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.

Raven-that bitch-had nearly a hundred S-Ranks

wishing the floor would swallow

all puffed up, boasting about her dad's

his boots.

Rhea Jennings had never felt so utterly humiliated in her

on a

few in the Vyrdenian military to have actually completed an S-Rank mission, he understood better than most just how

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

own daughter, who he'd just pegged as some kind of fluke

hundred S-Ranks?

eighteen SS-Ranks and five top-secret

military at

of freak of nature

to find his voice."General Drakon,

already standing in front of

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

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playful smirk tugging at the corner of her lips. "General Drakon," she

things were getting spicy? And not only that, but he was here to back her play, Promotion Order all

the Promotion Order for her promotion to general. If she refused again, it

a genuine smile finally breaking through his stern facade. "Heard you'd tracked down your better half. Rushed right over, Coincidence, all coincidence." He

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