Clifford Clark

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**Clifford Maximo Clark** (born 2015) is a minor character in the Born in Blood Mafia Chronicles and in the Sins of the Fathers. He is the eldest child of Maximo and Dolora Clark and the older brother of twins Charlotte and Claire.

## Appearance and Character

Clifford is tall, with blond wavy hair, and handsome.

He is ambitious and wants to chase a career in politics like his father.

## Born in Blood

### Bound by the Past

He is first mentioned in *Bound by the Past* when Dante and Valentina Cavallaro are considering an arranged marriage with an outsider for their daughter Anna Cavallaro. They are allying with the political elite and had met Maximo Clark, a Senator, who is political royalty, and his son, Clifford. He is 13, the same age as Anna and they go to the same tennis club.

## Sins of the Fathers

### By Virtue I Fall

Clifford first appears in *By Virtue I Fall*.

Clifford’s parents arrange a marriage between him and Anna Cavallaro. He doesn’t know about that until he turns seventeen. When the Cavallaros are guests in the Clark manor, he tells Anna that she is free to have affairs during their engagement as far as they stay hidden from the public eye.

At a party, celebrating high school graduation, Anna and Clifford share a hesitant kiss after she tells him that she has never kissed a boy before. They get caught by Anna’s bodyguard, Santino Bianchi, who threatens Clifford and beats up one of his guards.

At their engagement party, Clifford has a small talk with Anna in the garden. He asks questions about Santino and hints that the bodyguard has a crush on his fiancée but he has nothing against them being together if love feelings are not involved. Clifford himself is in a friends with benefits relationship with another girl.

Clifford goes on a weekend trip to Paris and appears unexpectedly in Anna and Santino’s apartment. He feels uncomfortable around Santino. The next day, he has a lunch date with Anna. Clifford has broken off with his girlfriend. It’s stated he has a cousin who studies at Sorbonne and will spend the rest of the day with him. At some point, after his return from Paris, he meets Leonas Cavallaro at a party and asks him about his sister's relationship with her bodyguard.

At his mother’s fiftieth birthday party Clifford is seen to disappear with a girl which annoys Anna. It is implied he doesn’t live in his parents’ house anymore.

Three weeks before the wedding Clifford has a meeting with Anna. He wants to change the wedding reception location as a precaution. It is declared that the Clarks have received threats after his father's pro-choice stance. They are attacked and Clifford is shot twice in the shoulder. He feels lonely in the hospital as his father holds a press conference, his mother is distressed and Anna’s thoughts are occupied mostly with Santino.

When Anna cancels the wedding at the last moment in front of everyone, Clifford is angry with her for making him the laughingstock of society and is worried about his name and future political career. He doesn’t answer her phone calls and messages after the event.

Clifford accompanies his parents for a meeting with Dante Cavallaro, Leonas and Santino. When he learns that his mother has banged Santino on her own son’s birthday in his bed, he feels angry and disgusted. He is not enthusiastic about having one of his sisters married off to Leonas.

## Trivia

* Clifford used to play tennis at school. He is also interested in Lacrosse.