Her Graceful War Song by Summer's Blaze

Chapter 988

Violet had originally thought of making a few more cuts on the bodies of the Westhaven spies. But when she heard Lulu's words, she stopped herself. If they were stabbed more, their blood would flow too quickly and they would die too easily.

Carissa moved to the small shrine nearby. Lighting the candles, she knelt and prayed silently. Her throat tightened, and no words came. However, she knew that her parents, her brothers, and her sisters-in-law, all in the afterlife, could see this moment.

Rafael stepped forward and lit another candle. He knelt beside her, taking her hand in his.

His heart ached as he whispered softly. The killers have been punished. Mother and everyone else will surely find peace in the afterlife now."

Carissa's face was already streaked with tears.

Would they truly find peace?

She didn't know. She only knew they would never return.

The vengeance didn't ease the pain in her heart, but she knew she had to stay strong. Only by living a life of happiness could she truly honor their spirits.

the blood loss had left them drifting in and out of consciousness. They muttered something, but it was in Westic. Carissa and the others couldn't

broken, halting

from their past was replaying in

and

tears, couldn't contain herself any longer. At Rafael's words,

good are apologies? What good are

Lulu's cries were heart-wrenching.

simple apology

was needed-by Lulu, by Carissa, and by the spirits of their family members.

back her own tears. She wasn't the best at comforting, but she gently patted Lulu's

Westhaven spies, the massacre of the Sinclair family finally had

in a mass grave. They didn't deserve a proper burial-being a

Ryan back from

to his position as deputy commander of the Nightsteel

too much punishment had been levied against him, your third uncle and many of the military officers at Victory Pass would have been implicated," he said. Carissa understood. It was Wyatt who had allowed Barrett and Aurora to go to Fawnrun City, a