My Husband Threw Me Off A Cliff For My Fortune — He Had No Idea Who Rescued Me
Part 2
When I finally managed to pry my heavy eyelids open, I found myself resting comfortably in a vast, opulent bed chamber.
Rich mahogany paneling lined the massive walls, and heavy emerald velvet curtains were drawn back to reveal a gloomy morning sky.
I tried to shift my weight, but a sharp agony tore through my ribs, forcing a desperate gasp from my dry lips.
A severe-looking older man with spectacles immediately rose from a leather armchair near the roaring fireplace and approached my bed.
He gently instructed me not to move, explaining in a calm voice that I was suffering from three fractured ribs, a severely broken tibia, and a dangerous concussion.
I had been completely unconscious for four agonizing, silent days.
The terrifying memories crashed back into my mind with the devastating violence of a massive tidal wave.
I remembered the hidden letters, the brutal betrayal, the terrifying carriage ride, and the sickening sensation of falling endlessly into the dark abyss.
I frantically told the doctor that I needed to immediately notify the authorities about my husband’s murderous actions.
“That will do you absolutely no good,” a deep, resonant voice declared firmly from the doorway.
A tall, imposing man strode confidently into the room, impeccably dressed in a dark waistcoat that radiated absolute authority.
It was Daniel Hughes, the highly feared and incredibly powerful Duke of Blackwood.
He waved a dismissive hand, and the doctor immediately bowed respectfully and exited the room, closing the heavy oak doors softly behind him.
Daniel approached my bed, his piercing, storm-gray eyes locking intensely onto mine with an unreadable, intimidating expression.
He bluntly explained that if I went to the police, I would be completely dead before the week was officially out.
My treacherous husband was currently playing the role of the tragic, grieving widower to absolute perfection, weeping publicly at my lavish memorial service.
Daniel casually tossed a folded newspaper onto my lap, revealing a massive, extravagant obituary detailing my horrific, accidental demise.
The entire world believed I was rotting at the bottom of the unforgiving ocean.
I crushed the newspaper in my trembling fist, hot tears of pure, unadulterated rage spilling freely down my battered cheeks.
Thomas had successfully stolen everything from me, and Brenda was currently wearing my jewelry while sleeping comfortably in my bed.
Daniel revealed that his men had been secretly tracking Thomas’s movements for months because of his massive debts to a dangerous syndicate the Duke was actively dismantling.
He had ridden out into the violent storm to confront him, arriving just ten minutes too late to stop my horrific fall.
I looked deeply into Daniel’s eyes, asking him desperately why a man of his incredible wealth and power would risk his life to save a dying stranger.
I looked up at the Duke, my broken ribs aching fiercely, and asked the only question that truly mattered: “How do we utterly destroy them?”
Part 3
The agonizing physical pain returned to Clara Miller not in a sudden, violent rush, but in slow, punishing waves that radiated through every single broken bone in her shattered body.
She first registered the faint, sterile smell of medical antiseptics perfectly mixed with the warm, comforting aroma of a crackling wood fire.
When she finally managed to pry her heavy eyelids open, Clara found herself not rotting in the freezing mud of Cornwall, but resting comfortably in a vast, opulent bed chamber.
Rich mahogany paneling lined the massive walls, and heavy emerald velvet curtains were drawn back to reveal a gloomy, overcast morning sky.
She tried to shift her weight, but a sharp, blinding agony tore through her ribs, forcing a desperate gasp from her dry, cracked lips.
A severe-looking older man with spectacles immediately rose from a leather armchair near the roaring fireplace and approached her bed.
He gently instructed her not to move, explaining in a calm voice that she was suffering from three fractured ribs, a severely broken tibia, and a dangerous concussion.
She had been completely unconscious for four agonizing, silent days.
The terrifying memories crashed back into her mind with the devastating violence of a massive tidal wave.
She remembered the hidden letters, the brutal betrayal, the terrifying carriage ride, and the sickening sensation of falling endlessly into the dark abyss.
Clara frantically told the doctor that she needed to immediately notify the authorities about her husband’s murderous actions.
A commanding figure suddenly spoke from the entrance, warning her that involving the constabulary would be a fatal error.
A broad-shouldered gentleman stepped into the warm light, wearing an elegant vest that marked his high station.
The rescuer introduced himself as Daniel Hughes, the deeply respected Duke of Blackwood.
With a brief gesture, he dismissed the physician, leaving them completely alone in the sprawling chamber.
The Duke stepped closer to the mattress, fixing his sharp, steely gaze directly upon her injured form.
He laid out the brutal truth that returning to London as a living victim would result in her immediate, permanent silencing.
Meanwhile, Thomas Robinson was putting on the performance of a lifetime as the heartbroken surviving spouse.
A crumpled morning gazette landed gently on the bedsheets, its front page dominated by news of her tragic, untimely passing.
Society had already mourned her watery death off the treacherous, jagged cliffs.
She tightly gripped the crinkled paper, seething with a volcanic anger at the sheer audacity of the deceitful thieves.
Her ruthless husband was currently inheriting her entire legacy while Brenda paraded around in her stolen finery.
The Duke explained that his extensive intelligence network had been closely monitoring Thomas’s reckless underground financial dealings for an extended period.
His late-night pursuit through the horrific tempest had been an attempt to intercept Thomas, missing the devastating plunge by mere moments.
Staring at her unlikely savior, Clara demanded to know what actually motivated such a powerful aristocrat to intervene in her miserable fate.
He leaned forward, his voice dropping to a low, intense whisper that sent a sudden shiver down her spine.
“We are not strangers, Clara, and I am offering you a very simple choice,” he stated coldly, his eyes burning with a dark, terrifying intensity.
He offered to provide her with a new identity and unlimited funds to disappear forever, living a quiet, peaceful life far away from Thomas’s treacherous reach.
Or, she could let the powerful Duke teach her exactly how to become a vengeful ghost, utterly dismantling their lives until they had absolutely nothing left.
Clara looked up at the Duke, her broken ribs aching fiercely, and asked the only question that truly mattered.
“How do we utterly destroy them?”
A slow, terrifyingly beautiful smile spread across Daniel’s handsome face as he realized she possessed the exact same ruthless spirit he did.
“We completely strip Thomas of his powerful allies,” Daniel whispered softly, his voice echoing loudly in the silent bed chamber.
“We systematically dismantle his public reputation, and we aggressively bleed his finances dry until he is begging for copper coins in the muddy streets.”
“We turn your treacherous cousin Brenda violently against him, planting seeds of deep paranoia and mutual distrust.”
“And when they have absolutely nothing left, when they are entirely, completely broken, you bravely reveal yourself to them.”
Clara did not hesitate for even a fraction of a second.
The naive, innocent girl who had blindly loved Thomas Robinson died at the rocky, muddy bottom of that deep ravine.
The hardened, vengeful woman resting quietly in the Duke’s luxurious bed was someone else entirely.
“I want them completely ruined,” Clara whispered fiercely, her dark eyes burning intensely with a cold, vengeful light.
“I want them to deeply suffer as I suffered, and I want them to look upon me and know that I am the sole architect of their absolute destruction.”
Daniel reached out his warm, rough thumb, gently and respectfully tracing the delicate line of her unbruised jaw.
“Then we have a solid pact, my lady,” Daniel murmured softly.
“Rest quietly now, because when you can finally walk independently, the real, grueling work begins.”
Two incredibly long weeks later, the slow physical healing was well underway, but the deep psychological transformation was absolute and terrifying.
With Daniel’s vast, seemingly endless resources at her immediate disposal, Clara began to learn the intricate, dark web of London’s high society entirely from the shadows.
She learned exactly how Daniel successfully manipulated complex financial stocks, how he aggressively gathered damaging blackmail, and how he effortlessly moved powerful pieces on the board without ever showing his hand.
On a crisp, foggy morning in late November, Daniel entered her private parlor where she was diligently practicing her walking with a heavy silver-tipped cane.
“It is finally time,” Daniel announced firmly, holding a pair of expensive black silk morning gloves in his large hands.
“Your grand public funeral is scheduled for today.”
Clara suddenly stopped walking, leaning heavily and painfully on the silver cane.
Her heart gave a sudden, powerful lurch, not of terror or fear, but of pure, intoxicating adrenaline.
“We are actually going?” she asked quietly, her voice perfectly steady and incredibly calm.
“There is a private, elevated balcony located at the rear of St. George’s Cathedral, heavily shadowed,” Daniel said smoothly, holding out a thick black morning veil.
“It is my family’s private box, and I thought you might genuinely like to see the pathetic performance for yourself, to know exactly what we are completely destroying.”
An hour later, safely hidden high above the grand nave of the massive cathedral, Clara stood silently cloaked in heavy black velvet and thick dark netting.
She was staring intently down at her own extravagant memorial service.
The massive church was completely packed with the wealthy, influential elite of London high society.
And there, standing solemnly by a massive marble cenotaph heavily covered in expensive white lilies, was Thomas.
He was actually weeping loudly, completely pretending to be a devastated man.
Actual, physical tears were rolling steadily down his handsome cheeks as he gracefully accepted the warm condolences of the powerful Prime Minister.
A few short feet away stood Brenda, dressed impeccably in expensive morning black, delicately dabbing her dry eyes with a delicate lace handkerchief.
She was flawlessly playing the role of the devastated, grieving cousin to absolute perfection.
But Clara, looking sharply down from the deep shadows, distinctly saw the subtle, secret look that quickly passed between the two traitors.
It was a look of absolute, undeniable, sickening triumph.
Clara’s tight grip on the heavy wooden balcony railing tightened aggressively until her knuckles turned completely white.
She felt a warm, solid, incredibly comforting presence step up very close behind her.
Daniel’s broad chest brushed gently against her back, acting as a silent, unwavering pillar of absolute strength.
“Look closely at them, Clara,” Daniel whispered softly directly in her ear, his breath warm against the freezing chill of the cold stone church.
“Carefully memorize their sickening smugness, and absolutely memorize their pathetic, greedy relief.”
“I am carefully memorizing absolutely all of it,” Clara murmured quietly, a cold, dangerous smile touching her lips beneath the heavy black veil.
“Let them thoroughly enjoy my vast fortune for a short while, your grace.”
“Because when I successfully return from the dark, cold grave, I am aggressively taking their miserable souls in exchange.”
Over the ensuing twelve long months, the magnificent, sprawling London townhouse belonging to the powerful Duke of Blackwood transformed completely.
It went from being a quiet, peaceful aristocratic sanctuary into a clandestine, highly operative, and incredibly busy war room.
Clara did not merely successfully heal from her devastating, near-fatal physical wounds during this extensive period of intense isolation.
She was completely forged anew in the absolute, roaring fires of Daniel’s meticulous, brilliant, and incredibly demanding tutelage.
The naive, hopelessly romantic heiress who had foolishly and blindly trusted a charming aristocratic smile was entirely, violently eradicated from existence.
In her firm place stood a formidable, incredibly razor-sharp strategist eagerly and aggressively absorbing the ruthless, highly complex intricacies of global finance.
She rapidly learned advanced political maneuvering and deeply complex high society espionage.
Daniel, remaining completely and unwaveringly true to his solemn, binding word, held absolutely nothing back from her eager mind.
He carefully introduced her to the heavily shadowed, incredibly powerful world of elite European banking.
He aggressively leveraged his close, highly confidential, and incredibly important associations with powerful historical figures.
Through an elaborate, confusing, and incredibly deep labyrinth of proxy companies and anonymous, hidden shell corporations, Clara began to attack.
She systematically and ruthlessly dismantled the essential financial foundations of the very man who had left her bleeding in the freezing Cornish mud.
Thomas, utterly and pathetically oblivious to the invisible, suffocating financial noose steadily and quietly tightening around his neck, was living a life of grotesque, unprecedented extravagance.
He firmly believed himself to be completely, utterly invincible after supposedly successfully inheriting the vast, incredibly profitable Miller shipping empire.
He recklessly and foolishly squandered thousands upon thousands of precious pounds on fast purebred racehorses, grand sprawling country estates, and lavish, endless, incredibly expensive parties.
Brenda, now shamelessly and proudly wearing Clara’s expensive custom diamonds and sleeping comfortably in her luxurious silk-draped bed, reveled endlessly.
She reveled deeply in her stolen, incredibly fraudulent aristocratic status, treating the household servants with profound, sickening cruelty.
They were both completely, blindly drunk on their own perceived, undeniable brilliance.
They were blissfully, pathetically unaware that the silent architect of their impending, absolute destruction was watching every single foolish move they deliberately made.
The complex strategy carefully developed by the powerful duke and the brilliant heiress was brutally, perfectly, and undeniably elegant.
Clara and Daniel did not simply want to quickly and painlessly bankrupt Thomas.
They fully intended to completely, violently crush him psychologically before finally delivering the absolute, fatal financial blow.
The intense psychological warfare officially commenced in the bright, beautiful spring, precisely six full months after the horrific, attempted cliffside murder.
It began quietly with subtle, incredibly maddening, and profoundly terrifying details deliberately designed to violently shatter the fragile, guilty trust between the treacherous lovers.
Brenda received a mysterious, totally unmarked package delivered directly to the massive manor by a silent courier.
It contained a rare, highly customized, expensive glass vial of imported Parisian jasmine perfume.
It was the exact, undeniable signature scent that Clara had worn proudly every single day of her life before the tragic accident.
When Brenda furiously and hysterically confronted the terrified household servants, they all swore total, absolute, incredibly frightened ignorance.
A week later, Thomas discovered a dark, expensive velvet ribbon deeply and visibly stained with dried, incredibly dark brown mud.
It was resting perfectly and deliberately on the very center of his polished mahogany desk inside his heavily locked, highly private study.
The paralyzing, deep paranoia took violent root immediately and aggressively in both of their corrupted, heavily guilty minds.
Thomas viciously and loudly accused Brenda of playing cruel, hysterical, and deeply unfunny pranks to unfairly punish him for his wandering eye.
Brenda, absolutely terrified by the haunting, undeniable, physical reminders of the cousin she had mercilessly and violently helped assassinate, completely lost her composure.
She aggressively accused Thomas of completely losing his fragile mind out of lingering, pathetic, and incredibly useless guilt over the brutal murder.
Their magnificent, completely stolen manor quickly and inevitably became a suffocating, unbearable, and highly toxic prison of dark suspicion and endless, screaming, violent arguments.
The very massive wealth they had brutally and coldly murdered to obtain suddenly felt like a cursed, incredibly heavy weight dragging them both violently down into complete madness.
Meanwhile, the powerful financial noose was pulled significantly and painfully tighter.
Using Daniel’s endless, terrifying capital and his unparalleled, incredibly massive social influence, Clara quietly and aggressively moved into action.
She quietly bought up every single one of Thomas’s outstanding, highly dangerous promissory notes from the violent London underground gambling syndicates.
She then subtly, brilliantly, and ruthlessly manipulated the massive international stock market.
She actively ensured that every single maritime investment Thomas made with the stolen shipping fleet ended in catastrophic, unmitigated, absolute failure.
Massive, highly expensive cargo ships were mysteriously and repeatedly delayed at important global ports for completely unknown, unexplained reasons.
Vital, incredibly lucrative, and highly important contracts with the powerful East India Company were abruptly, suddenly canceled without warning.
They were immediately and quietly awarded to totally anonymous, highly secretive competitors that Clara secretly completely controlled.
Enormous, heavily guarded storage warehouses suffered sudden, completely unexplained administrative blockades that violently halted absolutely all local commerce.
Thomas’s newly acquired, incredibly massive wealth began to heavily hemorrhage at an alarming, absolutely, and completely unstoppable rate.
Desperate to strongly maintain his grand, public facade of endless, impressive prosperity, Thomas panicked completely.
He urgently needed to quickly satisfy Brenda’s insatiable, incredibly greedy, and constantly growing demands for absolute luxury.
Thomas was aggressively forced to borrow heavily and desperately against the core, previously untouchable properties of the shipping empire.
He was constantly borrowing massive, incredibly large sums of money from phantom, completely faceless creditors.
He never once realized for a single, fleeting second that the mysterious, incredibly unforgiving banker firmly holding the literal deeds to his miserable life was Clara.
It was the very woman he had violently and mercilessly shoved off a jagged, rocky, incredibly high cliff.
Daniel closely watched Clara orchestrate this absolute, breathtaking masterpiece of ruin with an admiration that strongly bordered on pure, intense religious reverence.
The silent, deeply simmering, and incredibly powerful tension perfectly existing between them had naturally, beautifully grown.
It had developed deeply into a profound, fiery, incredibly respectful, and completely undeniable, powerful romantic partnership.
Late at night, quietly pouring over incredibly complex, detailed ledger books by the warm, flickering light of a crackling hearth, their moments were intimate.
Their hands would occasionally and gently brush, sending electric, undeniable, incredibly powerful jolts of profound, deep desire rushing violently through them both.
Yet, neither spoke proudly aloud of the deep, incredibly passionate, and absolutely beautiful romance beautifully blooming right in the dark shadows of their mutual, aggressive vengeance.
The critical, highly important mission remained the absolute, undisputed, and completely undeniable priority above absolutely everything else.
By late autumn, exactly one full, grueling year since the horrific, bloody, and deeply terrifying incident at Devil’s Drop, Thomas Robinson was totally ruined.
He was a completely desperate, highly panicked man teetering precariously on the absolute, highly dangerous edge of the deep abyss.
He was secretly, violently drowning in unimaginable, completely inescapable, and highly staggering financial debt.
His nerves were completely, totally shredded by the haunting, invisible, and deeply terrifying presence of his dead wife that seemed to follow him absolutely everywhere.
Brenda was heavily and constantly heavily medicated on incredibly strong, dangerous laudanum, terrified of her own dark shadow.
She was absolutely, completely convinced the grand, massive manor was heavily cursed by violent, incredibly dangerous demons.
Despite their deeply private, rapidly and violently spiraling dark nightmare, Thomas’s massive, incredibly fragile ego heavily demanded a public, undeniable display of strong dominance.
He arrogantly, foolishly, and very publicly announced a spectacularly opulent, incredibly expensive, and highly lavish anniversary ball.
It was to be heavily held at the grand, massively sprawling London estate.
It was ostensibly, publicly meant to honor the beloved, deeply cherished memory of his tragically late wife.
Practically, however, it was a desperate, highly panicked attempt to quickly secure new, desperate financial investments from oblivious, highly wealthy aristocrats.
It was the absolutely perfect, incredibly arrogant, and totally fatal, final mistake.
When Daniel calmly read the heavily engraved, highly expensive golden invitation that had been discreetly acquired by his vast, completely invisible network of deep informants, he smiled.
He proudly handed the elegant invitation to Clara with a dark, deeply predatory, and incredibly thrilling, beautiful smile.
The grand, magnificent stage was finally perfectly set.
The intricate, highly complex, and perfectly planned pieces were completely and flawlessly aligned.
The long, grueling time for silently hiding in the deep, dark shadows was officially, completely, and totally over.
It was finally time for the vengeful, brilliant ghost to bravely, boldly return to the world of the living.
She was completely ready to rightfully and violently claim the treacherous, absolutely wretched souls she had been deeply promised.
The brutal winter of 1884 heavily brought a bitter, incredibly piercing, and violent chill to the entire sprawling city of London.
The dark, wet cobblestone streets situated immediately outside the massive estate were deeply cloaked in a heavy, incredibly thick, and blinding white fog.
Inside the grand, massive ballroom, hundreds of wealthy, incredibly influential, and totally oblivious guests danced beautifully beneath brilliant, heavily illuminated gaslight chandeliers.
Thomas Robinson proudly stood very near the massive, perfectly polished, imported marble staircase.
He wore a sharply tailored, incredibly expensive, completely pristine black tuxedo.
Brenda clung desperately and heavily to his strong arm.
She was heavily draped in extremely expensive, imported emerald green silk and proudly wore the legendary, priceless diamond necklace.
They smiled warmly and incredibly falsely at the powerful, heavily influential elites they had so totally and completely deceived.
Beneath his polished exterior, Thomas repeatedly pulled at his stiff collar and dabbed his damp brow with a silk handkerchief.
He checked his gold pocket watch every few moments, his eyes darting toward the main doors as he waited for the foreign banking investors.
Their capital was the only shield remaining between him and total public ruin.
The large, expensive orchestra played a sweeping, incredibly beautiful, and highly romantic waltz.
It was entirely, totally, and completely inappropriate for a solemn memorial ball supposedly honoring his supposedly deceased, deeply beloved wife.
This joyful, highly lively music perfectly and totally underscored the sickening, profound mockery of the entire incredibly lavish evening.
Just as the massive antique grandfather clock situated in the grand hall began to loudly and heavily strike midnight, the orchestra abruptly and violently stopped playing.
The sudden, incredibly profound, and heavy silence rippled quickly and violently through the massive, heavily packed room.
Every single incredibly wealthy guest instantly turned toward the massive main entrance.
The heavy, deeply carved oak doors were violently and incredibly loudly thrown completely open.
Standing boldly, incredibly imposingly, and totally fearlessly in the grand threshold was Daniel Hughes, the formidable, highly feared Duke of Blackwood.
He was heavily flanked by four incredibly imposing, highly muscular, and totally intimidating footmen dressed perfectly in jet-black livery.
His completely unexpected, highly shocking presence instantly sent a massive, violent shockwave of nervous, highly confused whispers through the wealthy crowd.
But the powerful, highly intimidating Duke was absolutely not the primary reason the incredibly wealthy guests gasped loudly in absolute, unadulterated horror.
It was the incredibly breathtaking, highly recognizable woman standing closely and proudly beside him.
She wore a highly scandalous, incredibly beautiful, and totally striking gown of deep, rich crimson velvet.
Her dark, beautiful hair was intricately and perfectly pinned heavily with large, incredibly expensive, completely flawless rubies.
There was absolutely no heavy mourning veil completely hiding her beautiful, recognizable face.
It was the resurrected Clara Miller, entirely alive and radiant.
She stood before the stunned crowd, radiating a silent, terrifying fury.
Brenda let out a piercing shriek of horror.
Her knees buckled beneath her heavy silk gown.
She collapsed onto the polished floor, clawing at her own throat.
She acted as if the stolen diamonds were actively choking her.
Thomas staggered backward, nearly falling over.
His handsome face drained of all color.
The delicate crystal champagne glass slipped from his trembling fingers.
It shattered against the marble floor.
The packed ballroom froze in paralyzed shock.
Clara confidently stepped heavily forward with a slow, highly deliberate, and incredibly powerful, graceful stride.
Daniel walked very closely right beside her, his large, warm hand resting gently and incredibly supportively on her back.
The massive, highly stunned crowd parted instantly before them, naturally creating a completely clear, totally unhindered path to the trembling, deeply terrified traitors.
Clara finally stopped exactly three short feet away from her treacherous, incredibly deceitful husband.
She did not loudly yell.
When she finally spoke, her completely steady voice was completely, utterly calm and incredibly, terrifyingly cold.
“Good evening, Thomas,” Clara stated firmly, her voice carrying loudly across the completely silent room.
“I deeply apologize for my incredible tardiness this beautiful evening.”
“The freezing mud situated at the very bottom of the Cornwall ravine took quite some long time to wash completely out of my hair.”
Thomas shook violently, completely unable to properly control his highly terrified, trembling limbs.
He looked wildly and incredibly desperately around the massive room for any possible, immediate escape.
“You are completely dead,” Thomas stammered hysterically, completely losing all recognizable composure.
“This is a totally wicked, completely impossible, incredibly dark illusion.”
Clara offered a highly chilling, incredibly victorious, and totally beautiful smile.
“The only total, absolute fraud currently standing right here is you.”
“Your incredibly brief, totally fraudulent reign of theft has officially and permanently concluded.”
With a commanding, highly authoritative nod from Daniel, a large, heavily armed contingent of Scotland Yard officers marched aggressively into the grand ballroom.
They were fiercely led by Chief Inspector Frederick Abberline, a highly respected, deeply honest, and incredibly relentless detective.
Daniel quickly stepped forcefully forward, his booming, highly authoritative voice easily filling the completely silent, highly tense space.
“Thomas Robinson,” the powerful, highly feared duke declared loudly, holding up a incredibly thick, completely heavy leather folio.
“It securely contains absolutely irrefutable, completely undeniable financial evidence of your massive, incredibly illegal crimes.”
“You are hereby permanently placed under lawful, completely irreversible arrest.”
“You are deeply charged for massive, highly illegal embezzlement and the brutal, totally unprovoked attempted murder of your totally innocent wife.”
Complete, highly violent chaos erupted instantly throughout the grand room.
Aristocrats gasped incredibly loudly as Thomas suddenly let out a wild, totally animalistic, and completely desperate roar.
Driven completely mad by total, absolute desperation, he lunged violently and heavily toward Clara.
With terrifying, incredibly blinding speed, Daniel flawlessly intercepted the completely cowardly, highly pathetic attack.
The powerful, totally unyielding duke delivered a ruthless, incredibly forceful punch directly to Thomas’s jaw.
The incredibly loud, sickening crack of breaking bone echoed very sharply over the loudly screaming, deeply panicked crowd.
The entirely disgraced, totally defeated earl crumpled instantly into a deeply unconscious, completely pathetic heap on the cold floor.
Brenda sobbed uncontrollably and incredibly hysterically as the stern, totally unyielding police aggressively dragged the completely defeated traitors violently away in heavy iron cuffs.
They were completely secured for a totally miserable, incredibly bleak future in the dark depths of Newgate prison.
Clara stood incredibly tall, finally taking a deeply cleansing, incredibly satisfying breath.
The suffocating, incredibly heavy weight of the past grueling year finally lifted completely and totally from her weary shoulders.
She turned very slowly to look deeply at Daniel.
The glittering, incredibly loud ballroom completely faded entirely away from her total focus.
Daniel gently took her delicate, gloved hand, his storm-gray eyes totally softening with overwhelming, absolute pride and fierce, completely undeniable love.
“The vengeful ghost is finally permanently laid completely to rest,” Daniel murmured softly and incredibly lovingly.
Clara smiled deeply and incredibly happily at the absolutely handsome, deeply powerful man who had bravely saved her life.
“Now we will very quickly build a completely new, incredibly beautiful empire totally together.”
THE END
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