Coming Home For Christmas
Chapter 84

Chapter 84 - Glutton For Punishment - Part 1

Klayton's POV.

“It's as simple as A, B, C, uncle...Lacey’s served you all with a restraining order”

"What?"

This time it was my turn to look all happy and smug as the colour drained from my family's faces

“You've f***d up big time, family”

Isay with a smirk on my face as I enjoyed what was happening in front of me

/ guess my wife was right, lam a petty asshole

“No, no, no, this can't be happening”

James panicked as he angrily flipped through the pages

“Oh, it's happening, trust and believe me on that one, uncle”

“Wait, why have I got one? I haven't seen Lacey since she went all Ronda Rousey on Dylan"

Liam asks and I kind of felt bad for him but also didn't because unlike the other two, he's done absolutely nothing to try and make things

right with Lacey whereas the other two have

Granted one of them went about it the right way and the other one didn't but still, they've tried and Liam hasn't, so he gets some sympathy

from me but not a lot

“Why don't you ask Mike Tyson over there? his actions put the final nail in the door that Lacey was holding open for you guys"

"What did you do, i*t2"

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Liam growled at Luca who was shaking

Either he hasn't had a drink yet or he's really shaken up over this

“I just went there to make things right with her but...”

“But? but what Luca? what did you do?"

Liam interrupted him

“W.we got into an argument and she slapped me...and I reacted by hitting her back”

Luca whimpered like a scared kid but his words made Liam angry, angrier than I've ever seen him before

"YOU SON OF A b***hit"

Liam growled as he jumped on Luca and gave him a pounding like I've never seen before

He managed to get several good punches and kicks in on his brother before he was pulled off him and they were separated by Dylan, James

and Justin

"YOU'RE A PRICK, LUCALL, YOU'RE A STUPID f****g PRICK, YOU'VE RUINED ALL OF OUR CHANCES OF GETTING LACEY BACK AND ALL

BECAUSE YOU'RE A DRUNK BASTARD!"

“Stop it, Liam, now"

James said as he pushed his son away by his chest

“Damn, this is better than the Jerry Springer show" Bunny says and I had to stifle a chuckle

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“Mother, this is not the time for your jokes"

“Actually James, it's the perfect time for it considering I'm looking at a group of grown-ass people who have turned into jokes"

“Mom..how can you say that?"

James asked with a gasp

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“Because it's the truth, James, you all were given a golden opportunity to fix things with Lacey when we brought her back here with Logan

and their children and you wasted it"

“Your mother's right, James, we've seen that ghastly press conference you all did and to be perfectly honest with you, we were horrified by

it"

“Horrified? why? we did that press conference to let everyone know that we were in the wrong and Lacey was nothing but a victim"

James said sounding gobsmacked by Duke's words

“Actually son, you made yourselves look like the victims, not to mention you made yourselves look like hypocrites and idiots as well”

"Why do you say that, mom?"

A shocked auntie Louise asks

“Because you brought up the whole chastity thing, darling, I mean, how can you preach to the world that you practised chastity with your

children and feel so proud of it when you not only outed Lacey for having a one-night stand with her now husband and getting pregnant

out of wedlock but you've also got free willy over there who also had a child out of wedlock yet nobody bats an eyelid or slut shames him,

do they?"

“We never slut shamed our daughter, mom, we just wanted what was best for her"

"Oh yeah..well, then tell me why Lacey felt the need to run when she found out she was pregnant?...nevermind, I'll answer that for you, it's

because she was terrified that you would force her to marry that i***t sooner than you were planning to so that you could pass the babies

off as his or you would've forced her to marry Logan just so that you could save face and save yourself the embarrassment of your precious

daughter having triplets as an unwed mother”

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That seemed to shut these idiots up but it also pissed me off as well to

think that my cousin was so afraid of how her family would react to her being pregnant that running away was her only option

Bunny walked over to the mini bar and started pouring herself another

glass of gin

“I don't think you should have any more of that Bunny, maybe you should have some water instead"

Dylan said and all I could do was facepalm as I thought to myself of no

“Let's make one thing crystal clear here, Dylan, ok...the only time water will ever be in my glass or my mouth is if it's going straight in your

face, do you understand me?...why are you even here anyway after you cheated on both my grandchildren?..man is that weird thing to say"

Bunny said while rolling her eyes and taking a sip of her drink

“He's my husband, grams, he's not going anywhere"

“Well, in that case, tell your husband to put a deadbolt on his mouth, darling, you may be a weak child who accepts that type of behaviour

but Iam not"

Bunny said while looking at Luca before narrowing her eyes to Dylan

“As for you, don't you ever and I mean EVER try me like a free sample, son because I'm not the one, do you hear me?"

She growls at him and I chuckled

fk, this woman is crazy

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“Mother, where did you hear that saying from?"

James asks looking both shocked and confused at his mom's choice

of words

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“From some delightful woman down at the Walmart, she was shouting don't come around here trying me like a free sample, DeShawn

because I'm not the one and I thought hmm, feisty, I like it..what exactly is a DeShawn anyway?"

“It's aname, grams”

“Oh...nice"

Bunny said with a smile

"When were you in the Walmart, Bunny?" I ask confused

Bunny is one of the richest women alive, so I highly doubt she's personally shopping in Walmart, well, unless she's run out of gin of

course

“I've never been to Walmart, Klayton, what are you talking about?"

“You just said you have"

“Tdid?"

She asks and I nod my head

“Sorry, I meant a wine bar, I was in a wine bar, that's where I was"

Oh my god

“Why am I drinking this anyway? James, where's your champagne? we should be celebrating"

“Celebrating? mom, what are you talking about? this isn't a celebration, if anything it's devastating”

James says sounding hurt

“Oh come on, James, what were you all expecting?..for Lacey to lay out the red carpet to you all? were you expecting her to be like it's ok,

dad, allis forgiven, I mean, you only hit me and accused me of being a cheating

Chapter 84 - Glutton For Punish. ¥/ slut when it was, in fact, my gay fiancee who was the cheater and you were only going to force me into a

marriage I didn't want but it's ok, it's all water under the bridge and you're forgiven because if you were expecting that then I want a cheque

for all of those years we spent to send you to Cambridge university because it was clearly a bluddy waste"

“Your mother's right, son and we don't blame our little lambchop for getting a restraining order out against you all..that girl has worked

incredibly hard to restore peace in her life and I thought that peace would remain intact when we brought her back to New York but it

hasn't and more and more every day, her peace is being broken, her mental health is at risk and her heart is being shattered and all at the

hands of her own family”

Duke said sounding very disappointed in his family

“It's sad that for years, you all have mocked me for always having gin goggles on when you all have had your blinders on for years with Luca

and Bret Michaels over there”

Bunny says and I chuckle

She then walks over to her son and stands mere inches apart from him as she looks him up and down before looking him in his eyes

“Your son is an alcoholic, James, you and Louise can stand here and shake your heads all you want or you can do what you've been doing

for the past six years and stick your heads in the sand but it doesn't change the facts...he's an alcoholic and for the past six years, you all

have been wiping his ass for him, you've been raising his kids when he's too drunk to do it himself and you've been paying off journalists

and buying their photos and videos when they catch him either falling out of a club or being

thrown out of one”

Bunny says while shaking her head

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“If you ask me, James then I'll happily tell you that you all deserve to suffer the way you're going to, you deserve to suffer like Lacey did

because instead of focusing on your daughter who luckily for you was hiding out in London but for all you knew, she could've been in a

storage container somewhere being shipped off to another country to be sold as a s*x slave or worse but you didn't care, did you?"

"Of course I cared, mom, she's my daughter”

A gobsmacked James responded to his mom's accusations

“THEN WHY NOT WORK HARDER TO HELP FND HER, INSTEAD OF WASTING YOUR TIME ENABLING AN ALCOHOLIC?"

Bunny growled and we all jumped because we weren't expecting it

She's the most laidback and chilled person ever so it's a real shock to the system when you see her get angry like this

“Why didn't you do more to replace your daughter instead of wasting your time on this fool? tell me why goddammitz"

Bunny once again growled before she looked at James with a look that I couldn't decipher but it looked like a moment where the lightbulb

had gone off in her head

“Oh, Tknow why...it's because she's a girl, isn't it? you never wanted a daughter and it hurt your manhood and your ego when your wife had

alittle girl instead of another little boy, didn't itz"

Bunny asks and James scoffs

“Don't be so ridiculous, mom, Lacey's the apple of my eye, my princess, of course I love her and I wanted her"

“Now you do and maybe the love has gone up a little bit because of who she's married to but you didn't initially want her, did you? not like

how

Chapter 84 - Glutton For Punish. YY much you wanted Justin, Liam and Luca, you never loved her as much as you loved them or gave her as

much time or affection as you did your sons, did you? no...because she was worthless to you, wasn't she? she wasn't a male who you could

train and mould to follow in your footsteps, no she was just a little girl who got in your way until she was old enough to be auctioned off to

the first bidder..it was just your luck that she had fallen in love with the heir to the Tate fortune which made it easier for you, right son?"

My eyes narrowed on James Carpenter as I listened to Bunny's words

One of the things I was taught from a very young age was how to read people, it was one of the things I had to be trained in so that I could

be the best Don ever, so I could read people like an open book and right now, I'm reading James better than a damn drag queen

"Just admit it, James, Lacey's been nothing but a loose end to you and when she left, you were grateful"

“No, that's not true...t's not true”

James shook his head as tears streamed down his face

"It is true, James...I've always known it and even your father knows it, I just wish that you'd admit it, if for nothing else than for your own

sanity, son”

James was silent for about a minute as he ran his hand through his hair whilst pacing the floor

He then said something which left most of the room completely gobsmacked but none more so than a certain someone who we didn't even

know was here

"Ok fine...I admit that in the beginning, I despised the fact that Lacey was a girl because I never wanted a daughter, I only wanted my boys

but..." James was cut off by a gasp

We all snapped our heads to behind us where a shocked and

teary-eyed Lacey stood next to Logan and she looked like she was struggling to breathe

Oh no

What the hell is she doing here?