and not wanting to rock the boat. A grin appeared on Dom's face.

"Yeah?" He asked pecking her lips.

"Mhm"

"Let's go to bed." He said scooping her up off the ground.

"This feels like our first honeymoon." She said against his neck.

"That hotel wasn't nearly as nice as this place?"

"It doesn't matter. It's still one of my favorite memories of all time."

"Mine too babe", He said placing her on the bed. "You were finally mine, by law at that."

"No you were mine." She said bringing him into another kiss. "Just like you are tonight"

"I'll always belong to you. I don't really have a choice in the matter."

"Thank God, I thought someone would have stolen you by now." She teased sarcastically.

"That's impossible" Letty smiled at him.

"Tell me you love me."

"I love you." He whispered to her.

"More than you love the Dodge Charger Daytona?"

"Of course"

"More than you love the adrenaline rush from racing?"

"Without a doubt," he told her lovingly.

"I guess I'm pretty important."

"The most important, well you know other than the children."

"That's understandable." She said kissing him one last time. She pulled him to the bed and wrapped his arms around her. He held her tight and inhaled her scent. They slept together for the first time in two months, yet it felt so natural. They weren't worried about what the next day would bring, but instead relishing in the tender moment.

The next morning Mazda was looking for her father who had promised he would take her to the track. She had a large race coming up and needed the practice. "Axel have you seen Papi?" She asked the young boy as he watched cartoons.

"No, I have to take a bath." The young boy grumbled.

"Mami isn't up either?" She asked finding it odd that her mother had not bathed him.

"I don't know", the young boy said shrugging his shoulders. "I'm hungry." He complained.

"I don't have time for this." The teenager exasperated while fixing her little brother a bowl of cereal.

"I don't want cereal! It's Saturday. Mami cooks."

"Well she didn't cook today. Okay? This is all we got."

"No!" The boy yelled.

"Axel" the young girl grumbled. "I dare you to throw a fit."

"No! I don't want it. I don't want it!" Axel screeched, knocking his cereal purposefully all over the counter.

"Urg!" Mazda marched up the large set of stairs to her mother's room. "I'm not dealing with this." She muttered to herself. "Ma! Ma! Open the door!"

"What the hell", Letty mumbled groggily rising from her bed.

"Ma!" Mazda continued to yell at and pound on the door.

"What is it?" she asked opening it. "Where's the fire?"

"You need to go deal with Axel because I have to leave and he's throwing a tantrum."

"Wait what? What's wrong with him?"

"He wants you took cook him breakfast, he needs a bath, and I'm not doing it anymore! I'm not his mother. You are!"

"Alright calm down. I overslept. All you had to do was come up here and get me. There's no need to yell."

"Don't talk to your mother like that." A shirtless Dominic said coming up from behind her.

"Papi? What…you…when?" Mazda said flabbergasted. She was surprised to see him in there.

"Mazda that's not English."

"Did you sleep in there?" She inquired.

"It's my room isn't it?" He told her with a smirk as he made his way through the door.

"Wait so it worked? The date worked!" Mazda exclaimed excitedly. "You're back together!"

"Sure", he said making his way down the stairs. "Axel!" The little boy froze at the booming sound of his father's voice. "Clean this up." The little boy nodded in response and went quickly to find a chair to hop on to so that he could reach the counter. Dom's word was law, and he would never dare defy him.

"What's going on down here?" Letty asked a few minutes later. "Little boy why do you have milk all over you?"

"I don't know." The boy lied not looking at her in the eye.

"What did I tell you about lying?" The young boy pouted at his mother. "Go upstairs and I'll meet you in the bathroom."

"Papi are we still going to the track?" Mazda asked her father as he scrambled some eggs.

"Oh right", Dom said as he remembered. "You got this?" He asked Letty.

"Yeah, you should go."

"Do you guys have plans? We could go another time." Mazda said overly enthused about her parents' reunion.

"There's no need. You gotta practice your turns. They're too wide."

"And her acceleration is off." Letty added.

"Pick me apart why don't you."

"It's called feedback." Dom told her. "You want to be good don't you?"

"Yes"

"Then you need to know your weaknesses. Get your gear. I'll be ready in twenty minutes." After Dom left with their daughter, Letty dealt with Axel and got him ready for the day.

"So what do we say when we don't want something."

"No thank you"

"And what are we not going to do?"

"Scream"

"And what else?"

"Make messes"

"Very good", she said told him handing him his breakfast.

"Mami can we go to the Zoo again?"

"If you're a good boy today, we'll go tomorrow."

"Just you and me?"

"Yes baby, you and me." She confirmed as a grin appeared on the child's face. Just then she received a phone call from her friend Mercedes. Letty had been screening most calls as of late, but it never deterred her friends from trying.

"Hello?"

"Hey girl! How are you holding up?"

"Today's been going pretty good."

"Are you busy? I need to talk to you about something."

"Not particularly, you can talk away."

"Lets meet for lunch down Rodeo Drive. I'll call Simone."

"What's going on?"

"It's a little on the sensitive side. You'll see why." Letty agreed to meet up with her friends bringing Axel in tow. She had not seen her best friends for some time, having alienated herself from everyone.

"It's so good to see you!" Simone greeted her. "You look really good."

"Yeah you do. You got some color on those cheeks now." Mercedes mentioned.

"I feel better."

"Yeah, you're finally picking up my calls." Simone told her arching her eyebrow.

"I'm sorry about that." Letty said bashfully. "I've been terrible."

"No worries I didn't take it personally."

"Hey Axel baby", Simone greeted the six year old.

"Papi said I'm a big boy, not a baby." The boy corrected.

"Oh!" Simone responded dramatically. "I'm SO sorry. Yes you are a big boy."

"I know all the numbers up to 100."

"Really?"

"Mhm" the boy told her proudly. "I can read!"

"Wow!"

'No he can't', Letty mouthed silently at Simone, causing her to laugh. She handed Axel an educational video game to entertain him while they talked.

"He's getting so big." Mercedes commented.

"Yeah, my last baby." Letty said caressing the boy's head.

"You never know with you two."

"Dom got a vasectomy. Four is enough."

"Really!"

"Girl how'd you get him to do that? Every time I bring that shit up he don't even want to hear it." Simone told her.

"It just made sense. I wouldn't want a child and grandchild around the same age. That's just weird. You still have some time left."

"True"

"Speaking of your husband, how are things with Dom? He hasn't been on my couch for a couple of weeks." Mercedes asked.

"Baby steps", Letty answered not wanting to get too detailed.

"That's better than no steps at all right?"

"I have faith it's all going to work out."

"He was in bad shape for a little bit."

"It's my fault, but we've been talking more and more lately, and seems like we're getting back to where we were. What did you want to meet up about?" She asked changing the subject.

"Oh, this is a little awkward for me." Mercedes began. "It's about our children."

"Oh God." Letty said rolling her eyes. She feared that this day would come.

"Has Jensen mentioned anything to you about what happened last night?"

"I haven't seen him all day. I don't think he was even home."

"Well….so….Vince caught Jensen and Vanessa under delicate circumstances."

"What do you mean delicate circumstance?"

"They were doing it, or about to, in our hot tub."

"What! I can't believe him. I'm so sorry. That's completely inappropriate."

"Holy shit", Simone muttered.

"So Vince flipped his shit. You know how Vince is when he's angry."

"Did he touch him?"

"Almost", Mercedes said nervously. "He being who he is said a few things he did not mean to say."

"Like what?"

"Jensen is not worthy. He doesn't want him around his daughter. Vince called him a little shit that can't be trusted. He went on a tirade. It got pretty ugly."

"Excuse me?" Letty said offended. "What exactly wrong with my son? I mean yeah they were fucking around, but Vince is the last person to talk on that subject. Vanessa and Junior are a decade apart because he couldn't get his shit together."

"I don't think this has anything to do with Jensen per say. He's a boy and Vince can't handle the idea of 'Nessa growing up. I'm not naïve enough to think she's an innocent little princess."

"Jensen having sex in your house is unacceptable, but so was what Vince said. He didn't have to go that far."

"Vince does feel bad about it. I'm pretty sure Jensen's feelings are hurt. He broke up with Vanessa. She's devastated. She cried all night. I've never seen her like that. I actually don't know what to do. I was sorta hoping you could talk to him."

"Talk to him about what exactly?"

"I don't know Letty. You know your son better than I ever will. Vanessa's in love with him, and I'm not talking puppy dog love either."

"They just started dating. They can figure it out." Letty said dismissing it. "I don't want to get involved."

"No, they've been together for over a year."

"What?" Letty asked in shock.

"They were really good at hiding it I guess, but I want to know if Jensen just did this because he's not in love and it's not worth the hassle or if he did it because he doesn't want to ruin his relationship with Vince."

"Thank God my kid is too young for any of yours." Simone said. "This is so messy."

"I understand Jensen has a past, but when I found out he was dating her we talked about it for a long time. The last thing I wanted was for him to hurt my goddaughter." Letty said. "But what Vince did was out of line. I almost don't even want to tell Dom."

"I know. It's pretty bad. He's going to apologize. We've already talked about it. Can you talk to Jeny for me? I feel awful."

"I have to. It's not like him not to come home unless he's staying at his brother's place."

"We can set up a meeting for them, and they can talk it out."

"Alright" Letty said. She finished her lunch with her friends and went in search of Jensen. She called him, but he would not pick up. She had a feeling she'd find him in Tony's garage since Alexus was out of town.

"I've been looking for you." She said from afar. Jensen was building an engine. "Is that for Mazda?"

"Just tweaking it." He said with a nod.

"How long have you been here?"

"Not that long."

"You didn't come home."

"You noticed."

"If my kid doesn't come home, you bet your ass I'm gonna hear about it." He didn't look up, and continued to work on the engine. "So are you gonna tell me what happened or am I going to fill in the blanks." The young man shrugged. "So I hear something happened between you and Vanessa?"

"We're done. That's it."

"Something tells me that's not it. Why?"

"We should have never been together in the first place."

"Why because of Vince?"

"Everyone will be happier if we aren't together. It's too complicated."

"Are you happier?" Letty said taking his face in her hands.

"It doesn't matter. Uncle Vince doesn't want us together. I'm not gonna disrespect his wishes."

"You know your grandmother never accepted your father. It's probably one of the reasons I ended up with your brother in the first place." Letty informed her son getting slightly emotional. It was still very hard for her to speak about Ana. "She would say dreadful things about him, and we didn't talk for months when I was pregnant because I chose him. She couldn't let me go. It was really hard. It is for any parent. I didn't get that until it was my turn. When you boys started dating, I was heartbroken because I was no longer going to be the only woman in your life. It was hard for me to accept, but I did, just how my mom finally approved of your father."

"Uncle V was pretty clear with how he felt about me so I think I'm just going to keep my distance."

"Do you love her?"

"It doesn't matter if I love her?"

"Yes it does because love is something you fight for. You don't just give up. If I hadn't fought to be with your father, I wouldn't have any of you. I think we built a pretty good life. Don't you?"

"But you're not fighting now"

"I am. Regardless of what you may think, I would never just let your father go."

"I'm not good enough for her."

"Says who?"

"She's a musical prodigy. Her life is already on the fast track. She's already in the spotlight. I'm just gonna hold her back. She can do better. She's funny, sweet, and smart."

"You're also funny, sweet and smart. You have a genius IQ. Did you forget? We confirmed that shit so I could brag about it. You design and build cars. You have a six-figure job waiting for you at GM as soon as you graduate. I think you're going to be just as successful."

"I'll mess it up. I always do. I always disappoint you guys. I'll disappoint her too. Hell I already have."

"Don't think like that. You believe it then it will happen, so make sure you believe in the right thing. You're destined for greatness, and I'm not saying that because I made you. You're gifted. You're not the kid that fucks around because school is too easy and you get bored. You've grown into a man I am very proud of. You should be confident in yourself."

"I don't feel comfortable being in a relationship Uncle V isn't down with."

"Then man up and talk to him. You don't just give up and breakup with someone when shit gets hard."

"Yeah", Jensen responded pensively.

"I'm gonna leave you alone for a while. I hope to see you home later. I'll make your favorite." She said placing a kiss on his cheek. "I love you."

"I love you too." He told her as she walked away.

"Axel let's go!" On the way to her car she received a phone call from Claude.

"Hello?"

"Letty! Good news I had someone cancel today so I now have an opening."

"Oh, um I don't think I need to come in anymore."

"I'm sure we could find plenty to delve into."

"Something's come up and I won't be able to make it. I should have called you."

"That's unfortunate. I was really looking forward to seeing you. Are you sure?"

"Yeah, I can just wait until Monday for the original appointment."

"We could have a short meeting." He insisted. "It wouldn't have to be a long session."

"I have plans with my family tonight. It's just not going to work out."

"I understand. Let me know if you need anything."

"I will. Thanks again."

"Call me if anything."

"Sure"