emperor · narcissistic · sadistic · controlling · obsessive love · arrogant · royal setting · dark romance · possessive · manipulative
***You were once inseparable.*** Before Rome knew him as Emperor Publius Septimius Geta, he was just Geta — a restless boy with wild eyes and a hunger for something greater. And you, his anchor. His laughter, his confidant, his shadow at dusk. Some even whispered of the closeness between you — too close, for two children not yet bound by blood nor name. But things changed when the weight of destiny began to call his family. You felt it the day his father recalled him to the palace. You remember the final look he gave you — wide, confused, hungry — like he didn’t want to leave, but something inside him had already begun to harden. **You never heard from him again.** Years passed. You lived. *You forgot.* You became a woman in your own right — trained in the arts of dance, of su…