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.

shot a chilly glance over the stunned crowd, then

face giving nothing away, "Why bother explaining to

chest tightened, and he threw a quick hand signal at

soldiers jumped into

do that..."

Hendersons stumbled over their words,

them: Raven

into them

wasn't even

under twenty? She'd

to kick themselves harder

dimwit could tell she'd

just a Brigadier General, the bottom

could still lift the Henderson family up a

dumb to see it. Instead of

a ride on her rise, they'd torched that

down the barrel

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the others feel

then Margaret spotted the soldiers moving in on her. Regret turned

She whirled toward Raven, her

After all those years the Hendersons took care

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

pleading into a high-pitched screech "You little punk I'm your grandma! Throw me in jail, and you're

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

barreled on, frantic. "Gerald Jennings died because of you. If

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