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The Curse of the Deserted Heart: A Tantalising Tale of Love and Adventure Amidst the Dunes of the Lost City That Will Thrill, Chill and Delight You! by kyaticlikestea
Fandoms: The Mummy Series, The Mummy (1999), The Mummy (Movies 1999-2008)
20 Apr 2023
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“Jonathan,” says Evy, walking straight into his living room without so much as a hello and standing directly in front of him. Her voice is saccharine, so sugary that it puts Jonathan’s teeth on edge. “Did you happen to become a bestselling author while Rick and I were in Luxor over summer?”
Jonathan clears his throat, sinks a little lower in his armchair, and lifts yesterday’s edition of The Egyptian Gazette higher, obscuring the blush he knows he can’t control.
“I have no idea how I’m supposed to answer that, dear sister,” he replies, “seeing as I have absolutely no idea what the current bestselling novels are.”
When Jonathan writes an adventure—definitely not a romance, thank you—novel based on the whole Imhotep debacle, he doesn't expect it to become the bestselling pulp sensation of the decade. With hindsight, perhaps he should have made some of the real life parallels less obvious, especially when it comes to the dashing romantic lead, Abir Rey.
Thankfully, there are no bookshops in the desert, so the chances of Ardeth reading it are blessedly slim.
Probably.
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“But you came back,” says Jonathan, still not sure that he quite believes it.
“Yes," says Ardeth. "You see, I realised that I had forgotten something important. An irreconcilable truth. Something that I could not ignore for a moment longer, and which, the more I thought about it, brought everything out of the darkness and into the light.”
“And what's that?”
“That you're an idiot,” says Ardeth.
“Ah,” says Jonathan. “Yes, that’s fair enough, I suppose.”