Salute To The General

Laura reached Nathan's home a while later and brought a few of her best subordinates with her, leaving the rest to wait in the courtyard. Nathan sat on the couch sipping coffee next to Penny and Queenie while Colin and Ava stood guard by the side with their hands clasped.

Laura was expecting Nathan to stand up and greet her, but he calmly remained seated on the couch, like a king receiving an audience with another country's emissary.

She had no choice but to tamp down her annoyance and stepped forward with her subordinates. "Hello, Mr. Cross, Mrs. Cross, and Ms. Smith," she said formally to Nathan and his family. Penny nodded with a smile, and Queenie replied in a clear voice, "Hello."

Laura noticed that despite Queenie's young age, she was well-mannered, and her face was starting to lose her childlike features, becoming more mature.

She couldn't help but feel satisfied with the Curia's decision to choose her as the future Holy Maiden.

While she was studying Queenie, Nathan was doing the same to Laura.

He didn't miss the way Laura looked at Queenie and sensed something was amiss. His brows furrowed in response.

He asked placidly, "And you are Laura, one of the cardinals of the Curia?"

slight bow. "Yes, Mr.

send you here again when the Holy

about strengthening our alliance,"

Nathan's voice was indifferent.

Eurasia's prosperity and safeguard the interests of its people; the Curia's job is

work together and succeed. Take, for example, the vampires who have been giving you trouble lately. We

enough to constitute a problem to me, so I don't see why we should work together to defeat

Mr. Cross, wouldn't you say you're being a little irresponsible toward humans and the world by refusing to fight against them?" Penny, Colin, and Ava were all furious after Laura had blatantly accused Nathan. Nathan, on the

shot her a

we're being candid here; I won't mince words don't respect the Curia. It's obvious you have an ulterior motive, and an alliance is only a front. I never do business with conniving people, let

like a slap in Nathan's face, and he returned the courtesy by bluntly

that he wasn't the king of Adrune but the Dragon of the East, and he was not