The Valkyrie Returns and Slays (Raven)

Chapter 8

Chapter 8

Chapter 8

Chapter 8

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The voice cut through the air as a man in his forties, decked out in a police chief's uniform.

He strode into the blood-drawing room with a handful of officers in tow.

The police chief, froze for a split second, staring at the heap of bodyguards sprawled across the floor.

Madeline latched onto the sight of him like he was her last lifeline, her voice cracking with desperation.

"Ryan... Officer Lawson! She's gonna kill me! Arrest her-shoot her, put her down!" she shrieked, her words tumbling out in a frantic mess.

Maybe it was Madeline's outburst, but Ryan's hand darted to his holster the moment he stepped in.

He yanked out his gun and leveled it straight at Raven's head, the barrel a cold, dark void.

Brynjar and the other two caught the chief's move, their faces hardening like

stone.

Jax's voice dropped to a lethal chill.

"Take her out. I'll clean up the mess," he ordered, his tone flat and unyielding.

But Raven? She just stood there, a faint smirk playing on her lips despite the gun aimed at her skull.

"Ryan, five years ago when I walked out of Bastion Prison, you were still a lowly guard. Climbed the ladder fast, huh? Guess promotions make you forget the little people," she said, cool as a breeze.

Ryan blinked hard, caught off guard.

Then it hit him-like a lightning bolt, his eyes widened.

"You-you're HER..." he stammered, shock lacing his voice.

lowered the gun, quick as if it

frame started trembling, from

got out of THAT place?" he asked, his voice shaking like

Instead, she tilted

want in on this?" she asked, her tone calm

Ryan's face stiffened.

beside him, hesitating before forcing the

Grayson, I can't touch this one. Take my advice-settle it if you can," he said, bitterness creeping into

memories of Bastion Prison, those chilling scenes that still made his

just fourteen

sent to

heard the rumors: anyone sent to that hellhole who survived came

be reckoned with, a

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figured her power had grown into something

"Settle it?" Jax echoed.

knitted together

been tight with Ryan for years-Ryan knew every card he held,

Ryan,

he wondered who the

a new kind of respect. He let

and Madeline go. The Grayson family will pay whatever you want," he

want?" Raven let out a

from me. Those two? They're dead

eyes with Raven for a long moment, then turned to Ryan,

I'll give you half the

face twisted into a wry,

sounds sweet, but you've got to be alive to spend it,"

Jax went quiet.

he fixed Raven with a steady

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