The Deepest Sin (2011)
“It was decked out in full Corinthian style, unparalleled in a university town that was accustomed to architectural marvels. The entrance to the museum was suitably impressive, approached by two flights of ascending stairs.
The collections of the department of antiquities offered superlative galleries displaying Egyptian artifacts, ranging from stone and wooden coffins to painted pottery, marble portraits, figurines and cuneiform tablets. The treasures had grown over the centuries through the vagaries of archeological explorations and imperial theft, the upheavals of war and the passage of history.
Lord Archer had arrived early, his anxiety deepening with each passing moment. He still felt the weight of it, here in the museum’s atrium, just as he had when he’d slipped with heavy reluctance out of Meredith’s bedchamber earlier that morning. Upon her terms, as she’d dictated, and against his better judgment.
He felt like a rutting schoolboy, as though last night and a million more would ...never be enough.MoreLess
The collections of the department of antiquities offered superlative galleries displaying Egyptian artifacts, ranging from stone and wooden coffins to painted pottery, marble portraits, figurines and cuneiform tablets. The treasures had grown over the centuries through the vagaries of archeological explorations and imperial theft, the upheavals of war and the passage of history.
Lord Archer had arrived early, his anxiety deepening with each passing moment. He still felt the weight of it, here in the museum’s atrium, just as he had when he’d slipped with heavy reluctance out of Meredith’s bedchamber earlier that morning. Upon her terms, as she’d dictated, and against his better judgment.
He felt like a rutting schoolboy, as though last night and a million more would ...never be enough.MoreLess
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