Forever's Promises (Forever In Luck Series Book 1) Read Free

went on for weeks. Then one day, we managed to get her out of
the house for dinner. It was there that we ran into Naomi. You could see she
was starting to show, it was obvious she was pregnant.
    “That
did it. Linnie was gone the next day. She left a note saying she’d call when
she got to wherever she was going. Dad about went crazy with worry, and then,
just as he was about to call in a missing person’s report, she phoned. She was
in Chicago, and had found a roommate, and a job.
    “Several
months later, Dad sent Nik and me to check on her. She looked good, had lost a
little weight, was living in a decent place, and had started taking classes at
the community college. She still seemed sad, but overall, she was a lot better
than when she’d been at home. So we let her be, figuring she’d come home from
time to time, but she hasn’t. She’s never come home, and she rarely calls. She’s
a nurse, and is about to finish her four year degree, if she hasn’t already,
and she’s getting married. Soon. To
a doctor. No big wedding, just eloping. We’ve never met the guy, and
that’s all I know.”
    She’d
suffered. Nate was without words in his desolation. He’d wanted to know, and
now that he did, he felt achingly empty. In his mind, he’d had her forgetting
about him and moving on without a second thought. He figured she’d be married
by now, probably have some children, but whatever the circumstances, he’d always
imagined her being happy. Disillusioned, time regressed.
    Leaving
her with the way things were, had nearly killed him. He hated thinking about
it, prayed for a respite from it, but it never left him. She never left him. It’d
been a stupid fight. He should’ve listened, but he’d been mad when she said she
wanted to go to nursing school in Minneapolis. He’d been selfish, thinking only
of himself. The problem hadn’t been that she wanted to go to nursing school,
but that she’d wanted to live there while in school, to avoid having to travel
the roads during inclement weather. Which meant time apart, and he was having
none of that.
    To
drive his point home, he’d told her that if she loved him and wanted them to be
together, she wouldn’t move to the city, but would go to the technical college
closer to home, or commute. Then Linnie, smart as she was, turned the tables on
him, and told him that if he loved
her, he would want her to go to the school
where she could get the best education, and live there while doing it, so she wouldn’t be on the road two to four
hours a day during the worst weather Northwestern Wisconsin and Minnesota had
to offer. Then she challenged him, that if he liked the idea of commuting so much, he could drive to the city to see her every day!  
    Staring
at her, he couldn’t help thinking she was so pretty, with her long dark hair
and equally dark eyes, sparking with irritation, as she met him head on. He
knew she was the one for him, without a doubt. But being stubborn and immature,
he wouldn’t give, and they continued to quarrel to the point that he’d blurted
out he thought they maybe needed a break. Ohhh, she’d been quick. Linnie had
always been quick, and able to keep her wits about her when in tough situations,
unlike him at the time. It was one of the reasons they felt she’d make a great
nurse. She was always controlled.
    Dropping
her hands from her hips, he watched as she slowly made her way over to him. She
was furious, he could tell, because the more stress she was under, or the
madder she was, the more calm she’d become. It didn’t affect him though. It
should’ve, but it didn’t. He continued to stand his ground, even though what he
really wanted to do was take her in his arms and love her till the end of time.
Getting in nice and close, she looked up at him, taking her time to study his
face. Then in a gentle whisper, she said, “You sure are full of ideas today,
Nate, and this last one is by far the biggest one. You want a break, then consider