Chapter 2070



"May I ask if you are well acquainted with Nathan Cross?" Clifford asked.

"What is your interest in this?" Nathan inquired in kind.

"I understand that you have sought Nathan for his input on military strategy during the North Army's battle against the Xyperian army, and also presented him a gift recently. That made me curious about the nature of your relationship with him."

Nathan's answer was ambiguous. "I consider him a friend."

The term itself could mean a relationship of any indeterminate depth.

His counterpart furrowed, as that did not actually reveal anything of substance.

Nathan then countered with a question of his own. "I heard that your family and Nathan have their differences."

"Not differences, but a profound enmity," Clifford corrected.

"An eye for an eye makes the world go blind. If both parties are willing, may I suggest that I play peacemaker. Let bygones be bygones, and the two parties try to get along from here on. What would you say to that?"

Military Governor and Eurasia's

generally a mild man, Clifford tended to side with his relatives and was rather vindictive. In his role as Secretary of the Cab, he

Chief Military Governor, Nathan's intention in advising Clifford to let go of his vendetta was with the bigger picture in mind.

of covertly giving the Daviers a way

they agreed to back off Nathan, they would

that that was not to

ways, even the office of the Chief Military Governor was not enough to convince

shook his head.

daughter died because of him. The Daviers and my ex-wife's family, the Goldsteins, have both suffered humiliation

that man. Ask of

I shall gladly oblige. It is just this one thing that

Nathan Cross, I must ask that you do not interfere. Hold the middle ground

have your mind made up, Mr. Davier.

on the

idea that

and put our national interests first.

merciful, then I shall show

agenda. "And may we know if you have

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