Buying Love Chapter 82 Update on AO3
Buying Love Chapter 82 Update on FFn
Buying Love Chapter 82 Update on TWCS
After a family photo in front of the tree, Christmas Eve
dinner was a rousing success. Everyone enjoyed the meal that I had catered up
to my penthouse suite. We sang Christmas songs, drank egg nog, had a white-elephant
gift exchange and bonded as a strangely disjointed family. It was a total
Norman Rockwell moment, complete with two ex-escorts, a cop, a retired cop, a
US attorney, a couple of gay men, a reformed nun and Rose.
She wasn’t the reformed nun. Uncle Peter’s date, Sophia, she
joined a convent when she was eighteen but decided to leave at twenty-two
because of the whole celibacy thing. I wasn’t surprised. She was gorgeous with
long black hair and violet eyes. Too pretty to be a nun, if you ask me. But,
that was a long time ago and she was obviously smitten with my uncle.
After Christmas Eve, everyone went to their hotel rooms.
There was a little too much nog in everyone’s systems, except for Edward,
Jasper and me. I didn’t want anyone to drive. Edward and I were on the couch,
curled up underneath a warm blanket, staring at the gorgeous Christmas tree.
“Today was a lot of fun,” he said, idly playing with my hair. “I think the best
thing was when Carlisle had to imitate having a baby for that movie in
charades.”
“Oh, Knocked Up,”
I giggled. “I thought he was going to pop a vein with all of the pushing and
grunting he was doing.”
“And it didn’t help that he farted, stinking up the whole
place,” Edward laughed. “But, it was a memorable moment and probably the best
time I’ve had on Christmas since my dad passed.”
“I feel the same way, except it since my mom died,” I
sighed, kissing Edward’s palm. “It’s nice to feel like I belong to a family
again. The holidays were always so dark and depressing for me. Dad always
worked and the only other person I hung out with was Rose. She usually was
fucking some random guy to get her holiday cheer.”
“Esme would occasionally have a Christmas party,” Edward
murmured. “It was probably the most normal I’d ever seen her. She loved the
holidays, but most of us usually had to work because with the holidays came
holiday parties. Last Christmas, I was on the arm of an older woman, a
socialite at some charity banquet. The Christmas before, I was in Esme’s
torture chamber, making sure that Esme got her holiday cheer while all I wanted
to do was shove a lump of coal up her ass.”
“Ouch,” I snorted.
Edward's Present to Carlisle spelling out 'Cullen'
Edward's Present to Elizabeth
Edward's Present to Rose
Edward's present to Uncle Peter
Edward's Present to Bella, to match her birthday necklace
Soft slippers from Edward to Bella
Inscription for Edward's cuffs from Bella
Keeper of my Soul
Keeper of my Soul
&
Holder of my Heart
Edward's cuffs
Edward's new journal from Bella
