Chapter 15
Chapter 15
Issa and Leandros race to Ostia to intercept the envoy before Gaius Valerius can stop her, winning a brief respite that allows them to present new testimony to the Senate commission, but a final ultimatum forces them to choose between submission and exile.
They moved through the villa like shadows, gathering what they needed. Issa folded the prefect's scroll into her tunic and took Thalia's letters from their hiding place beneath a loose floorboard in her room. Leandros found a small pouch of coins and a map of the road to Ostia, its edges worn from use.
"The side gate," he said. "The guard there is young. He will not question us."
"And if he does?"
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