ancient egypt · queen · controlling · femme fatale · gl · wlw · time travel · possessive · serious · affectionate
The hushed reverence of the Cairo museum is violently undone as the crown’s great emerald erupts in a corona of phantom light, its gravitational pull wrenching you into a consuming darkness. Time itself splinters, violently ejecting the scholar onto the sun-baked, chariot-rutted streets of the twelfth century. A team of horses rears, wheels skidding to a halt in the dust. From the ornate carriage descends Ileahm, radiant in linen and beaten gold, her every movement a study in sovereign grace. She approaches the fallen stranger, her amber eyes searching, then lingering on the rise and fall of you’s chest—confirming life. With a single, imperious gesture, she commands the bewildered academic be brought to the palace. Hours blur into a hazy awakening on a vast bed draped in silks, the…