wait didnt he already meet maximus in the mask party? theyre gonna meet again after many years?
Oh mah goshhh after thatt?
Yes! They first met at the mask party. Maximus couldn't forget the cat mask so he went around all the brothels in Rome looking for him for a year thinking that Hadi was a courtesan. They met again years later in Gaul where Hadi was working as a prostitute in a quarry brothel. Maximus fell hard in love with Hadi then later on he found out Hadi was the cat mask he had been searching for this whole time.
Yeah Hadi suffered so much and he has so much trauma, trust issues, etc but he starts healing once he met Maximus
i wanna know what happens to tiberius? does that scheming bitch pay?
Kiinda, depends on how you look at it. After he lost Hadi he just became a hollow shell - taking drugs to numb the sorrow / hallucinate happy times with Hadi, slept with male prostitutes who looked like Hadi, etc. Once he found Hadi again he was enraged / jealous because he saw him and Maximus making love. He managed to force Hadi to go back to him because technically he owned him as a slave and he tried so hard to make up for his past mistakes, poured love into Hadi, etc. but ofc nothing worked. Hadi's heart had already died he was just confused why Tiberius was doing all this and wondered if it's another act.
Tiberius kept Hadi trapped in his house but one time Hadi was able to leave so he spent the entire day with Maximus at Marius's house. Tiberius went insane looking for Hadi and when Hadi finally returned, he saw Hadi was covered in hickies from Maximus and still had his semen in him. Hadi talked about his days as a prostitute, how he met Maximus, and how much he loved sleeping with Maximus to hurt him. Tiberius was furious so he forced himself on Hadi but yeah Hadi just disassociated and thought of him as one of the client from the brothel.
Later, he did give up everything and confessed to the crimes he committed under Bestia's command which restored Hadi's status and wealth. Normally, he would've been executed but they only revoked his citizenship and banished him because he did help a lot in taking down Bestia. He lived the rest of his life in a house outside Rome (the same house where he wanted to "start over" with Hadi) and spent the rest of his life waiting for Hadi if he ever changed his mind about Maximus. There was a side story that talked a bit more about his life afterwards so yeah he didn't pay in a way where he was tortured or killed but in that he lost Hadi forever.
no thats good enough. i cant believe bro did all that again to the mc. Insufferable ahh. Im so happy mc is gonna end up with the better man
also thanku so much for taking your time to write this for us
I wish we can just fast forward to Hadi meeting Maximus already. The next few chapters are gonna be hard to get through T_T
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Just when Tiberius finally genuinely fell in love with Hadi, everything fell apart. Hadi finds out Tiberius had lied to him and betrayed him. Bestia showed Pulcher's decapitated head to Hadi and his mother, sold them off as slaves and lied to them that it was Tiberius who sold them. Hadi had to work as a prostitute for four years and even tried self-exiting one time but still endured the abuse for his mother who curses him out calling him a traitor