Chapter 637 - You failed (1)

11 June, Matthew's Villa, City K

Matthew, opened his eyes, to find Lexi looking at him, before saying "I am surprised that you awake before me and I did not realise it."

Lexi smiled and said, "You were totally exhausted last night."

"Exhausted, who is to blame for that?"

Lexi laughed and said "Me.  You carried me from downstairs up here after we knocked the wheelchair over, and then carefully bathed me before putting me into bed.  No matter how strong of a soldier you are, there always will be a limit…"

"Particularly when you made things difficult for me to do what is needed."

Lexi tipped her head towards her left shoulder slightly and said "So, I am your wife, and I am entitled to do so."  With that Lexi grabbed a pillow and gently threw it at Matthew who had smirking smile on his face.

Grabbing the pillow Lexi threw at him Matthew carefully placed it behind her and said, "What were you doing last night on Weibo?"

"The Studio's Official Weibo account was tagged in a post.  Normally I would not even bother and leave it to the PR team to deal with today.  There was just something about the post that made me scan the earlier posts."

"And…?"

"Joan, knew about what happened with Dominic, because she was in the studio yesterday when I received the message from the school about the incident.  I wondered had Joan posted something to cause a reaction."

"I know she has a couple of million followers, but I do not know why?"

"Her initial posts were all about fashion and society events.  I realised early on the importance of social media to grow my business and offered the occasional outfit to Joan as a means of free promotion.  That benefited me, and helped Joan increase her followers.  As she did so, she moved from what her initial posts were to include charity, education, and occasionally business.  I saw the latter posts as shots at her father and brothers who have no real idea about business.  More recently her posts have been about David Hwang and her upcoming wedding."

"But, as I scanned the posts, she had shared a post from David Hwang which seemed to kick everything off.  Apparently, David Hwang has a subsidiary across the road from the school and he has surveillance cameras and caught what happened with Dominic and posted it.  Normally I would have simply ignored the post and let my PR team respond today.  However, as it involved Dominic, leaving it until this morning for them to respond would not look good if it became known Dominic was involved."

That was interesting information.  No one had been able to determine who was behind the tenant of the office building across the road from Dominic's school.  It was hidden behind so many shell companies, that determining the true owner had been pushed down the priorities because there appeared no overt threat.  That appeared to be a bad decision if this was true.  Was it about keeping him and his family under surveillance, something more sinister or was it simply a co-incidence?  He would have to have someone investigate that further quickly without disclosing what he knew was upcoming, as if it were a threat, he would have to act to protect Dominic. "

"Matthew are you listening to me?" asked Lexi.

"What?"

"You were thinking about something.  Anything I should know abound?"

Matthew, realising that he needed to be careful responded "I was just thinking.  You can guess…"

"When we married, the businesses around the school were checked in case there was a potential threat."  Lexi gently shook her head and continued "You think I am stupid.  I know the businesses around the studio were checked as were those around the retail shops, because a few comments were said.  I just figured that was you being worried and guessed that you would do the same around Dominic's school and would tell me about it when you were ready or there was something to be concerned about."

"You are not annoyed?" 

"Matthew, when I first found out about it, absolutely.  But as time has gone on. I have gotten over that and realised that your position would ensure that those around Dominic and I would be looked at to determine any potential threats.  That includes my staff, the staff here at the villa, and those who come into close contact with Dominic at the school.  Would I like you to have been honest and talked to me about it at the outset, yes, but…"

"I get it, you have accepted it."

Lexi screwed up her nose and partially closed her eyes before saying "The intrusion and the apparent lack of trust that I would allow people around me that would cause a risk.  Never!  The concern for Dominic and my safety that in some respects it demonstrates, absolutely.  The latter I love because it tells me that we are both incredibly important to you and that makes me believe we have the chance to last in our marriage."

Sensing that Matthew had slightly tensed, Lexi said "Please do not worry about it. Because I have gotten over things.  But seriously, you need to help me, I need to get ready because I have a busy day today.  I need to go into the studio, I have a review appointment at the base hospital, and I need to deal with the fallout of yesterday's incident at school."

"Let me do that."

Lexi shook her head and said "No, I need to.  Not because I want to exclude you but because I need to show everyone that I will not hide behind you.  The school is constantly being pressured to refuse Dominic's enrolment for the next school year because of your position, and I do not want to give those campaigning for that more ammunition."

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