Riven (Reflections Volume 8) by Dean Murray

Author:Dean Murray
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Fir'shan Publishing
Published: 2013-12-17T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Adriana Paige

Graves Estate

Sanctuary, Utah

It felt like my head was going to just fall right off of my shoulders. I was always exhausted these days. It would have been nice if I'd been able to blame it on Alec's ability, but I knew that wasn't the cause.

It was all this stupid wedding stuff. Kami was like a wedding planning superhero, but with Rachel gone there was more for me to do than ever and I absolutely hated all of it. I was picking out cummerbunds and bridesmaid gifts and all of the other things that I'd never expected to have to worry about for years, if ever.

The only saving grace to anything about the planning process was the fact that it was Alec that I was going to be marrying. Actually it wasn't entirely fair to blame my current condition completely on the wedding planning, at least not directly. I was also plenty worried about the fact that my mom had flown into town and was currently less than five minutes away from the estate.

I checked my watch again and then realized that the ETA had been wrong as three vehicles pulled into the massive circular driveway in front of Alec and Rachel's house. I didn't know how they'd managed it around everything else, but James and Ash had been working with some of the world's best bodyguards over the last few weeks and everything they'd been learning had resulted in security arrangements that were even more paranoid than what they'd been able to think of on their own.

Today the 'principal' was in the second vehicle in the convoy but I already knew that Mom was probably going to be in the middle car. They sometimes put us in the first car, but they seemed to prefer the middle SUV and they never put us in the back vehicle.

James escorted my mom into the house while Grayson and the others kept watch. I met Mom at the door and gave her a hug. "Hi, Mom. I hope your flight was okay."

"It was absolutely lovely, dear. I have to say I could really get used to the idea of never flying commercial again. Just bypassing airport security would be more than enough to hook me. When you throw in the gourmet meals it pretty much outclasses everything else."

I found myself smiling. Mom didn't seem to be holding a grudge over the way that Alec and I had pressured her into letting me stay here. I honestly hadn't been sure either way, but this would make the conversation we were about to have much easier than it otherwise would have been.

"I'm glad that Alec was able to spare one of the jets for you. Do you want to swing by your room to freshen up?"

We were passing one of the sitting rooms. I couldn't remember the proper name for it, so I always thought of it as the white leather room. Mom looked over as if she were about to respond and then missed a step.

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