I had never met Legate Juventas before, but this event marked his return to the city.
He had been away in my homeland for almost a year, and I wondered whether that would make him more likely to approve of the fact Caius had chosen me as his confidant, or to consider me beneath the Emperor of Rome.
Caius told me this would be a formal dinner party, and he made it clear it would be frowned upon if anybody discussed politics openly.
I knew from my training with Rin and the events I had been to while I was still working as one of her courtesans that there would probably come a point in the evening where some of the men disappeared for a while to have those particular conversations, and I wondered whether I would be invited to sit in the room the way I had been as a courtesan, or if I would
