"What is there to talk about?"
Lucas glanced at Jonathan Oakval with a calm demeanour from the bed.
"Nothing much. I just want to know what you and the master of the Mertens family discussed."
Jonathan walked towards the arm chair in the room and took a seat.
"The same as everyone else did." Lucas responded.
Although he didn't know exactly why Jonathan was interested, Lucas knew that he could not trust the former. He could also guess a bit of what was going on.
From what Russell had said before, Lucas surmised that the BCPC's Central Prefecture district branch probably had the backing of one or more of the top four families, and could be influenced by them. And to Lucas, these factions were his enemies. They wanted one thing from Lucas, which was for him to work under them and hand control of his research and technology.
[1] "Burning the bridge" is a phrase used to imply that there's no chance for forgiveness, repentance or to undo an act. So, it's cutting off a person or relationship entirely without leaving a space to patch things up.
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