Page 64 of Moon's Promise

Winter nodded and followed her inside the office. Priss had come in earlier, and the exam room was closed.

After she opened her private office door, they went inside, where she motioned for Winter to have a seat. Larissa sat down in the chair next to her.

“I have never been so embarrassed in my life,” she admitted shakily. “I don’t know what got into me that night. I used the restroom, and I was going back downstairs when I heard a noise from a bedroom and looked … I saw a couple having sex. I was so embarrassed that all I wanted to do was hurry back downstairs, but before I could move, I heard another sound. I didn’t want to be caught watching the couple, nor did I want them to see me, so I thought I would hide in the room behind me and then come out when the hall was empty.” Larissa was so nervous she could hear her voice quivering. “The room was dark. I didn’t think anyone was there.”

“There was, though, wasn’t there?”

“Yes … Moon. I didn’t realize it was him until I went back downstairs. I thought he was still at the bar. He heard me come into the room and thought I was a girl named Echo, or Ember. I don’t remember which. One of those two. I pretended that I was her because I was too foolish to admit why I didn’t want to be caught out in the hall.” Larissa twisted her car keys in her hands nervously. “From there, everything just snowballed, and I … we had sex,” she finally finished in a rush of words.

“He knows.” Winter’s expression didn’t reveal her thoughts.

Larissa felt the color seeping out of her face. “He does?”

“Oh, not that it was you exactly,” Winter relieved her fear. “But that he had sex with a woman whom he hadn’t been intimate with before.”

“I want to tell him. I’m just not sure how. I mean, I’ve only talked to him a few times, and neither of those times were the best opportunity to introduce myself as being the woman he had a one-night stand with, which he didn’t know he was having.”

Winter burst into laughter. “Moon’s pride would be wounded if you considered it a one-night stand.”

Larissa bit her lip. “He’s going to kill me, isn’t he?”

Winter tilted her head to the side. “Why would you believe that?”

“From the few interactions I’ve had with him in town, we didn’t exactly hit it off. I think it’s safe to say neither of us like each other.”

“Yet you had no difficultly the night you had sex with him?”

“He didn’t talk much.”

Winter laughed so hard she reached for a tissue from a box on the desk. “Moon is nicer the less he talks.” Wiping the corner of her eyes, she finally managed to stop laughing.

“I’m going to tell him. I was going to ask Crazy Bitch to get his number from Calder.”

“I can save you the hassle.” Winter asked for her phone number then texted Moon’s to her. “I don’t envy you that phone call.”

“I’ve been working up my courage,” she admitted frankly. “I’ll do it this weekend.”

“Look on the bright side. Maybe his reaction won’t be bad. He might want a repeat.”

“There won’t be a repeat.” Larissa made an exasperated face. “I’ve asked myself this question a million times: why did it happened in the first place?”

“You come up with any answers?” Winter asked as she rose from the chair.

“Other than insanity? No.”

“You wouldn’t be the first woman who had that same thought where The Last Rider men are concerned, myself included.”

Larissa rose also. “I’ll keep you posted on how it goes after I talk to him.”

“I hated to ask, but Moon figured out it was someone in the group I had there that night. So far, he still thinks it was only club members, and I know who went upstairs. A heads-up would be nice so I could get my ducks in a row.”

“Will you get in trouble?”

Winter grinned. “Don’t worry; it won’t be the first time, and I’m sure it won’t be the last.”

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

Moon sat on his bike, watching the brothers unload a delivery truck from Ohio. He could clearly see them under the bright lights Wizard had installed. Shade and Train had already gone inside the club, hoping the thief would fuck up, assuming they weren’t being watched by the older members.

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