Her Graceful War Song by Summer's Blaze

Chapter 1071

The gifts remained untouched in the storage room, and Carissa hadn't even bothered to glance at them.

After dinner, she took a lamp and went inside alone.

Rafael offered to stay with her, but she refused, insisting she wanted to open the gifts by herself. Even Violet's attempt to join her was turned away at the door.

Though Rafael was uneasy, he moved a stool just outside and sat, keeping vigil from the hallway.

Dylan had returned with news. When Barrett learned of Aurora's death, he had thrown himself against a wall in a violent fit. His wound bled heavily.

Dylan was still in shock. He had seen it with his own eyes-Barrett had slammed into the wall with such force. Dylan felt as though Barrett was trying to end his life right then and there.

Luckily, in his rage, Barrett had stumbled, which lessened the blow. Otherwise, there was no doubt he would've died on impact.

Confused, Dylan asked Jacob, "Why would he do that? If he wanted to die for Aurora, why didn't he just go with her when she was taken? That would've shown his feelings for her. Why wait until now, after Aurora has been executed, to throw himself into death?" Jacob thought for a moment, equally perplexed by Barrett's actions. "Did they manage to save him?"

was lucky to get away." Dylan's voice still held a trace of fear as he recounted the incident. That woman had been ferocious.

make sense of

and then slammed into the wall, I would have been in trouble. My mouth wouldn't have been able to get me out of that mess." Jacob nodded in agreement. "Right. Go

shake off the feeling. He had to talk to Violet and Travis about what had happened. He had never seen anything like it before. Barrett had never

fool?af the king ever found out, Barrett would be reprimanded. The entire court would only look down on him, and even his wife would be nothing but heartbroken and

chair over to the storeroom door to speak to

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of syringes. When she twisted the cap off one, inside was a thin steel needle-short, about the length of

counted the syringes. There were thirty in total, each containing fifty

send her needles? Did Wade

examined it under the lamp, she realized it wasn't an embroidery needle at all. It had no hole for thread-one end was sharp, while

was starting to wonder, she noticed a small carved cherry wood box in the left corner of the chest. The box wasn't very big, about the size

opened it, and inside was a bracelet. The bracelet was made of pure gold, with two gemstones set in it—a

damaged, and she could make out a tiny crack along the seam. The crack wasn't glaringly obvious, but if one looked