Her Majestic Battle Cry

Chapter 1159

Isaac and Violet walked side by side along the wide street, leading their horses. The night breeze was gentle, clearing away the last remnants of the alcohol from the evening.

“I was impulsive tonight,” Violet admitted with a hint of regret. “I shouldn’t have dragged you there.”

“It’s fine,” Isaac replied.

“What’s going through your mind? Are you planning to acknowledge them?”

“No.” Isaac smiled, his expression becoming noticeably more relaxed. “She invited me and Madam Zoey inside, and talked for a long time. But not once did she ask me how I’ve been these years. Not once did she ask how I was after being taken away. She was just explaining and trying to clear her name.”

“Is that so?”

Isaac ran a hand through his slightly disheveled hair, his carefree demeanor returning.

“I remember my first time leaving the mountain. I was away for a month, and when I came back, Sage Adrian and Sage Everett surrounded me. They asked me a lot of stuff–what I ate, who I met, what inns I stayed at, whether I got into any fights, if anyone tricked me out of money, what sights I saw, among other things.”

“My mentor’s the same,” Violet nodded in agreement. “That’s normal.”

“Exactly,” Isaac chuckled. “I’ve been surrounded by love since I was a child. I’ve always had a family.”

Violet was unsure of how Isaac truly felt, but he seemed alright. “So, you’ve made peace with it?”

peace? Yeah, I guess. It’s not all good, but it’s not all

avenged his death by killing David, but he

did and their lives were on the line, he would do anything to protect them. Even if it meant sending them far away to

hadn’t done any of

he had seen too much, but Isaac finally saw through it all. When Caspian had held him, he had felt moved. But after hearing Evelyn’s story, everything became clear. Evelyn’s maternal love, he realized, had always

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or protecting

sought out medical help for him, so she

she never question it? Constantly changing his

care of him. How could she not

suspect that, perhaps, she had quietly condoned David’s actions. Unfortunately, everything unraveled when Vincent found out. Once Vincent named his heir, Evelyn’s hope of becoming a countess

Whether it was true or not, it no longer mattered. Fate

Adrian had spun for him, holding onto doubt and

burden, he

shake the memory of the way Evelyn had so bitterly recounted poisoning David. The cruelty of it had lingered in Evelyn’s voice, as if

she poisoned David out of revenge for her son’s death- then surely, she would have simply brushed over the details when recounting it. It would have been a passing

repeated,

hear, or maybe even for herself -as if repeating it aloud would

to Evelyn’s room. The older woman hadn’t

didn’t poison Father, did you? You only thought about it. Perhaps you even obsessed

tears flowed even more. Her lips