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.

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

her ancestors and mother had been placed at the estate’s family chapel. Carissa and Lulu prepared flowers to place on the plaques, their

memorials. Though her eyes were swollen from crying, they held a determined

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

knelt beside her, sobbing

done, they boarded a carriage and headed straight for the palace. It

Carissa and Lulu stood like statues in front of the palace gates. They waited

king might not see you. Maybe he thinks you’re here to oppose his edict about the marriage. You didn’t eat

“I’m not hungry.”

unwavering resolve to

we just let it go? After all, you’re still the rightful wife and the lady of the Warren family. Even if General

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

of what else to do. She had hoped that once Barrett returned,

already reported Carissa’s arrival to the king three

Majesty, Mrs. Warren is still waiting outside the palace gates,” he

see her. The edict has been issued,

to leave. She’s been standing there for

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