Total pages in book: 189
Estimated words: 181808 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 909(@200wpm)___ 727(@250wpm)___ 606(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 181808 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 909(@200wpm)___ 727(@250wpm)___ 606(@300wpm)
In much less time than she had expected, she left their bedroom and headed into the dining room, where she took out her cell phone to type out a text.
“I need you to come home. Now.”
Sending the text, she sat down to wait.
CHAPTER SEVENTY-EIGHT
“You think they’ll go for it today?”
Moon shrugged at Viper’s question. “We’ll know when the truck arrives. We’ve set the stage; that’s all we can do. Either way, they won’t make their move until the truck gets here. You don’t have to stay. I’ll text you when it does.”
“All right. I want them to see me walking to the clubhouse.” Viper stood up, preparing to leave. “Shade, you staying?”
“Yes. I want to make sure the brothers are where we need …”
Moon’s eyes went to his cell phone lying on the desk, missing what Shade was saying to Viper. When he picked it up, he frowned at the message Larissa had sent. What the fuck? She had never sent him a message like that before.
Glancing at the clock on the wall, he turned to Viper before he could leave. “Larissa needs me to come home. Can you send for Reaper to take over here until I get back? I should only be gone for an hour.”
“You want to leave?” Viper scowled.
“Something’s going on with Larissa. I need to go.”
Viper gave him a reluctant nod. “Go, but hurry the fuck up. I’ll stay until Reaper gets here.”
“I’ll be as quick as I can.”
As he rushed out of the security room, he thought about calling Larissa, but if something was going on with the baby, he didn’t want to distract her. She had never asked him to leave work in the time they’d been together.
Striding past Train and Rider as they worked on one of the bikes, he got on his bike without speaking.
He sped home, his mind going through scenarios of what could have happened for him to have to come home so urgently.
Jumping off his bike, he hurried inside.
He was about to head to the bedroom, when he saw Larissa sitting at the dining room table. The utter silence in the house sent tendrils of warning down his spine.
“What’s up?” he asked, walking toward the table, noticing the pallor of her skin. “Are you sick?”
“No.”
Moon came to a stop in the front of the table, seeing the pain-racking look in her eyes.
Larissa’s hand came out to send the folders sitting in front of her skittering across the table toward him. “Can you explain the documents inside to me?” she asked in a voice void of all emotions.
Moon looked down at the folders then back to her. “It would be hard to do since I haven’t read what’s inside.”
“Then look.”
He took a step forward and opened the folder closest to him. He only had to read a couple of sentences. Leaving the folder open, he reached for another, then flipped open the remaining two. “What do you want to know?”
“How much is your fee? According to these files, I can’t afford you.”
“If you want to talk, we’ll talk. But I’m not going to have you cutting snips at me while I am.”
Moon winced at the bitter laugh coming from her lips.
“Only you would expect me to mind my P’s and Q’s after you’ve bankrupted me and my whole family.”
“You’re exaggerating.”
“How am I exaggerating?”
The total lack of emotion in her voice made him wish she would go back to snipping at him.
“Listen, I know you’re upset. I can explain this afternoon after work.” Raking his hand through his hair, he gave a frustrated sigh. “I have to get back.”
Larissa stood up and placed her hands on the table. “Why am I not surprised? Of course, you don’t have time to spare to explain how I owe you thousands of dollars for rent not on this house but the one I thought you had bought. You have manipulated me from day one since I came back to Treepoint. God, how much you must hate me.”
Moon moved down the table toward her at the broken sob she stifled with a hand over her mouth.
Seeing him coming near her, she raised a hand. “Don’t you dare come near me. There’s nothing you can say that’s going to make this all right.” Hunching over, she wrapped her arms around her stomach.
Moon took a couple of steps back to give her space.
“You must have laughed your head off at me with The Last Riders when I signed those papers.”
“They don’t know.”
“Don’t lie to me anymore. Please.”
His jaw clenched shut, giving her the opportunity to unload on him.
“I haven’t felt this naïve since I talked my mom into giving me permission to go home with one of the students from school.”
“What happened?”
She sent him a tortured look. “Why should I tell you anything more about myself? So, you could use that against me, too?” Larissa sat back down as if she didn’t have the strength to hold herself up any longer. “You know what told more than those documents did?”