Chapter 367 - What is it you want? (1)

6 May, LY Studio, City K

Lexi sat at her desk reviewing the design drafts from her staff. The new material had turned out to inspire all staff members to new creativity. Just seeing this made her realise that managing each aspect of the business was impossible.

Early on she knew with the retail side of the business and employed a director to be responsible for that, who in turn convinced her to employ a marketing director. That had been a smart business decision. Maybe it was now time to take that step with other parts of the business, particularly the design and manufacturing aspects. Releasing that control would be difficult, but at the same time she could focus on her love for design that spawned the business in the first place.

As that thought came through her mind Lexi realised what was prompting her. Dominic. If the worst case happened with Dominic, having those people in place would allow her to have the time she needed for him. The question was, who to appoint? Did she appoint someone internally or recruit someone new. Both options had their pros and cons, so she knew she had to consider it carefully to make the right choice to prevent damage to her brand.

As she picked up a wedding dress design to carefully examine it, there was a knock on her door, before one of the administrative staff walked in. "Boss, there is someone here asking to speak to you about your son. I know your former in-laws to know she is not them."

Lexi wondered, was this someone from the child protection authorities that the court wanted to provide a report on Dominic. They had not spoken to her yet, and it was just over a week before they were back in court. "Show her in," came Lexi response.

Carefully Lexi placed the wedding dress design down and stacked everything together so she could go back to it when this was done.

As a woman was shown in and the door shut behind her was quickly said "Madam Rong, I have been assigned to review the situation and provide a report to the court about Dominic."

With that she handed Lexi some identification doc.u.ments. Lexi carefully examined the identification card and read the other doc.u.ments, which all appeared legitimate. "How can I help you?"

"I need to ask you some questions, but also need your assistance to arrange an interview with your husband. The military are refusing all requests, but I cannot finish my work without it. While some people would not state this, I will be honest with you. If that does not change, I will have to inform the court of the lack of cooperation which will impact your case and I will recommend that Dominic should live with his grandparents who have been cooperative despite what Dominic has said."

"Matthew can be difficult to contact, due to his position. As the judge assigned to the case has a part-time role as a military judge, he knows specifics about my husband's position."

"That does not matter. My role is to provide a report that details the situation to the court with recommendations."

Lexi paused. This woman wanted to appear nice but had already formed an opinion about Matthew. She quickly moved and sent message to Warrant Officer Wang and Sergeant Yu to have Matthew call her within ten minutes as a matter of urgency.

Not wanting to seem short, Lexi said "So how can I help you?"

"I have spent lots of time talking to Dominic, read the material filed with the court and spoken to your in-laws. They deny that your first husband was abusive, which I understand but the medical records to a point contradict that..."

"Being a mother myself, I can understand their determination to protect their child no matter what. However, I cannot accept they refuse to acknowledge that their son stepped outside the bounds of acceptable behaviour. Even if they refuse to accept the truth about what he did to me during our marriage, the circ.u.mstances surrounding his death show some unacceptable behaviour. Having just had s*x with his mistress and to die while she was performing oral s*x on him in a car in public says it all."

Lexi paused to take a calming breath, as she could fee that she was ready to explode about Richard's death. After a second steadying breath Lexi knew that she was ready to continue. Getting angry was what her former in-laws wanted, and this time they had, unknowing to her, convinced a court appointed official, to do their dirty work.

"Not wanting to speak ill of my former in-laws, part of their current problem with me is that the circ.u.mstances of Richard's death have become known to the public. As you would know, my brothers control the family business, and with their connections in the media for years used everything in their power to supress the truth about Richard's death. That was becoming harder and harder, particularly as of my former in-laws' harassment of me at events I attend and badmouthing me to the media. I have no problem with them having their opinion, but they tried to manipulate the media for their purposes. That, from what I understand resulted in the media turning back to investigating Richard's death and my brothers knew that they could not stop the truth being revealed. They used the power they had to ensure that it came out as sensitively as it could for Dominic and Richard's parents' sake. I wanted the truth to remain hidden as it disgusted me, but my brothers did the best they could as it was not something that could be supressed forever."

Lexi noticed she was writing down notes, but she expected that.

"Mmmmmm. In speaking to your in-laws…"

"Former in-laws, please," Lexi said as politely as she could. Those two with all their calls the last few days had gotten on her nerves, and now they were using the court processes to do that further.

"Former in-laws, and they pointed to the fact that your late husband had provision in his will regarding his express wishes for Dominic."

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