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Then they saw it. A second white shadow, taller and bigger than Millicent, detached from one of the chairs and drifted toward the telescope.
Bee gripped Adam’s arm. Her nerves stretched tight, like pulled rubber bands. She didn’t even know if she was actually seeing what she thought she was seeing, or if she just wanted it so badly her imagination was conjuring up the entire scene.
The shadow hovered like a wisp of fog. Though Bee couldn’t see the glass jar from this angle, another veil of light and dark rose from the floor where she’d placed it.
Tension rippled through Adam, but he held the camera steady on the cupola and zoomed in farther. The shadows might have been from the stark tree branches surrounding the library or the play of clouds and moonlight or some other atmospheric phenomenon…except that they weren’t.
Bee closed her other hand tightly around her locket. The two shadows in the cupola drifted toward each other and touched.
They shimmered lightly as if the contact had caused a brief electric charge. Then they moved slowly up to the ceiling, like dolphins rising toward the ocean’s surface.
A brief glow, a diffusion of light…and then they were gone.
Neither Bee nor Adam moved for several long minutes. Then he lowered his phone, his breath escaping in a heavy rush.
“We did it,” he said.
She forced her fingers to unclench from his arm as his words penetrated her fogged brain.
They did it.
“Oh, my god.” She pressed her hand to her chest as relief suddenly rocketed through her. “We did it.”
Adam turned to stare at her as if he, too, was realizing what they’d both just said. What they’ddone.
A heartbeat passed, suffused with growing excitement, and then Adam gave a big, booming laugh that echoed against the trees and into the sky.
He grabbed her up in his arms, lifting her clear off the ground. A shriek of joy escaped Bee’s throat as she threw her arms around him and hugged him as hard as she could.
“We did it.” Tears filled her eyes, and happiness flooded her soul. She wrapped her legs around his waist as he spun her in a circle. His heart beat against hers, and their combined laughter flew upward like a flock of birds.
Then he stopped and lowered her gently back to her feet. Their gazes locked before he slipped his hand to her nape and brought his mouth down on hers in a kiss that made her heart sing and her body quicken.
She wound her arms around his waist and pressed closer. All of her fears and misgivings vanished as if burned away by the bright truth of what they meant to each other.
He kissed her deeply, thoroughly, before pulling back and running his thumb across the line of her cheekbone. His blue-green eyes were filled with warmth and tenderness.
“Nice work, Librarian Delaney,” he said.
“You too, Dr. Powers.” She squeezed him around the waist and looked past him at the cupola. “I can’t believe it.”
Adam lowered his head to kiss her again. “I can.”
