All Chapters of Catching the Moon (Chasing the Moon Book 2): Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

Quinn The last few days of the weekend had meshed together. After the shit show the other night with him and Emerson .. he needed to get away for a while. But he couldn’t do that because Dany had agreed to go with him the next morning. He went to pick her up at ten on the dot … she must’ve heard him coming because he didn’t even make it off his bike when she came out the door. She had on some tight black jeans today… and something that looked like biker boots.. and a sweater and cropped jacket. She looked good enough to fucking eat … and with any luck… he’d be doing just that very soon. They drove through town first … he showed her a few spots he frequented. He even drove her out to the old warehouse where he used to do some of the fights. Seeing it now brought back horrible memories though. Em being kidnapped by his brother…. Quinn and all his friends racing to rescue her .. the fucking wreck when she nearly died. Dany must’ve noticed he was in his head about something … they

Quinn He thought about how best to tackle this scenario. In the end he decided to lay it all out. He would give her all the dirty and ugly details and if she could handle it … then fucking great. And if not… well .. he had tried. He’d have to find someone else to keep his mind off of Emerson and every other shitty thing in his life. He had wanted it to be Dany… because he actually liked her. And he knew she would do the trick. Was it fair to her? Absolutely not. He would never be able to emotionally give himself to her. And she was older.. and that’s what she needed and deserved. He was basically using her. Even though he did like the girl. Woman. Still. She was different than the others. She wasn’t like Angel or Zoe .. she had substance. They were only distractions, and that’s all she’d be too. Even though she was so much better than that. He suddenly felt bad ….. again.. what the fuck… but he felt shitty about doing this to her. Dany was way too good for him. And he knew it. B

Emerson The last couple of days had rolled into one and they’d had a ball. The night she’d woken up, certain someone had been staring at her she couldn’t go back to sleep. She and Asher both decided she’d been dreaming … although normally her nightmares were about things that had happened in the past. And not things that seemed like they were happening that moment. The dream had given her a very weird uneasy feeling. It was one she didn’t care for at all. When it became clear that she wasn’t going to be able to go back to sleep, Asher pulled her up onto the couch with him… he snuggled her in closely … and she finally drifted back to sleep. And she slept like a baby. The next morning they woke up to a ton of snow. And just like they’d expected … school had been called off for two days. They’d already studied for their tests… so they could spend the time doing whatever they wanted. She and Asher didn’t even mention the episode she’d had the night before. There was no reason

Emerson They’d spent the rest of their snow day in the hot tub. Shane even brought down some beer in the cooler for them and said ‘you didn’t get it from me’ and then left. So they sat in the warm hot tub against the snowy background and Em felt like she was in heaven. It was such a comfort. They went back to school the following day even though there was still snow… it had melted enough the roads could be driven on… although a lot of kids were absent… finals or not. They’d come home and worked on getting the atv’s ready for the parade and the next day they finished with their finals and it was finally Christmas holidays. The parade was the following night so they finished all their decorating.. then it was time for Emerson’s meeting with her therapist. She went to the basement and turned on the computer to wait for the call. “Hi Emerson!” Mara said with a smile. “Hi!” She returned. A few moments later they’d gotten through their ‘how are you’s’ and initial hellos and had

Quinn He felt like he’d been living on a roller coaster for the past week. Things would go up and even out for a while.. and he could breathe a little. Then right when he got comfortable .. the bottom would drop out. He did end up staying with Finley on the first snow day. After Asher called him and told him about the footprints he was beside himself … thinking someone was after Em. He didn’t have any sort of outlet … no punching bag and no one willing to get in the ring with him .. so he did the only other thing he could to get his mind off of it. He turned to sex. And he slept with Finley. He knew it was a huge mistake before he even did it. But Finley was kind of like home.. she was familiar .. they knew each other inside and out… literally. They’d been sleeping together since they were old enough to even know what it meant. So it was natural he go back to it. At least .. that’s the excuse he gave himself. He was very clear with her up front. This was a one time and one time