All Chapters of A Home For Christmas: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

Julia Hearing those words from Riley feels like a balm to my soul. I've never had anyone say anything like that to me before and knowing that he means it just makes this all feel too good to be true. "Julia. Say you're mine. Say you're my girl." Riley is deadly serious and I know that this is the moment that I have to make a decision. I can walk away from here and him right now, take Nina and carry on with our lives or I can bite the bullet and give this a chance. Granted I could end up heartbroken and so could Nina but this could also end up being the best thing to ever happens to us. "Julia?" Riley's voice brings me back to the moment as he gently holds both of my hands. I know he's waiting for me to say those words and I want to... "Talk to me, sweetheart. What's going on in that pretty head of yours?" his words are sweet and make me smile. "Are you really sure you want me to say those words, Riley? I mean I'm a mess, my life is a mess and I come with a child." "I don't want to

Julia The traffic picks up as we get further downtown, but it's still not long before Riley announces that we are home. Home, not his home, just home, and I am not sure what to make of it. This is his home, not ours... wait, this is the Royal Towers Hotel. It's one of the biggest buildings downtown and one of the most expensive. Only the richest of the rich stay here because of the stinkingly high price tag. What are we doing here? This can't be where he lives, surely. We turn off into the underground garage that runs underneath the hotel and keep driving until we reach the very back of the garage and the signs state private parking. We slowly creep along when I notice that the private parking spaces all have plaques on the walls with names on them and the first five that we pass all say Riley Carter... What the fuck? I turn to face him as we pull into parking space number six. Six spaces... six cars... fuck my life! "Six cars?" I turn to face Riley and he honestly looks confused.

Riley What the fuck are you talking about? I’m either hearing things wrong, or I was right when I said that this man is crazy "Say that again?" He looks directly at me and all I want to do is to end him right here, right now. "You heard what I said. She’s my daughter and I want her now!" "What did you just say?" We all spin around when we hear a female voice to find a gun-wielding Julia standing outside of the elevator and directing the gun straight at Caesar's head. What the hell is she doing? "Finally joined the party." Ceasre says to Julia, but I don’t look his way as I keep my eyes on her. "What are you doing sweetheart? She doesn’t even look at me when I talk to her, she just keeps her eyes on Caesar as she continues to point the gun his way. "I said what did you just say?" She’s still not paying me any attention so I turn my attention to Caesar and I instantly wanted to hit the Smirk off his face. He is enjoying this and it’s sickening. "It’s none of your business, you stup

Riley I stretch out my aching limbs and slowly open my eyes, looking around my still pitch-black room, which means once again I’m awake early. It’s been two days since Julie and Nina came to stay with me, and I’ve hardly slept. I can’t stop thinking about everything that happened over the last few days and I can’t stop thinking about the fact that Julia came downstairs with a gun, that girl is fucking crazy, and she’s going to be the death of me. I swear. I don’t regret a second of them being here. If I’m being honest with myself, I love it, and despite the situation we find ourselves in, I know that I’ve never ever been this happy. I drag my ass out of bed and catch a glimpse of the clock 6:05 am. I've barely had three hours of sleep again, but it’s okay because I get to see my girls and that always makes it better. I quickly head into the bathroom, do my business and get the shower running. Before Nina was here, I would spend a long time in the shower every morning getting ready

Julia Mandy is a demon when it comes to shopping. Good lord, that women can shop and shop well. I can’t even begin to count the amount of shops that we went in today, and that’s without the huge shopping mall that she dragged me through. Jesus, that was massive and don’t get me started on the amount of stuff that she bought and made me buy too. I’m not even sure how to use half of the stuff, but she will show me what to do and how to use them. I’m not sure if I’m looking forward to it or not if I’m being honest about it. I mean, when did it become so hard to be a woman? I’ve either lived a very sheltered life and missed out on a lot of stuff, or I’ve had a lucky escape at this point. I’m not sure which one it is. I have bags of clothes and make-up, perfumes and shoes, handbags and jewellery. I mean the list goes on and on and on. And I just hope that Riley doesn’t get mad at how much I spend today. I honestly tried to stop Mandy, but she wasn't having any of it and said that Riley wo