Her Graceful War Song by Summer's Blaze

Chapter 177

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Helen lay on her chaise longue, her heart burning with resentment towards Carissa.

Her attendant, Gillian, stood beside her, trying to offer comfort.

"There's no need to be so upset, Your Highness. Prince Rafael is a man with his own thoughts. He's merely infatuated with Lady Sinclair's beauty at the moment. I've heard she's the most stunning woman in the capital.

"When Madam Sinclair first planned to marry her, many noble

families sought her hand. It's a mystery why Madam Sinclair ended up marrying her to General Warren."

As she dabbed Helen's tears away with a handkerchief, she continued soothingly, "After all, she is merely a secondhand item. There's no need for you to be so enraged. If Prince Rafael insists on marrying her, so be it. A beauty from afar is pleasing to the eye, but living with her every day can become tiresome.

"No matter how beautiful a woman is, if she becomes petty and jealous, which man wouldn't grow weary of her? Prince Rafael will have many concubines. Once her fierce demeanor is revealed, she. may end up being disliked by the prince himself without you having to say a word."

Helen seethed with anger. "That may be true, but how can a

cast out. by a decayed family? How can I hold my head high in the

her sister, she had looked down upon all the other concubines. Even the noble concubine, Dakota, she regarded as insignificant. Dakota's son, Kendrick, had married

family, the Quinton family, came from a

own daughter, Klera, was also in

sixth son from the Quinton family. The sixth son was from the

a fall in his youth that left him with a damaged mind. Now, at forty. years old, he behaved like a child of about seven. Fortunately, he married a kind-hearted woman. She accepted his ondition and treated him like the child he was, and also gave him

wasn't a scholar. He couldn't even pass the state exams. His days were spent

down upon him. She hoped Kiera would marry someone knowledgeable and respectable, not someone

willing to marry off their sixth son to Kiera because once she was married to him, he could no longer hold a significant position in court. He could either find a minor official post or live out his days in idle

he was satisfied with Quinton's family's sixth son. Even Kiera had stolen. glances at him, and had

to ally with the Quinton family, but she didn't want her

both her children's marriages proving unsatisfactory, how could a woman as

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Carissa to the palace tomorrow! I want to see what kind of enchanting vixen she's become. Even as a discarded woman, she

Rafael was proving futile, Helen hoped Carissa would retreat upon realizing the difficulty of

supported this marriage. Back then, Hector was still alive, and