Three Thousand Miles To You(85)

Alanna: Yes, Adrian I am sure.

Adrian: There is one more thing,

Alanna: What,

Adrian: If we are to be together, then you have to do as I say.

Alanna: What do you mean?

Adrian: I have never trusted anyone in my life and I trust you. There will always be doubts in my mind about everything and if you want to be with me, then you would have to live a certain way.

Alanna: Adrian, what are you getting at?

Adrian: I will always live in London. I need you to understand that if you were to be with me, I would take the control. I would get you a private airplane so that you can visit your family anytime, but I will never move to America. I love you, and I will give you everything you ever wanted, in return, you have to do as I say.

Alanna: I respect everything you are saying, but I will not be your puppet.

Adrian: I do not want a puppet I want you. Understand, I would never make you do anything you did not want, but I want you to have the best lifestyle possible. I want to look after you and I want you to love me and obey me.

Alanna: Adrian you sound crazy obey you, it is not the 1800’s.

Adrian: No, it is not but that is how it has to be, if you are to be with me.

Alanna: I do not want to be without you so okay, I will do it. However, if you ever hurt me, or make me do something that I do not want, then I will leave and you will never see me again.

Adrian: I will not do that to you, you have my word Alanna.

Alanna: Okay, I trust you, when will you be here?

Adrian: I will get on the next flight, are you sure about this?

Alanna: Be here as soon as you can and yes, I am sure.

Alanna: Adrian, before you go there is something I have wanted to ask you.

Adrian: Yes, Alanna,

Alanna: When I first met you, you asked me if I had any boyfriends before. I was wondering, why you wanted to know that.

Adrian: I feel that it is better to be with a girl that has no previous relationship experiences. Therefore, she would not have anything to compare me to do you understand?

Alanna: Kind of, I get where you are coming from girls do tend to base a new relationship on the ones they have already had. However, you should not make that an issue if you like the girl and want to be her, what if I said that I did have boyfriends, what would you have said?

Adrian: Have you had boyfriends?

Alanna: No Adrian I have not, but what if I did?

Adrian: I am not going to lie to you I would have been disappointed. However, I do not think that reason would be enough, for me not to pursue you. I would not live without you Alanna.

Alanna: Adrian may I ask, how many girlfriends you have had?

Adrian: I would not be fair if you did not, besides you, I have only had one other actual girlfriend, but I will not lie to you, I have been with many girls.

Alanna: Girls I am fine with, but girlfriend, how was she?

Adrian: Do you really want to know this?

Alanna: Yes, tell me.

Adrian: Her name is, Zara Tomas.

Alanna: A name is nothing; I want you to tell me more about her.

Adrian: We met at horse race in the country, I was twenty and she was thirty-one. Zara is from a very respectable family who mix with the royals; however, Zara is very rebellious, she does not like, people telling her what to do and no one can control her.

Alanna: She sounds a lot different to me and that is quite a large age gap, how long where you with her?

Adrian: About a year, I would say

Alanna: A year, what happened?

Adrian: Zara was a lot different to you, she was very demanding and everything had to go her way. She moved me into an apartment in Chelsea and that was merely to control me. She always needed to know where I was and she hated it if I talked to any other girls. I was young and about to own my own company, everything was new to me and this woman showed interest. She was not like the other girls I had been with; she was a grown up compared to them. She was married at the time I got with her, lot of how she felt about me was obsessive, and she used me to make her husband jealous.

Alanna: Adrian, you had an affair with a married woman.

Adrian: I am not proud of it; I would never want to experience that feeling of cheating and sneaking around ever again.

Alanna: Did her husband find out?

Adrian: He knew that she was with someone else and he gave her an ultimatum. He asked her to forget whoever he was and never think of him again or to carry on with her lover, and lose everything.

Alanna: What did she choose?

Adrian: She chose him, she hurt me and it took me while to get over the pain, which it brought back to me. Nevertheless, I am glad that she left. Thinking back on my time with her, I realize that I had no choices and I did what she said. She took the control from me, but when she left, I got it back.

Alanna: Did you love her?

Adrian: I was so desperate to love someone that I forced myself to love to her, but baby; I could never love anyone, the way I do you.