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.

a flash, he lowered the gun, quick as if it

frame started trembling,

place?" he

answering. Instead, she tilted her head

sure you want in

Ryan's face stiffened.

beside him,

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

those chilling scenes that

just

sent to THAT hell

anyone sent to that hellhole who survived

with, a name that echoed in

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figured her power had grown into something

"Settle it?" Jax echoed.

brows knitted

tight with Ryan for years-Ryan knew every card he held, every trick up his

here was Ryan, pushing

wondered who the girl

to Raven, heavy with a new kind of respect. He let

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

I want?" Raven let out

more than a word from me. Those two? They're dead today," she said,

for a long moment, then turned to Ryan, his voice

you half

twisted into

got to be alive to spend it," he said,

Jax went quiet.

Raven with a steady

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