Aurora seemed to know the answer in her heart, but she remained unsettled and unwilling to accept it.

"When you loved me, was it just a momentary infatuation?" she asked.

Barrett remained unable to answer. He didn't know.

His feelings for Aurora were genuine at the time, but whether they were merely a passing fancy, he couldn't clearly say.

Because after marrying Aurora and divorcing Carissa, he felt a pang of regret. He remembered telling Solomon that he hoped Carissa wouldn't regret her decision, but in truth, he knew that he himself had begun to regret it.

Didn't he love Aurora then? He certainly did.

But couldn't a man's heart hold space for two women?

How many men take multiple wives and concubines? Carissa couldn't accept it, and perhaps he was angered by his own broken promises. In any case, with Melanie now dead, he no longer needed to answer to the Duke of Northwatch's family for his promises.

Maybe he had thought he had Carissa under control. After all, she was an orphan with no family to rely on.

skilled in martial arts, even surpassing him and Aurora

couldn't even imagine Carissa single-handedly charging into battle, displaying such bravery and earning countless merits. During the siege of Simonton City, he had witnessed her courage and decisiveness firsthand. Amidst a rain of arrows and countless

it had intimidated him as

that he had not answered, Aurora

the daughter from an earl's family at that. You'll join the Prince family, and from now on, your

disliked hearing such words, and his patience

relationships? I let Carissa

the connection between Fawnrun City and the destruction of the Duke of Northwatch's family? Dare you speak of retribution so

"The soldiers under my command have died, and those who survived are wounded. Now I have been dismissed from the military and can only remain in the corner of this estate, subject to the control of

head, her

won't provoke her, but if she dares to provoke me, I will

Just stick to your

king's edict. This life will likely see us tied together. If

he

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