The Valkyrie Returns and Slays (Raven)

Chapter 36

Chapter 36

"So, I hear you just got out of Bastion Prison yesterday?" the greeter taunted, her voice dripping with scorn.

She scoffed, "Barely out and already snagging a fortune-guess you can't teach an old dog new tricks! Far as I'm concerned, lowlife trash like you deserves a bullet to the brain!"

The teller nodded, then threw a glance at the cop with his gun trained on Raven.

"What's the holdup?" she hollered, "She's fresh out of jail and already pulling this crap-why go soft on garbage like her? Drop her now!"

Ruth caught their words and started fighting hard.

"Let me go!" she yelled, her voice rough and fierce. "You can kill me, but you're not laying a hand on my daughter!"

She'd spent almost twenty years with the Henderson family, where nonstop jabs and pressure had ground her down.

To keep the peace, she'd learned to swallow her words and back off.

But her daughter? That was where she drew the line.

She'd made a promise to herself: anyone who came for her kid, she'd drag down with her, even if it meant dying!

She only got a couple of good struggles in before a pair of calm hands gripped her arms.

Ruth stopped cold.

Raven's voice

oddly comforting. "Don't

heard Raven's words, and a quick flash of contempt crossed

of this?"

Raven too, their faces oozing with

to watch this

four cops with tasers moved in, timing it just right. They aimed tasers at Raven's torso

The tasers

could hit, five sharp

groans

blink, all five cops-including the one aiming his gun from farther back-hit the floor,

bank staff froze,

greeter sucked in a

"H-How... how'd she

she spoke, Tyler ripped his gun from

barrel swung up,

1/2

didn't hesitate-pulled the

The shot boomed

sharp ping came right after-the bullet bouncing

scream ripped