Chapter 308 - You should have stopped it (4)

19 April, Matthew's Villa, City K

All Lexi and Matthew could hear was stuttering on the other end of the phone.

Lexi paused and said "Your choice. Play nice and we will play nice, but you cross that line and there will be consequences as you do not know everything." With that Lexi reached over and terminated the call before looking at Matthew.

Matthew, seeing the stressed look on Lexi's face said, "Are you alright?"

"If you had asked me that before the call, I would have told you that I was reaching for the heavens. That was amazing, but that witch spoiled my mood. You knew a lot about things?" Lexi settled back against Matthew's chest, relaxing into his embrace to deal with the stress from that call.

"Lexi, regardless of the discussions we had yesterday including those with Dominic before you came to the hospital, I knew something was bound to happen. The press is not stupid when it comes to running stories involving senior members of the military. They contacted the media liaison office in the capital yesterday afternoon, and as it was related to personal not military matters the press was directed to my office. While my role is highly classified, my marriage to you, my family, and now my rank is public knowledge."

"In running their stories, the press wanted to ensure that they did not cross any boundaries. When they were directed to my office, the clearly understood that there would be nothing other than a standard comment from the military that private matters of serving personnel, unless they breach the law, rules and regulation as applies to them will receive no comment from military command. On my behalf my staff made it abundantly clear that it was a private matter that impacted on a minor child and I requested they ensure their stories were truthful and considered the potential impact on Dominic."

"Dodging the questions?"

"It might seem like it, but the last thing I wanted to do was create a larger problem for us and more importantly Dominic, but I guess we will have a fight with your former mother-in-law?"

Shaking her head, Lexi responded "That was already happening."

"True and she will not take that threat well."

Lexi looked at Matthew, and asked "What have you planned?"

"Lexi remember we have one thing up our sleeve and she can do nothing about it. I do not want to take the path, but she wants to play games I will." Seeing the look of confusion on Lexi's face "I promised you, for Dominic's sake I would not have your marriage to Richard declared invalid, but she wants to push I will because it will control her as I know the shares they control for Dominic until he turns eighteen were given to Richard by your parents in contemplation of your marriage to him…"

It suddenly dawned on Lexi, the financial pressure point "The marriage declared invalid, the transfer in contemplation of a marriage that never occurred before his death means he had no rights to do anything with the shares, and technically they fall back to my parent's estate."

"I had a rational discussion, which surprised me with Chester on this, given your parents excluded you from any benefit under their will on the basis that you had been provided for when the shares given to Richard before your marriage, that those belong to you and Dominic."

"And we know everything is about money for them."

Matthew looked at Lexi and pulling her as close as he could with his left arm kissed her right ear and said "I really do not want to talk about her. I know we both have to get up soon, not only for Dominic, but for you to head to the studio and me to head to the hospital for today's rehab session and a couple of staff meetings."

Lexi looked and noticed the time and started to pull away saying "I need to get going."

Pulling her back gently again, Matthew said "Stay a few minutes, before you move. We had no time to simply relax after that bit of exercise," with that Matthew noticed Lexi blushing, and continued "in each other's embrace before we had to deal with that. We need it even more, as I suspect …"

Matthew was interrupted with Lexi's phone ringing again, and she quickly answered it, placing it on speaker phone saying "Phillip, what can I do?"

"You better tell that husband of yours today when you see him…"

"I am here…"

"Matthew, how come I had to find out about your promotion from the press and my husband and yet you have not even called me. Hang on, Lexi spent the night with you in the hospital. You two irresponsible parents leaving Dominic at home alone."

"Take a breath Phillip," came the calm response from Lexi. "Dominic is not home alone, Matthew was released last night from the hospital and knowing what was likely to happen today in the press we focused on him last night."

"And my promotion was put out in a media statement yesterday morning at 9am and was not permitted to say anything before then. And after then, between the court case, dealing with medical staff and helping Lexi with Dominic when do you think I had the time…"

"You told Chester."

"Phillip, I told Chester when I spoke to him, not Matthew. And you know, you sound like Dominic when we tell him no on something. Grow up…"

"You two want to bully a cancer patient, what has the world come to," came Phillip's somewhat mocking response.

Matthew sat there shaking his head, and Lexi added "We know, you want to celebrate the promotion. Give us some time as Dominic is our focus. My ex-in-laws blame me for everything in the press, and I need to deal with that and keep him settled."

"Talk later bro," came Matthew's sharp response before grabbing the phone and ending the call.

Lexi moved and quickly got out of bed, saying "We will not get this time, and I need to get into the studio early this morning."

Knowing that he would not change Lexi's mind Matthew simply shook his head and let her go.

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