Caesar's POV

I woke up with a pounding headache, a pressure that felt like it might split my skull open. The exhaustion and wine had taken far too much out of me. I felt around in the dim room, trying to piece together the fragments of the night before: dinner, the easy conversation with Julia, and then... nothing.

"What the hell did I do?" I whispered into the silence.

Julia was sleeping soundly beside me.

My bare shoulders and the sheet pooled around us made the obvious impossible to i