Song of the Nile
“That’s what Livia had said to me with that satisfied grin, believing she’d destroyed me. As if my whole worth had been a maidenhead that Augustus breached like a besieged wall. She thought that in the emperor’s one depraved act, he’d looted everything valuable inside me and left me in smoldering ruins. Maybe she was right, because here I was, huddled and tear-streaked beneath a blanket like some refugee of a plundered village, a cup of poison in my shaking hand.
You’re ruined.
She was r...ight when she’d said there was no one I could tell. If I went to Juba, Livia would spin her lie about the Thracian slave, and my new husband would believe it, because he’d want to believe it. Juba had always idolized the emperor and suspected me; I didn’t need to test my sad little fraud of a marriage to know whose side Juba would take. Worse, what if Livia was right? What if lust was all that bound the emperor in his promises to me? What if I’d lost my chance to win back Egypt?MoreLess
You’re ruined.
She was r...ight when she’d said there was no one I could tell. If I went to Juba, Livia would spin her lie about the Thracian slave, and my new husband would believe it, because he’d want to believe it. Juba had always idolized the emperor and suspected me; I didn’t need to test my sad little fraud of a marriage to know whose side Juba would take. Worse, what if Livia was right? What if lust was all that bound the emperor in his promises to me? What if I’d lost my chance to win back Egypt?MoreLess
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