Page 11 of Echo of a Forbidden Kiss

Mr. Lancaster smiled and nodded. It was as if Sebastian were speaking about the most usual thing. But he wasn’t. Wasn’t this guy an intelligent archeologist?

“You believe him?” she asked.

It appeared as if he didn’t want to answer her. He looked out the window instead. Strange, Noelle thought, no one was on the street. “Do you? Believe him?”

“Yes, I do. My daughter, Kes, went back to fourteen eighty-four.”

She stared at him and blinked her eyes. “Are you coming from seeing a doctor at the hospital, Mr. Lancaster?”

He smiled, knowing what she was insinuating. “No. I am meeting someone here for coffee.”

He waved his arm and the customers, and everyone else, returned, talking, ordering, drinking. It was as if nothing had happened.

Noelle’s and Sebastian’s mouths fell open. What? What just happened?

“How did you do that?” Noelle demanded. “Are we being punked or whatever they do these days?”

“I can assure you, Miss Upton, no.” Lancaster sipped his drink and offered them a place to sit. He rested his quite lucid gaze on Sebastian and shook his head. “You are here for a reason. I think I know what it is.”

“What?” Sebastian asked, slipping into a seat.

“To kill me.”

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