Forgotten And Destined (Forgotten # 1)

by CATT

  My face grows hot again. “We will be safe here I’ve blocked myself from everyone’s view. There's no reason anyone should think I'm with you. As far as I know there's nobody that even knows we have ever met.” Dominick holds his hand over his heart as if he my words had wounded his heart.

  “You haven’t told anyone about me?”

  “Sorry big guy didn't mean to hurt that big ego of yours, but I'm afraid not.”

  “Don't worry about it, I think my ego can handle it.”

  “To tell you the truth I thought I had made you up.”

  “I think my ego may be growing as you speak.” Dominick says with an awesome smile on his face again.

  “Trust me I didn’t mean it as complement. I said smiling at the fake wounded look he is giving me again. I want to look around. Make yourself at home." I tell him before heading down the hall way. Everything is exactly as I remember it. Standing there regarding the kitchen mind wonders back to the last conversation I had with my parents in here. My mom had been baking my birthday cake while my dad set at the island I had been waiting for Angie and Liz and my dad was lecturing me about drinking and college. My mom had come to my recue telling my dad leave me alone and let me have some fun. If I had known that would have been the last time I’d ever see them, or that they wouldn't remember who I was after that night. I never would have left the house. I would have spent every minute I had left with them.

  “Are you alright?” Dominick asked touching my shoulder. His words and his touch brings me out of my trip down memory lane. “Sure I‘m fine, guess I've been a little more homesick than I thought that’s all.”

  “Are you hungry?” I question changing the subject. “My mom always has the best food.”

  "Yeah I could use a bite of something."

  “Let’s raid the fridge then.” Opening the fridge door, I moan seeing all the food my mom has prepared. Taking the roast beef and chicken, cheese, tomato, lettuce and some mayo, I lay it all on the counter and tell Dominick to look in the cabinet and get the bread out. I point towards the cabinet I am referring to. Everything in the house is still like it always has been. So therefore I’m guessing the only thing that's changed is me.

  Dominick lays the bread on the counter, and we prepare our sandwiches without talking. Reaching into the fridge, I grab a couple of cold drinks. We pull a couple of bar stools over to the island sit down. We eat without silence. But it’s a comfortable silence it’s like we don’t have to speak to be comfortable with one another. After we finish off our sandwiches we get up and put everything away. “Thank you Dominick for not trying to make me laugh or feel better.”

  “Lana I can feel your pain. I know how hard these last few months have been on you. I’m sincerely sorry for everything you’ve gone through, but I do need to know what happened tonight?”

  “Thank you Dominick that me means a lot to me. I’ll tell you everything but can it wait for a few minutes? I have something I’d like to ask you first?”

  “Sure we have time. I’m beginning to think we’re not going anywhere for a few hours.”

  “Thanks. So now you can tell me where you’ve been for the last eight months.” I watch the smile appear on his beautiful face. The effect he is having on my body is the same as it was the last time I saw him. I knew it was because of his looks any girl would feel attracted to him, they couldn’t help themselves. I tell myself feeling guilty for being attracted to Dominick. It makes me feel like somehow being unfaithful to Case. I love Case and he loves me, there is no way I would ever do anything to jeopardize our relationship but hell Dominick is hot there isn't a woman alive that could keep from gawking at him. Maybe if I continue telling myself that I will grow to believe my own lies.

  “Why have you been looking for me?” Dominick asked smiling.

  “Maybe, maybe not…but I’ll never tell”. Then I realize it sounds like I’m flirting which I wasn’t doing at all.

  “If I had known you were looking for me, I would have made sure you would have found me. However, I’ve been out of the country on business.”

  “Really what kind of business we’re you doing?”

  “Personal business” He replies smiling.

  Knowing I’m not going to get any more information from him about where he has been I decide to change the subject. “You know it’s weird but every time I’ve needed help you’ve always been around if I didn’t know better I’d think you’ve been stalking me."

  “Now which one of us has the big ego? How could I be stalking you? I haven’t even been in the country.”

  “We both know that is not a big deal for Keepers.” I state.

  “Yes that is true but I’m not a Keeper.”

  “You’re not?” well that explains the reason I have never seen him on the Keepers' World.

  “Nope I’m not.”

  “What are you then?”

  “I’m Dominick. I thought you knew that already” He says chuckling.

  “Ha ha you know what I mean. If you’re not a Keeper, then what are you?”

  “What does it matter what I am. Right now I’m all you have to help you in whatever mess you’ve gotten into this time.”

  “Sorry that was wrong of me to ask you what you are. It was disrespectful. It’s not any of my business. I truly am sorry.” I say feeling horrible for asking him such a question.

  “Don’t worry about it. You have nothing to be sorry about. It’s also not disrespectful. You have every right to ask, and I’ll tell you I promise just let me do it in my own time. Trust me you don’t have to worry or be afraid of me. I would never hurt you.”

  “I do trust you Dominick. I know you wouldn’t hurt me. I’m not in the least bit afraid of you."

  “Thank you…that means a lot princess. Now if you don’t mind let’s go into the parlor and sit down so you can tell me what went on tonight.”

  “Alright let’s go” I reply.

  Dominick follows me to the living room. We sit down on the couch, and I grab an Afghan off the back of the couch. Unzipping my boots I pull them off and tucked my feet under me and wrap myself up in the Afghan facing Dominick our knees touch but neither one of us move I start talking, he never interrupts me. After I tell him the whole story he sits there. I can tell he is in deep thought, so I wait knowing he will speak when he has gotten all his thoughts together.

  “I see we really do have a problem on our hands” he finally says. His statement made me laugh. I have been sitting here waiting for him to speak and share his great wisdom and unbelievable knowledge with me. It takes me by surprise when the first thing out of his mouth is "we got a really big problem" when I glance over at him, I see he is smiling. He said that knowing it would catch me off guard. "Come on get serious" I tell him pushing my knee against his.

  Dominick lets out a laugh, “have you ever tried to use your powers from long distance?”

  “No you think that’s even possible?”

  “Why wouldn’t it be? Think about it, you have powers nobody has ever seen. You’re in the beginning stages of understanding them you have no idea what you may be capable of. My suggestion is we start working to see how far your mind-control works. The best way to do that is for us to have you work on moving things outside. If you can do that, then we know you can use all your powers from a distance, all we have to do then is find out how far away that distance is. If we start now that gives us almost three days instead of two days to work with.”

  “Let’s do it” I say.

  Dominick starts by having me work on moving things in the yard. It doesn’t take long before I can move each anything he asks me to. Then I start working on moving objects on the other side of the road. Within a couple hours, I’m moving things over a block away. All I have to do is see the place once and memorize the surroundings then I’m good to go. This gives me hope that maybe I can manage to get my parents out safe without having to give myself over to Lucifer in their place so he can kill me. Without thinking about what I’m doing I slin
g my arms around Dominick's neck. "Thank you so much for helping me.”

  He hugs me back. I feel when the hug changes. The laughing stops and we both grow quiet. Neither one of us let go of the other after a few moments I make myself push on his shoulders. His arms let go of me. Staring up into his blue eyes I say, “Sorry about that I guess, I got a little excited thinking maybe I wouldn't have to go to Hell.”

  "Yeah I get excited myself every time I 'm able to escape going to Hell”. Dominick says smiling down at me. “I think we both need to get some sleep. We have to be up early if we’re going to get a look at the place they are holding your parents and come up with a plan on how we're going to get your parents out, and ourselves not killed at the same time.”

  “Ok let me show you where you can sleep."

  “That's alright I'll sleep on the couch. You go lie down and get some rest.”

  Not knowing what else to say I decide its best not to speak. Walking down the hall, I enter my parents’ bedroom crawl into their bed and pull the covers over my head, I fall asleep within minutes.

  Chapter 18

  I wake to light shining through the bedroom windows. Laying here I think about Case and how much I miss him. Knowing he has to be scared to death and looking everywhere for me. I feel guilty about blocking him and everyone else out, but I know I have no other choice. I want to keep them safe. Plus I know if him Summer and Harris or any of the others knew what was going on they would be here now. There is no way they would let me do what I have to do to save my parents, and I will save them, even if I have to give up my own life for theirs I will.

  I thought about Dominick and how glad I am he is here helping me. I also admit to myself how attracted I am to him and not just because of his looks but because of the type of person he is. I feel guilty for having feelings for another guy, but it’s not like I can stop how I feel. I wanted to kiss him last night. I’m pretty sure he wanted to kiss me as well. Pulling away from him had been one of the hardest things I've ever done. The only thing that stopped me from grabbing him by the hair of his head and dragging his lips to mine had been my feelings for Case and how my actions would hurt him. If I truly loved Case would I want to kiss another guy? Ugh I am so fucking confused right now.

  Feeling guilty I crawl out of bed and go through my mother’s closet find some comfortable clothes consisting of a pair of yoga pants and a pull over black shirt then I head to the shower to get ready for a busy day. Taking one of the new toothbrushes from a drawer, I brush my teeth then dry my hair and pull it into a ponytail. After getting dressed I go to find Dominick. He’s in the kitchen standing over the stove frying bacon. His black hair tied back. I have never seen him with it hanging down. I would love to untie it and watch all that thick black main fall to his shoulders and around his face. My God he truly is a sight to behold. He is beautiful in every way. My stomach gives a flip with butterflies as I gaze at him.

  “Morning Princess” he says, looking at me.

  “You cook too?"

  “I can do a lot of things and I’m really good at all of them” he says smiling while he laid some of the beacon on a paper towel.

  I bet you can. I thought then got mad at myself for the thought. Walking over I stand beside Dominick pick up a piece of bacon and bite into it. “You’re good Dom.”

  He laughs. “You know…nobody's ever called me that before. I've been called a bunch of other names none of them nice. However, You’re the first person to ever refer to me by a nickname. Lucky for you I sort of like you so I'll let you get by with it.”

  “I'm so lucky. Don’t have many friends then do you Dom?” I question returning his smile, loving the easy camaraderie we always seem to fall into.

  “I don’t have any friends.”

  I see in his eyes he is telling me the truth. Not wanting things to turn serious I reply “You think that might have something to do with you being a freaking giant and that whole bad-ass intimidation thing you have going on?" That brought that awesome smile back to his face I love to see.

  “Now that you mention it that could have a little to do with it. Why is it that I don't seem to intimidate you?”

  “Because I'm pretty much a bad ass myself Dom haven’t you figured that out yet?” I reply smiling to him as I take another piece of bacon and put it in my mouth.

  “Well, miss bad ass. Why don't you set the table and let’s sit down and eat? We have a long day ahead of us.”

  “Sure thing Dom " I state, and start laughing as I see him rolling his eyes at me. Picking up the bacon, I take it to the table set some plates out while he brings over the eggs he has cooked along with toast. I grab the milk and jelly from the fridge. We sit down and eat. We talk and laugh through the whole meal, making breakfast take a lot longer than it should have. We clean up then Dominick excused himself to take a shower. I wander around the house while he is in the shower looking at pictures of my parents and my brothers. That’s when it hits me. The demons had said, they had my parents never did they mention my brothers. How could I have forgotten about my brothers? Where are they? Did the demons have them? Are they dead? Had the demons killed them? I’m in a panic by the time Dominick comes back to the living room. He knows something is wrong, as soon as he sees me.

  “What’s wrong?”

  “I forgot about my brothers. How could I forget about my brothers?” I asked with tears running down my face. I sit down on the couch.

  “What are you talking about Lana?”

  “I forgot about my fucking brothers. I don’t know if the demons have them, or if they killed them. How could I forget about my brothers Dominick?” Dominick bends down on his knees in front of me.

  “Lana honey stop crying. Its ok you haven’t done anything wrong. When the demons told you, they had your mom and dad your first instinct was to save them. You blocked everything else out of your mind other than getting your parents back. You’ve never given yourself time to think about anything else. Anyone would have done the same thing. You said the demon never mentioned your brothers maybe they don’t know about them. Could your brothers be spending time with relatives or friends?”

  Wiping tears from my eyes I said, “Maybe, they use to go skiing with friends. Do you think there could be a chance of that?”

  “Yeah I do. We need to find out if there with friends. If they're not, then we will find them, I promise you that.”

  Dominick had put his hands on my knees while he had been talking to me. I put my hands over top of his. He always seems to have a way of making me believe everything is going to be ok. “Thanks for helping me.” I don’t know what else to say to him. He is putting his life on the line to help me and all I can do is say thank you. It takes us a couple of hours, before we find out that my brothers had gone skiing with their friends, they are safe. With that worry off of me, I’m ready to get back to work.

  I blink us to the address the demon had given me the night before. It’s another abandoned ware house. “What’s the deal with demons and freaking warehouses?" I say out loud. Seeing Dominick looking at me, I wave my hand at him. “Forget it, I’m thinking out loud.” He smiles then asked if I was ready. “Let’s get going, we need to find out everything we can before tomorrow”. By the time we return to my parents’ house six hours had gone by. We found my parents. They are in really bad shape, but they are alive.

  Dominick had to stop me from going in after them then and there. He finally convinced me if I went in there now I would get my parents killed and myself right along with them. So with our plan made now all we can do is wait.

  Sitting on the couch, I pick up the T.V remote and hit the power button and flip through the channels stopping when I come to an old episode of happy days. I can feel Dominick’s eyes on me. “What?” I asked not looking at him.

  “Isn’t Happy Days a little before your time?” I hear laughter in his voice.

  "Yeah so what’s your point Dom?”

  He laughs “You know I've about had it with the Dom thing.�
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  “It's hard to believe you don't have more friends Dom with you being so nice and all.” I start laughing at the look on his face.

  “That's it, I’ve had it with you thinking you can get by with calling me Dom” he replies with a smile on his face right before he and grabs me before I can move. He starts tickling me. That is one thing I can't handle. I’m way too ticklish. I start screaming and fall across his legs yelling “stop Dom!” that just makes him laugh and tickle me more. I scream and laugh as I struggle to get away. Somehow, I end up in the floor with him on top of me. “Please stop I can't take anymore I scream. You win I swear I'll never call you Dom again.” He stops at my words. Catching my breath, I gaze up at him smiling.

  “Don't stop Lana” he says. He must have seen confusion in my face because he starts explaining.

  "Don't stop calling me Dom the way you act around me. Like I'm as good as you are. That’s something I've never experienced before around anybody. When I'm with you, I feel whole. You make me laugh, want to play. You make me want to be better.”