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?"

the whole estate was in chaos. Oh, and his younger sister came charging at me. She almost scratched me up-I was lucky

on the shoulder. "With that family, you can't make sense of things. Best to keep your distance and avoid

I would have been in trouble. My mouth wouldn't have been able to get me out of

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 seemed particularly devoted to

he trying to fool?af the king ever found out, Barrett would be reprimanded. The entire court would only look down

a chair over to the storeroom door to speak

nor Rafael could understand Barrett's actions. Perhaps they both felt it wasn't important enough to dwell

storeroom, Carissa finally opened the chest her seventh uncle, Wade, had sent. She stood in front of it for a long while before

was a thin steel needle-short, about

were thirty in total, each containing fifty

he send her needles? Did Wade want her to focus on embroidery from now

an embroidery needle at all. It had no hole for thread-one end was sharp,

she 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

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

bit crude. The clasp was visibly damaged, and she could make out a tiny