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came over him. “Have you done this with another? How could you know what to do otherwise?”
    “No!” She whirled around and cupped his face in her hands, her eyes wide, pleading. “I haven’t been with a man in a long—” She let out a sharp breath. “I’m not the wife you think I am, Warden.”
    He pulled away from her and stood up. “All this talk of not being the wife I think you are is really testing me, Millicent. Yes, you have changed, but that does not answer my question.” He reached down and grabbed his clothing, prepared to leave. “How did you learn to do that ? We made love once on our wedding night. Suddenly, six months later you are on your knees like a greedy streetwalker?”
    Tears slid down her cheeks. He hated himself for being so harsh, but nothing hurt more than believing his wife might have betrayed him.
    “I know these things from my life before,” she cried.
    “What life?” he shouted. “You were untouched when we married.”
    “If I tell you the truth, you won’t believe me.”
    “Try!”
    “I came from the year 2010.”
    Warden stared at her, open-mouthed, thinking she really had gone mad. He slid on his underwear, his mind spinning with questions. It was time to call on Doctor Crumpler and get to the bottom of this. Millicent was not making any sense. “This is ridiculous. Going back in time belongs in fiction.”
    “I can prove it! I was in the library one day doing research for the column I write. That’s right. I’m a writer!”—her voice rose to a shout when Warden’s eyes widened in shock—“I came across an old newspaper article from the Boston Globe. In two days’ time, a team of horses will be electrocuted on Boylston Street.”
    “Electrocuted—how?”
    “From traveling over the conduit track which was poorly installed. You’ll see. I’m not lying. By the end of the year, Boston Rapid Transit will begin training its conductors.”
    Warden had heard enough. He turned to leave. She grabbed his shoulders and tried to pull him back when he headed to the door, but he shrugged her off.
    He opened the door, paused, and glanced over his shoulder. “I thought this change in you was a good thing, but now, I’m not so sure. You seem to be a completely different person. You speak of things that do not make any sense. Nevertheless, to claim you came from the future is…madness. Pure madness, Millicent.” He swallowed the lump in his throat. “I do not know you anymore.”
    As he strolled down the hallway in his underwear, the sobbing from Millicent’s room brought his own tears to the surface.
    * * * *
    After the fiasco with Warden, Milli desperately wanted to go home. She was fucking embarrassed. If she had known giving him a blowjob would open up so much animosity from him, obviously she would’ve pretended to be a lady instead.
    But their explosive encounter in the study was a memory she’d keep forever. Heat crept up her neck and face just thinking about it, and her body still glowed from his touch.
    He’d enjoyed every second of her little gift in her room, his reaction said it all, but to accuse her of cheating because she could suck dick was a little overboard. Actually, a man of his time wouldn’t understand what women in her time did in bed. She supposed she couldn’t blame him for that. Still, he had made her feel cheap.
    Now he thought she was a crazy floozy who probably belonged in one of those institutions Josephine talked about.
    Maybe Josephine would know how to handle this. Better yet, she should be asking around about that gypsy. It couldn’t be too hard to find a Finnish Roma camp. She’d bet her life he knew exactly what was going on with her, and how to fix her dilemma. It was rumored that gypsies held mystical powers. Some people believed in it, others not so much. Considering her situation and the connection she had with that amethyst ball, she couldn’t afford to have any doubts.
    “There you are, Madam.”
    Milli broke the trance