Moonlight and Motor Oil Series Box Set by Kristen Ashley

Author:Kristen Ashley [Ashley, Kristen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kristen Ashley

Fifteen Years Later…

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Tobe lay with his back to the headboard of his bed, his phone to his ear, listening to it ring.

It was late and there was a three-hour time difference.

He knew they’d answer.

They did.

Or Dave did.

“Hello?”

“Hey, Dave,” Toby replied quietly.

“Son, do you know what time it is?”

“Tell Margot I got my pilot’s license today.”

“Oh hell,” Dave muttered.

Toby grinned.

“What?” he heard Margot in the background. “Is that Tobias? Where is he? Is he all right?”

“I’ll let you handle that,” Toby said to Dave, still quiet. “Love to you both.”

Then he disconnected.

He looked at his watch and timed it.

It was one minute and twenty-three seconds later when his cell phone vibrated.

“Hey, Margot,” he answered in a soft voice.

“I have a mind to—”

“I got all my hours in. I aced the test,” he assured her. “My instructor said I was a natural.”

“When you were learning to teach golf, your instructor said you were a natural at that too,” she returned.

“Well, I was.”

“And when you were up in Alaska logging, your foreman told you he thought you’d been born in the north, you were such a natural logger, when you’re southern through and through.”

“Well, there was that too.”

She sighed before she announced, “All I can say is that I’m glad you’re not doing that anymore. Did you know that logging is the number one most dangerous job in America?”

He did not know that.

Though, having been a logger for two years, he wasn’t surprised.

She kept at him.

“And I suspect being a pilot is number two.”

He had no idea.

He also didn’t care.

“You’ll be the death of me,” she declared.

He cared about that.

“You’re gonna live to be a hundred and twenty and bounce my grandchildren on your knee,” he said low.

Margot had no reply.

“Don’t tell Dad. I’ll call him tomorrow and give him the news,” Toby instructed.

“Oh, so your father gets a phone call that’s not after one in the morning?” Margot replied.

He lowered his voice further but didn’t pull the smile out of it. “Just makin’ sure I check in with my girl.”

Margot again said nothing.

“Come out to Phoenix, I’ll take you up,” he offered.

“That will happen when hell freezes over, Tobias.”

Tobe fought back busting out laughing.

Though he couldn’t beat back a quiet chuckle.

“Now that you’ve bested the skies, can I expect a call to share you’ve spent your time looking for, and finding, a special someone?” she asked through his humor.

She wanted him settled and happy.

Okay, maybe not settled. She liked he was a rambling man (though she’d never admit it out loud).

She just wanted him happy.

“Not sure that’d be a good idea, sweetheart. I’m missing green. I’m thinking of hitting Tennessee next. Always wanted a spell in Nashville. Wouldn’t be a good idea to find a woman, then expect I could drag her across the country.”

“Dear Lord,” she murmured.

It drove her nuts he hadn’t met anyone yet.

Johnny had met someone.

Of course.

It took Margot ages to like Shandra, or trust her, and Toby still didn’t know if she really did.

Of course.

No one was good enough for her boys.

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