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“Wait?” Caspar burst out laughing. “Toby and Samantha are together? Like right now, together? Did you interrupt them doing what she obviously did…”
“I swear, you are a troll, Caspar,” Nicolette muttered weakly.
“No! Get your mind out of the gutter,” her mother snapped angrily, getting madder and madder. “Someone find me some stupid car keys so I can track down your father!”
CHAPTER9
Luke sprinted from the Flyboys hangar… leaving Alpo and Glory looking at him in shock and alarm where he’d dropped his tools, slid down the ladder in a rush, and raced out of the building.
“Are we gonna blowup or something?” Alpo said nervously in alarm, shoving Glory forward bodily and plucking the tools out of her hands.
It took the two people barely a moment to recognize something was seriously wrong.
“Glory – get out of the building! NOW!”
“Luke! Luke!” Glory began running behind him, hollering for her protégé… as well as for her husband, who was running behind her. “Hunter! Get out of the building until we… Wait! Are you seriously on the phone?”
Luke flung himself bodily into the truck, pealing out of the gravel parking lot, leaving the two stunned people behind.
As he flew down the country roads, he called his father.
“Where are you, son?”
“Dad! I need help…”
“Where are you?”
“On my way to the apartment…”
“Why?”
“Because that’s where my hunting rifle is…”
“Whoa…whoa… whoa!” his father said openly. “Listen to me! Donotget out your rifle and calm down. No one is going to do anything. Ya’ hear me?”
“Valkyrie is going to kill me.”
“I warned you.”
“Now isn’t the time for a big lecture or an ‘I told you so’…”
“I know,” his father said bluntly, and he could hear the humor in his voice. “Get to your apartment, lock yourself inside, and do not open that door until I get there.”
“What if Nicolette shows up?”
“She’ll be with her daddy – and you do not want him using her as bait. She will never get over seeing you beat to a pulp, nor will you. Which is why you willnotget out your hunting rifle. Tensions are high, but they are gonna be much higher if someone gets injured or killed.”
“Omigosh…” he breathed fearfully. “He’s never going to forgive me, is he?”
“I can honestly say it might take a while… but I’m really glad you married her, son. That says a lot of a man that will commit to someone, give a woman your name, and work on a future together. You just got to get past the ‘I kept it a secret’thing.”
“I was afraid of how everyone would react.”
“I’m sure…”
“I mean, I saw how they treated Toby over the years – and this is my home, you know? Toby could retreat to the Academy, but all I have is this.”
“You have your family – always.”
