Chapter 5

Damon stared completely frozen at the computer screen in his private office. His private investigator had just emailed him the official public housing records. Clara's simple name was printed in bold black letters right next to Villa Number Nine.

She had actually done it; she had bought the most expensive house in the entire rich city. This was completely wrong and totally against his perfect plan to punish her. She was supposed to be walking the dirty streets with absolutely no money in her pockets.

She was supposed to be crying heavy tears and slowly dying from deep hunger today. She was supposed to call his phone and beg to wash his shoes just to sleep on his floor. How did a useless and broken woman suddenly become a secret millionaire overnight?

"I want you to show me her exact bank records right this second," Damon ordered his private investigator over the phone. "I want to see every single penny she has hidden from me!"

"Sir, I must warn you, the total number is extremely high," the investigator said in a quiet and serious voice. "Your ex-wife claimed a massive investment fortune from Vanguard Ascendancy Returns this morning."

The smart investigator pressed a button, and a new email instantly popped up on Damon's screen. Damon opened the clean white document and looked closely at the final numbers at the very bottom. His heart completely stopped beating, and all the warm blood rushed right out of his handsome face.

The total number was not just a few small millions of dollars. It was a massive and endless fortune that made Damon's own deep pockets look totally empty. She had actually been sitting on a giant mountain of gold for their entire long marriage.

"She kept all of this heavy money completely hidden from me?" Damon whispered with pure anger burning his dry throat. "She let me pay for her cheap food while she was actually a rich queen?"

The heavy office door suddenly flew wide open, hitting the wall with a loud bang. His angry mother ran into the small room with her face completely red and completely ugly. She had her bright phone in her shaking hand, pointing right at the bright screen.

"Damon, you need to tell me that Marcus is lying his stupid head off right now!" the old woman screamed very loudly. "Tell me your useless ex-wife did not just buy Villa Number Nine!"

Damon slowly looked away from the computer and stared at his angry mother's face. "It is completely true, Mother," Damon said in a very tight and angry voice. "She bought the massive house in full cash this morning."

The mother-in-law grabbed her thin chest and almost fell down onto the hard wooden floor. "That exact house used to belong to my old rich college friend!" the woman yelled in total panic. "That rich woman always looked down on my poor family for years!"

"I have dreamed of living inside that exact beautiful villa since I was a young girl!" the old woman continued to scream. "And now that dirty, broken, and completely useless maid is living inside my perfect dream house?"

"She completely tricked us, Mother," Damon growled as he hit the heavy wooden desk with his big fist. "She hid a massive investment fortune from her dead adoptive father."

"You need to go over there and fix this giant mess right now, Damon!" the mother ordered angrily. "You need to demand that she hands those heavy gold keys over to our family today!"

"She is legally married to you, so that massive house belongs completely to us!" the old woman lied to herself. Damon did not stay in the room to remind his stupid mother about the signed divorce papers. He just stormed quickly out of the quiet office, completely blind with pure and hot rage.

Meanwhile, Clara sat safely inside the huge and quiet living room of Villa Number Nine. She stared at the floating blue words that had just appeared right in front of her clear face. The strange system had actually granted her full access to something called the Infinite Space.

She reached her empty hand out slowly and gently touched the bright blue letters. The very air around her hand suddenly rippled like clear water in a small pool. A massive empty room completely made of clean white light appeared inside her deep mind.

[The Infinite Space can safely store any items, food, or clean water forever.] The blue text explained the magic rules very clearly to her. [Time completely stops inside the empty space, so nothing will ever grow old or rot away.]

Clara's beautiful eyes grew very wide as she fully understood the massive power she now held. She could buy thousands of fresh hot meals and they would stay perfectly hot forever. She could buy clean water, heavy weapons, and warm medicine for the terrible coming apocalypse.

With her massive money and this secret magical space, she could survive any dark disaster. She would never have to starve in a dirty underground hole to feed Damon's fake family again. She felt a very warm and powerful smile grow completely across her beautiful face.

"Boom, boom, boom!" A very loud and angry noise suddenly interrupted her happy and peaceful thoughts.

Someone was hitting the heavy and thick metal front door of her new fortress with heavy fists. Clara slowly closed the bright blue system screen with a simple thought from her calm mind. She stood up from the soft white sofa and walked slowly toward the heavy front door.

She reached her hand out and pulled the thick metal door open just a few small inches. Damon stood there on her clean porch with his face completely red and totally twisted with ugly anger. He breathed very heavy and fast like a tired and angry wild dog.

"What the hell is going on right now?!" Damon shouted loudly at her face.