Yay I have my laptop back, it only took 2 weeks to fix it so here is the next chapter of this story.

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Chapter Thirty Eight

A Few Days Later

Naomi

I woke up with Emily curled up in my arms, I listened to her softly breathing and knew I could stay like this. I loved watching Emily sleep and I wanted her to be as relaxed as possible today as today was the day of Rob Fitch's visit, the three of us had planned for the day to enable Emily to be out of the picture. Katie is going to open up the shop this morning and work that way Rob gets to see where she works and see that she is settled in her job. She will then close up for lunch and make sure Rob is away and we can open up after lunch.

She stirred in my arms; I kissed her forehead softly "Morning gorgeous."

She looked up as she snuggled closer to me "Morning to you too beautiful."

I kissed her softly again "You all ready for today?"

She nodded against my chest "Yeah, I've got you by my side plus I have some fucking good memories of you and I together in the shop."

I laughed "Me to."

A few hours later

Em and I had re-opened the shop about an hour ago and had, had quite a few customers in. I had spent quite a bit of time watching Emily work and I couldn't help but fall even more in love with her. She was amazing with the customers and it was truly amazing to see how animated she was when talking about her photography.

After a while we found ourselves alone. Emily wandered over to me and wrapped her arms around me, she kissed me softly "I'm going to get a coffee, can I get you one whilst I'm out."

I kissed her back "That would be lovely thankyou."

She turned to leave before I spun her back into my arms "Don't forget the muffins."

She smiled before kissing the end of my nose "Cheeky."

I watched her as she walked away making sure I got a good view of her bum before grabbing one of Katie's magazines from under the desk to flick through until Em came back.

About 10 minutes later the door opened and I quickly looked up expecting it to be Emily. I was slightly surprised to see it wasn't. I stood and walked over as he looked around the room "Hi, can I help you with anything at all?"

The man turned round and there was something familiar about him that I couldn't quite put my finger on "I umm, I, I'm looking for Emily."

It was then my brain caught up and I realised it was Rob Fitch standing in front of me. I needed him to leave before Em came back "She's not here, she doesn't really work here she just provides the photos."

His face dropped "Oh, I don't suppose you have any way I can contact her."

I began to panic slightly "I can't" I trailed off as I watched Emily come back in "I'm back gorgeous."

Emily walked past and put the coffees on the desk before turning around. Her face dropped when she came face to face with Rob. She looked as white as a ghost and she quickly muttered to me "I can't do this" before turning to walk away.

She stopped as Rob finally spoke "Emily please just hear me out. I'm sorry I know you made it clear you didn't want to see me but I slipped away from Katie because once I knew you were here I had to see you. I miss you Emily, I mean really miss you. When I got up in the morning after you left it felt like I had a huge hole in my life. I should have stuck up for you and I can only say I'm so sorry I didn't, my punishment for that was losing my daughter. I don't care that you're gay Emily I never did, I just don't have the guts to stand up to your mum, for some reason I love her and I always will but that doesn't excuse me turning my back on my daughter like I did."

I saw a tear slip down Emily's cheek and quickly tightened my hold around her waist so she knew I was right there with her. Emily was tense and I knew she didn't know what to say. I looked to Rob "Can you give us some time; let this sink in for Emily."

Emily shook her head "No its ok Naoms." She turned to Rob "I will accept your apology Dad but I don't think I can go back, letting Katie back into my life was one thing but I'm not sure I can let anyone else back in, you all hurt me too much."

Rob smiled slightly "Ok I can accept that's what you want however heart-breaking it is but can I just say you look happy Emily, you are so grown up, I'm guessing this young lady has something to do with that."

Emily nodded "Yeah it is all thanks to Naomi here, my fiancé. Naomi picked me up from almost rock bottom when I didn't have anyone else, she helped me rebuild my life again and helped take away the pain, she is the reason I am so happy now and she is the reason I will continue to be so happy."

Rob smiled as he shook my hand "It's nice to meet you Naomi, thank you for making my daughter happy." He turned to leave before glancing back "One last thing Emily your photos are fucking amazing, I always believed in you even if she didn't."

I tightened my hold slightly around Emily's waist feeling how tense she still was. I kissed the top of her head as she smiled slightly "Thanks, again it is all thanks to Naomi, as well as picking my up and making me happy again she rebuilt my confidence and let me tell you my confidence was at rock bottom, Naomi has gradually encouraged me to get back into what I love properly and she has steadily encouraged me more and more and finally I am actually beginning to believe in myself again, I can look at photos now and see how good they are. I have Naomi to thank for everything."

I saw a tear fall down Rob's face as he really began to see the damage deep down that he had caused his daughter. I felt a bit sorry for him because I genuinely did believe what he was standing here saying now but I could also only think about the hurt they had caused Emily and the way her confidence was completely shattered when we first met. I kissed the top of Emily's head again as I saw Rob take one last look at his daughter before glancing back to me "Look after my girl Naomi."

I smiled slightly "I will, I love Emily and I always will."

Just as he was about to leave Emily stopped him "Dad wait."

He looked round and I could see hope in his eyes "I want you to know you seriously hurt me, really seriously hurt me and I know I will never forget that but I will agree to have simple contact with you, keep you up-to-date with my life and we can see how thing go but I want absolutely nothing to do with Jenna, I can never have her back in my life, I know I can never forgive her."

Rob nodded and smiled "Anything Emily, I will take anything I can get. I just want you in my life."

She gave him a quick hug before he turned to leave again "I better get back to Katie, she'll be freaking out. I love you Emily."

She smiled slightly as he left. I quickly pulled her into my arms knowing she would still be tense. I kissed the top of her head "Come on, let's go home."

Half an hour later we were curled up on the sofa watching a DVD, I could feel Emily relaxing as I softly massaged her shoulders. She only moved briefly when her phone beeped "It's Katie again."

I smiled "She ok?"

Emily nodded "Yeah, she is just apologising again for earlier, for letting Dad slip away and me having to deal with it."

I kissed the top of her head "I bet she's really beating herself up about it."

She smiled slightly "It's not her fault, how is this for a reply, don't beat yourself up Katie it's not your fault. Dad told me you had no idea he had gone. I should thank you really something good came out of it."

I kissed her softly "Perfect."

She hit send and it wasn't long until Katie replied "I love you Emily."

She quickly text back "Love you too K."

She snuggled back down into me as we shared soft kisses enjoying being relaxed after a stressful day.