Chapter 13
Dominik
My face was in Talia’s neck as I tried to hide my laughter.
When I heard a voice, I hadn’t heard in almost fifteen years.
A voice that hadn’t changed.
Not one goddamned bit.
“Dominik?”
I kept my face planted in Talia’s neck as I felt her stiffen.
Thankfully, my arms were wrapped around her waist as I lifted my head and looked at the woman.
“Jillian?” I asked.
She nodded, then a tentative smile spread across her face. “How have you been?”
I looked at her, took her in, then looked at my woman, and winked at her, “Been doing good. Been doing real good.”
Talia’s glare was wiped away with a soft smile on her face.
Then I looked back at Jillian and asked, “Can I help you?”
“Erm, well, I was hoping we could get a coffee and talk? Maybe catch up?” she asked.
That was when I fully took in what she was wearing.
How the fuck she still fit in that pink dress I had liked on her was beyond me.
And that was when I knew. She didn’t want to, maybe, catch up. Nope, she wanted me back.
A sudden thought occurred to me, then I looked at Talia, “Gotta get back to work?”
She shook her head, “Nope. Took a half day because you said there was something you wanted to show me.”
I nodded. “I had planned to do that later, but now is as good a time as any.”
Talia frowned, but slowly, she nodded.
I caught it.
That slow nod.
She was working on her trust issues, and I could have kissed her for that.
Wait, she’s my woman.
I bent my neck and captured her lips with my own.
Kissing those cupid bow lips of hers, and just like it always did, where she was concerned, my cock got hard.
I pulled away and marveled at the soft look on her face, the look only I was able to see.
Then I shifted us, so her body was blocking mine.
She twisted her neck, curved her back slightly, and then looked down at my coveralls that were covering my cock and smirked.
I winked at her, then looked at Jillian, and felt a chuckle start to build up at the look on her face.
Yeah, I definitely knew why she was here.
Then I tipped my chin, “Coffee place three blocks over. Let’s go.”
I wrapped an arm around Talia’s waist and started to propel her forward.
“Umm, I was planning on it just being the two of us,” Jillian said.
I shook my head, “Whatever you wanna say to me, can be said in front of her.”
“Oh, well,” she said, then her shoulders dropped.
And then they straightened, and Jillian looked at Talia, “Surely you wouldn’t mind. Right?”
Talia
Umm, hell yes, I mind, ya hoe bag.
I shook my head, “Where Dominik goes, I go.”
I watched as that penetrated Jillian’s head.
And then I caught her flinch. And I knew why.
He hadn’t allowed her to call him Dominik.
My entire body melted.
Then I recalled what Dominik had told me about her.
And without thinking, I tore out of Dom’s grasp and marched to her.
I heard Dominik mutter, “Fuck me.”
I didn’t stop.
Her confusion at what I was doing was written clear as day on her face.
But her confusion would be wiped away in three, two, one, my hand came up, and I slapped her across her face as hard as I could.
She gasped, then stumbled to the side.
I growled, “That was for making him feel like he was less than. That was for making him feel like he wasn’t good enough. And bitch, if I could get away with it, I’d kill you for aborting his baby. You’re a disgrace.”
“It was my right,” she said.
I nodded, “Yeah. It was. As it’s every woman’s right. But the reason you did it, that’s why I want to kill you.”
Her face paled.
I snickered.
“Oh yeah, he found out. You deserve to have your vagina sewn up, you deceitful piece of trash. Who in the fuck aborts their baby because they have a forty percent chance of having Down Syndrome? I’ll tell you, someone who is tainting my oxygen.
Get the fuck out of here, and don’t come back. ” I snapped.
She lifted her upper lip and sneered, the effect of it was lost, due to the red handprint on her cheek, “You can’t tell me to leave, this is Dom’s. Oh, wait, and it’s mine. So, you need to get the fuck off my property.”
Then she looked around me, and smiled at Dominik, “I tried to do this peacefully, but well, fuck that. I want my half. I’m entitled to it.”
I felt Dominik come up behind me and wrap an arm around my waist, his fingers digging into the soft flesh on my belly.
Then he said, “Figured this day would come eventually.” Then, over his shoulder, he called out, “Dain? Go into my office, open the bottom drawer of my filing cabinet, and get the blue folder, yeah?”
“Got it, Boss.”
Then I watched as Leo and Chance tagged the red rags in their back pockets and moved our way.
They cleaned their hands off, then replaced their rags and stood there, glaring at her with their arms crossed over their chest.
Dain came back moments later and handed Dom the folder.
He bent his neck, pressed a kiss on my head, then let me go.
Then I watched as he opened the blue folder and started pulling documents out.
“This is a copy of the divorce decree. This is a copy of the images I got after I hired a PI to track you, after you aborted my baby. By my count, and what I could prove, you cheated on me with seven men.”
It took everything I had in me not to throw this in his face.
All the times he had been a chicken shit. It made sense.
Damn it all.
Then she had the audacity to smirk, “Well.”
I lunged for her, but was hauled up by his steely, muscled arm, against Dom’s chest.
“Settle, Minx. I know.” He whispered in my ear.
“It’s still half of mine. What’s yours is mine,” she said.
Then she crossed her arms over her chest.
Dominik chuckled, “Fine. Take it to court. I can’t wait to get half of the ten million dollars you got from your ex-husband. I also can’t wait to get half of that estate you own in Paris.”
Jillian’s eyes widened.
I smirked, “He isn’t just some two-bit mechanic. Oh, and look, you looked down your nose at him for that, and here you are, thinking you're entitled to half of it. The nerve of some people.”
“The only woman who will ever be entitled to anything of mine is the woman in my arms,” Dominik said.
To that, Jillian eyed me up and down, then looked at Dominik, and opened her mouth, but I was done.
Therefore, I snapped, “You’re the dumb bitch who didn’t hold onto a good thing when she had it. Not our problem. Now, since I am about to be his wife, I won’t ever demand half of what he’s worked his ass off for. But I will ask for permission to tell you that you can get the fuck off his property.”
The guys chuckled.
Then Dominik said, “You don’t have to have permission for shit.”
I nodded, then looked at Jillian, “Well?”
She opened her mouth, and I held up my hand to stop her, “You tried. You failed. Get the fuck gone, and stay gone.”
I watched as she processed everything, and then she made the smart decision to leave.
Good fucking riddance.
Dominik winked down at me, brought his thumb to underneath my chin and applied slight pressure, and then he kissed me.
Softly.
Telling me without words how he felt.
And I marveled in it.
When he pulled his lips from mine, he winked, “You ready?”
At my nod, he winked, tagged my hand, and then led me out to his SUV.
Twenty minutes later, I was frowning at the walking trail.
I looked down at my heels, then over at him.
He caught my look, winked, then pulled my tennis shoes from the back and handed them to me.
I changed out of my heels and put on my sneakers.
A fitted plum dress and black sneakers... I could totally rock this look.
Hand in hand, he led me up the walking trail, about a third of the way up or so, then he veered right.
And when I saw the open area, a field of wildflowers in full bloom, I grinned.
That was when he dropped the bomb, “This is where my parents were married. I’d love to marry you right here.”
I couldn’t think of a better place.
I looked up at him as I wrapped my arms around his waist and nodded, “Sounds fucking perfect.”
He grinned, then he sobered, and looked down into my eyes, “Know I’ve unknowingly hurt you before, Talia, I won’t do it again.”
I winked, “If we don’t hurt each other and can be honest, it means we’re not fighting hard enough to make this work.”
He nodded, then kissed me senseless, then I whispered against his lips, “You know what would be a great fantasy?”
He winked, “What’s that?”
“To make love to you in a field of wildflowers and not have to worry about bugs crawling into places they shouldn’t be.”
“You had my cock rock hard, then you ruined it.” He said dryly.
I laughed in his face.