The Valkyrie Returns and Slays (Raven)

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.

chilly glance over the stunned

face giving nothing away, "Why bother

hand

soldiers jumped

can't do that..."

their words, eyes bouncing to the troops closing

finally hit them: Raven was the

into them like

wasn't even

under twenty? She'd be a

wanted to kick themselves

a dimwit could tell she'd end up running

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

lift the Henderson family up a few

see it.

rise, they'd torched that bridge

Hendersons were staring down

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hope to despair made Margaret and the others feel

Margaret spotted the soldiers moving in on her. Regret turned to straight-up

whirled toward Raven,

slurred through her gum, 'Grandma screwed up. I'm sorry, alright? After all those years the Hendersons took care of you,

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

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

Then something clicked, and she screamed at Kaven, her

If