Chapter 121 - You dumped me here!

31 December, Matthew's Villa, City K.

Heading towards this villa after his first official day on the army base, Matthew sat quietly in the military vehicle driven by Warrant Officer Wang. What continued to permeate his thoughts was the comment Lexi made when she was discharged from the base hospital, before he made the arrangements for her to be taken back to his Villa. She was not just angry with him, but clearly frustrated at the current situation. However, he realised that she was toning her arguments down as she did not want to cause too much trouble on base for either him or herself.

As he exited the vehicle, when the stopped in the Villa front drive area. Matthew as he walked towards and then into the villa braced himself for an argument with Lexi. As he stood in the foyer he looked up and observed Lexi was standing at the top of the stairs before she started to quietly descend them heading towards where he was standing.

Observing her, he observed that she was dressed, in what he could only describe as an amazing black dress. Knee length with fitted at the top and a slight flare at the h.i.p.s, with the skirt slightly swaying as she walked towards him. It was clear she knew what worked for her. Watching her expression, he knew that she had nor only deliberately worn the dress, but the matching high heals that she had on, but did so to push him towards his breaking point. While, he wanted to sweep her into his arms and carry her to their suite where they would spend the night indulging in each other, with her state of mind earlier that would be utter disaster and end any chance that this marriage had to work. Gritting his teeth, he stood there as she worked her way towards him..

Lexi as she descended the stairs, kept a close eye on Matthew, seeing what he would do. She was ready to tear into Matthew, as much as she was Phillip and her brothers. The four of them, while she was in hospital had conspired to relocate all her possessions to Matthew's villa, and settle Dominic into his new home. Dominic was in heaven with the room he was occupying, as it was set up to give him a level of independence from her, while making sure that he was close by if there was an issue.

Thinking of Dominic drove her to think about the couple of days before her parents imposed their version of reality on her and the nightmare that was her marriage. She dreamed of living here with Dominic with the two of them awaiting Matthew's return from whatever he was doing, and the other children that they would have to fill the bedrooms, along with joining Matthew in his suite where they would retreat from the world into their own private space. That was something that never happened or could happen.

As she moved closer to Matthew, Lexi could observe that he was enchanted with how she looked.

That was perfect as it would allow her to assert herself, without allowing Matthew to assert his own personality. However, without standing up to him, she would lose herself in this forced relationship until she was able to extricate herself from it.

Pausing just out of his reach, she said "Dinner is almost ready, but we need to talk first." With that she walked past Matthew remaining out of his reach and headed into the lounge room. Matthew simply followed her, nodding to Warrant Officer Wang who had just entered, indicating that he could either head to the room set aside for him or leave to return in the morning. On entering the lounge, he observed Lexi sitting in a chair, so he sat across from her on the sofa.

As soon as he sat down, Lexi launched at him verbally, in an angry aggressive manner, but ensuring that she was not yelling to alert Dominic to the issue. "You domineering, dictatorial man. You manipulate our siblings to transfer all my belongings here and settle Dominic in a room, have someone drop me here and trap me. I am meant to be your wife, and before you say anything that is not by choice, and you let me arrive here on my own. I do not give a care…"

"Lexi, calm down."

Hearing those words form Matthew, Lexi became even more angry that she was. "Do not tell me to calm down. You know I do not want this marriage and want an immediate divorce, but after a few talks with John I realised that there is nothing I can do at this time. But get this through your head now. To the public and to your staff I will be your wife, but once we get behind the doors of your suite, we will not be sharing a bed and our marriage will be what it truthfully is, a sham. I will do what I want and go where I want, and you will not stop me. You will not interfere with my parenting of Dominic, and within twelve months you will give me the divorce I want."

Matthew sat there, listening to Lexi but seething at the same time. Damn her. She wanted control, and if he gave her any control, she would destroy any chance they had and place herself at serious risk. She had no idea how much she and Dominic were at risk. He had figured that out when they were taken, but the two terrorists that they had dragged out of the terrorist camp, today after Ben, Joseph and David's hard work had started to break, and finally started giving them useful intelligence, unbeknown to Major Hung and his staff.

Given how well they had been working, he had convinced the three of them, and more importantly their wives, to agree to their redeployment to the base within the next month, rather than the original staggered approach that they had planned, along with the announcement of their promotions. His, however was being kept quiet for the time said at national command.

Lexi, in looking at Matthew noticed that he was not totally paying attention to her. "As I figured, you are ignoring me. Why would I expect anything else when you dumped me here."

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