Chapter 161 - What happened?

28 January, Matthew's Villa, City K

As soon as Lexi heard the car leaving, she turned to Matthew and spat "How dare you."

"Lexi what did you want me to do, lie to him. He does not need that, particularly as we are not telling him the truth regarding our relationship. I have explained to him the situation in a way he can easily understand, being positive about the past."

"Well I do not want him thinking that being in the military is a career choice. He needs to be safe."

"Lexi, he will do what he wants. And before you say anything about arranging for his class to visit the base. We do that all the time for school groups, so doing it for Dominic's class is not a problem. Plus, I have on-base accommodation. It is important for both you and Dominic to view that as your home as much as here is…"

"Here is not a home it is my prison."

"Lexi we will not have that debate. Here is where you are living presently, whether you like it or not. Being comfortable here and in my on-base accommodation is important. Think about the on-base accommodation as being somewhere you can escape to, simply to be a wife of a military officer, rather than the Yao heiress; the Rong family daughter-in-law and the owner of LY."

"Find, but do not think I will like it," spat Lexi.

"Calm down," came Matthew's frustrated reply. No matter how pleasant he tried to make things Lexi would react like this time and time again.

"Do not tell me what to do..."

"Lexi, you are getting worked up about things and the more that happened the more we end up arguing. We both have stressful careers, and the last thing we should be doing is making things more stressful."

"Well now you want to be concerned about me. Why then are you trapping me in this marriage?"

That was enough for Matthew "No!" he spat out loudly. Realising that he was not addressing soldiers Matthew took a deep calming breath and said "Lexi, I have explained my position. You need to give our relationship a chance. If it fails, we will be like many other couples whose relationship failed. The law says as I am a serving military officer, I have control over whether we get a divorce. If our relationship fails, I will not stand in your way to get a divorce. However, until you give it a chance over some time I will."

"B*stard..."

"Think what you want Lexi, but we have other things to talk about. What happened at the Charity Function I could not take you to on the weekend? The newspapers and my briefing papers refer to a confrontation."

"Monica's mother was being a ..."

"The 'b' word rhyming with witch..."

"That is a polite way of putting it. Most of it was attaching Monica, but apparently Andrew had done some homework about her family..."

"Including her parents' affairs and the outcomes of those. I know all about that as Monica has had security checks because of Joseph's position..."

"I better not have..."

"They were done initially when I joined the military and my request for permission to marry was granted. It will have been routinely updated, without me saying anything because I never removed the notification of intention for a military marriage, so do not have a go at me over it. That is simply routine."

Scowling, Lexi knew that this was an argument that she would not win. "Fine, but we will talk about that again. She made several allegations about you, and the others taking money from the military as we all wore some of my couture designs. The other thing was she was trying to pass off a knock off of one of my couture designs as an original..."

"Did you let her know who you were?"

"Not that I own LY and am its head designer, but that I am a member of the Yao and Rong families, yes. Additionally, she decided to abuse Andrew and I, about Chester and Phillip, who by the way were not there."

Hearing that either Chester or Phillip where there, a smile passed over Matthew's face, which Lexi immediately saw. "You know something?"

"You are thinking too much. Phillip had a chemotherapy treatment on Friday and was not feeling up to socialising on the weekend. So, he and Chester simply decided to skip the function and have a quiet weekend at home."

"I thought they had..."

"No. I know the two of them have asked you to design their wedding suits, and I am guessing that has not been done."

"Perceptive. I am working on it."

"Well they will want those, and Phillip has one or two more treatments in this round, before they will take a break. I suspect that will be when they travel to get married, most likely in the US, before returning home. Now stop distracting me, and finishing telling me what happened."

"I ignored the allegations she made about abuse of power and corruption, simply because she was too erratic, and it was something I could not personally prove. I hounded her about the dress, as I set the policy for the couture clothes and there was no way she got the dress. It kept going in circles, until John eventually stepped in to defuse the situation, but warned her about making false allegations. She, of course took it as being aimed at me..."

"But John knows you own LY."

"True. The four of us talked for a little longer, watching what was happening with Monica's sister, and left, playing that John had chased us out to avoid any more of a scene."

Matthew knew to deal with this he would have to get information from John and then make decisions about whether to have Monica's mother charged in military court for her actions.

"Something however bothered me at the time and I only worked it out last night. Monica's little sister Abigail was talking to a David Hwang. For some reason he reminds me of that man who lead what happened to us. It could not be him, but just his height and body shape reminded me of that man, hence why I was happy to leave."

Matthew paused. That was interesting, maybe he needed to look closer at this David Hwang, to see if Lexi's impression was right.

"OK. But the other thing in my briefing papers, was your former in-laws have filed a court case seeking immediate custody of Dominic. Why did you not tell me?"

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