The Valkyrie Returns and Slays (Raven)

Chapter 478

Chapter 478 Thorian Agrees To Cooperate

Oakley seemed to hear the confirmation he was waiting for from the other end of the call. His breath hitched, growing more rapid with barely concealed excitement.

He muttered to himself, voice trembling, "George's man... is Robert White. The one who controls the Parsons family."

Thorian, seated on the hospital bed, stared at Oakley-his face lit up with giddy anticipation. A flicker of doubt passed through Thorian's eyes as he asked, "Mr. Brown's subordinate?"

Just a subordinate. Why did Oakley look like he'd just found the gates to heaven?

Before he could dwell on it further, Oakley ended the call-but the hand gripping the phone still trembled with barely contained emotion.

It didn't matter that it wasn't George himself. Even a lowly attendant from his realm-from the higher world-was beyond anything this low-tier reality had to offer. Compared to that world, people like them were no better than ants crawling in the dirt.

to that world, his future

about it, she'd guard it with her life, and that would

expression shifted from awe to ambition, Thorian frowned, sensing

snapped out of his thoughts at

stared at Thorian with a glint of calculation. After a beat, a slow,

his face.

flashed through his eyes as he snapped, "Who the hell are you really? Why are

wedge?" Oakley scoffed. "I'm helping you. Just answer me-do you want to be

he plunged the final blow into

him. And yet, part of him still clung to the faint hope that

you're just another shadow. And Cassian? He's got

face

said... were exactly the thoughts that had been

deep, and the