Her Majestic Battle Cry Chapter 242

Chapter 242

The words were so crooked and difficult to decipher that Carissa had to spend a long time making sense of them.

When she finally figured them out, she looked up at Ryan with swollen eyes, tears streaming down her face once more. The words felt like daggers piercing her heart, causing her to curl up slightly in pain.

In the days before the massacre, she had returned to Northwatch Estate and discussed the Victory Pass battle with Melanie, who was worried about Dominic. She feared her father might meet the same fate as her husband and sons. Carissa had tried to comfort her, but her own anxiety about her grandfather and her concern for her mother was palpable.

Outside Melanie’s courtyard, Carissa had bumped into Ryan. He had lifted his small face and asked his aunt if she was unhappy.

Carissa had smiled and ruffled his hair, saying, “I’m a little bit unhappy, but I’ll cheer up soon. Don’t worry, Ryan.”

At the time, she had been preoccupied with her own worries and had given a somewhat dismissive answer. Perhaps Ryan sensed her unhappiness and thought buying her candied apples would lift her spirits.

primarily spent her time playing with the children, trying to bring them joy

his grandmother and mother crying all the time, and knew

wrist was clearly exhausted, so Carissa suggested

slow writing, the truth of how he had escaped was finally

he had slipped out at noon. Afraid of

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the house to fool his mother. Ryan had then crawled through a dog hole to

then, Sunny had only recently been brought into Northwatch Estate. Yvette had planned to make him Ryan’s study companion, a detail Carissa

was struck on the head midway. When he woke up, he found himself locked in a dark room with several

had been captured

children were frightened by threats and dared not resist, but Ryan had fought back

possible fates: becoming beggars, being trained as thieves, or, for girls, being sold to brothels. That day, Ryan’s leg had been broken, condemning him to a life

traffickers had given a drug to all except the girls to render them mute. Some of the older children, who were literate, had their fingers

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