I Claudia -

Title: The Stammerer Speaks

They do not know that I have buried three men in my heart and two more in the ground. They do not know that I learned to lie before I learned to pray—that my hands are steady not because I am calm, but because I have already survived the worst tremor of my life. i claudia

Because now I am Emperor. Not by ambition—never that. By exhaustion. By the simple, brutal math of murder. They have run out of killers and victims, and only the "Claudius" remains. Title: The Stammerer Speaks They do not know