( It was beautiful, and so simply done. )

( It was good to be home again; the air tasted just as a city should, and the people bustled in all the ways that felt familiar to Lucrezia. )

( This was Juan's last chance )

( Lucrezia was quite done with Rome. It was irritating and frustrating and maddening. )

( The plan was reckless, but so were most of Cesare's plans )

( Cesare remained in the North )

( Lucrezia Borgia, the Pope of Rome pro tempore, regarded her Curia with no small amount of apprehension )

( At some point in the earliest hours of the morning, Daenerys and Cesare had fully exhausted themselves )

And so Juan departed Rome to marry his Spanish princessa. Alive, but fully aware his angelic sister had tried to drop a chandelier on him. Lucrezia could not, for her part, find that she was sorry. He had taken something precious from her. He had taken an innocent from the world ( Read more... )

( Lucrezia found herself nervous as she stood in the hallway )