The Scandalous Hours: Chapter 12 – The Collapse | Betrayal, Blood & The Fall of De Mowbray

🕯️ The hour of reckoning has arrived… In Chapter 12: The Collapse, the gilded walls of the De Mowbray estate finally tremble under the weight of its master’s sins. Alianor finds her voice—and her vengeance—while the earth itself turns against the tyrant Roland. Amidst the choking dust and screams of the collapsing mine, justice rises from the grave. ✨ New alliances form as Osric, the trembling steward, faces his guilt, and Gareth, the weary foreman, risks everything for truth. But when Eamon Thorne returns from the edge of death and Father Clement exposes Roland’s deceit, all pretense shatters. And with one desperate slash, Alianor carves her freedom in blood. 🔥 The Scandalous Hours delivers gothic storytelling at its most intoxicating—filled with betrayal, forbidden love, and divine retribution. Lady Aurelia Ravenshade returns to narrate the downfall with her trademark venom and velvet wit. 🎧 Step into the smoke and ruin, my scandalous ones… the mine may have collapsed, but the real destruction is only beginning.