Chapter 259 - Nang Foundation Charitable Event (2)

12 April, Palace Hotel, City K

"The truth Paul.  Sally loves Andrew, and he loves her.  That is the only truth that matters."

"Lexi, screw that.  He does not love her, like I do.  He is simply using her…"

"How many times have we all been talking to you about this in the last few weeks.  If you love her the way that you say you need to respect her decisions.  Be there to support her but let her make her own mistakes."

"But it is a mistake that will hurt her."

"While, personally I would say my brother is not a mistake, when it boils down to it, she made a decision.  If it is a mistake that is a mistake that she must deal with.  We, her friends need to be there to deal with the outcome, if that is the case.  That will be harder for me, because my brother will be the cause, but I will not let that ruin a friendship.  Stop your selfishness and stop m.o.a.ning about yourself.  Be happy for her."

With that Lexi turned and walked back to where Matthew was standing.  As she moved away, she hears Paul say "Lexi better watch it…"

Steven interrupted him, and said "Paul, do you really want to threaten Lexi.  She does not deserve it.  She is just telling you the truth.  And, let me warn you my friend, you keep going, you will not like the choice that I make.  It will…"

As she returned to Matthew's side, Lexi quietly said "I thought Paul was settling down, not ready to snap at Andrew given his marriage to Sally, but it seems that he is stuck about bem.o.a.ning her choices."

"Lexi do not worry about it.  I will have words with him." Matthew paused slightly as they moved forward, and greeted Harry and Sophia Nang.

As they finished greeting the Elder Nang's, they moved forward to greet John, and Matthew saw Bronwyn Li tense.  Quietly he said "At ease Lieutenant.  Neither of us are in uniform."

"Yes Sir," came the response.

Looking at John, Lexi asked "When in the world did this happen?"

"Lexi stop getting ahead of yourself.  The Lieutenant brought in Dominic's passport when you returned from your trip to Australia.  We met then, and as she is new to town, I asked her would she like to come to the event, no more no less, hence my call for help this morning.  You were willing to help when you just thought it was a favour, now are you jealous?"

"Jealous?  Ha! You have to be kidding," immediately quipped Lexi, drawing out laughter from John and Matthew.  "Just worried about you, and your horrendous luck with women."

Lexi turned to Bronwyn Li and said, "You know I would run the other way from this one," with that she pointed to John.  "His relationsh.i.p.s always end in disaster.  I know a of a couple of his ex-girlfriends who have subsequently married and are happy, therefore the problem has to be him not them"

"Who says that the problem is me Lexi?"

"They why are you not in a relationship?  It has to be you not them?"

"Damn it, Lexi, with friends like you who needs enemies.  I invited Bronwyn as my guest tonight, and all you want to do is bad mouth her."

Looking at Bronwyn Li, Lexi laughingly said "Do not thank me, you just need a warning." With that Lexi turned and headed towards where Chester and Phillip were standing.

Bronwyn Li, making sure no one was listening said "She has no idea specifically who I work for does she?"

"No, she just thinks that you were a military lawyer assigned here, nor does she have a complete idea of John's position and the impacts that this has on relationsh.i.p.s.  Just take it that she is being overprotective of John, who by the way is Dominic's godfather."

Bronwyn looked over at John and said, "You should have told me."

"Other than deciding to see if we can develop a relationship what else have we had a change to discuss."

Matthew looked at the two of them and realised that this was news.  He quickly thought about all the paperwork he had been through today.  There was nothing that he recalled seeing about this.  Lieutenant Li was not stupid.  She knew about the requirements for members of the special forces when they formed new relationsh.i.p.s and that had not been complied with.

"Lieutenant, did you…"

"Boss, before you ask, I spoke to the Head Honcho, and he agreed that he needed the paperwork, not you because of your connections to John.  I sent it to him this morning…"

"You went over heads?"

"I did, because technically the formalisation of my redeployment here has not been finalised.  That is due to happen in the next couple of weeks." Looking around, Bronwyn said "Now you better get going boss, if you do not want to draw too much more attention."

Sensing that Matthew was angry John added "Just leave things be Matthew.  Presently, all we are as friends.  If you worry too much, what do you think your wife will say?"

"Are you threatening me with Lexi?"

"Absolutely," came John's laughing response.

"Well, Lexi knows what I do, but your parents have no idea their son, who they thing is a simple police officer is anything other than that."

"That is below the belt Matthew."

"What comes around, goes around." With a smile, Matthew looked over at Lexi, Chester and Phillip and said, "I will see you later, who wants to spend time with you when I have someone better I can spend time with."

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