Her Graceful War Song by Summer's Blaze

Luke immediately ordered two guards to take Eric to the local authorities.

Terrified, Eric cried out, "Your Highness, please spare me! It wasn't my idea. Lady Jessica instructed me to make these false accounts to deceive Lady Helen!" "What?" Helen was enraged, and smashed a cup. "Jessica used fake accounts to deceive me?"

Carissa pressed Helen's hand to calm her. "If the previous account books were false, then there must be genuine ones."

With the guards holding him, Eric's arms ached as if they might break. Fearing further punishment, he nodded vigorously. "Yes, of course! There are real ones."

Since Carissa was preparing to visit Northwatch Estate, she didn't want to waste more time arguing.

She called Luke in, and instructed, "Please take two people with you and return to The Gilded Tower. Retrieve all the account books from these years and have them verified one by one by the accountants. Confirm on-site whether they are genuine accounts. If they continue to falsify records, there is no need to report back. Send them directly to the Royal Citadel."

Luke responded, "Understood, Your Highness!"

He signaled for the guards to act swiftly. The carriage outside was already prepared, and they departed for The Gilded Tower immediately.

Eric had never faced such a situation before, and trembled in fear. He silently cursed Jessica.

It had always been manageable in the past. Why was it different now? And facing the Hell Monarch's princess consort was even more terrifying! Carissa was known for her decisive and ruthless nature. Plus, the governor of the

at the Royal Citadel, he would be lucky to escape with his life if he

fuming. "Jessica deceived me? How

in to clean up the broken pieces of the

be deceived? Besides, Helen always stayed in the inner palace and never went out. So, it was easy to deceive her without her ever seeing the

felt tears welling up in her eyes, and was almost unable to hold them back. Jessica and Dakota had been in business together for years. Dakota always

comparison

never expected Jessica to deceive her. Jessica hadn't cheated Dakota, but

and it

how her daughter-in-law had stood up for her yesterday and retrieved the pearls. Now, Carissa wasn't distancing herself from this situation either. A small sense of reliance began to

money-how could they possibly recover it without a fight? There was a good chance they wouldn't even get

that brief comfort of words, Carissa

this matter. Today, he had something

the servants' job to prepare the gifts, Rafael insisted on handling them himself, loading the

could he not take this