Subj: Fiery Forbidden Love : A Smoldering Flame Chapter 14
Date: 12/10/98 9:25:10 PM Central Standard Time
From: beverlylacroix

Maggie found herself remembering Nicholas, and how much she had loved him. Their marriage, and she had married him in a strange and bizarre ritual of the underworld -- No. No, that had been a dream. Only a dream.

"Willie, are you okay?" Maggie asked him gently.

Stirring, Willie, looked up at her and said, "who are you?"

"Willie, it's me, Maggie," Maggie replied, sure that he would snap out of it as soon as his head cleared.

"Maggie. I don't know no Maggie," the young man replied.

"Willie, are you all right? Can you stand up?" Maggie asked him.

"Yes, but I don't know why you keep calling me Willie," he said.

"Well, what is your name?" Maggie asked pacifying him, she didn't know what else to do at the moment.

"My name, young woman is Christian Shane Douglas, and I am looking for Grant Douglas. He is my cousin. I was supposed to meet him here about a month ago. We both -- oooohhh, my aching head."

Alexandria Egypt

Julia grabbed the scarab, and told Roxanne that they had to take it to the resting place of Amen-Re, and place the sun seal on the hole that opened for Quentin, Barnabas, and Laura, and that way they would keep Amen-Re in his world, and send Laura back to hers, and Barnabas be damned. He would just have to wonder the world looking for something, which would not be new to him, because he had loved a lost cause for centuries.

"Are you quite through venting, my dear?" Quentin asked with a twinkle in his eye, and not just a little admiration at this wonderful woman he called wife, and yet again thanked his lucky stars at the sheer stupidity of his cousin. No offense, cousin, but you lost on this one, was Quentin's last thought when Roxanne interrupted him with, "she's right, Quentin, and I will be the one to seal the tomb. Let's go."