Chapter 173 - An Unhappy Visit (1)

2 February, Hotel in City T

Matthew followed Lexi into the hotel room. Ever since they had dropped Dominic off to Chester for the weekend, she had refused to look at him. Enough was enough. Yes, Lexi was upset, but the behaviour was becoming intolerable and he was going to call her on it. As the hotel staff left, he carefully locked the door behind them and moved in, scanning the room. While his instinct was to scan the room carefully for devices, that would not only waste time but prevent the discussion they needed from happening. He just had to risk the potential for this discussion to happen.

Lexi, having heard the door shut, pulled out her phone to look for Anna's phone number to call her. A hand reached over her shoulder and pulled the phone from her hand. Lexi turned, and spat at Matthew "Give that back, you have no right."

"Do not talk to me like that. I know you too well Lexi, you were about to make a call that is not needed. Chester told us that when he had news, he would let us know, and that includes arranging for you to visit Anna Hou tomorrow. Do not…"

"Do not tell me what to do with my friends, you b*stard."

"Language Lexi…"

"Do not try and be smart with me you know nothing."

"How in the world would I know anything when you refuse to talk to me. Anything you do not like, you sulk like a child. I am sick of it…"

"And I am sick of this marriage that you have trapped me in," yelled Lexi in response.

"Thank goodness, we are getting to the issue we need to deal with."

Lexi looked him straight in the eye, and firmly but loudly said "Yes, the heart of the issue. As I have told you I want a divorce, and I want it now. Plus, I want you to fix the damage that you have done."

Blocking Lexi from heading towards the room door, Matthew responded "We have been through this time and time again Lexi. That is not going to happen until you give our marriage a chance. We made choices when we were younger and have to deal with the consequences of those decisions, which by the way were perfectly legal and remain legal."

"I was only a child when I did that, so why should I be bound. My father agreed to my marriage to Richard, which was perfectly legal." While that was a disaster, it was a weapon that she was able to use against Matthew.

"You were seventeen, and you knew what you were doing. If I wanted to be the b*stard that you accuse me of being I could have your marriage to Richard declared illegal. Now…"

"You are going to give me what I want."

"No. We will have a conversation we need to have. I have repeatedly told you, the only way a divorce will happen, unless the marriage laws change, is that you firstly have to give our marriage a chance."

"Why in the world would I give a marriage to a b*stard like you a chance. It has only one way it can end so why would I do that when doing so would be torture."

"Well, let me repeat the choices you have. Refuse, and you will remain married to me with me restricting your movement or give it a chance with being a proper marriage and if fails you will get your divorce and generally freedom of movement."

"So, in other words, you will use the marriage to deny me my basic rights, freedom of choice and movement. What else would I suspect from someone who is forcing me into something that I do not want."

"You do not want it. Then I must have been imagining the woman last night, who at around midnight cried out my name and started sobbing in my arms about Dominic being taken from us, and when she calmed down from that refused to let go of me."

"You must have been dreaming."

"You are in denial about what happened. You refused to let go, and then you decided that I was something that you had to eat up."

"What!" spat out Lexi in shock. Had she done that?

"Lexi, do you think I would lie to you?"

"Absolutely, if it suited your goals."

"What are they?"

"Control of me, getting what you think is owed and ruining my life as I went separately from what you had planned for me."

"You really have a myopic vision of the world Lexi. It is always about you, no one else. I sometimes wonder about what went wrong with your marriage to Richard, and at times it becomes understandable why Dominic reacts as he did yesterday. You do not care about him. I wonder if all you do is see him as a status symbol and a means to control your in-laws as they do not pander to your total need for control."

"My need to control. That is something you know about. The only good thing to come out of my marriage with Richard was Dominic. It was hellish, as I realised just before Richard's death it was not what he wanted, it was forced on him, but I had committed to it and we had a son. But it has nothing on this marriage. It is toxic and you are controlling everything about it. Sometimes I wish I never made the decision I did, and simply took Dominic to Paris, away from everything and that would have meant that I would not be trapped as I currently am, with a man I cannot stand."

"That is different to what you demonstrated last night Lexi. It was like I was the only piece of the world that you knew was totally safe, and you wanted to make sure that I could not leave you. It is interesting what our subconscious tells the world."

"You are a liar."

"A liar Lexi? Let me prove you wrong." Lexi heard the undertone from Matthew was now seductive, and he continued "And it will be both of our pleasures."

With that Matthew, tossed Lexi's mobile on the bench, and gently pulled Lexi into his arms.

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