Three Thousand Miles - Forever, (book #3 of Three Thousand Miles, Series) by Deila Longford Read Free Book Online

mom.
“Hey Mom,” I say in my most upbeat voice.
     
“Alanna where are you?” She replies in a quick, firm tone.
     
“I am heading back to the condo, why?”
“Have you forgotten what you have to do today?” I rack my brain but nothing
is surfacing. “Alanna!” My mom shouts at my silence.
     
“I can’t think of anything,” I confess.
    “Seriously Alanna you would forget your head if it weren’t attached to your
body. You and Adrian need to go register for your wedding gifts, today.” Oh
crap I forgot to tell my mom about our new plans concerning the wedding
gifts. I take deep breath as I know that my mom won’t be happy about our
decision.
“Mom, Adrian and I aren’t going to register.” Before I have the chance to
explain my mom jumps in.
     
“Alanna, what on earth are you talking about? Don’t be stupid, you need to
register!”
“No, we have decided that we want charity donations instead of gifts. Besides
we don’t need anything anyway.”
“Alanna, this is crazy.”
“No its not, it is the right thing to do.” I can hear my mom sigh as she takes in
my words.
    “ Well I guess there is no need for me to argue with you over this. If that’s what
you have chosen then I cannot stand in your way. But Alanna, you need to let
your father and I give you guys a gift, is that understood?” I roll my eyes as I
now that I can’t argue with her on this.
    “Okay, as long as you don’t go overboard then you can get us a gift.” My mom
chuckles down the phone at me and I cannot hold back my angry smile. I still
feel annoyed with Michael and I am literally inches from tears as I think of him.
However hearing my mom’s happy voice is somewhat comforting.
    “Alanna, have you talked to Adrian about his mom yet?” I feel a rush of fear as
I remember about tonight’s dinner with Alice. My mind is rushing as I think of
all the things that could wrong. Adrian has been doing so well with his anger
and I am scared that when he sees her again, that he will flip and all of his hard
work would have been for nothing. I am also scared of how Alice will react
around him. I still cannot escape the thoughts of how she treated him when he
was a child and I wonder if she has really changedher ways.
“Yes I have and we are having dinner with her tonight.”
    “Oh,” is all that my mom manages to say. The phone is silent and my heart is
racing. What is my mom going to say? “Alanna, I don’t know what to say. How
did you manage to get him to agree to that?” I tut, as why does everyone think
that I am forcing him into this? I am staring to show my anger on my face and I
notice body guard no:1 staring at me. I quickly flash him an awkward smile as I
return to my phone call.
“Mom, it was his idea.”
“ Have you thought of how you are going to approach this situation?”
“Not really, I just need to be there for him, right?”
    “Sweetie, Adrian is a complicated boy and his relationship with his mother
sounds even more complicated. Do you really think that things between them
are going to be blissful just like that? You need to prepare yourself for what
might happen next. What if he doesn’t respond well to her and what if he falls
into depression? You hear about things like this all the time on the TV and I
think that you need to get your head straight.”
    “The last time that Adrian saw his mother, was just before graduation. Mom, I
never told you this but, Adrian flipped out when he saw her. He turned into
someone I have never known before and if I am honest, he scared me.”
“Why didn’t you tell me this?”
“Does that really matter?”
“Yes it matters, if you were scared of him. Alanna, are you sure that you can
trust him?”
    “Of course I can trust him and I just need to be there for him. If things go badly
then I will pick up the pieces. I love him and if I am going to be his wife then I
need to stand by him.”
    Later that night I get dressed for dinner as I waitfor Adrian to come out of