Page 61 of Dom 5: The Finale
I nodded. “I absolutely came for you.”
That was all it took before he kissed me hard like he had been waiting on it. Like he had been holding it in. His hands moved around my waist, pulling me closer against him while I wrapped my arms around his neck. The kiss got deeper fast and messier too like we needed each other. All the tension from the last few weeks came out in that kiss. From the ignored calls, the missed texts, the jealousy, the pride, the wanting and everything else. He backed me up against the kitchen island and kissed down my neck while I closed my eyes and grabbed the front of his shirt.
“You know how bad I missed you?” he asked against my skin.
“How bad?”
“Bad enough to be mad every time my phone ring, and I had to force myself not to pick up. Fuck I missed you, damn.” He admitted. That made those little butterflies form in my stomach because I had done that. I had made him feel that way. He liftedhis head and looked at me for a second. “You don’t got no idea what you do to me.”
Before I could respond, my other phone started going off and I ignored it. He ignored it too but then it went off again, and again, and again. I sighed and reached into my purse for the second phone I had powered back on. The second I looked at the screen, my stomach dropped. I had missed calls, texts, and voicemails all from Carmen. It was what the voicemail she left that had me going because I never heard her cry and I could tell she was terrified. I prayed that nothing was wrong with the baby especially when she said they said she might have to have the baby. Even I knew that it was too early.
“Oh my God.” I gasped.
He looked at me intensely. “What?”
I looked up at him, with panic already all over my face. “Carmen in the hospital.”
His face changed instantly. “What happened?”
“She’s bleeding and my niece or nephew might come early. She can’t reach Dom and it’s not looking too good.” I looked back down at the phone. “They saying she might have to have the baby.”
He was quiet for a second. Then he stepped back and looked at me. “You gotta go then.”
I nodded my head fast. “I know.”
He stared at me for another second, with disappointment flashing across his face because he already knew the moment was over and I could see it. I saw that little part of him that felt like I was about to disappear on him all over again but not this time.
“If you don’t have nothing to do,” I said softly, “I have a family emergency… and I would love for you to come with me.”
He looked at me for a second. Then his face softened back up. “Yeah,” he nodded. “I’m coming.”
“You sure?”
“O, if it matter to you, it matter to me no matter what it is.”
That almost made me emotional all over again. Instead, I nodded. “Go get dressed.”
He kissed my forehead before heading toward the stairs. “I’ma always have yo’ back,” he said before disappearing upstairs. “No matter what.”
DOMINIC ROYAL
The wheels of the jet kissed the private strip outside Miami, and something in my spirit just didn’t feel right and for whatever reason it felt like somebody had reached inside me and grabbed hold of everything at one time. I had been sitting across from Tone acting like the whole ride back was just another trip, and another night that ended the way I wanted it to end but the truth was the whole flight home had felt off in a way I couldn’t explain.
Tone had barely said shit, which for him wasn’t unusual when his mind in other places, but every few minutes I would catch him rubbing his beard or looking out the window like he was already somewhere else. Meanwhile, Rell had been even quieter. He spent most of the ride sitting a little forward in his seat with his forearms on his thighs, staring out into the dark like he didn’t trust the pilot was gone get us back there safe. In all honesty we was all tired in our own way.
We had all been moving in silence for hours. Still, the second the plane stopped and the pilot’s voice came over the speaker telling us we had arrived, the air in got thick and I felt it before I even reached for my phone. I had left my personal phones home whole time I was gone, and the second I powered the otherphones on, it lit up so fast it pissed me off. Messages started popping up fast. The shit started vibrating so hard in my hand that for a second all I could do was stare down at the screen while name after name kept coming in. It was Carmen, O’Shynn, the house, hell even Candy D. I saw a missed call from Keondra too, and even one from the hospital line itself.
My stomach went straight to my ass and that didn’t happen to me. Across from me, Tone finally powered his own phone on and looked down at it with a frown.
“Nah,” he muttered, and his voice sounded low and dangerous. “Something wrong.”
Before I could even sort through the calls, O’Shynn’s name was coming across my screen again. I answered before the second ring finished because something in me already knew. I could hear noise behind her the second the line connected. Then her voice came through.
“Where the fuck you at?” she snapped, not even bothering with hello. “Why you ain’t been answering your phone?”
“I just landed,” I told, already standing up and reaching for my jacket. “What happened?”
There was a pause on her end first, which definitely let me know something was wrong. Then she exhaled like she was forcing herself to say it fast before she lost it. “Carmen in the hospital.”
