Salute To The General

Chapter 2090



It was nine in the evening. Kylie and Ava were having dinner with Queenie at a fast food outlet.

Queenie looked distracted. She hardly seemed to pay attention to her chicken wings and ice cream. Looking up at Kylie, she asked softly, "Aunt Kylie, is my mama all right?"

"Didn't you say that my papa and mama will come and get me? Why aren't they here yet?"

"Don't worry, Queenie." Kylie smiled reassuringly. "Your dad called this afternoon. He said he had rescued your mom, and he just called to say that they will come right now and get you."

"Eat while you can, they'll be here any minute."

Queenie nodded but didn't touch her food.

Instead, she stared out of the window

impatiently.

Someone took advantage of the fire at summer camp and kidnapped mama in the confusion.

She cried looking for her.

when Kylie and Ava told her that

She needed to see her mother with her

of the restaurant swung open, and a crowd of people filed

looked up hopefully, thinking that her parents

that it was just a

before.

a tall and thin man with an awfully pale face. His most striking feature was his

gaze and

saw the effect

from a glance that these people were trained professionals. They reeked

hadn't stopped to wash. The

concluded that these men were very likely mercenaries. By this time, alarm bells were ringing frantically

we share a table?"

the look of them all the same. "Excuse me, we

but I only want to sit right here,” Vann

she was in the middle of

good!” Vann said with

line," Kylie shouted. "Ava, teach

for this as soon as she saw them coming in. In an

was quick as lightning. If

skilled