Letty's POV
Dom and Vince were silent when they came back and it turned out they hadn't raced all night. But the way they kept looking at me made me nervous and I wondered if Hector had found out somehow and told them.
Mia also seemed to notice and later on she too agreed that they knew something. The ride back to the house was quiet and tense and this time round I had opted to sit in the back.
When we arrived home I quietly retreated up stairs before anyone noticed and locked myself in my room. I turned my light on and quickly searched my room just in case before double checking the lock on the window.
Turning my head I saw my mobile flash with a message. I dreaded picking it up in case it was Jason but I did it anyway. And of course it was from him.
After school Monday, meet at the bike shed.
Don't disobey me Letty, you'll only regret it.
I quickly deleted the message just in case someone decided to go snooping and got ready for bed. Taking off Mia's jumper I had taken possession of before carefully peeling off my tank top. I winced as I felt pain right down my side. Looking at the bruises in the mirror I knew I'd have to give in and go to the doctors tomorrow they were pretty bad. Of course this wasn't the same lot either. No this was a new batch from last night's little outing. I felt ill at the sight of the cuts made by Matt and Jason. They'd gotten hold of a knife and thought it would be fun to try out. The bruises on my neck however had gotten pretty black and purple there was no way to hide them anymore, even Mia wasn't that good. But what me sick the most was the feeling of their hands still on my body no matter how many times I had washed myself I never felt clean.
The day after the school incident I was to meet Jason at the sheds and that was the day I had been made to do horrible things. I let a few tears escape I was lucky in a way. I had for the time being anyway managed to stop them from actual sex so I was still very much a virgin but it was the other degrading things I'd been made to do that gave me the nightmares. It was mainly just hand jobs and being used as their punching bag but Jason had made me go down on him on a couple of occasions, while Matt had taken a picture. I shook my head clearing my thoughts.
Thinking quickly I pulled the jumper back on and quickly headed into the bathroom opening the door and shutting the door behind me.
Rummaging around the cupboards I couldn't seem to locate the pain relief tablets I knew we had.
Groaning I clutched my side in pain as I twisted the wrong way.
"Where the fuck is it?" I asked myself angrily.
"Looking for something?" I froze in shock I hadn't realised that there had been anyone in here when I barged in.
Turning around I blushed as I realised I had barged in on Dom getting out of the shower. He was still wet and he had beads of water trailing down his chest and his towel hung low on his hips making him look very…. Fuck he was gorgeous. I thought as I opened my mouth and then closed it again.
"Let, you okay?" he asked as he stared at me.
"Uh yeah…. I'm so sorry I didn't even think about whether someone might be in here when I opened the door." I rambled.
"It's alright; you gave me a fright though. What are you looking for?" His tone sounded as if he already knew which made me think of at the races. Sighing I gave up and leant against the sink, it was obvious he and Vince knew something.
"I was looking for the pain killers." I said tiredly. He stepped forward towards me looking me up and down before resting his hands on my hips. I let out a squeak of surprise as he picked me up easily and placed me on the counter top. Nudging my legs apart he bent down to the cupboard reaching in and pulling out the packet I had been looking for. Standing up he handed them to me to take, I smiled slightly in thanks and took them from him.
"Thanks."
"No problem." He said as he stood between my legs. It was a rather an interesting position considering anyone could have walked in and found us and surprisingly after everything I'd been through I was okay like this with him. I felt safe.
"You ready to tell the truth yet, now it's just you and me here." He asked quietly reaching up to push my hair back away from my neck. I closed my eyes and knew then and there he knew what had happened.
"You obviously already know, my bet is that Hector told you." Sighing he traced the new marks on my neck with his fingertips.
"Point is Let he shouldn't have had to. You should have told me, you should have told me you were in trouble." He said making me look at him.
"I couldn't, I was too scared."
"I know. And that's not the Letty I know."
"I'm allowed to be scared every once in a while Dom." I said loudly.
"Shhhh… I know, I'm not saying you can't be. You can be anything you want to be Letty scared, angry, happy whatever. Point is you don't have to be alone in it." I sat listening to his words. He was right I should have listened to Mia and told Dom.
"They won't be hassling you again; we'll make sure of it. I felt sick when I found out what they'd been doing to you and what they'd originally planned."
"The gang ra-"
"Don't say it, please. I've only just managed to calm down." Silence fell over us before Dom asked another question.
"Is this all the damage they did?" he asked pointing to the marks on my neck. I shook my head and scooted forward a bit reaching for the end of the jumper. Dom watched wearily as I pulled it over my head and then I heard his angry sigh. As he took in my taped up ribs just above and below you could see some of the bruising and the still bleeding cuts and healing ones that littered my mid-section.
"Damn Letty, what were you thinking keeping this to yourself?" he asked as he reached forward and started to slowly unravel the bandage.
"You aren't going to school next week, not in this condition." I was too tired to argue so all I did was nod. Leaning my head back against the mirror I closed my eyes as Dom felt around my ribs looking for any broken ones, I winced as he pushed against them all.
"I don't think any are broken, but they'll be badly bruised for a long while. And those cuts need attention; I'll take you to the doctors in the morning."
"Thanks." I said as I sat up again reaching for the jumper when he stopped me.
"Here." He said handing over his shirt.
"It won't rub as much on your skin as yours will." I smiled thanking him as I pulled it over my head and put my arms through.
"Let's talk Let, I can see your hurt but is there anywhere you're hurt that I can't see?" I understood what he was asking and I shook my head.
"No, it never got that far." He let out a breath of relief.
Dom's POV
"How did Hector find out?" she asked.
"Jason's mum found pictures in his room." She looked broken even more the minute I got the words out.
"So you've seen them then?" she asked sadly.
"I took one look at one and I closed the folder."
"They made me do some awful things but it was to stop them from…." I nodded in understanding as she trailed off as her tears started.
"I know. Let why didn't you tell me?"
"They threated doing things to Mia if I did." Running my hand over my head I looked over Letty. I looked down and remembered she hadn't had her pain killers yet.
"Come to my room with me, it can't be comfortable up there." I said gently sliding her off the counter. I watched as she turned around so I could get changed once I'd finished, I picked up the pain killers before leading her out of the bathroom and into my room.
"I'll go and get you some water." I said as she got comfy on my bed. Rushing down to the kitchen I flipped on the kitchen light and quickly got a glass of water before turning the light off and headed upstairs again.
"Here take two of them." I told her as she took the glass from me and did as I had told her to do before placing the glass on the side table.
"thanks." I smiled and shut off the bedroom light and closed the door. I crawled up onto the bed too and got under the covers and settled as she lay down.
"Get some sleep Letty. We'll talk more in the morning." I said yawning. I felt her nod and I snaked my arm out to cover her over too before pulling her close enough mindful of her injuries.
"Tell me to back off whenever you need to Letty."
"I feel safe with you Dom, I won't have to tell you to back off." I smiled into the darkness and quickly fell asleep. It was a shock to realise how better I felt now that she was back to sleeping in with me.