Chapter 18

Chapter 18

The crowd burst into chaos.

Jonah's words dropped like a grenade, blowing up everyone's thoughts.

For a second, they all just stood there, totally caught off guard.

They couldn't believe what they just heard.

Raven-the screw-up Margaret had dumped in prison five years back, the family's

reject daughter-was Vyrdenia's youngest general?

No way.

That was just too wild to be true.

Nobody fell that low could climb back, not mentioning clamb that high.

Every Henderson was still stuck on five years ago. Back then, Raven was the

doormat who wouldn't even whimper when they laid into her.

But that same pushover had done five years in the clink and walked out a general-someone the Hendersons could only dream of being in the same league

with.

No matter how they twisted it, they couldn't choke down that reality.

over the stunned crowd,

giving nothing away, "Why bother explaining

a quick hand signal at

soldiers jumped into

do that..." Margret

the Hendersons stumbled over their words, eyes bouncing

them: Raven

slammed into them like a crashing

even

general under twenty? She'd be

kick themselves

a dimwit could tell she'd end up

just a Brigadier General, the bottom

lift the Henderson family

they were too dumb to see it. Instead of cozying up to Raven

they'd torched that bridge to

the Hendersons were staring down

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and the others feel like they'd rather

soldiers moving in on her.

She whirled toward

'Grandma screwed up. I'm sorry, alright? After all those years the Hendersons took care of you, can't you cut

icy, like she was watching a bad comedy routine Margaret felt the soldiers' hands

punk I'm your grandma! Throw me in jail, and you're trash- karma will catch

echoed, but Raven didn't blink. Margaret's cool shattered completely, Then something clicked, and she screamed at Kaven, her

"Gerald Jennings died because of you. If

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