Forever Yours (#2) Read Online Free PDF Page B

out of the house and he is standing on the porch,
smiling at us. I shake my head at him and I grip onto the arm rest
as Dalton reverses the car out of the driveway. When we reach the
bottom of the road, Dalton spins the car around so that’s it’s
facing the right way. He edges up to the gates and he rolls his
window down and shouts at the security guard.
    “Open the gates, now,” he exclaims. The man instantly does as
he is told and the black gates open wide. The tyres screech when
Dalton puts his foot down and I fall back into my seat from the
acceleration. His hands are trembling as he grips the steering
wheel, far too tight. My heart is pounding and I can’t help but
think that we have angered Nicholas. I can’t think about what he is
capable of and I don’t want to. I am terrified that he is going to
hurt Rachel and that there is nothing that I can do to stop him. My
only hope is to try and talk to Rachel; maybe I can make her see
sense. If that fails, then I will have to resort to measures that
she will hate me over. I will tell Uncle George about her date with
a guy who is twenty-five; I will encourage him to ground her,
anything that will make her stay in the house. Our family house is
the only place that she is safe from him, he can’t enter without
being invited in. I know that she will hate me for this, but I
don’t care as long as she is safe.
    Dalton drives me back to town and by the time we reach Main
Street, he has seemed to calm down –a little. The streets are busy
for a Sunday afternoon and as I stare out the busy passers-by, I
can’t help but think about my night out tonight with the guys. I am
dreading going out and parading all over town, with my drunken best
friends, but I know that I have no other choice. Charlene is my
friend and I couldn’t miss her birthday. I stare at Dalton and I
have the sudden urge to ask him to join us. I am sure that Charlene
or Elliot wouldn’t mind, but there’s always Ryan who had a little
moment with Dalton the other day. I shake my head as I look at him,
because I know that there is no way that he would go anyway.
Hanging out with humans isn’t his thing –or so he keeps telling me
when he is clearly a walking contradiction. He says that humans
mean nothing and I can’t help but feel hurt at his earlier claims.
He said that he hasn’t fallen for me and what hurts the most is
that, I have fallen for him. I have strong feelings that go beyond
friendship, feelings that I have never felt for anyone else. Dalton
has come into my life and he has changed my world. I think about
him every second of every day and now that we have spent the last
two weeks together, I can’t imagine my life without him. If only he
felt the same way about me.
    Dalton pulls the car into a parking space in front of our
local diner. He switches off the engine and he turns to face me.
His eyes are blue and stunning and I can’t catch my breath as I
look at him. He completes me and I love him –it’s too bad that he
doesn’t know it. I push my glasses up the bridge of my nose and I
smile when Dalton grabs my hand.
    “I’m sorry about what happened back there,”
    “It’s okay; I’ll deal with Rachel when I get home.” Dalton
nods at me and then he pushes open his door. He jumps out into the
street and I carefully open my door. I step out of the car and
Dalton is instantly by my side. He slides his hand onto my waist
and he leads me into the diner.
    “Table for two?” The waitress says as she holds two menus in
the air. I smile at her and then she leads us to our table. We sit
and she takes our drinks order and I am stunned when Dalton orders
a coke. I am speechless as I order a lemonade. The waitress quickly
walks over to the bar and she fixes us our drinks –keeping her eyes
on Dalton the whole time. I roll my eyes at her and let out the
extra air that is building in my mouth. The sound must have been
loud; Dalton drags his eyes away from the menu and looks at me. He
cocks