Hence, Fleur told Tarlon, "Make preparations. Ashley has three more years to show her face… If she doesn't, I will massacre both Wades and Ackers. Not one of them will get to live!"

"Yes, Lady Griffin!" Tarpon promptly repealed sonorously.

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It was the Oskian New Year, and Bernard took a seaplane to Male, before getting on his private jet bound for France.

Peace might have returned to Randheli, but interests in the raid a couple of days ago never waned.

The world's media kept putting the ra