The Valkyrie Returns and Slays (Raven)

Chapter 81

Chapter 81

Rhea struggled violently, looking truly desperate.

Drake's breath hitched

A surge of fury coursed through him, but facing the supreme commander of the Vyrdenian military, he couldn't lash out.

He took a deep breath, glanced at Raven, and asked Lorne, "General, may I ask who this is?"

Raven's rapid deployment abroad shortly after joining the military, and her recent return, coupled with the need to protect her from domestic and foreign threats, meant her file was almost as classified as Lorne's.

Even a lieutenant general like Drake was unaware of her legendary status.

Lorne immediately sensed that Drake believed Rhea's distorted version of events. Disappointment flickered in his eyes.

"As a high-ranking officer, you've grown complacent, believing your own flesh and blood so readily, Drake."

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Drake was taken aback. Suspicion crept into his gaze as he looked at Rhea. Lorne wouldn't lie about something like this. Could his daughter actually be lying?

Rhea quickly chimed in, "Dad, the instructors in charge of Regalhold's basic training are all retired lower-ranking officers. Caleb is already a colonel, he wouldn't volunteer for this. She's after him, she forced me to kneel and kowtow to her, and only then did I say I wouldn't let her get away with it."

"Dad, I was just talking. I wouldn't dare do anything! Please, talk to the General, ask him to let me go, please?"

She knew she was practically slapping Lorne in the face, but she was desperate to avoid prison. Her only hope was to pit her father against Raven and have him fiercely protect her in front of Lorne. Her father's protection was her only escape.

Drake saw Lorne's darkening expression, hesitated, then spoke, "General, Rhea is still young and naive. This officer has already punished her. Perhaps we can leave it at that, for today?"

Lorne chuckled, "Young? Young enough to use her status as your daughter to humiliate an officer of equal rank and even threaten me?"

He'd had enough. He ordered the two soldiers holding Rhea, "Take her away."

Drake instinctively blocked their path. He stared at Lorne, stunned. "General, you said she's an officer of my rank?"

Lorne nodded, "Is there a problem?"

Drake's deference faded. He stared directly at Lorne and asked, "General, how did she become a lieutenant general?"

Drake had spent twenty years in bloody combat, nearly dying five times, enduring countless injuries. His severe wounds had even left him unable to have more children shortly after Rhea was born.

age of forty-two.

the Vyrdenian military rotting from

she became a lieutenant general is none of your

to Vyrdenia is something a

Drake was dumbfounded.

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was equally

couldn't compare? General, wasn't that a

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his age, was starting to talk nonsense, felt a deeper

turbulent emotions.

whether her contribution can compare to a hundred of me. If she's truly so remarkable,

lips

Your daughter's blind enough to think I'd go for a loser like him, fine. But you, a lieutenant general,

as she glanced at Drake, his face flushed with anger. "Listen up. First, he's not my type. Second, his grandfather is my grandfather.

a pricked balloon. He quickly

"Yes, she's my

I didn't tell

uncontrollably, muttering, "How... is that

Caleb over to steal him from her, then what

torment she

a cold glance and ordered the soldiers holding her,

Drake didn't budge, blocking the soldiers'

Jennings, have served the Vyrdenian military for nearly thirty years. I've completed one S-Rank mission, three A-Rank missions,

this little girl, who hasn't even grown

a woman who somehow schemed her way into a lieutenant

moment Drake finished, Caleb and

the same time, all ten of them looked

of the military, they knew

an S-Rank mission was a hero worthy of being recorded in the history of

Jennings, standing before

were they to meet

of their shock and turned their attention to

an S-Rank mission for the