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.

chilly glance over the stunned

face giving nothing away, "Why bother explaining to

and he threw a quick hand

The soldiers jumped into

you can't do

words, eyes bouncing to

Raven was

slammed into them like a crashing

even

general under twenty?

wanted to kick themselves harder

could tell she'd

haul-even now, maybe just a Brigadier

Henderson

see it. Instead of cozying up

on her rise, they'd torched

Hendersons were staring down the barrel of rock

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

then Margaret spotted the soldiers moving in on her. Regret

toward Raven, her face

all those years the Hendersons took care of you,

she was watching a bad comedy routine Margaret felt the

a high-pitched screech "You little punk I'm

Raven didn't blink. Margaret's cool shattered completely, Then something clicked, and she screamed at Kaven, her voice breaking, "The Jennings family! Their

frantic. "Gerald Jennings died because of you. If he

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