AN: Hey guys, I am so sorry that I have not been updating, I was away...yet again...and then I have just been so tired after running after 500 4-6 graders for a week...and I AM NOT exagerating, that I just haven't been doing really anything online. Please forgive me and accept two new chapters as penance. Hope that ya'll enjoy. Please read and review. Thanks so much. PB8

What Lay Hidden...Forbidden

He loves me not. Would God that I were dead!

- Excerpt from A Woman's Lost Love

(date unknown)

He believes I do not know he watches.

She wished to die when Pharaoh came, and again when he called for her.

"Anck-su-namun, come to me my love." my love...Empty words. She longed to scream at him, "Nigh! For I love Imhotep! And Imhotep only!" now she wishes to cry as he kisses her feverishly. But she will not, she must not.

What is this cruel flame that burns within her? Sustaining her will to live against her will, earnest and strong, to die before she spends another moment in the arms of one she can never love? It is her love for Imhotep.

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