Letters of Love (Green Division Series Book #3) by Ashley Monahan Page A

“I’d be glad to take her.”  

“Thank you,” Joanne said.

“AND UNCLE BEN!”  Tiffy said in the background.

“I swear you’d live with Uncle Ben if you could.”  Joanne teased Tiffy.  “What time is the show?”

“It’s eleven on Sunday.”

“What time should we drop her off?”

“Anytime between nine and nine thirty would be okay.”

“We’ll see you then.”

Aubrey hung up and headed off to work.  She had to work on Sunday too, so it would be a short night.  Home at three, up at eight to get ready.  Tiffy wouldn’t get to cross off competing in the horse show from the list for the time being, but she seemed happy enough to attend it.  She was such an easy girl to get along with.
     
    *****
     
    “They belong together,” Tiffy said out of the blue to Joanne when she hung up the phone.

“Who?”

“Uncle Ben and Aubrey.”

“What makes you say that?”  Joanne hitched her eyebrow up.

“Uncle Ben looks at Aubrey, like Daddy looks at you.  He loves her.”  Tiffy hopped around to a Kelly Clarkson song that played on the radio in the living room.

“You think so.”

“I know so.  And I’m gonna help ‘em.”

“Don’t you be meddling in Uncle Ben’s love life.  He wouldn’t appreciate it.”

“Mom, I know what I’m doing here.”  Tiffy put her hands on her hips and cocked her head to the side.  “They’re gonna get married someday.  They’re soul mates.”

“I think you should let them decide that for themselves my little angel.”

“We’ll see.”  Tiffy shrugged her shoulders.  “Miley!  No!   Put my shoe down!  That’s not a chew toy!”

Miley trotted by with Tiffy’s favorite ballet shoe in her mouth.
     
    *****
    Ben had his house back.  No muddy boots.  No dishes in the sink.  No frat boy.  Ahhhh, it was home again. Ben sat in his office tweaking his resume.  Kerr called him to let him know the position would open the following week.  Ben would be ready.  His resume was impeccable and he already knew a majority of the wardens.

Ben’s phone rang.

“Hello.”

“Uncle Ben.”  

“Hi gorgeous.”

“Are you working Sunday?”

“I might pick up an overtime shift.  What do you have planned?”

“Aweee.  But you need to come watch the horse show with me.  Can you please come?”

Ben couldn’t say no to her.

“What time?”

“Eleven.  I have to be to Aubrey’s at 9:30.”

“Aubrey’s taking you?”

“Yeah.  You and Aubrey.”

“You’ve already decided for me, huh.”

“Yup.  So you hafta come.”

“I don’t know...”

“Please Uncle Ben,” she pleaded.

“Alright.  You talked me into it.  I’ll pick you up after nine.  Does your Mom and Dad know your master plan?”

“Yup, she talked to Aubrey already.”

“Alright.”

“I gotta go, ugh, Miley!  She keeps eating my shoes!”

Ben laughed.  “You better go put Miley in her playpen.”

“I’m going to. Bye!  Love you!”

“Love you too.”

“Miley, stop!”

Tiffy was such a little ham.

His phone immediately rang after talking to Tiffy.  It was Kevin from Green Dispatch.  There was a hostage situation in Limington so he was going to work.  Ben was a member of the SRT (Special Response Team) which responded to hostage and high risk calls.  It no longer was his day off.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

 
    “Knock, knock.”  Tiffy looked through the screen door.  “Aubrey, you awake?”

“She gets out of work late, she might have overslept.”  Ben didn’t see any movement.

“Come on in. I’m not quite ready yet.”  Aubrey’s voice came from the back of the house.  

Ben opened the door and he and Tiffy went inside.

“I love her house.  It’s so cute.  But, she needs a dog.  I’ll give her Miley.”

“You would not.”  

“She ate another pair of my shoes.”  Tiffy scowled.

“She’s teething, like you did when you were a baby.  That’s how all my shoes