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“Really?” His decision had shocked her, although suddenly Gabriel seemed very familiar to her, but she couldn’t quite place him. “Why?”
“I’ll get to that in a minute.” He then went on to show them the various rooms, which included a large library with hundreds of books, several worktables covered in sheets of leather, magnifying glasses on stands, and brushes that Shayna knew were archaeological tools.
Awareness started to dawn.
There was even a sledgehammer leaning against a wall. She laughed and went to it, touching the handle. Was it possible?
Her heart rate soared as she turned back to Gabriel and recognized him and the space from one of her first visions, the one she’d known had been meant just for her.
What’s wrong? Marius quickly moved in and once more slid his arm around her waist.
Nothing, she responded quickly. I’m fine. She’d forgotten that she hadn’t shared this particular vision with Marius.
Her gaze skimmed the wall next to the sledgehammer. The fact that she’d already seen what lay behind the wall set her to trembling all over again.
Shayna, this isn’t nothing.
Turning toward him, she confessed that she’d seen this in a vision and her eyes filled with tears.
You’re overcome.
I am. But just wait until you see what lies beyond that wall.
Gabriel didn’t say anything. He just stepped up to the wall, moving with the same lithe, muscular grace that Marius did. Gabriel picked up the sledgehammer and smiled. He let the handle slide through his fingers to the end. “You might want to step away for this.”
Shayna felt Marius’s confusion as they both moved back about ten feet, but her own mounting anticipation almost had her floating.
Gabriel drew the hammer back then struck the wall. Just like that the thin layer of stone crumbled, revealing an arched doorway.
She was already in motion and stepped over the rubble to move inside. Everything was as it had been in the vision.
Marius’s voice sounded from behind her. “What the hell is this? Are these clay tablets?”
Gabriel’s gaze drifted slowly up the tall stack. “Our history.”
“You mean our written history?”
“Cuneiform,” Shayna said. “Like all those pics I’ve taken.”
Gabriel removed the nearest tablet from one of the shorter stacks and held it out for Shayna to inspect. She shook her head slowly from side to side. “This is absolutely amazing.”
She understood now that most modern vampires believed the symbols to be an ancient carving design, since so many of the stone patterns had names and origins.
Marius drew close. “So this is what you were talking about.”
“Yes, it is, like ancient Sumer.”
“Then this is our language.”
“The written word.” Shayna didn’t dare touch the tablet. Something this old, probably several millennia, needed to be handled with care.
“Where shall I put this?” Gabriel asked.
Shayna’s throat had grown very tight as she met Gabriel’s warm gaze. “On the table, please. I presume you have gloves I can use.”
He nodded, moving back into the room with all the tables and equipment. “I should have used them as well, but I was too impatient.” He carried the large, heavy tablet back into the workroom.
Shayna forgot about everything else, including Marius. She knew the men hovered and responded quickly to everything she requested, including additional lighting and a different chair, one that swiveled and rolled. She had them set two of the tables at right angles. She requested a computer and within a few minutes had a complete working setup because Gabriel said he would do anything she wanted and she took him at his administrative word. The man knew how to run an organization, just like Rumy.
