Jack of Harts

The truth is that the Napoleon Chloe found never wanted to be Napoleon. He had the name and the resources of his family, but his ambition was never to rule. He turned her down flat when she came to him at first. But in time he agreed to help her save France. He supplanted the faltering French government with her support, he guided France through the Islamic Jihad and the Cybernetic Wars, and then he assembled a new government to lead the Sixth French Republic into the future and stepped down. Chloe smiled at the cameras, said “Viva la France” one last time, slipped her arm into his, and they walked into the pages of history. Chloe disappeared as completely as she’d appeared in the first place and her Napoleon retired to a family estate and died of old age some years later. Or so history said for over a century.