Her Graceful War Song by Summer's Blaze

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"Fifty percent!" Barrett declared.

He was standing in the doorway, avoiding Carissa's gaze as he looked at everyone else in the

room.

"We'll return fifty percent of her dowry. Lord Sinclair, if you and Mr. Sinclair disagree with this, you can take it up with the authorities and see if my actions are fair."

"Fifty percent? How dare you! When Carissa married you, she brought a dowry so grand it stretched for miles! Do you know how much money, how many estates, shops, and businesses that were included? How dare you people be so greedy?!" Solomon exclaimed angrily.

Clenching the crumpled letter in his hand, Barrett spoke in an icy voice, "I said, take it to court if you want. I've prepared the divorce agreement. You can review it first."

He gestured for the steward to present the divorce agreement to Carissa, who reached out and took it. The steward sighed almost imperceptibly as he stepped back. Carissa had been a wonderful mistress. Why did Barrett have to divorce her?

the letters she'd received from him over the past year. The divorce agreement was brief. It cited her disobedience and jealousy as grounds for the divorce, and ended with a wish for her to find a good

that when you remarry, you won't resort to such tactics and will be sincere with

divorce agreement, he felt an

for your advice on how I should live." Carissa waved the divorce agreement. "It

eyes. "I'll take it to the office myself. As for the dowry, we've been generous. By law, a woman divorced by her husband can't take her dowry. Don't blame me. This is your own fault." Carissa had already secured most of her dowry, so there wasn't much they could actually take. She just didn't want to continue being involved with the Warren family. Given that the king's edict for an amicable divorce hadn't

see the true colors

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met his eyes calmly. "Or else what? You'll take seventy percent of my dowry? Fine, take seventy, even ninety percent-leave me just enough to avoid starving. Does that satisfy

guilty for wasting a

"Spare me the guilt. Your guilt over taking half my dowry

was livid at Carissa's