Chapter 268 - You had to be a hero, didn't you? (2)

12 April, Palace Hotel, City K

Watching that people were heeding his words, John moved over to Bronwyn and asked, "Are you alright?"

"Fine John, you know my background and can imagine the training I have…"

"I do, but you tend to practice law…"

"But I get deployed at times with teams so, I can handle this."

A groaning voice came from the floor and said, "And so she should be able to deal with it, otherwise she would not..."

"You had to be the hero, didn't you Matthew?"

In a weak voice Matthew said "And let them hurt my wife…"

"Stow it, boss. You need to preserve your strength until the medics arrive." Looking up, Bronwyn saw Warrant Officer Wang coming into the room, and she called out "Ger here now."

"Yes Ma'am," was the immediate response.

Observing the situation, Warrant Officer Wang, immediately took off his jacket, and placed it under Matthew's head, showing his Sig Sauer P228 and the extra magazines in the holster. As soon as he did that, he looked up and said, "Ma'am I have this, go deal with what you need, and I will protect the boss?"

After a couple of seconds pause, he added "The lady boss?"

John turned and looked directly at Lexi, and observed she was sobbing in the arms of her brothers. "Over there with her brothers. She is not physically injured, as far as I can tell."

Standing up, John moved to Bronwyn, and said quietly. "Can you secure the balcony doors, and I will secure the main entrance until others arrive."

Nodding, Bronwyn headed in one direction while John headed in the other, both continually scanning the room, with their respective weapons in their hands.

Sally, standing there, shaking, watched John and his companion retreat to opposite sides of the room, and started to question in her mind, who was this woman, and what was her connection to John and Matthew. She clearly was someone John just had accompany him to avoid their mother. Before she could move too far, Andrew had moved and pulled her to where Chester and Phillip were embracing a sobbing Lexi.

Andrew quietly said, "Are you alright?"

"Shaken, but Lexi…?" came a quiet comment from Sally who moved herself, so she was in Andrew embrace where she knew she felt safe.

"Hard to tell. I do not believe she is physically hurt, but…?"

Sally could not help, but to shake harder given she felt safe, and said "Andrew, I …" before she burst into tears.

Andrew, looked at his sister quickly and realised that she was OK with their brother and brother-in-law, so he pulled his wife into his arms more securely and started to rub her back, quietly repeating "It will be alright. You are safe."

Across the room, an angry Warren Gong, stood there. Given the absence of his damn sister, he started to wonder was she behind this. It would be her style, using the resources that he gave her to leave him in peace to try and force Lexi to give her want she wanted. That damn b*tch. She would not give care about the impacts on others. He just hoped that he could distance himself from her stupidity to protect the business and the cartel.

Nearby, David Hwang stood with Kevin Mo, who he could see was shaken by what had happened, and his screaming wife. How he wanted to slap her, to get her to shut up. He turned and said, "Madam Mo, we are all frightened with what had just happened, we are safe."

Hearing the man interested in his daughter, shakily Kevin Mo added "He is right. We are safe, and you know the more you keep screaming, the more you are going to annoy too many people here."

"Screw you Kevin Mo, you b*stard. You brought me here, and this is what happened. It is horrifying, and I will never recover."

Having had enough of her today, Kevin Mo much more firmly added "That is fine," and there with a bit more of a sarcastic tone added "my wife. If you are so emotionally impacted, I can quite easily help you go to a hospital for some treatment…"

"No damn way are you going to lock my up into a mental hospital. You want to use that to screw me over and divorce me, so you can marry that b*tch of a mistress you have."

"Whatever you want to think wife, I do not give a care." With that he turned and moved slightly away. David Hwang followed him, and when they were a distance away Kevin Mo said to him "She wants to make this all about her. The fact that I hate the military and the police does not matter tonight. I saw a couple willing to sacrifice themselves to protect the other, resulting in one there in shock at the other injured and that selfish b*tch wants the focus to be on her."

Kevin Mo shook his head, and added "Sorry to dump on you, but given your interest in Abigail you need to know the reality, so you can protect yourself. I have been waiting for Abigail to marry or get established in a career and I will be divorcing her" with that he nodded his head towards his wife. "Her behaviour is getting more out of control. When that happens, she will not get the money from me that she suspects. As her parents were better off when we married then required me to sign a pre-nuptial agreement, protecting everything in her name and requiring me to pay her money for each year of our marriage but it was designed that I get nothing other than the assets I had when we married and developed during the marriage. But she has nothing as her parent's business when bankrupt years ago, therefore there is nothing for her to protect. As I will not relent, she will come to you for money if you marry Abigail."

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