The Secret Life of Gods

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“I’m telling you, this is the opportunity of a lifetime. Not only is this one of the most exciting archaeological finds since… since…” Rhys Llewellyn’s hands searched the air for a suitable comparison.

Danetta Price, CEO of Tanaka Enterprises, settled in her chair and propped sneakered feet atop the coffee table in the small lounge/mess of Rhys’s corporate schooner, Ceilidh. She was wise enough not to try to finish the sentence. That would be sure to send him off into a litany on the accuracies and inaccuracies of her choice. “I get the picture,” she told him dryly. “Now, would you kindly stop pacing and tell me—”

But he’d gotten himself unstuck and was off again. “And of course, to work with Dr. Burton… I did tell you I studied under him at Edinburgh?” Seeing her nod, he forged on. “I was in awe of the man, Danetta. Sheerly and purely in awe of him. He’s been more influential in my life as an archaeologist—”

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