Eternity

Eight

"From the sun to the moon, shining brighter than the stars above" I tell CeCe and Talon over the phone as they are about to go to bed "I love you, daddy loves you. We both love you so much"

"We love you mommy" both of my kids say as some tears run down my face "and our baby sister" Talon says sister while CeCe said "sissy, good night"

"Good night" I tell them "mom?"

"I'm here baby" hearing mom close the door "don't worry baby, John is making a full recovery according to your dad. He should be ready to get back to you and the kids soon"

"It's not just that" After Winston shot my husband, John fell off the building and onto the ground hard that he's been recovering for the last five months "the bounty on John's head"

"Lucifer is telling him about a duel" she assured me "this will give John the chance to be free for good, just hang in there baby. John will return to you soon enough" hanging up the phone, I look up to the stars as tears run down my face.

"Twenty four million dollars?" Dom appears beside me.

"It use to be fourteen million" it was stupid of me to think that if we had a larger bounty to protect my husband that it would end but no, the High Table raised their price "I don't know what I'd do if he died"

"It'll be hard" Dom leans against the stone railing "but you'll manage, you're a strong person RJ. You'll get through this"

"Hernan Reyes hates me" looking over at Dom "after coming home from Italy, I destroyed nearly ten million dollars with of drugs that was in his possession and destroyed his favorite car"

"What happened in Italy?" He asks "I know you won't talk about it but...it couldn't have just been more of a one night stand"

"Leave it be Dom" shaking my head as I wipe away some tears "what happened in Italy was in the past, one day I'll go back but not now" walking inside, I go to my bed and go to sleep.

***

My phone goes off as I am eating some fried chicken, taking a moment to enjoy the time away from everything. Be on my own, not worry about the kids or my husband or being a surgical resident. When you have enough money, you can bribe your hours away.

My phone goes off and I check it, it's an unknown number. Answering it after a few rings "RJ speaking?"

"My Morningstar" some relief goes through my body as I hear John's voice "how's residency?"

"Izzy has cancer" I tell him as the baby kicks "she's kicking"

"She?" He asks

"Our baby" I tell him, rubbing my belly as our baby kicks even more "she wants you to know that she's here, kicking up a storm"

John chuckles "Why are you in Rio?"

"I'm sorry?" I ask

"Rio" he repeats "Vincent Bisset de Gramont" the Marquis "he told me your in Rio, your not allowed there. Hernan Reyes only pulled back the contract on you when I came down there and killed his daughter"

"To be fair his daughter was a self absorbed bitch" raging with him for a moment "back when I was a teenager, I got involved in the underground world of street racing. I was apart of this Crew, we were a family. When I had Talon, I left the world behind like you tried to leave your old world behind when you met Helen"

"Why are you telling me this now?" He asks

"Dominic Toretto, he's like my brother" explaining to him "he's family John, he needs my help and I" my voice cracks "I need a distraction, something to keep my mind off the fact that our lives are falling apart because of Santino" good thing he's in hell. Some of the best demons are torturing his ass right now.

"I will be home soon" he promised me "and when I'm home, we will live the life I promised you"

"I love you so much John" telling him

"I love you too" he says "I'll be with you soon"

Hanging up the phone, I put it away as I hear a commotion from inside. Heading inside, the whole team circled around Mia "What's going on?"

"We are all wanted" Roman tells me "except you"

"What?" Going over to the computer, I see that the whole team minus me is being hunted down by a DSS agent named Luke Hobbs "How did you all enter the country?" Looking around at them all "did you bother to change your names or" They all share a look "this Hobbs probably put you all down the moment you stepped into Rio a few weeks ago, I made sure none of the cameras could see me when I entered" that's because I flew down here.

"Have you ever encountered this man before?" Brian asks me pulling up a picture of this agent Hobbs. Oh shit.

"Yes" nodding my head "Hobbs, he goes by Hobbs and not his first name well yes I've encountered him a few times before"

"Well how did you manage to not end up in prison?" Hans asks

Rubbing the back of my neck as they all stare at me "Because all of our encounters ended up with us being...horizontal" motioning with a straight line and they are confused but Dom and Mia, they were really worried about me when after I came home from Italy pregnant and upset that I decided to have fun.

"Horizontal?" Brian asks "I don't understand"

"I fucked him" they stare at me "before I met my husband, I may or may not have...decided to have a bunch of sex" motioning to the photo "I had sex with him and yeah..."

"You slept with him" Giselle points to the photo "do you think you could talk to him again? Manage to get in and"

I make a sheepish look shaking my head no "let's just say when things ended, it was not in good terms" as in he found out I was pregnant by another man, he accused me of wanting me to find someone else to take responsibility and I told him that it wasn't the case. That I just wanted sex from him, that's it "he thought I was trying to trap him with my first child"

"What?" Dom asks

"I never brought up that I was pregnant with Talon" I say "so when he found out, he thought I was trying to trap him but I told him that that wasn't the case. That I just wanted a fun time, we stopped after that" crossing my arms "took it way too personally especially when I said he wasn't the only man I was sleeping with, I also slept with some women"

"Wait!" Tej holds up his hand "you told him he wasn't the only man you were sleeping with?"

"I was very honest" shrugging my shoulders "not my fault his ego was bruised" they all stare at me "excuse me! But when you are clear with the person from the beginning that it's just sex it's just sex!" The computer glitches for a moment since my electrical powers were affecting it "do you mean not understand that just sex means just sex? No white picket fence or a bunch of kids"

"We understand" Hans says "though this guy obviously didn't"

"Did you ever go on dates?" Roman asks me "also, how many women did you sleep with and what did they look like?" Everyone stares at him "what I'm curious if she was into women with huge breasts or..."

"No and how exactly did we get from him" jabbing my finger to the laptop "hunting you all down to my sex life?"

"Because we've got horny minds" Roman smirks "and your one sexy ass woman" the others minus Hans, Dom and Brian are smiling.