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And there inside the box was one of his a, perfect, hand-carved animals

“It’s a wolverine,” Holden declared “Bellah bubble up and burst out of me as I rana deal about in Montana

“It is absolutely a it, bea at him because a part of ot one of his creations I counted ifted one

“Okay My turn,” Bella pile of presents and setting them before me

“This is too much,” I told him

“Shush Open them”

I went for the s completely unexpected

A Taotchi

The second one had Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots

And the final, well, that was my Easy Bake Oven

That hat did it, what cracked the control I’demotions

Because not only did Bellamy create the kind of Christmas I’d dreaone out and he’d gotten all the presents I’d told hi from Santa as a kid

“Santa always thought you were a good kid, love,” Bella that I literally couldn’t take anything else right that ot a little lost for a couple years,” he added

The sob that burst out of

Because anyone who’d ever met me knew that I was not someone who cried

And I damn sure never sobbed

But that was exactly what I did right then, bending forward, pressing

I was vaguely aware of everyone getting up and leaving the roo us our privacy, before Bella ed all those years of sadness and disappointirl inside me finally had all her hopes and dreams come true, had her little broken heart mended

“I love you,” I whispered into his neck when I finally stopped crying what felt like a lifetime later

“I love you too,” he told htbulb cakes and cookies in payh escapeat my wet cheeks with my sleeves