This is intended for a mature audience..

"Son of a bitch!" Tina cursed, tempted to slam the hood of her '69 Mustang. It was supposed to have been a surprise gift for her boyfriend, Lanzo, but her surprise had been coming home and finding him in bed with his old girlfriend Carlene. Deciding to keep the car for herself, she'd gone for a cruise. Could she help it that they lived in a desert? "Middle of fucking nowhere," she growled, glaring down at the engine. "All the original parts." She poked around the engine, grimacing when one of the hoses crumbled beneath her fingertips. "All fucking original."

Her head snapped up as she heard the roar of an approaching engine. She brought up a hand to shade her eyes, but it did no good. The sun was too bright. She did manage to see a man...a very big man climb out of the car and walk toward her. He rattled off something in Spanish and Tina sighed. Another drawback of the desert. Everyone spoke Spanish...except her. "No habla espanol," she said, shaking her head and hoping she was pronouncing the words right. "English, por favor."

"You're in a very bad place for someone who can't speak Spanish," he said, reaching her. "Car problems?"

That's stating the obvious, she thought but didn't say. He was too big to piss off...even if he did look sort of familiar. "It's got all the original parts," she said, studying him as he leaned beneath the hood, "including hoses."

"I see that," he chuckled as another hose crumbled at his touch. Straightening, he smiled down at her. "I know you, don't I? Lanzo's girl."

She snorted, "Not anymore." When his dark brows raised in question, she shook her head. "Doesn't matter. Can you help me?" His dark eyes studied her, and she stared up at him. She remembered him now. He and Lanzo had hung out sometimes, working on cars. "You're Dominick, right?"

He looked surprised. "Yeah...I am...and I'll help you. We'll just tow the Mustang behind..."

"Tow it? Now?" She glanced back at his car. It was an older model, but she couldn't think which one off the top of her head. "Couldn't we leave it and come back with a tow truck?"

"We leave it, and you'll have nothing left...not even a frame." He smiled. "The scavengers out here aren't all four footed."

"Oh."

"I'll go get the chains hooked up. You just pop it into neutral."

Tina watched him walk toward his car. As she moved to do as he'd bid, she watched as he pulled his car around in front of hers, and backed up to it. She popped the clutch, and set the car in neutral. As she climbed from the car, Dominick appeared magically at her door. "All set?" she asked.

He nodded. "Do you want to ride with me?"

She liked the fact that he'd asked. Lanzo would have just told her to go get in the car. "Sure," she said, "we can talk on the way back to town...I guess," she added when his dark brows drew down.

"Yeah, whatever," he growled, heading for his car.

Tina stared at his back for a moment before walking around to the passenger side of his car. What a fucking wonderful day...

...Further Down the Road...

"There's my cell if you want to call Lanzo," Dominick said, nodding toward the cell phone on the dashboard.

"Lanzo can go to hell."

"Found out about Carlene being back, huh?"

Tina's dark eyes narrowed. "Does everyone know she's back?"

Dominick shrugged. "She only asked everyone in town where you two lived." He glanced at her before turning back to the road. "She didn't seem too concerned about you, though."

"No reason why she should," Tina replied sarcastically.

"So you're leaving him?" Dominick asked.

"Not in that thing," she pointed out with a chuckle.

Dominick didn't laugh with her. "You could stay with me...if you wanted to."

"With you?" she asked, surprised. "Why?"

Dominick shrugged. "Lanzo told me how you left all your family back East." He was quiet for a long moment. "I know what that's like."

"You've got family back East?"

He shook his head. "No. L.A."

"L.A.? Did you know Lanzo from there?"

He shrugged. "We ran into each other."

O-kay, she thought. "You've got family in L.A.?" she asked.

"A sister."

Tina didn't have to wonder at the sudden pain in his voice. She knew all too well how it felt to leave family behind. Letting the subject drop, she asked, "So...why Arizona?"

"It's close to Mexico," he replied. "My turn for a question."

"Fire away."

Keeping his eyes on the road, he asked, "Are you leaving Lanzo?"

Tina turned her gaze out to the road. She would. She'd known all along that she didn't stand a chance against his past. Carlene was a major part of that past. "Yeah...I am."

"Like I said...you can stay with me."

Tina stared at him. She remembered Lanzo talking about Dominick once, asking her about him and how she knew him. She hadn't known anything, and had told him so. He'd told her that Dominick had been asking about her...that she should avoid him.

Fuck that, she thought, seeing Dominick in a new light. He was interested in her.

"Well?" he prodded.

"Sure, I'll stay...but only until I can arrange to go home."

"Back East?"

She nodded, but the prospect brought little joy. She hated being in the middle of this desert, but the thought of going back to the city...she sighed.

They pulled up to Dominick's place. He worked out of the garage in back of the house. A shed converted to a garage, she realized, as she watched him push the Mustang into the dark interior. Car parts littered the small space. "Looks familiar," she chuckled when Dominick came out.

He froze. "What?"

"Lanzo's got shit everywhere, too."

He relaxed. "Guess it needs a woman's touch," he said, heading for the house.

It was Tina's turn to freeze. She didn't miss the way he looked at her when he said it...or the thrill that shot down her spine.

The more time she spent with him, the more she liked him, Tina decided. There was more to Dominick than his gruff exterior. She found herself wanting to peel back the layers to discover the man beneath. She liked the fact that he was taller than her. There was something about having to look up to meet his eyes. Lanzo was her height, so that was never an issue with him.

She also found herself attracted to him. She couldn't get enough of his broad shoulders...his muscular arms, displayed quite nicely in his white wife-beater.

Dominick turned to talk to her, caught her staring, and smiled. "Coming?" he asked.

Not yet, but almost, she thought. "Yeah," she mumbled then joined him in the house. A blast of cool air welcomed her, and her eyes closed as she sighed. "Mmm," she moaned softly, "heaven." When she opened her eyes, she caught him watching her hungrily.

"You want heaven?" he asked in a husky rumble, crossing to stand in front of her. "I can take you there."

He just stood there, giving her a choice.

Slowly, hesitantly, she ran her fingertips lightly up his bare arms to the base of his throat. Tina stared up into his dark eyes, her heart pounding at the flare of desire in his eyes. "Then do it," she said softly.

He grinned then he was touching her. His big hands left trails of fire everywhere they landed: her arms, her shoulders, her neck. He cupped her face in those hands. Slowly, still giving her a chance to move away, he bent his head and kissed her.

There was nothing hesitant about his kiss. His lips moved over hers hungrily, devouring her. She moaned into his mouth, gasping as his big hands gripped her ass and dragged her against him. She wrapped her legs around his waist when he picked her up, and then they were moving. A moment later, she felt softness at her back; a rush of cool air as he pulled back. She watched his shirt come off and get tossed carelessly aside. The hard points of his nipples drew her fingers, and wrenched a moan from him as she tweaked them lightly.

"I meant to go slow," he panted, his hands gripping the bottom of her shirt, "but you move too fast...and now I can't." He tore her shirt, exposing her bra clad breasts. That, too, disappeared. Then his mouth came down hard on hers, and she groaned, loving the feeling of his big, hard body on top of hers.

Clothes were quickly discarded then he was between her spread legs, staring down at her. "Beautiful," he groaned, his voice a husky purr. His fingers slid over her nether lips, and he bit back another moan when they came away wet.

Tina closed her hand around his throbbing erection. "I could say the same thing," she said softly, stroking him slowly. His head fell back, and he moaned, his hips thrusting into her hand for a few moments before he pulled away. She watched as he pulled on a condom.

"Too damned fast," he growled, then he was inside her. He froze. "Fuck, you're tight."

Tina could only moan. He filled her. She could feel his heartbeat within her. She arched up, and he slid just a little deeper, brushing against her cervix. "Dom..."

He took the cue and started to move, gritting his teeth as she shuddered. Her nails scored his back as she rode with him, driving him deeper and deeper until she screamed his name. Her teeth came down hard on his shoulder as she shattered.

As her inner muscles spasmed around him, he lost the last shred of his control, driving into her hard once...twice... He moaned her name, coming hard and fast, shuddering as her teeth marked his shoulder before he dropped heavily down on her.

For a few breathless moments, they lay there. Her arms wrapped around him until he pulled back, rising to his elbows. "Too damned fast," he said again, brushing a rough kiss over her lips before pulling out of her. He rolled to his back beside her, pulling her into the crook of his arm. With one hand, he disposed of the used condom.

Tina licked away a bead of sweat that trickled down his chest then met his dark gaze. "Sometimes fast is good," she said.

His free hand ran over cheek. "I want to take my time with you...and I will."

"No more fast and furious?" she asked cheekily, grinning at him.

He grinned back at her. "Maybe later," he chuckled then he pulled her on top of him. "Right now, let's work on slow and sensual."

As Dom pulled her down for a kiss, Tina couldn't have agreed more.

Tina pulled back and stared down into his eyes for a moment before peppering kisses over his throat.

"Tina, I know what you're thinking," he began, his very large hands gripping her shoulders even as he tilted his head to give her better access, "but I need a little time to recover first."

She grinned at him then nipped the lobe of his ear. "I know that," she whispered, tracing the shell of his ear with her tongue, "but can't I have fun in the meantime?"

She felt more than heard his chuckle, then leaned back as he rested his muscular arms behind his head. "Whatever makes you happy."

Straddling his hips, Tina smiled down at him. "You make me happy," she said honestly. Before he could say anything, though, Tina kissed him. She nibbled lightly on his lips, sucked his lower lip into her mouth then pressed her lips to his. Her tongue flicked over his lips, and he groaned. Gaining entrance, she tasted him, her tongue twining with his.

His hands slid into her hair, holding her in place as their mouths mated. Dark strands clung lovingly to his hands.

Tearing her mouth free from his, she once more trailed kisses down his throat. "Damn, you taste good, Dom," she breathed, licking the salt from his skin. Between her legs, she could feel his growing arousal, and slid lower, stroking him with her nether lips.

He shuddered beneath her. He growled something in Spanish, his hands sliding down to her hips, guiding her movements as she rocked against him.

"English, please," she whispered, sucking one of his hard nipples into her mouth. "I don't understand spanish."

"More," he growled then groaned low in his throat as she sucked his nipple harder before sliding lower. She placed a wet trail of kisses, flicking her tongue into his belly button before she slid lower. His hands tightened in her hair. "You might not want to go there," he said huskily.

She paused, remembering belatedly that he'd worn a condom. "Shit," she muttered, knowing that if she took him into her mouth, like she longed to, then her tongue would go numb. She glanced up at him. "Later," she promised, then skirted around his erection. She flicked her tongue over his scrotum, wincing as his hands tightened painfully in her hair.

"No," he growled, pulling her on top of him.

Panting heavily, she stared down into his eyes. "No?"

His lips turned up into a grin. "Now it's your turn," he said, and flipped her over.

Oh shit, Tina thought, finding herself on her back and beneath him again...with him grinning down at her.

He kissed her...once...hot and wet, his tongue sliding into her mouth before he pulled away. Kissing a path to one ear, he whispered, "You move too damn fast, you know that? I'm dying to be inside you again." His arousal pressed against her hip. She arched up, moaning softly as he slid down her body, setting fires in his wake. She shuddered when his mouth claimed one hard dusky nipple, sucking it deep into his mouth as his hand found the other, twirling it between his forefinger and thumb. "Like that?" he breathed against her breast, biting gently just below her nipple, rejoining his downward quest.

Her hands fluttered helplessly over his shoulders...his bald head. She trembled as his tongue flicked in her belly button before sliding lower still. "Dom..." she breathed, then bit her lip to hold back as scream as his tongue flicked over her swollen nether lips. Grabbing fistfuls of the sheet beneath her, she hung on, her eyes shut tight as he tasted her.

Dom lost himself in the sweet depths of her. Her musky scent filled his nostrils, and her taste...wild honey...tart and sweet...he couldn't get enough. His tongue burrowed deep within her, flicking in and out...in and out...

Tina lost control. Heat and light consumed her as Dom's mouth devoured her. She arched once, twice, her body spasming as he tasted her.

As she slowly came back to herself, Tina became aware of Dom snatching another condom off the bedside table. Then he was between her thighs once more. His arousal pressed against her. She arched up, and he slid to the hilt within her. She tried to arch up again, but he grabbed her hips, holding her in place. "Don't move," he growled close to her ear.

His husky voice sent shockwaves through her. She shuddered, her hand flexing spasmodically on his huge arms as she came again, her inner muscles gripping him tightly.

Dom hung frozen above her, his teeth gritted. "Damn," he growled, unable to hold still a moment longer. Surrendering to the urge to move, he flexed his hips, slowly, dragging backward until he was almost out of her before driving forward hard and fast.

Tina cried out, her nails digging into his arms as the pattern was set. Long slow deep thrusts...over and over and over...that sent her spinning out of control again. Her teeth clamped down on his shoulder as the heat and light took her once more.

This time when he felt her muscles contract, he didn't hold back, slamming deep into her as his own orgasm shook him.

Breathless and spent, they clung to each other. The air conditioning slowly cooled them, drying the sweat off their bodies.

It was Dom who heard the knocking first. Muttering under his breath, he climbed off Tina and the bed. The condom followed its predecessor, and Dom picked up his jeans.

Tina opened her eyes to find him pulling on the jeans. "What..." she began, then trailed off when she realized someone was knocking. Then she heard a voice that froze the blood in her veins. "Yo, Dom...open up! It's me...Lanzo."

Her dark eyes were wide as she stared up at him. "Dom..."

"Just stay out of sight for now," he said, and headed out the door with the top button of his jeans still open.

Tina climbed quickly from the bed, winced at the soreness between her legs, and then pulled the sheet off the bed. Wrapping it around her, she went to the doorway, and listened as Dom opened the door.

"Gonna knock the damn door down?" Dom asked, staring down at Lanzo.

Lanzo shook his head. "Sorry, man, but...all hell broke loose, and I just wanted to find her."

"Find who?" he asked, leaning against the doorframe.

"Tina," Lanzo answered. "Seen her?"

Tina's stomach dropped to her bare feet. Swallowing hard, she listened for Dom's reply.

"Why?" Dom asked instead. "She meet Carlene?"

Lanzo winced. "Not exactly." He sighed. "I just...she took off, and she doesn't know shit about the desert...I just hope she's okay."

"She came flying by awhile back. I don't think she was planning on stopping anytime soon."

Lanzo thought for a moment, his dark eyes on the road. "She knows this is the way to town."

"She's probably holed up down at Maria's. You know how tight they are."

And Maria can't stand you, Tina thought, the words hanging in the air, unspoken.

Lanzo must have been thinking the same thing, Tina thought, because he replied, "Yeah, probably." He sighed again. "I guess I'll catch up with her tomorrow."

Tina didn't want to hear anymore. She walked into the bathroom just off Dom's bedroom, and shut the door firmly.

Lanzo started. "You got company?"

Dom bit back a groan. Wonderful fucking timing, Tina, he thought, but he smiled down at Lanzo. "Yeah...I do."

"I'll let you go, then," he said distractedly, his eyes on the road once more. Halfway down the steps, he paused and turned back to Dom. "Dom...if you see her...Tina, I mean...tell her I'm sorry, okay?"

"Sure...if I see her," he added then watched Lanzo climb into his Jeep. A brunette sat in the passenger seat, her caramel colored cheeks darkening slightly as she turned to see him standing in the doorway. Dom waited until Lanzo drove away, away from town, before shutting the door.

"She was with him, wasn't she?"

Dom turned to find Tina in the doorway, the sheet from his bed wrapped around her. "Yeah, she was."

Tina nodded. "You lied to him."

"Would you rather I told him you were here?" he asked in a carefully neutral voice.

Tina thought a moment, then, "No...not yet." Her dark eyes met his. "He'll know about us soon enough."

"Us?" Dom asked, crossing to her. He stared down into her eyes.

"Yeah," she replied, "us." She let the sheet fall. "You did say I could stay with you...didn't you?"

He nodded, speechless as she wrapped her arms around his neck.

Her bare breasts flattened against his chest as she pulled him close. "And you did promise to take me to heaven, didn't you?"

"I thought I just did," he said, his hands coming up to lightly grip her waist, pulling her closer.

She nodded. "Yes, but...I find that I really, really like it there," she breathed, pulling his head down for a kiss.

~~ The End ~~

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