Victoria swallowed as she reached
for the dagger she had secretly stolen from Charles, she gripped it with both
of her hands as she positioned it, resting it on her now bare skin- where her
heart beat underneath. She took in a deep breath and closed her eyes, and as
she breathed steadily out, she plunged the blade through her flesh.
“My heart will always lie with Anne
and Albert Rose!” were the last words screamed from her mouth, and as she felt
herself slip away to death, she knew he had heard her.
The long neglected and abandoned
secret of the manor did not stay secret after Emilia was rescued from it by her
mother and several policemen. For she told everyone who would listen- and
forced those who wouldn’t. And eventually she, her mother, her Auntie and her
two cousins, rebuilt the whole mansion, with the help of the whole town. And
some years later after they finally finished, travellers and tourists began to
come back to Grenwich, it was no longer known for its gruesome tales and
nightmarish stories. It may also interest the reader to know that Emilia was
able to track down Albert Rose, whom was, and still is, buried beside his
loving wife in a cemetery of the church in a small village, in Dublin, called
Starford. And then, all of a sudden, the cherry blossoms began to come back
too, their baby pink becoming a welcomed presence among the town, and slowly
but surely, Grenwich became free of the fear and prejudice that had once
claimed it. And Victoria’s true tale became known, and Charles Black’s did too
as his history was shunned and spat upon.
But then, as if out of nowhere, Rose Manor was once
again, a name to be heard in all of Yorkshire.
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