A Place in Time (Rum Runner Island Book 1) by JoAnn Ross

Author:JoAnn Ross [Ross, JoAnn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Fiction
Publisher: Castlelough Publishing, LLC
Published: 2016-10-17T21:00:00+00:00

15

Once again, Sebastian found himself conflicted. He hadn’t wanted to leave the laboratory. He’d wanted, needed to stay and work with Nate on the accelerator. But, on the other hand, after several hours running through programs, bringing Kirby’s brother up on nearly two centuries of scientific discovery he’d not yet experienced, his head felt as if it were being attacked by Janurian storm troopers, and he was feeling as weak as a newborn. The idea of collapsing into Kirby’s cloud of a bed was all too appealing.

Unfortunately, that brought up images of her lying beside him. Beneath him. On top of him. By the time her machine pulled up in front of the building, his head wasn’t the only body part aching.

He watched her jump out of the vehicle and come striding toward him, looking as if she had everything and everyone on the island under control. But before she’d opened the Jeep door, he’d caught her checking her hair in the rearview mirror and smoothing some color over lips that he could have told her needed no artificial enhancement.

“You do not have to say it,” he greeted her as he left the building to meet her halfway.

“Say what?”

“That you were correct. That I should have allowed my body time to rest.”

“Why should I point out what you’re smart enough to have already figured out for yourself? I will say that I’m glad you agreed to come home.”

Home.

Kirby Pendleton’s house was not Sebastian’s home. Nor was this island. Or even the planet. But that single word, reverberating in his throbbing head, caused his heart to begin to tumble in a way that had him wondering if he could possibly be having what, in this time, was known as a heart attack. That particular medical problem had been cured eighty years ago, but perhaps something about entering the Earth’s atmosphere had negated any genetic advances.

“It was not exactly a unilateral decision,” he admitted. “Your brother can be very persuasive.”

Whenever she laughed, he heard music. Every school child had listened to the sounds terran scientists had sent out—like a bottle in a cosmic ocean on the Voyager spacecraft in the year 1977.

There were spoken greetings in fifty-five ancient and modern terran languages, sounds of nature, such as waves, rain, and storms, and musical selections from different cultures and eras. Sebastian’s favorite, to his sister’s annoyance, had been a musician named Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode.” But if only they’d included Kirby Pendleton’s laughter, every man in all the galaxies would be racing to purchase transport tickets to Earth.

“I have to warn you about something,” she said as they crossed a covered wooden bridge.

“What’s that?”

“I have this tradition.”

“Traditions are a good thing.” One of Logosia’s most enduring traditions was the annual celebration of Truthfest. Which caused Sebastian’s head to throb even more painfully when he thought of how Rosalyn planned to disrupt this year’s events.

Disrupt? How about blow them sky-high?

He shouldn’t have come. The only reason he’d done so now was that this

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