Finally, Alyssa nodded, feeling cornered. When his hands covered her forehead, she realized the headache was simply gone. No medicine. The confusion was gone as well. But…what did that mean?
Alyssa looked at Kendrick. “What’s your superpower?”
Kendrick shook his head. “I’m a twin to the youngest, but not the youngest. I have no power.”
“So, you’re normal?” Alyssa asked.
The two other men in the room looked at each other, both chuckling. “I’m notabnormal,” Bryson said.
“Uh huh.” Alyssa shook her head. “I brought stuff,” she said.
“Please tell me you have a device with Candy Crush on it!” Beth said. “I need to play it, and my phone died oh, about sixty years ago, I think.”
Alyssa looked at the older woman. “You don’t look over sixty.”
“I have a husband who heals me from everything. Sometimes even from the aging process, I think.” Heathershrugged. “I just know I’m not aging as quickly as most of the women around me are.”
Kendrick looked at Alyssa and said, “My grandfather, father, and brother have all married women who have traveled from the past. I am the last unmarried McClain of an age to marry.”
“Are you trying to tell me I’m destined to marry you? Really? You must have a better line than that.”
Heather burst out laughing. “Don’t worry, son, she’s always a bit prickly when she doesn’t know someone well.”
“I can’t believe you have sons old enough to marry!”
Heather smiled. “I have five married sons and seventeen grandchildren between them.”
“No way!” Alyssa said, staring at Heather. “And Holli is going to have seven sons just like you?”
“Of course,” Beth said. “Anyone who marries the youngest in the family is destined to give birth to seven sons.”
“But I don’t have to have seven kids?” she asked.
Holli shook her head. “Even if you married a McClain, like Kendrick here, you wouldn’t necessarily have seven sons. You could even have daughters.”
“Neither of you have daughters?” Alyssa asked, looking between Beth and Heather.
“No, and we knew we wouldn’t,” Heather said. “I know it sounds strange, but it’s how the family works.”
“I wouldn’t mind having children if there was a chance of girls. And I didn’t have to commit to seven.”
Holli grinned at her. “I went through the same dilemma when I got here, but I knew what it entailed to marry Bryson.”
Alyssa looked at the man in front of her. Was heoffering?
