Nose twitching impishly as that dimpled smile grew and grew, Marjatta glanced to Robb. A quick lift of a well-shaped eyebrow spoke volumes between the two McLellans. Jon was the latest 'little friend' in a long string of 'little friends' her darling bairn had brought home in his lifetime. Except this one hadn't gotten chucked out in less time than it took to cook a Sunday roast. Which meant there had to be something to him beyond the obvious physical attributes.
Just as a vintner would inspect the grape arbors at harvest time, she would squeeze all the pertinent details out of this strikingly attractive young man. One way or another.
"Very nice to finally meet you, Jon." Voice a high feminine trill, the brogue she sported was much thicker, more gentrified than the one Robb possessed. A sign she was far less traveled than her footloose and fancy free offspring, but hardly a mental lightweight. In fact, she was just as savvy as her sharp-talking son. Very little snuck past those deep blue-grey eyes or keen nose that could pick up a scent gone cold at forty paces. "Robb has told me a lot about you."
"In fact, we were just talking about how much you both like music..."
"Mum's sending over the bulk of Dad's LPs," Robb hastily added. Already he could see the direction dear old mum wished to swing their impromptu meet and greet. And if Robb was an expert at controlling a situation, his mother was the true master.
Time to start nipping this business in the bud.
"She's agreed to let the Beatles album go, too." The slightest tilt of his head was all it took to convey to Jon, Aye. That one.
Jon knew that Robb had been begging his mother for absolute ages to come off the motherload of vintage vinyl his late father had amassed. A collection that included an extremely rare, mint as the day it was pressed back in '66, unopened copy of the notorious Butcher cover.
The Holy Grail of rock 'n' roll for legions of audiophiles. Merging Dad's collection with his own and then adding Jon's 1970s deep cuts anthology to the mix? They might just have to put an addition on the house to hold it all.