Chapter 40 - The Empress

The cold, freezing floors of the past were permanently erased from her memory.
Evangeline Waverly Crawford stood up, holding her son in her arms, surrounded by the untouchable, impenetrable fortress of her mother's love and her own absolute power.
She had been kidnapped, lied to, betrayed, and nearly destroyed by the greed of a pathetic man.
But the fire had not burned her. It had only forged her into steel.
She looked out over the empire of glass and steel that she now commanded, her silver bracelet gleaming brilliantly in the fading sunlight.
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She was invincible. She was profoundly loved.
And for the rest of her life, she was entirely, unequivocally free.