I am sorry that I am very late with this update. I am putting this on hold I am having no inspiration with this story right now. I am going to complete this, I just don't know when. Again sorry that this took a while.
"Mom! What do I do with this chest? Sucker weighs a god dang ton." Alex yells and looks to his mother. Kaene looks at Alex like he is making a big mistake about his minor swearing.
"Alex, watch your language." Evy says with a heated look. Keane gives Alex a look that said 'I told you so'.
"Rather weighty, this." Keane looks at Alex with a look that says 'you little sassy shit'.
Rick calmly mentions "Evy, that first weird dream of yours was exactly six weeks ago, right?"
"Yes, but what's that got to do with anything?" Evy asks with a confused look adorning his face.
"It just happens to coincide with Egyptian New Year." Rick informs her.
"That's right. What a coincidence." She says with very little true enthusiasm.
"Maybe. All I'm saying is lets be cautious. If anything happened to you, I would never forgive myself. You and Alex are the only thing that matter to me." Rick tries to reason with Evy about her recklessness about this endeavor.
"Well, the Bembridge scholars have been begging me to run the British Museum." Evy says calmly with a smile.
"Have I kissed you today?" Rick says dipping her with a kiss.
"I hate it when you do that." Evy says mildly flustered.
"Why?" Rick looks at her with confusion.
"Makes me agree to anything." Evy replies and makes Rick smile and attempt to kiss her again.
'Anything?" Rick says with a sultry grin. He stops grinning when he sees the disbelieving look on Evy face.
"Those knickers are not mine." She says with a grim look.
"Jonathan," Rick say through gritted teeth. "Alex, behave yourself for five minutes, all right?"
In an adjacent room, "You betcha." Alex says while highly tempted with the opening chest, "Alex, this is cursed. Be careful, please," after it's lock clicked, showing that it contains the bracelet, "Its beautiful, Alex."
Alex reached his hand into the chest and picked up the bracelet as he did that it latched onto his wrist, opening up his sight to visions of far-off places in Egypt, straight to the pyramids of Giza and then zooms to the desert ruins at Karnak. Alex looks at Keane in fear as they both look at the bracelet that has attached itself to Alex's arm.
"Cripes, how do you get this thing off?" They both look around and see Evy walk towards them with her face in a book.
"Happy to be home?" Evy says to the boys with a smile. "Couldn't be happier." Alex says while concealing the bracelet on his arm to prevent his mother from noticing.
"It's the Year of the Scorpion." Both boys look at it and say together "Neat."
"Thought you might like that." Evy says with a smile as she sees the wide eyed look on their faces.
In another area of the manor, Evelyn and Rose's hopelessly inept and irresponsible brother Jonathan, Rose roamed the manor looking for her errant brother. She saw that her brother had a blonde busty showgirl.
"So I killed the mummy and his minions and stole his scepter." Jonathan says in the hopes of making himself seem better, while waving a golden scepter around in the hopes of enticing the woman and making his story more believable.
"Oh, you're so brave." She says that with aggressive fluttering eyes at Jonathan.
"And rich. Did I mention rich?" Rose shakes her head at her brothers way of flirting.
"What do you think I'm doing here?"
Rose sends her away with a harsh look after the flossy says that to her brother, she left in a hurry and Jonathan gave Rose a reproached look.
Rose drags Jonathan into a room, only for them both to be shoved into the same chair by men holding weapons, they are then confronted by Balthus Hafez and his red and black-robed henchmen. Jonathan holding his scepter close to him.
"You're not Sheila's husband?" Jonathan questions. "No."
"If you work for Johnny, I was gonna pay him back on Tuesday." Jonathan tries to redirect attention.
"I don't know any Johnny. We are looking for the bracelet of Anubis." Rose's eyes widen and she looks away, curling into Jonathan.
"Oh, good for you. Good thing to have, the old bracelet of Anubis."
"Where is it?" Hafez bites out.
"Ah, you're looking here for the bracelet. I see. I have no idea what you're talking about." Jonathan says in a rush, hoping to placid them.
"Mr. O'Connell, you try my patience." Hafez exclaims to Jonathan.
"Mr. O'Connell? Hold on a minute. You've got the wrong ma…" A blade is placed under his throat. "That bracelet. Now I remember... I lost it in a card game." Jonathan rushes out trying in vain to explain the misunderstanding.
"For your sake, I hope not." Hafez says then he sees the golden scepter in Jonathan's hand. "It can't be." Hafez says grabbing the scepter from Jonathan's hand. Meela looks at Jonathan and comments, "Is this your wife?" Looking at Rose.
"My wife? Oh, no this is Rose my little sister." Jonathan says bring attention to Rose who glances at Meela and then looks away as if to say that she doesn't matter to Rose.
"Where is your wife?" "You mean Evy. I think she went off to Baden-Baden or Tibet or something. The girls a free spirit. Did I mention I was single now?" Rose glares at Jonathan. Meela then starts to intimidate Jonathan by stating "Egyptian asps are quite poisonous," She kisses the asps head and Rose glares at the Meela.
"Its downstairs. There's a safe. The combination is 3-20-58. It's in the safe downstairs. I told you! I told you!" Jonathan pleads to Meela.
"And your point is?" Meela says as she brings the asp closer to Jonathan's neck. Rose looks at the snake and Meela with a dark glare.
"I told you so you wouldn't kill me." Jonathan pleads again, while Rose looks at him in understandable distress.
"When did we make that arrangement?" Meela says as the asp prepares to strike at Jonathan's throat.