Chapter 44

Julia POV

Seeing Riley in the lounge as I come out of the bedroom makes my breath catch my throat. It still seems surreal that we are here with him and it still seems surreal that I am standing in a lounge with my little girl here while we wait for a man to come home from work. This is some real suburban, family, shit and something I never thought I would experience, to be honest with you It’s something that I never thought I wanted, I thought I was okay with my life and how it was.

Granted, I wanted to get me and Nina off the street, but aside from that I thought it would just be me and her, and yet here we are standing in Riley’s penthouse, and despite the side of me that doesn’t want to think that things can work out, there’s a bigger part of me, much bigger that is loving every single second of that and doesn’t want it to end, ever.

Nina runs back over to carry on dancing to another one of the musical programs that she found on the TV. When Riley’s cell