Chapter 162 - What do you mean?

28 January, Matthew's Villa, City K

"How in the world did you find out?" came Lexi's shocked reply. She thought with the help of her lawyers she had hidden this from Matthew.

"Lexi, regardless of your view you are my wife, and anything that involves you automatically is drawn to my attention. When did you get served with it?"

"Friday. And they have been able to have an urgent hearing set for this morning. Just leave me deal with it."

Observing Lexi, Matthew could realise how much this was stressing her out. While he did not regret their marriage, it was impacting Dominic, and that was unacceptable. "Lexi. No argument. I am coming with you, …"

"You will only cause problems. Your actions have gotten me in this place to start with," spat out Lexi, furious that Matthew wanted to force his way into the situation. She was worried the more Matthew became involved with this, the closer someone was to finding out the truth of Dominic's parentage and causing more difficulties than her situation already had.

"No," came Matthew's firm response. He was getting sick of this. Lexi had to realise the reality of their situation. Giving into to her was tantamount to dismissing their past and accepting the consequences of previous actions. "Lexi, we have been over this time and time again. We made decisions in the past that have consequences today."

"Screw that Matthew Rong, it is about trapping me."

Matthew realised that he was about to snap and overreact with Lexi. That was unacceptable as regardless of what she was doing she was his wife and deserved his respect. Yes, she was determined to end their marriage as soon as she could, but she did not deserve him becoming aggressive to her.

Taking a deep breath, Matthew said "Lexi, I will respect your opinion, but let us be realistic your former in-laws are running the argument that Richard's will said that if you remarried he wanted his parents to raise his child, not you and your new husband. I am the cause of their actions now, and you need to let me to help."

"Help. Divorcing me immediately would have helped…"

"No, it would not, it would have given them the grounds anyway. They are now fighting not only you and the rest of the Yao family but my family as well. That is difficult to start with. Added to that is the fact we have the backing of the Nang, Gu and Hou families, with the added fact of my position within the military…"

"So, you are going to use your rank to frighten then." Lexi sarcastically continued "Mr General will force his…"

"No Lexi, I will be using my current public rank and my posting. Both will be enough as it will cause the court to pause and not react immediately to side with Richard's parents. That allows a case to be built to defeat their argument. And even if we lose at this time, because he is my stepson, the military will have a say in where he can live…"

"What do you mean?" asked a worried Lexi.

"My position on base, even though an administrative position is still considered a high security position. That means my close family members, to minimise threats to national security, have to be protected. Neither my parents, who by the way do not deserve it, or Phillip and Chester know that in addition to their personal bodyguards, they are also watched by the military to ensure their protection. That includes monitoring of their passports to ensure that it is know where they are so in the case of a threat they can be evacuated to safety."

"For Dominic and you, it is a highly obvious situation. Your security can be seen but that is because of what has happened, but eventually that will become less obvious. Your civilian passports are cancelled, and military passports are issued. Those passports are more closely monitored and either my permission or those of my superiors are required before you can even leave the country. That includes approval of your itinerary."

Looking at the furious expression on Lexi's face, Matthew calmly as possible continued "And before you overreact, I have already obtained permission for you to travel with respect to your business provided you complete a form and have a guard with you for safety. But in terms of Dominic it means that he cannot leave the country without our approval and military approval…"

"You told me about the military passports and forgot that …" yelled Lexi. She picked up a napkin on the table and threw it at Matthew, saying "You could have told me, as I believe their intention is to get custody of Dominic and send him away the boarding school they sent Richard to at age seven overseas."

Shaking his head at the petty action of Lexi Matthew quietly responded "Lexi, since everything has happened when have you been willing to sit and listen to anything I have to say. All you do is become angry, but because of Dominic's request you wait until he is not around for the arguments to occur."

Lexi hung her head and said "Sorry."

"Lexi, there is no need for sorry. As I have told you, we did what we did when we were younger, and neither of us really thought about undoing it. Circ.u.mstances meant that the circle of actions needed were completed, and we must deal with the consequences. All I have asked you is to allow us the opportunity to see what happens, and if it does not work, I will not stand in your way of a divorce. You simply must give us the space. And at the moment the last thing needed to be know is that there is real issues."

"Fine," responded Lexi, ashamed at her current reactions. Matthew was being patient with her, and he wanted to help her currently. "You can come with me to court, but my lawyer has control…"

"Lexi, they will have to work with the military lawyer who will be there given the situation."

Hearing that, Lexi knew that there were two lawyers arguing for them, which gave her hope for success today. Lexi simply nodded and focused on her breakfast. As she was eating, Matthew spoke "You commented before about David Hwang seeming familiar. What did you mean?"

"I do not know why, but there was something that reminded me about one of the terrorists. Fanciful, I know, but maybe he is a distant relative of one of them."

Hearing that was interesting, Lexi could be right about her impressions, but when it came to the Devil everything needed to be investigated as despite knowing so much about his actions the one thing that they did not have was any hints on his real name.

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