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.

the

her face giving nothing

tightened, and he threw a quick hand signal at the soldiers. "Clear them

The soldiers

do that..." Margret

words, eyes bouncing

finally hit them: Raven was the real

slammed into them like a

wasn't even twenty

twenty? She'd be a

Hendersons wanted to kick themselves

could tell she'd

now, maybe just a Brigadier General, the bottom

still lift the Henderson family up a few

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

her rise, they'd torched that bridge

were staring down the

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others feel like they'd rather off themselves right then

moving in

She whirled toward Raven,

those years the Hendersons took care of you, can't you cut me some slack-let the

like she was watching a bad comedy routine Margaret felt the

and panic flipped Margaret's pleading into a high-pitched screech "You little punk I'm your grandma! Throw me in

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

of you. If

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