The Princess of Egypt Must Die (9 page)

Just then, Agrippa’s eyes drifted to the far wall where a banner hung beside my mother’s bed. Upon that banner was emblazoned our Ptolemy family motto:
Win or Die.

I had been looking in the wrong place for a note from my mother. It was not among her papers but here, on the wall, a message for her enemies, and for her children both. Beneath it, we stood as regal as my mother expected us to be. Knowing that Caesarion was alive, we stared at Agrippa as if he were contemptible rabble. The gods would smite him as surely as he breathed.

Helios took my hand, protectively, and I held Philadelphus in my other arm. We stood before the Roman, staring, but silent. We were Ptolemies.

“You’re unnatural,” Agrippa said. With that, the admiral slammed out of my mother’s chambers leaving behind him wood splinters, blood, and frightened children.

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Table of Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two