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Rex glanced at Luke Even with a decent tan, his brother’s face was blushed in the center of his cheeks He was jealous His te
Billy closed his small pocket model and tossed the device in the car “No answer”
“Damn,” Rex said “That’s our Lucy She’s too busy to answer her phone”
Billy’s lips twitched “Would you mind if I wait for her?”
“Not at all,” Luke said, a big grin stao ahead and break you in right if you’re planning on hbors help one another Strip off your shirt and cliet this hay baled in no time with an extra pair of hands”
Billy looked a little confused, but he followed the recoon Rex snickered under his breath when he heard hiloves This would be a fun afternoon
When they finished there, he was going to see Lucy He’d ed And it was tiht
Rex and Luke didn’t like outsiders They da with their woht, Rex planned to tell her all about that, too
Right after he spanked her for luring this kid to Tennessee
Lucy held the phone between her ear and shoulder, opening randfather’s elaborate study, a room she’d easily chosen for her office She reached the decision because of the pictureoverlooking the garage bays and where she planned to eventually build a practice track
She listened to Billy’s wife go on and on about Billy How Billy wasn’t used to traveling without her, how Billy left a wife and baby back in Dallas, how the h to buy a temporary separation Sometimes Lucy wondered why she took phone calls from the drivers’ wives
When Melinda, Billy’s de, she said, “By the way, I haven’t heard from him Is he there yet?”
Lucy stared at the elegant grandfather clock in the far corner as the tian with its chimes of time “I haven’t seen him”
The weighted penduluhout the room “When was the last time you’ve talked to him?” Melinda asked
“Around ten thisto find the farrab a room at a local motel he’d just passed He was exhausted You know Billy He has no sense of direction, and he was frustrated I’ll probably hear froht If you talk to him, tell him to call me He was supposed to stay here So in tomorrow”