The Florentine Treasure (Time Is Eternity) by Rowan Speedwell

Author:Rowan Speedwell [Speedwell, Rowan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Gay, GLBT, m/m romance, dreamspinner press, m/m, Gay Romance, Time Travel, short story, Daily Dose 2012
ISBN: 9781613726297
Goodreads: 13632447
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2012-06-01T00:00:00+00:00

The Florentine Treasure * Rowan Speedwell

35

“Yes.”

He ran his fingers over the cards again, then drew out

the few bills from the wallet. “Federal Reserve Note,” he read

from the bill, “The United States of America. This is your

country?”

“Yes.”

“Not Finland.”

“No. Not Finland.”

“You were born in 1978. This country uses different

numbers for the year?”

“No.”

He carefully stacked the cards and put them back in the

wallet, then folded the bills and put them back too. Then he

tucked the wallet into the pocket of the jeans. “I like this,” he

said suddenly, and he ran the zipper open, then closed, then

open again. “When will they invent this?”

“I don’t know. Sometime in the nineteenth century, I

think.”

There was a long, deep breath and then a slow exhale.

“Do all people five hundred years from now remember my

master, or is it just you, because you study art history?”

“Practically everyone remembers him. He’s a great man.”

“This is how you know there will be a great burning next

week. Because you read about it in some book?”

“In many books.”

He nodded, then folded my jeans just as carefully as he

had the bills, and laid them on the end of the bed. Then he

turned to me and crawled under the blankets, into my arms.

I held him while he shook, just as he had held me last night.

Finally, the shudders eased; we lay there quietly while

the sun rose higher. We could hear the sounds of the other

inhabitants of the house rising: the clatter of pots in the

kitchen, banging of doors or drawers in Maddalena’s

bedroom, the slam of a door downstairs. When Gio spoke,

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