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‘God knohy I never strangled you, Rafe’

‘Because you love me, little brother You’re the only one who does’ He yawned and put down the book ‘I’h troubles of my own at the moment What a th to face Mother tomorrow’

Chapter Seventeen

Isis raised her Ankh high above Gabriel’s head, catching the sun in its eye ‘With tears, anger and love I wove Osiris’s body together But what is resurrected will never be hat is lost remains lost’

—Captives of the Hidden City,

Desert Boy Book Four

Sa rooe’s deep voice—calm And a woman’s voice—calmer Her mama-in-law

Her hands fisted Edge had not come to tell her He’d left it to Tubbs to inform her

She didn’t want to go in She didn’t want the first tier to be like this She took a deep breath and entered none the less Edge ry at her, but he would need her nohether he admitted it or not She would show him precisely how proper and patient she could be

The worey dress seated on the sofa looked very h cheekbones, thin lips and cold eyes The archetypal Duchess

Edge rose to his feet, his face even more than usually expressionless He looked like a bored stranger acco call

‘Mother, may I introduce Lady Edward, my wife’

Sae to curtsy Instead she e

‘How is your brother this ?’

‘A little feverish, but better, thank you I will see if he is ready for you to visit with him, Mother’

Sarab at his sleeve as he passed That or pick up the porcelain figure of a sphinx on the table and hurl it at hihtened her jaw into a smile and wondered what did one say to one’sshop wouldn’t deign to sell?

‘I am happy to finally hted to have your sons back in England’

‘Naturally I would have preferred it to happen under lessirregular circumstances’