Chapter 117 - Being told Reality (4)

29 December, Military Hospital, Military Base, City K

Lexi spat out "Matthew, you b*stard. How dare you allow my choice to be taken away from me in allowing a marriage to be performed that would be considered valid and legal. That makes you no better than my parents who arranged my first marriage?"

"Think about the situation Lexi. What did you want me to do? Let you be killed? You tell me, did I have any other choice to keep you alive and safe?"

"There is your answer, it is all about you, and playing a hero. Your sole priority should have been me, not your own selfish needs. Get the hell out of my sight and let me be. As soon as I can be discharged, I will, and I will return home, away from you."

"Forget it. You are Lexi, due to the law, the wife of a senior military officer. You have two options as to where you will live on being discharged. You can select between either my Villa or on base accommodation for where we can live or I will make the choice, which I can guarantee you will not like. And forget about going anywhere without my permission, as it is not safe."

"Safe? The one thing in this world that I am not safe from is you. Everything else is safe!"

"Lexi, calm down."

"Do not tell me to calm down, you b*stard. Let me rephrase my previous comments, you are worse than my parents."

Matthew knew that he had to be firm "Lexi, stop being a spoilt child. You knew exactly what you had agreed to when we did what we did what we did previously. The fact you did not talk to me has us here. But let me make it clear to you. We have a legal military marriage. The law is clear on that and I will not lie for you. As it is a military marriage, the law says you cannot do anything. But, for thing to be as normal as possible you can arrange for a small religious ceremony in the chapel here in the next week or so, and formally everything will be registered with the civilian authorities given my current orders. Neither of these things are required, but if you want them that will be your choice.

"Now as the wife of a general, you will be restricted in what you can do. Your civilian passport will be cancelled with immediate effect, and a military passport issued. Dominic, as my step-son will also have his civilian passport replaced with a military passport. Neither of you can leave the country without either my approval or the military approval, and you will be accompanied by a security officer at all times."

"No damn way, you b*stard. You have no right to do any of that."

"Calm down Lexi. I have every right. If you want to talk about what I can and cannot do, as this is a military hospital, I could stop Chester, Phillip and Andrew from coming to see you. I will not, and to be realistic I am not that stupid. Now you can forget about the choice I offered you as to where we will live. On your discharge, you will be taken to my villa, and Dominic will be moved there. Keep fighting me, and I will change my mind and it will be my on-base accommodations."

"Lexi, I will not be heartless. I will not restrict your ability to see our family, your friends or go out, provided you have security with you, and you return to the Villa each night. If you fail to do that I will restrict your movement. While you can run your business, immediately upon our marriage it is subject to the same trust as all my assets are in. Phillip is its main trustee and Chester is the alternate trustee. We can draw from its income, but the Military have access to all information about it. However Lexi if you want to continue to argue with me, that will be lost."

"I am an independent woman, and you have no rights to do that."

"Lexi, I have every right under the law, and to be realistic I could be worse. I could restrict you and Dominic to this base and prevent you having a life. Your attitude when you realised the truth of our situation tells me that I cannot trust you. Show me that I can, and I will loosen the controls to the point that I can under the law. Oppose me, act in a way that gives this marriage no chance or risk the safety of Dominic, yourself or any children we have in the future together I will tighten the controls."

"I can simply divorce you, you know."

"Try it Lexi. We have a military marriage, and the civilian authorities will laugh at you. To get a divorce with a military marriage as the military member I must agree, and unless you give this marriage a chance there is no way that this will happen. Try and have a person appear as your lover, and I will have him charged with interfering with a military marriage, try and appeal to the President and I will warn about interference with a military marriage."

"As I said you are a b*stard."

"A b*stard who protected you, and by marrying you before we were forced to sign those doc.u.ments by the terrorists protected your assets and made it clear in signing the doc.u.ments that everything happened under duress. You forget that I told you I would keep you safe, and what you do for a career is part of that. The only thing I could not prevent was what they forced us to do under threat of death. Now I will leave you to calm down and come back when Phillip and Chester arrive."

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