The Valkyrie Returns and Slays (Raven)

Chapter 18

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.

glance over the stunned crowd, then turned to

giving nothing away, "Why bother

hand signal

soldiers jumped

do

their words, eyes

hit them: Raven was the real

them like

wasn't even twenty

twenty?

to kick themselves harder than

dimwit could tell she'd end

the long haul-even now, maybe just a Brigadier General, the bottom

still lift the Henderson

dumb to see it. Instead of cozying up to

they'd

Hendersons were staring down the

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to despair made Margaret and the others feel like they'd

soldiers moving in

She whirled toward

she slurred through her gum, 'Grandma screwed up. I'm sorry, alright? After all those years the Hendersons took care of you, can't you cut me some slack-let the

stared, her eyes icy, like she was watching a bad comedy routine Margaret felt the

into a high-pitched screech "You little punk I'm your grandma!

she screamed at Kaven, her voice breaking, "The Jennings

because of you. If he finds out

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