Dom's POV
V and I won our race and not long after that we headed back to the fort. The ride back was silent again and it shocked me when Letty fell asleep. Something was so not right. I thought.
Pulling up at the fort I noticed Mia too was asleep and waited by the car for Vince to arrive to help carry Mia.
"Dude what's up?" Vince asked as he saw me waiting.
"Need some help, they fell asleep on the way back." He nodded as Leon and Jesse went and unlocked the house. Opening the door I carefully undid Letty's seat belt and picked her up. She stirred as I pulled her out.
"Shh its okay go back to sleep." I whispered as I started up the stairs and towards her room.
Placing her down in her bed I reached for the covers when I noticed her shirt had ridden up. I frowned as I noticed the bluish tint to her skin in that area. Gently afraid of waking her up in fright I inched up her shirt and swore as I saw the bruises and the bandage around her middle.
Sighing I realised that was why Mia had yelled for me to be careful. Pulling her shirt back down I covered her over and walked out leaving the door open for the night.
"Yo man, Mia's in bed asleep, I'm gonna head to bed too."
"Before you go, I just finished putting Letty to bed. You remember how Mia yelled at me for pushing Letty into the car?" he nodded confused.
"I know why. Her jumper had ridden up and man she's got fucking bruises everywhere, taped up ribs too." I explained. Vince looked angry.
"Go wake her up and find out what the hell's going on." He said loudly. I just shook my head.
"Nah dude, she'll just run. We need to find out on our own." I said trying to keep calm.
"Who are you thinking? Jason and his mates or Nathan and Tyler." I thought about it for a moment Nathan was pretty riled up with her.
"Maybe we go and have a chat to Nathan tomorrow just in case." V agreed and we let it for night both of us locking up and heading off to bed.
I laid awake for a long while though thinking about what might have happened, sighing in frustration I wished she'd just come clean about it but she was stubborn and I knew she wouldn't. Rolling over I closed my eyes and fell into a fitful sleep.
The next morning
I woke up and got up. I walked past Letty's room and realised she was still asleep so I shut the door halfway before continuing downstairs. Mia was in the kitchen making breakfast for everyone.
"Morning." She said as I kissed her on the head.
"Morning." I replied as I sat down at the table next to Vince. We shared a look before smiling at Mia who placed a stack of pancakes down on the table.
"Make sure you leave some for Letty." she said. everyone nodded and we had breakfast while Mia went up to grab Letty.
"Let's go straight after breakfast." Vince said I nodded and Leon and Jesse looked at me understanding. I looked to Vince and he nodded.
"Yeah V told us before he went to bed last night." Leon said.
"You really think it was Nathan? He don't seem the type." Jesse said.
"Never know, and it won't hurt to find out." I explained just before the Mia came back.
"Where's Letty?" Leon asked and I sat and waited for the answer.
"She doesn't feel well so she didn't want anything. I'm just taking her up some pain killers." She said with her back to us. Raising an eyebrow at Vince I realised she was obviously in a lot of pain.
"Fair enough well Vince and I have to head out to Harry's to pick up some parts and Leon and Jesse are staying here. Be back soon." I said as V and I got up and headed out before she could say anything.
We took my car and wasn't long before we pulled up in front of his house. Getting out we knocked loudly on the door.
"What the fuck do you want? Isn't it enough that you steal my girlfriend?" Nathan shouted when he realised who we were.
"Just here to have a chat okay?" Vince said as he pushed past and into the house.
"Yeah right." He muttered.
"Okay let's get down to business shall we? Why the hell is Letty covered in bruises?" I asked icily. He looked genuinely confused,
"What the hell are you talking about?" Vince looked at me and I realised this kid had nothing to do with Letty's injuries. Sighing I looked at the kid who seemed to be worried.
"Never mind, you obviously have nothing to do with it." I said.
"Hang on a second you barged in here accusing me of what? Hitting Letty? and now that I'm asking what's happened you're ready to walk out the door. I don't think so." He shouted.
"Kid, after what you called Letty last night you've got no right to know what's going on." Vince said as we started out the door. He sighed.
"Wait, I may have an idea." I studied him for a minute and nodded for him to continue.
"After lunch we were on our way back to class and all of a sudden Letty said she left a book her locker that she had to go and get. But she never came back to class, at first Mia was worried but then she received a text and she stopped worrying but I wasn't near enough to ask what it said. anyway the teacher wanted someone to deliver something to another teacher, I volunteered. " he paused looking at me.
"I was walking towards the office when I heard voices, a heap of them coming from the girls bathroom and then the door started opening so I quickly hid. It was a bunch of Jason's mates and they waited outside the bathroom. Then Jason came out and him and Matt were hi fiving each other. I thought they must of scored a lay from a couple of cheerleaders. Everyone knows that group likes to take turns. But then…." I took a step closer.
"And then what?" I asked not liking where this was leading.
"I heard Letty's named mentioned. They were talking about what they should have done and Jason was talking about what he and her were planning on doing next. Rather graphic detail too might I add. Up until that point I thought they must have been giving her a hard time and I was worried about her until I heard them talking about how good she was. I realised she'd cheated on me. But maybe that's not the case anymore. I left before Letty came out, I didn't hear from her until she rang me later that night breaking up with me telling me she'd cheated on me with you. It made my blood boil cos I had heard everything they'd said and she hadn't mentioned any of them. At the races when she turned up next to your side and they'd been allowed back I just lost it." He explained. Biting my tongue I was worried what might have happened. There was one thing he had said that didn't sit well with me and that was that they like to take turns. I couldn't stomach the thought of them doing something like that to Letty.
"I'm sorry, I just jumped to the wrong conclusion." He said. I nodded and I gave V a look and we left. He looked as sick as I felt at the thought of what Nathan had said.
"Dom they might not have…." He said as I clenched the steering wheel tightly.
"Yeah but we don't know that." I said angrily. We agreed to keep quiet and not confront Mia or Letty. The week went on slowly and more and more I noticed Letty sneaking off after work or after school and returning late into the night. At first I thought she must have actually been seeing this dick but it wasn't till Vince pointed out her stiff movements as she reached for a tool in the garage that I realised that wasn't the case. And I was getting worried.
Friday night at the races
It had taken a lot of convincing to get the girls to come, I had wanted to keep an eye on them and I had to be at the races. Hector had been in touch saying he had something to show me at the races, and I was hoping it would put some closure on the Letty problem.
I stopped my car and got out the girls again had chosen to ride with me rather than going alone. I nodded to Hector and Edwin as they started heading over.
"Hey you two, stay by the cars tonight, there a lot of people here tonight." They nodded and quietly chatted to one another.
I let Jesse and Leon with the girl as Hector, Edwin, Vince and I moved away to chat.
"What up man?" I asked as I shook hands with them.
"Carefully look over in their direction, check the way they're eyeing up Letty." Vince said. We agreed and Hector sighed turning towards me.
"Listen I got some news for ya, about Letty and Jason . This is messed up bro. I don't know how to go about this. My aunt was going through his room the other day after we had a chat about what had been going on. She found these." I took the folder from Hector and flicked it open getting angrier at every picture I saw. They were different shots of Letty from months back and some newer ones, he'd obviously been planning something like this for a while. It was just far away pictures but he'd obviously been stalking her for a while.
"Flick to the back." Edwin said tensely, I looked up at him as I got a bad feeling in my gut but did as he said I took one look before I had to close it. Vince swore and punched the nearest wall and I was shaking in rage.
"My aunt wants you to press charges after you confront Letty." Hector said, I stared at him before looking back over to where Letty was standing.
"Yeah man, sorry man I didn't think it would come to this." I said.
"Nah bro he brought this on himself." Edwin stated
"Edwin caught a couple of Jason's mates talking about something disturbing that's what tipped me off about the photos. His mates have been dealt with it's just Matt and Jason. "Hector said quietly as we walked through the crowd back towards our cars.
"How do I confront Letty about this?" I muttered to myself. They all looked at me sadly.
"Carefully bro, really carefully." Edwin said as we got with earshot of the girls. I went around and placed the folder in the car under my seat for now.
"Hey when's you're race?" Mia asked as we got back. I looked at Hector before sighing.
"We decided to not race tonight, just a bunch of new comers tonight that suck badly. No point he reckons." Hector and Edwin nodded in agreement. I caught the look of fear that flashed across Letty's face as Edwin Looked over at her and I knew she'd realised I'd found something out.
"Hey we're gunna pack it in early, scene's dead tonight." Vince said as we said goodbye to the boys. Letty jumped in the back before Mia had a chance and I sighed clenching my fist as I caught a glimpse of the two thugs responsible for this mess. I used everything I had not to go and kill them here so I got in the car and took off for home all the while wondering what I was going to say to Letty.