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.

a chilly glance over the stunned crowd, then turned to

nothing away,

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

The soldiers jumped

you can't do that..." Margret

Hendersons stumbled over their words,

them: Raven was the real

slammed into them like a

wasn't even

twenty? She'd

kick themselves harder than

she'd end up

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

could still lift the Henderson family up a few

they were too dumb to see

her rise, they'd torched that bridge to

the Hendersons were staring down the barrel of

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Margaret and the others feel

Margaret spotted the soldiers moving in on her.

toward

years

bad comedy routine Margaret felt the soldiers' hands clamp down, ready to drag her

little punk I'm your grandma! Throw me in jail, and you're trash- karma

and she screamed at

Jennings died because of you. If

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