Lion Head Mesa the lotus step

she defied him.
pharaoh would never show it, but his mouth ran dry in this moment. satsu had come into her power; she glittered with a hard and alluring light that he had not bestowed. and his mind in its treachery suggested that she had lain with someone other than he; after all, she had excluded him once from what was his.
he saw the nile lapping in her eyes.
"she is a poor substitute for what i desire," he said in a low tone that thrummed with a growl. "but she is mine now, all the same. she has done your bidding. now she will do mine."
ramesses did not move toward tamar, did not so much as look toward her.
he wanted satsu above all to explain why she had crossed him.