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.

was such a relief for Queenie when Kylie and Ava told her that her

wasn't reassured, however. She needed to see her mother with

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

looked up hopefully, thinking that her parents and maybe

that it was

before.

man with an awfully pale face. His most striking feature was his dead-set eyes, which resembled a fish. It was

and

eyes smiled when he saw the effect he produced. Leading

upbringing, Ava knew from a glance that these people were

stopped to wash. The pestilence amidst them

mercenaries. By this time, alarm bells were ringing frantically in

if we share a

like the look of them all the same. "Excuse me, we do mind," she said

want to sit right

Kylie's frustration, Vann picked up a piece of chicken that she was in the middle of eating

good!” Vann

of line," Kylie shouted.

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

as

other skilled martial