The Immortals I_Lucas by Cynthia Breeding

Author:Cynthia Breeding [Breeding, Cynthia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New Concepts Publishing
Published: 2018-02-03T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

When Sara arrived at the mansion the next morning, Lucas was already working at the computer in the study. Sunlight streaming in the window caught strands of tawny hair that dipped just past his collar and turned the hair to molten gold. The bronze tone of his skin made her think of a golden god again as she stepped through the doorway.

He looked up at the sound of the door closing. “I’ve been Googling for churches of Mary Magdalene,” he said as he rubbed his neck. “There are thousands of links about her, but very few churches are actually named after her in America.”

Sara peered over his shoulder at what he’d written on a notepad, trying not to let his clean, soap-and-leather male scent make her take leave of her own senses again. It took most of her will power not to finger the gold chain that was visible above his collar and pull the cross out. But her questions would have to wait.

“Mary Magdalene Church of Divine Gnosis,” she read. “That sounds interesting.”

“It’s on-line,” Lucas answered. “Hard to hide a spear in Cyberspace.”

“What about this one?” she pointed to another entry, every nerve fiber aware of his closeness.

“It’s an Orthodox mission church,” he replied. “They have temporary quarters in a Knights of Columbus hall in Fenton, Michigan. Again, not established enough for a spear to be hidden.”

She looked at the rest of the short list. Nothing on the east coast that would indicate a “dawn” setting. Then she remembered something. “Let me have the keyboard,” she said.

Lucas stood, letting her have the chair. He leaned over, one hand braced on either side of armrests, his warm breath tickling her ear. How was she supposed to concentrate like this? Sara just hoped her hands wouldn’t shake. She Googled in “Black Madonna”.

“More Gnostic information,” he commented as she scrolled down. “And a whole lot of New Age stuff too. Where are you going with this?”

She shook her head as she added “Churches” to the search. “Black Madonna’s are scattered all over Europe, especially France,” she said, “and they always relate to Mary Magdalene. I’m checking to see if there are any in the United States.”

“Try that one,” he said as he pointed to a link.

It turned up two statues. One was a shrine in Missouri built in 1938 and the other was dedicated to Our Lady of Czestochowa in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Sara felt a rush of excitement as she read the article and then realized that the building had been dedicated in 1958. “It’s too new,” she said dejectedly. “For the verse to make any sense, the building would have had to exist at least a hundred years or so.”

“Or the plans for it would have needed to been known,” Lucas added. “It took Sinclair five years to plan Rosslyn and over forty to build it.”

Sara clicked off on the computer. “I may have been wrong,” she said with even more despondency. “If the manuscript was written in the 16th century, how many buildings over here are three hundred years old? This isn’t Europe.

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