Chapter 300 - Dominic, please listen (1)

18 April, Military Hospital, City K

As Lexi walked into Matthew ward in the hospital, she smiled and said, "How is the General doing today on his first day…?"

Laughing Matthew said "Fine." With that he moved over and gave Lexi a gentle kiss on the lips, before adding "Let us sit down."

After he settled down on the couch, Lexi moved and sat down beside him, resting her head carefully on his chest, before she said "Matthew, you know despite where we are, sitting like this feels right."

Bending and kissing her forehead Matthew said "It does. But how I wish we were at home in our suite."

"How soon before they let you out?"

"Physically I am fine and could have been discharged two days ago. But they want to keep me in until tomorrow evening to prevent me from going back quickly…"

"The General has to be there to lead his troops…"

"I wish things were such that I did not need to be available, but …"

"As I would tell Dominic no buts."

"The time here, has meant that I have been able to properly allocate roles to Joseph, Ben and David thereby allowing me to better take time to properly recover…"

"That I do not believe. You are like me dedicated to your career. I am guessing that you were ordered by your superiors."

"How…"

"After, what, almost four months of marriage and our previous relationship do you not think that I know you."

Matthew threaded his fingers into Lexi's left hand that he could take as she laid on his chest moving them to gently caress her hand, before quietly adding "And I know you. You are worried. You know sharing your concerns makes it easier to deal with them."

"I told Chester to lift the press embargo that Jax Corp has on those who might report the truth about Richard's death. It was easy to do, but I am worried about having to tell Dominic. I did not want him to have to know the circ.u.mstances of Richard's death…"

"Lexi, I have been thinking since I left you at the courthouse this morning. Dominic is old enough that he will be able to take that his father did not die in the best of circ.u.mstances. But the longer that we hide this from him, the harder he will take it when the truth comes out."

"Are you sure?" came a concerned response. "I have been continually questioning myself since I told Chester to do it. One second wanting to call him to stop it, the next second wanting to call someone in the press where to look for the truth."

"You know I will support you whatever you do." Matthew paused, before adding "But what happened when you left the courthouse?"

"Why am I not surprised that you know about that?"

"You know your guards report to me, and now publicly you are the wife of a general…"

"General pain in the butt more like it," laughed Lexi. "Honestly, the witch of a ex-mother-in-law decided to use Madam Mo as her mouthpiece to implicitly portray me as the evil former daughter-in-law preventing grandparents from the only spending time with the only reminded of their deceased child. Wrong woman to try and use, so I fired back about her disowning Monica and not seeing her grandchildren from that and then her chasing Abigail away because of her behaviour. And before you say anything, they deserved it."

"Thank goodness you are willing to stand up for yourself with them. I was worried."

"Matthew, I am capable. You must be owning a fashion label. I just pick my times because it does not pay to be constantly aggressive, and I went through so much before I even turned nineteen."

"Are you alright after last week?"

"Talk about changing the topic, but yes. Rachael twisted my arm on Sunday to go and see a counsellor from the Women's Refuge. I know, not what everyone would want, but I called Anna Hou and asked for a favour to contact Dr Chen. After talking to Dr Chen, I figured dealing with what Richard did to me has to take priority as ultimately, regardless of how Dominic acts that relationship has impacted him because I could not cope."

"Do not blame yourself Lexi. If I had been around, I would have stepped up so that you would not have had to marry him, and let the world believe that Dominic was my son. Then you would not have had been subject to what Richard did to you and Dominic, and your life would have been easier…"

"Matthew, we cannot re-write the past, nor would I want to. What has happened resulted in you following your career path and for me to develop my business. That is an opportunity that I would not have wanted to miss. And I suspect that you will be the same. We need to focus on the future, rather than the past that we cannot change."

"Mmmm. To a point you are right, but you know I still wonder if, when you found out you were pregnant why you did not contact me. You know how I felt about you and even though Dominic is someone else's child…"

"With my parents and their attitude about you ever since you joined the military. That had absolutely no chance." Lexi slightly twisted in Matthew's arms and placed her finger on his lips, before adding "There are better things that we can do with our time waiting for Dominic."

With that Lexi moved so that she was kneeling on the couch beside Matthew and leaned in giving him a quick, but emotionally laden kiss. As she pulled back, Matthew moved his left hand into her hair before adding "Do not tease me Lexi."

With that he moved to return the kiss, but as his lips touched hers a voice came from the doorway "Mummy, Daddy Matthew, you forget about me and how impressionable I am."

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