Chapter 176 - An Unhappy Visit (4)

2 February, Hotel in City T

Hearing those words come from Lexi's mouth, Matthew knew his fears were realised much quicker than he had anticipated, as her head was overruling her heart. He now had to deal with the consequences.

Quietly, Matthew responded "Lexi, you were given plenty of opportunities to back out of what happened."

"You know I did not want this."

Matthew pushed himself up, not caring about his n.a.k.e.dness and walked over to Lexi, and gently grabbed her arms, before saying "Lexi, look at me."

"You b*stard…"

"Lexi be original, you know fully well my parents were well and truly married when I was born."

"You know what I mean." With that Lexi broke her right arm free from Matthew's grip and slapped him on the face, before kicking him.

"You know violence does not stop anything Lexi. Be honest with yourself, let alone me. You wanted what happened and enjoyed it. Recognise that I gave you every opportunity to say no, and you were with me the whole way. And know when you awoke, it was your choice to perform oral s*x on me. You were not forced. Blaming me…"

"Well it is your fault," and with that angry retort Lexi swung her hand again to hit Matthew on the face.

Matthew reacted quickly and grabbed her wrist before saying "Lexi, I let you get away with a lot. I let you hit me the first time, because you regretted what we had done, but a second time no. Yes, my career is characterised by violence, but in interpersonal relationsh.i.p.s violence solves nothing. You need to honestly speak to me, or we will get nowhere."

"So says the man who wants to run the woman tempted me argument to explain away his abuse of a woman."

Matthew, hearing that was ready to snap. But at that moment he realised that Lexi wanted him to react as she could use domestic violence to argue to the military courts that his permission for a divorce should not be required. Loudly, but calmly Matthew said as taking a step backwards "Do not accuse me of something that I have never done…"

"All men use violence in relationsh.i.p.s when they do not get what they want."

"Now we are getting to the heart of the matter. You want to view me as if I am the same as someone in your past. And we both know that was not our past relationship."

"Stop trying to manipulate me."

Matthew paused, as he knew that this was about to become a circular argument "Lexi, I gave you chance after chance to tell me no. You did not, you even pleaded with me to do certain thing." Matthew glanced at Lexi and could see that she was blushing. She realised some of her actions coming back to her. "Do not claim I forced you to do something that you did not want. If it assures your guilt, you can view that you now regret what happened but do not try and twist the situation around to something it was not. That is unfair to both of us."

"Do not tell me what to do."

Matthew was not ready to snap. "Fine Lexi, believe what you want, but time will tell us the truth. I am going to have a shower, and do not think you can leave as there is a guard outside the room and you will be shown back in. But I will be watching you while I shower, give the glass window on the bathroom."

"Pervert, you want me to watch you bathe."

"It is something that you have done in the past and given what we have just done..."

"Screw you."

Picking up both his and Lexi's phones Matthew headed into the bathroom, and as he went to enter, he turned and responded, "You just have," before shutting the door, locking the door and quickly hopping into the shower.

Lexi sat down, struggling not to look at Matthew bathing. How she wished that she had kept her mouth shut for just a little longer, and she could have indulged in a shower with Matthew. She knew that he was right. She had multiple opportunities to tell him no, but she did not take them. He was right, if she had told him no, he would have stopped. In some way, as she acknowledged to herself, she allowed some of her feelings, yes driven by the past, come out. But when it came down to it he had a part to play in the disaster that was her marriage and she would not forgive him that.

As she sat pondering how to deal with the situation, Matthew came out of the bathroom, and quietly said "Lexi, the bathroom is free. Could you please hurry up as we need to go out for a few hours."

"Do not tell me…"

"What to do. I know. You knew that part of the basis for you coming was I took on a couple of meetings and tonight we have to attend a private dinner."

"I am not going."

"The choice is yours, come and you can leave the room, of refuse and you will stay here."

Realising that she had little option Lexi stalked into the bathroom, closing the bathroom privacy screen.

Knowing he had a few minutes, after he quickly changed into a suit for the dinner, Matthew pulled out his phone and listened to the message that had been left. Hearing Chester's words having to tell Lexi that one of Anna Hou's babies had died would be shocking. He could not imagine how the Hou couple were coping with that loss, but he knew that this would impact Lexi. Through two short meetings she had already formed a friendship with Anna, and she would feel for her friend. The message on Lexi's phone was the same, but he sent a short text saying that Lexi would come and see her in the hospital tomorrow.

As Lexi came out of the bathroom, dressed for dinner Matthew turned and said "Please do not shoot the messenger. Chester let me know Hou Yi contacted him briefly. It is set for you to go and visit Anna for an hour of so tomorrow and some extra time before we return Monday. He also said, and this is his interpretation that they are both devastated as they lost the younger of their babies."

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