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?"

inside. His wife was screaming in a panic, and the whole estate was in chaos. Oh, and his younger sister came charging at me. She almost scratched me up-I was lucky to get away." Dylan's voice still held a

make sense

had come looking for answers at the estate 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.

Travis about what had happened. He had never seen anything like it before. Barrett had never seemed particularly devoted

hard to tell if Barrett's behavior was genuine or just a performance. It didn't make sense-who was he trying to 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

moved a chair over to the storeroom door to speak to Rafael about

Perhaps they both felt it wasn't important enough to dwell

of it for a long while before moving the lamp aside and unlocking the chest. The gift from Wade was rather

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

syringes. There were thirty in total, each containing fifty

Why would he send her needles? Did Wade want her to focus

wasn't an embroidery needle at all. It had no hole for thread-one end was sharp, while the other end was

starting to wonder, she noticed a small carved cherry wood box in the left

opened it, and inside was a bracelet. The bracelet was made of pure

could make out a tiny crack