Chapter 82

Chapter 82

Lorne's words hung in the air, the weight of them settling over everyone present.

Drake Jennings, Rhea Jennings, Caleb Valor, the nine soldiers, the Jennings family butler, even the five guards sprawled on the ground- they were all

frozen.

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Every eye was glued to the golden Promotion Order in Lorne's hand, a single thought echoing in their minds-

'No freakin' way.'

Five top-secret SSS-Rank missions. Eighteen SS-Rank missions. Nearly a hundred S-Rank missions!

And Lorne had said five years on the front lines. Five years to rack up a record like that? It was superhuman.

Even as their brains screamed it had to be some kind of mistake, no one dared question the truth of it.

The Vyrdenian Military's Promotion Order, held by Lorne, was as good as gospel. No one, not even Lorne Drakon himself, would dare fake one of those.

Rhea's sneer evaporated so fast it was like it had never existed.

She stared at Raven's composed face, utter disbelief plastered across her own. "Am I hearing things?' she thought wildly.

Her father, Drake, had completed a single S-Rank mission, and in her book, that made him a legend.

Lorne was saying Raven-that bitch-had nearly a hundred

Promotion Order, wishing the floor would swallow

bragging about? She'd stood there, all puffed up, boasting about her dad's S-Rank mission, sneering

his boots.

slap in the face. Rhea Jennings had never felt so utterly

shock was on

completed an S-Rank mission, he understood better than most just how insane those missions

nearly bought the farm more times than he cared to remember during his S- Rank. Pure luck he was still breathing. Just thinking

he'd just pegged as some kind of fluke

hundred S-Ranks?

eighteen SS-Ranks and

joined the military at fourteen.

of freak of nature was

Drake a long moment to find his voice."General Drakon, she...

front of Raven, didn't even glance his

the Promotion Order, his hands steady, and presented it to Raven

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at the Promotion Order, a playful smirk tugging at the corner of her lips. "General Drakon," she drawled,

were getting spicy? And not only that, but he was here to back her play, Promotion Order all ready to go? Turning it down now

Lorne Drakon stepped up for her at this time, even preparing the Promotion Order for her promotion to general.

glint in her eyes, a genuine smile finally breaking through his stern facade. "Heard you'd tracked down your better half. Rushed right over, Coincidence, all coincidence." He winked. "But take the Order, and these clowns are all yours to deal with as you

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