Page 59 of Moon's Promise

“Not yet. I thought I’d wait to get his reaction when I get there.”

“He’s not happy,” Shade informed him chillingly.

“I’m not either.”

Moon is leaving Treepoint? Her hand unconsciously went to her belly. Should I tell him?

Licking her dry lips, she stood undecidedly for a second then made up her mind. She couldn’t, in good conscience, keep the information from him.

She took a step toward them and prepared herself to face the most humiliating experience in her life.

“I’m sure it won’t be long before Viper lets you come back,” Knox joked, breaking the tension between the two men, hitting Moon on the back good-naturedly.

Larissa changed her mind and took a step back. There was no need to rush. She had eight months to let Moon find out he was going to be a father.

CHAPTER TWENTY

When she stepped back next to her sister, Crazy Bitch caught her eyes.

“You hear what they’re saying, too?”

There was no way she could deny it since Crazy Bitch had seen her. She racked her brain to come up with a viable excuse. Crazy Bitch sent her pulse racing.

“It bothering you as bad as me?”

“Uh …” Had Crazy Bitch figured out what had happened upstairs at The Last Riders’ the night of the party? She didn’t think one of her sisters would have snitched. Had Winter found out? Was Crazy Bitch telling her she should confess to Moon it was her?

“I feel terrible about it.”

“Good … then you’ll put a good word in for me with Knox?” Crazy Bitch gave her a please smile.

“Huh?”

“Tell him I’ll take care of the kids. All three of them.”

It took a minute for Larissa to wrap around her mind what Crazy Bitch wanted her to do. She had been so focused on Moon, it took her a second to comprehend Crazy Bitch must have been listening to the conservation between Knox discussing Eryn’s children with The Last Rider’s. When it finally clicked what she was referring too, she laughed nervously.

“Of course … I’d be happy to.”

Priscilla gave her a strange look at the way she was acting. “Are you sure you’re all right? You haven’t lost too much blood?” Priscilla then muttered under her breath, “I don’t think that would be a good idea.”

Crazy Bitch gave her a threatening glare. “What you got against me taking care of a few kids? You don’t think I can handle changing a few dirty diapers?” Crazy Bitch snapped her fingers in front of Priscilla’s stunned face. “I could take care of fifteens kids and run circles around you while I’m at it.”

Priss hastily shook her head. “I meant, I think Larissa’s original suggestion about you and Calder going on a vacation is a much better idea.” Priscilla gave her a warning glance. “Isn’t that right, Larissa?”

“Uh … yes.”

What was it going to take to snap her out of the fixation on Moon? The moment Crazy Bitch came up with the idea, she should have never agreed so readily.

“You should take a few days to think it over. Give yourself time to get over your disappointment, spend some alone time with Calder to discuss taking in foster children, then I’m sure Child Services will be happy to process your application,” she said, giving Crazy Bitch the reasonable answer she should have given her in the first place.

“Fuck that!” Crazy Bitch stepped around them to barge toward Knox, Shade, and Viper.

Larissa couldn’t help but watch as Moon went to the other men standing around before leaving out the door without a glance back. She could strip naked, and he wouldn’t give her a second glance.

Turning her attention back to Crazy Bitch, she tried not to notice the sympathetic look Priscilla sent her.

Knox was attempting to explain to Crazy Bitch that she would have to get approval for state care of the children before he could hand them over to her.

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