Ramses the Damned (2): The Passion of Cleopatra by Anne Rice & Christopher Rice

Author:Anne Rice & Christopher Rice
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3
Published: 2017-11-21T00:00:00+00:00

“And you had such feelings for her,” Edith replied.

It was not a question, and there was pity in her voice.

“And then she simply drove off into the night, and I could do nothing to stop her,” he continued. “The car, it became stuck on train tracks, and she wouldn’t get out. I kept begging her to get out. Pulling on her, even. But it was as if she had undergone some terrible transformation. She seemed so confused. So confused, by so many things. But what she felt for me. She was sure of that, Mother. She seemed absolutely sure of that.”

“Oh, Alex. Why didn’t you tell me any of this before now?”

“Because to do so would be to do…this.”

Surely he could maintain some gentlemanly pose while he wiped tears from his eyes.

His mother, ever the American, ran her hand up and down the back of his jacket until he relented and leaned into her half embrace again.

“I blame myself for this,” Edith finally said.

“Oh, but that’s absurd, Mother.”

“It may seem so, yes. But it’s not. What your father and I have, what we’ve always had, it’s a fine friendship, but it isn’t much else. To describe anything that’s ever happened between us as passion or a great romance? It would be misleading at best, a fallacy at worst. It was an arrangement of convenience and finance, much as your marriage to Julie was to be. And when you consider those things, it’s turned out rather well, I feel. But nothing we’ve ever had, nothing we’ve ever done, has prepared you, our son, for feelings of this magnitude. And so yes, even though it may sound absurd, I blame myself.”

“Well, you mustn’t,” he replied. “Besides, what could you have done to prepare me for the passion of a madwoman?”

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