Organised by Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa in the Mexican resort town of Los Cabos, the meeting is to be attended by among others US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle and European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.

Several other G20 countries including France, China, Brazil and India would be represented at a lower level. Mexico is the current chair of the G20 countries and the summit would be hosted on June 18-19. A senior state department official said that the meeting is informal so it would not result in any formal statements."This meeting reflects, in many ways, the evolution of the G20 since the first summit of Washington in the fall of 2008, which, was designed to deal with the global financial crisis,"waiting for him, were a woman and three small children.

Harkan swore under his breath. He pointed at the children, signed with his hand. He and Eliana had engineered a silent code years ago, when she first started hunting alone after Rozen's injury. He had insisted she not go by herself, and so he had learned to hunt and track, to kill, to turn on their own people and serve the Empire instead—all for her.

No, came his message. Abort.

She knew what he meant. The children weren't part of this job. Quill was one thing, but the idea of handing innocent children over to the Lord of Orline... It wouldn't sit well with Harkan.

Honestly, it didn't with Eliana either.

But three rebels waited at the courtyard's shadowed entrance: Quill's escort and