“I COULD BUY YOUR SILENCE,” THE SHADOW DUKE SAID — “AND I’D STILL SPEAK,” SHE WHISPERED. HIS POWER.. скачать в хорошем качестве

“I COULD BUY YOUR SILENCE,” THE SHADOW DUKE SAID — “AND I’D STILL SPEAK,” SHE WHISPERED. HIS POWER..

“I COULD BUY YOUR SILENCE,” THE SHADOW DUKE SAID — “AND I’D STILL SPEAK,” SHE WHISPERED. HIS POWER MEANT NOTHING. In Victorian England, power was measured in land, titles, and how many lives a man could ruin without consequence. Few wielded that power more ruthlessly than Damian Blackwell, the Duke of Grimsbury—known in whispers as the Shadow Duke. Lady Eliza Harcourt had lost nearly everything to men like him. Her family’s name was ruined, their fortune gone, their truth buried under other people’s lies. But what she still possessed was the one thing no duke could buy: her voice. When she wrote an article that threatened to expose the darkest corner of Damian Blackwell’s empire and he summoned her to his estate, she knew the moment would come. “I could buy your silence,” the Shadow Duke said. “And I’d still speak,” she whispered. His power meant nothing.    / @victorian_stories