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"So you like giving meaningless hope to children." I turned to see a sloping Roman nose, curly hair with a scruffy beard to match. But those eyes...
...I know those eyes.
"I tell that story because it gives me hope, however much it hurts." The words tumbled out of my mouth, and I tried not to stutter. It cannot be him. “Good day, gladiator. I wish you fortune in the arena.”
"My lady." His voice, reminiscent of another, rumbled through the air as I hurried away, the ghosts of the past haunting me all the while.
It cannot be him.
Lucius Verus Aurelius was dead.When a ghost from the past is dragged back to Rome at her father's hand, Aelia never expected everything to change. But in the shadows of the Colosseum, schemes flourish, planning to tear down the family she has built with painstaking hands.
And she won't let anyone jeopardized that.
Not even her old friend, Lucius Verus.
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17 Dec 2024
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Having done the unthinkable to secure his throne, Emperor Geta rules with ruthlessness and paranoia. Now, after escaping an assassination attempt, a badly injured Geta is saved by Daphne, a young widow, who takes him back to her remote village without knowing his true identity. As Daphne nurses the former emperor back to health, attraction blooms between them, and Geta discovers a soft side he didn't know he possessed. But can their love survive his thirst for revenge and his desire to reclaim power?
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07 Dec 2024
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“And if I don’t want them to choose me?”
“If you’re here, then you’ve already been chosen.” This answer comes from across the table, the first woman who’d spoken. Her voice is barely above a whisper.Bookmarked by yaozihong
07 Dec 2024