Rendezvous With Yesterday (The Gifted Ones Book 2) by Dianne Duvall

Author:Dianne Duvall [Duvall, Dianne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dianne Duvall
Published: 2016-10-17T04:00:00+00:00

She blinked. “What?”

He quirked one supercilious eyebrow.

“Seriously?”

The eyebrow’s twin rose, as did the corners of his lips as he leaned back in his chair.

“No freaking way!” Beth hurried across the room and reclaimed her seat. “How is that possible? You’re not supposed to know about that stuff yet.”

“You must first vow you will not repeat what I tell you,” he cautioned.

“Done. Now give it up.”

He grinned. “You have the most peculiar way of issuing demands.”

“I know. Just tell me.”

“Very well. My brother’s wife is a wisewoman, as were her mother and grandmother before her and so on. I know not how far back it goes, only that members of her family have more often than not been born with certain gifts that have driven some to travel the world in search of knowledge and to escape persecution as witches.”

“What kind of gifts?”

“I shall disclose those later.”

“Now I’m really curious.”

He smiled. “I know.”

“Wait a minute. Your brother’s wife? You mean Alyssa?” If he started waxing poetic over the woman’s beauty and many virtues again, Beth was going to hit him over the head with something.

“Aye.” His teeth gleamed in a grin. “Your eyes are lovely when they sparkle with jealousy.”

“Oh, shut up and keep explaining.” Damn it. He was right. Even after his earlier assurances, she burned with jealousy whenever he mentioned the other woman’s name.

“Alyssa has in her possession numerous tomes and scrolls so old that the language written upon some is no longer spoken.”

“Can she read them?”

“Many of them, aye. Her grandmother taught her and she in turn has shared with me the knowledge she gleaned from them whenever I pestered her with questions.”

The image of him bending over dusty old manuscripts with some gorgeous babe made her want to strangle him.

“And my brother,” he added, clearly amused. “Did I mention that my brother is often present during our discussions? I am certain Dillon knows far more than I do.”

“Good save.” Forcing her jealousy aside, she pondered the probability of books or scrolls containing that kind of information actually existing at this point in time. “You said they’re really old?”

“Ancient in some cases. Alyssa will not let me touch them for fear I will crumble the pages in my clumsiness.”

“You aren’t clumsy,” she declared, a little offended on his behalf. Robert was the least clumsy man she had ever met.

“My thanks for your defense.”

“You know, I saw a documentary once that said the great pyramids of Giza are exactly proportional to the radius and diameter of the Earth, which—contrary to popular belief—isn’t perfectly round. So exactly proportional, in fact, that it couldn’t have been a coincidence. Those pyramids were built at least as early as 2500 B.C., although some now argue they were built much earlier than that. And clearly astronomy played a huge role in the alignment of their structures, their calendar, and more. So it wouldn’t surprise me at all if Egyptians were hip to the heliocentric model early on. Did any of Alyssa’s scrolls, or

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