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

nothing

hand signal at the soldiers.

The soldiers jumped

can't do

the Hendersons stumbled over their words, eyes bouncing to the troops

hit them: Raven was the real deal-a

slammed into them like

wasn't even twenty

general under twenty? She'd be

Hendersons wanted to kick themselves harder

tell she'd end up

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

still lift the Henderson

were too dumb to see it.

ride on her rise, they'd torched that bridge

the Hendersons were staring down the barrel of

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Margaret and the others feel like they'd rather off themselves right then

in on her. Regret turned to

toward

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

like she was watching a bad comedy routine Margaret felt

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

Then something clicked, and she screamed at Kaven, her voice breaking, "The

died because of you. If he finds out you're free,

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