Chapter 14
Chapter 14
Issa and Leandros spend their last free hours before the Senate commission's deadline, finding courage and closeness in the villa's garden at dawn, only to face a new arrival that changes everything.
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The scroll was still warm in Issa's hands when Leandros took it from her, reading the prefect's words by the fading light of the courtyard lamps. His jaw tightened as he finished.
"Gaius Valerius," he said, the name tasting bitter. "I know his family. They owned vineyards along the Sarno. If the warnings had been heeded, their land would have been worthless."
"And now it is buried under ash."
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