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Raven's voice rang out like thunder. "Corey, let me make one thing perfectly clear the decision of who gets into the Hundred Man Unit is mine. You don't get to tell me what to do."

The moment her words dropped, the entire courtyard fell into dead silence. Not a single breath was heard.

Corey's expression darkened with pure disbelief. Since becoming a senior commander, no one had dared speak to him like that.

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Sure, he knew Raven had a solid background, but no matter how influential she might be, at the end of the day she was just Regalhold University's acting president-a colonel at best.

Where the hell did she get the nerve?

Around them, the heads of the top families stood frozen, expressions blank. They knew Raven was a direct subordinate of the new general, and yes, they

knew she was telling the truth.

But Corey... Corey was still a Grand General. And once the Hundred-Man Unit was fully established, she and Corey would inevitably have to work

together.

was, burning that bridge to ashes before

few well-placed words in Lorne's or the new general's ear-just enough to have her authority

someone else ended up assembling the Hundred-Man Unit, what would happen to their carefully curated nominee lists? The ones with the handsome, charming, strategically chosen candidates they'd spent months

only submitted two or

those were the ones they were counting on-the pretty faces with just enough skill to pass, the kind Raven might

lost her authority, all that investment would

to step in, to speak on Raven's behalf, to remind Corey-tactfully-who

Corey had already

he said coldly. "Alright then-let me put it this way. If you ever make it into the Hundred-Man Unit, I'll take it as proof that my decades in the military were a waste of time. I'll resign from

family heads froze mid-step, stunned

did he just

so much as entered the Hundred-Man Unit... Corey would

he out of his

clearly didn't know was Raven wasn't going to join the Hundred-Man Unit. She was the one

reached a

gaze to Corey and said, "Your brain's clearly all muscle and no logic. But since I can tell you're at least doing this out of loyalty to the military-and since you haven't

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