The Valkyrie Returns and Slays (Raven)

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

started trembling, from excitement, or,

THAT place?" he

Instead, she tilted

You sure you want in on this?" she

Ryan's face stiffened.

him, hesitating before forcing

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

of Bastion Prison, those

just fourteen back

sent to

to

to be reckoned with, a name that echoed in the

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grown into something downright terrifying

"Settle it?" Jax echoed.

knitted together in

for years-Ryan knew every card he held,

was Ryan, pushing for

who the girl really

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

The Grayson family will pay whatever you want," he said,

let out a soft

whole clan wouldn't take more than a word from me. Those two?

moment, then turned to Ryan, his voice

you half the Grayson fortune,"

twisted into a wry,

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

Jax went quiet.

Raven with

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