Chapter 27
ResolutionMegan determined not to seek out the Egyptian again and several days passed in discomfort as the conflicting emotions of love and hate wrestled for mastery of her heart — not only with regard to Ra-hotep himself, but with regard to her father as well. She wanted to hate them both and to blame them for all that she regretted in herself, but found to her dismay that she was finding it more and more difficult to do so. If she was not careful the hate would fade away like a miasma and she would be left exposed with only herself to blame for all that had happened to her. On several occasions she listened to praise of Decius and the competent, fair way he was administering the town in the absence of a Prefect, and found herself agreeing. She even found a tear in her eye one
