Her Majestic Battle Cry Chapter 5

Chapter 5

The Warren family members exchanged puzzled glances. None expected the usually agreeable Carissa to stand her ground so firmly this time.

She even defied Rebecca, the matriarch of the family!

“She’ll come around. She doesn’t have any other choice,” Rebecca said coldly.

That was true.

With Carissa’s family gone, she had no one to rely on except the Warren family. Besides, she was still Barrett’s rightful wife, and it wasn’t like she had been mistreated.

Early the next morning, Carissa and Lulu returned to Northwatch Estate.

The estate was bleak and covered in fallen leaves. After just half a year of neglect, the courtyard was overgrown with weeds that were taller than a person. Stepping back into the estate, Carissa’s heart ached fiercely.

massacred. She had wept when she saw the lifeless bodies of her grandmother and mother—their corpses cold and

placed at the estate’s family chapel. Carissa

before her parents’ memorials. Though her eyes were swollen

if you can hear me from heaven, please forgive your daughter for what she is about to do. It’s not that I don’t want a peaceful life with a husband and children, but Barrett is not someone I can trust with my life. Rest assured, I promise Lulu and I

beside

straight for the palace. It was noon

sun, Carissa and Lulu stood like statues in front of the palace gates. They waited for a full hour, but no one came to let them

oppose his edict about the marriage. You didn’t eat last night or have breakfast today. Are you holding up okay?

“I’m not hungry.”

the unwavering

it go? After all, you’re still the rightful wife and the lady of the Warren family. Even if General Yates is to be a legal wife, she’ll just be a glorified concubine at

was cold. “Lulu, if you’re going to talk like that, don’t

and unsure of what else to do. She had hoped that once Barrett returned, Carissa would find some

the palace’s study, Derek Walker had already reported Carissa’s arrival to the king

still waiting outside the palace gates,”

king, Salvador Quinton, set aside the document he was reading and rubbed his temples. “I can’t see her. The edict has been issued, and I can’t take it back. Tell her to go

refused to leave. She’s been standing there for over an hour

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