Chapter 265 - Nang Foundation Charitable Event (8)

12 April, Palace Hotel, City K

Lexi trying not to give anything away said, "I do not know what you mean?"

"Lexi do not lie to me.  The only reason I realised that I was carefully looking at old photographs to find some of Andrew and I growing up.  How can that be?  And I guess that Matthew does not know?"

"Sally, Dominic is Richard's son.  You are seeing things you want to see."

"No, I am not.  I remember Richard, and that b*tch he died with Jasmine.  I always wondered why he married you when he seemed enamoured with her.  However, if I am right when they found out you were pregnant with Dominic your parents demanded the father's name to force a marriage or insisted that you have a termination, which at seventeen they could not force you to have.  When you refused to cooperate, they did the only thing that they could to hide what they saw as the shame of a pregnant teenage daughter and organised your marriage to someone they felt they could control, and have him pretend that he was Dominic's father."

Lexi was stunned, how could Sally have pieced together everything?  Matthew like everyone simply accepted the lie component of the story, that in a drunken moment of madness she and Richard slept together, and she ended up pregnant, so he accepted responsibility for her.  She did not need Matthew having suspicions, particularly given the fight she was in with Richard's parents.

"Sally, you are seeing what you want to.  Yes, Matthew and I dated that summer, but he is not Dominic's father." Lexi knew how hard that was to say, but this needed to be maintained.  "It would be easier if he was, as I would not be stuck in the legal fight that I am.  I think you are seeing what you want to try and help me.  Richard was visiting, he got drunk, and I stupidly had a glass of wine with dinner that interacted with the medication I was on at the time.  What happened, happened and the rest is history."

Shaking her head, Sally said "Tell me what you want, but I know the truth and I will prove it.  Matthew and Dominic deserve that…"

"Stop fooling yourself, and looking for something that does not exist," came an angry response from Lexi.

Before she could continue, she heard Andrew's voice from behind her saying "Stop trying to bully my wife sister…"

Turning, Lexi in a sweet but sarcastic tone retorted "That I only do that to you brother dearest…"

Andrew laughed and responded, "I thought your husband was now your target."

"Mr scary military officer, you have to be joking."

Sally seeing her husband and sister-in-law could sense that their light banter was about to spiral out of control, and she turned to Lexi saying, "We have not finished our conversation Lexi." She then turned to Andrew and said, "Come on my love, I want to dance with you in public as your wife rather than as in the past hiding our relationship."

As Andrew led Sally towards the dance floor, Lexi laughed and said, "You are so whipped already brother."

From behind her Lexi heard Matthew say, "And you know Lexi, he is loving it."

Nodding Lexi said "He is so happy now.  I hope that continues and Paul does not do anything stupid."

"Hopefully, he has gotten the message.  I gave him a few home truths, which I think he has finally accepted and combined with the threat that Steven gave him that he will accept reality and keep the friendsh.i.p.s that he has, rather than pursuing the unattainable.  But before you say anything, he has to make the decision to stop pursuing the unattainable, not us."

"I hope he does, as I do not want to have to choose between family and friends, but I will if I have to."

"That may end up being the choice that we all have to make, Lexi."

"True." Lexi looked around, and spotted David Hwang talking to Kevin Mo.

Matthew followed the direction of Lexi's gaze and spotted her looking at David Hwang and Kevin Mo.  He sensed that Lexi was scared.  "What is worrying you Lexi?"

"I still cannot shake the feeling that he looks like the key man behind what happened to us when you returned.  And before you ask, it is a feeling that I cannot shake."

Matthew nodded.  Lexi had a gut feeling, and gut feelings were always something he paid attention to.  The problem was that all the investigations so far provided little.  Yes, it confirmed what Major Hung had admitted regarding their family relationship.  While that revealed the known past about their family, David Hwang's actions on graduating university and the development of his company mirrored the other significant technology companies' development in the country.  It was not unusual for heads of such companies, along with their core teams remained reclusive until the company had secured its place in the market before the heads became involved in the business community and its activities.

As he swung Lexi into his arms to dance, Matthew observed David Hwang walking across the room, following Paul outside the room.  It was as if he was waiting for someone, most likely Abigail Mo, who was missing from the room.  A few minutes later he returned, with a look that said that something happened, and she was not coming.  That was interesting.  He will have to ask Monica if something happened to her sister.

As he walked across the room, he was stopped by a group including Warren Gong.  After a couple of minutes, he continued moving towards where Kevin Mo and his wife, who was still shooting daggers at Lexi, but seemed to want to avoid her.  He then heard David Hwang say "Some idiot in a rush knocked Abigail over.  As she started to move, it was obvious that she had hurt herself, and the man who the staff called Mr Gu, swung her into his arms and has taken her away…"

"We know, one of the hotel staff came and told us.  You were waylaid coming back."

"By some people, I do not know wanting to convince me to develop computer software for their companies…"

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