Birthright: Battle for the Confederation- Turmoil by Ryan Krauter

Author:Ryan Krauter
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Silver Impala Press
Published: 2013-10-15T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

"That went well," Tana said to Dennix in his office. He sat leaning back in his chair, hands folded across his stomach, lost in thought.

"You know by now that I am willing to do certain things in order to facilitate our deal," he said, still staring straight ahead and avoiding eye contact. "But these people aren't idiots; sooner or later somebody is going to ask why I do the things I do, and I'm going to have a hard time explaining it to them. Like this inquiry, like moving Velk to the city here, like telling the Navy to reassign the ships with the best records to out-of-the-way roles and a dozen more inexplicable things that you've told me to do." Finally, he looked at her, letting the chair's springs snap him back to an upright seating position. "But it can't last, at least not unless there are some seriously positive things also happening that I can take credit for as far as the populace goes. So, what's Enric going to come back with?"

Starr let that hang in the air for a bit, not just to taunt him but to see how he reacted to the stress. He just stared at her, a sign she took to mean he was starting to get desperate. In that case, it was best to pacify him; she didn't need him to go out and try to make big plans of his own without her guidance.

"Enric Shae will return with a treaty offer, which you will of course sign," she replied. She stood up and walked over to his side of the desk. While she was unfamiliar with the use of sexual tension to meet her own ends, Dennix realized that she was very well capable of doing so. Even in her standard, abrasive state she could be alluring, though it was hard to pinpoint exactly what about her made it so. Still, he couldn't look away as she perched on the corner of his desk, her athletic leg dangling within his reach.

She continued. "It will offer our nonaggression in return for your agreeing to dismantle combat units along your borders. You will be allowed to keep a certain percentage of your fleet for internal police action, but you will not be allowed to take those forces outside your borders. In time, those borders will change and we will assume more and more control, sometimes overtly and sometimes not. You will be named as our Governor and representative here, and you will stay in power. The rest of the details are more fluid and quite honestly might change, but you will get your overall wish. You will get to rule in our stead, and the Confederation will not be conquered outright. The people only have to know what you tell them, and you know they'll believe you even if there's evidence to the contrary as long as you stay ahead of them."

Dennix spun his chair away from her, disappointed with himself for thinking such thoughts about the woman who was telling him how he was going to surrender.

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