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)
She listened to him raptly, her interest piqued. Moon credited the mental voice for saving Jace’s and her life.
“What did the voice say?”
“She’ll come to you in the dead of the night.” Moon spoke as if he were quoting it verbatim, as if it had played in his head a million times. “You will spend many years alone before she comes. Many heavenly bodies will tempt you away from waiting, but hold fast. One cold winter night, across the sea, you will walk not on sand but frozen grass to find a true love as bright as the sun and everlasting as the heavens above.
“After that, I quit giving my makuahine grief about moving because I knew you would find me someday. So, when you kiss me, my soul tells me you’re the one I was waiting for.”
“That’s so sweet, but you didn’t have to make that up.”
“I’m not lying.”
Disbelieving, she shook her head. “Then why did it take you so long to convince yourself you loved me?”
Moon gave her an irked grimace. “I thought I imagined the whole thing happened as I grew older. I mean, it does sound hokey as fuck. Hell, you thought I made it up just now. But when I started hearing the voice warning me about Jace, it finally clicked through my hard head that I didn’t imagine the first time I heard the voice when I was younger.”
Her brow furrowed in thought.
“That’s strange,” she admitted. “And odd. It’s so similar to the night we met. Could it have been your subconscious?”
“I don’t think so.”
“What do you think it was?”
“No clue, and I don’t want to know.”
“Why not?”
“Because …” Moon gave her a sheepish look. “The room you snuck into at the club where I was sleeping wasn’t normally mine. I made a bet the night before and lost the bigger room, which had a bathroom, to one of my brothers. We switched that morning.” Moon seemed pained as he made the admission.
Larissa gaped at him. Through a twist a fate, she had ended up in Moon’s bed the night Jace had been conceived? She could have ended up with a different Last Rider?
“Whose bedroom did you switch with?”
Reluctantly, Moon finally answered.
“Jesus’.”