The Valkyrie Returns and Slays (Raven)

Chapter 18

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.

over the stunned

nothing away, "Why bother

he threw a quick hand signal at the soldiers.

sir!" The soldiers jumped

can't do that..." Margret

stumbled over their words, eyes

them: Raven

into them

wasn't even twenty

general under twenty? She'd be

Hendersons wanted to kick themselves

she'd end

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

could still lift the Henderson

see it. Instead of cozying up to Raven

on her rise, they'd torched that bridge to

Hendersons were staring down the barrel

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

soldiers moving in on

toward Raven, her

'Grandma screwed up. I'm sorry, alright? After all those years the Hendersons took care of you, can't you

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

didn't twitch and panic flipped Margaret's pleading into a high-pitched screech "You little punk I'm your grandma! Throw

shattered completely, Then something clicked, and she screamed at Kaven, her voice breaking, "The Jennings family! Their hotshot general's a lieutenant general

you. If he finds out you're free,

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