Decius waited until his wife fell asleep before he got up from bed and got dressed again. He gazed at his lover on the bed again as if he had made a strong determination. After that, he walked out of the room quietly.
With tiptoes through the dark front hall, he tried not to awaken the sleeping slave, waiting until he walked past the house's domus before he let out a sigh of relief. Glancing left and right, he made sure he wasn't being watched, then moved all the way to the south. However, he did not go too far since most who lived in this area were Roman upper-class nobles.
Being the most expensive area in Rome, money simply wasn't enough to buy a house here. The buyer had to have a certain status in society before a purchase could be made. Decius's family had moved here too after gaining more power. Their domus, however, was smaller than most around them.
