Page 78 of Moon's Promise

Moon left with the box, deciding to take the elevator instead of carrying the overstuffed box down the steps.

As he stepped off of the elevator, he had a clear view of the ER doctor and the woman who had been in the office the day he confronted Larissa.

There was a shopping bag on the front desk, and the doc was holding up a baby’s sleeper. He stopped cold when he read the word scrawled across the material.

Auntie’s Little Angel.

There was no fucking way. He had used a condom. One of them must be pregnant, he assured himself, despite his eyes telling him neither of the two women he could clearly see were expecting.

He had almost convinced himself until the one he had mistakenly kissed glanced toward the door. Moon thought the woman was about to pass out when she found him standing there. The other woman turned her head to see what she was staring at, and her face showed an almost identical expression.

Terror.

The box dropped from his hands. He strode toward the door and jerked it open.

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN

Moon stormed forward, yelling loudly, “Larissa!”

The doctor who had worked on him in the E.R. recovered quickly from seeing him. “Lower your voice. My sister isn’t here.”

“Where is she?” Moon managed to lower his voice despite the fury surging through him.

“Larissa is none of your business.” The doctor’s chin rose haughtily.

Moon jerked the baby sleeper out of her hand, waving it in her face. “This makes it my business.”

“You are aware my sister is a doula and buys clothes for her clients’ babies as gifts, right?”

Moon wasn’t buying the bullshit she was trying to sell. He gave a curt nod to the woman standing by the doctor’s side. “What’s your name?”

“Priscilla.”

“Priscilla, do you normally give your clients’ sleepers for their babies that say, ‘Auntie’s Little Angel?’”

“All the time.” She was brazenly lying to him.

“Where. Is. She?” he gritted out.

“She moved away after you came here.” Priscilla lifted her chin higher than her sister had. “She didn’t want to chance running into you again in town.”

“Because she didn’t want me to find out she’s pregnant with my baby?”

Condescendingly, she glared at him. “Because you told her to leave, remember? All I want from you is goodbye,” she mimicked him perfectly.

“I didn’t mean she had to leave Treepoint, just to stay out of my way.”

“How’s she supposed to know that? She gave you your wish, so don’t come in here, complaining to us.”

“Is she pregnant?”

“You’ll have to ask her that question.”

Priscilla might have appeared to be the meekest of the three sisters, but she had no trouble taking over once she got warmed up.

“I will when you tell me where she is.”

She folded her arms over her chest. “That’s not going to happen.”

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