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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.