Chapter 376 - Why? (4)

9 May, Matthew's Villa, City K

After watching Matthew climb into his military vehicle and being driven away, hopefully to the family villa Phillip turned and returned to the lounge, and observed Lexi, Chester, and Andrew without them noticing him. In some respect Matthew was right. The three of them to various degrees had cheated Matthew and Dominic for all Dominic's life. However, he had to admit, he was party to that.

Coughing, he drew their attention and said "Matthew has gone off, hopefully to my villa. Chester, my love, you need to stay here for the night, as I need to deal with him."

"Deal with him, ha!" came the cynical response from Lexi.

"Lexi, we all agreed with our actions to keep your secret and let you reveal it when you were ready. I could have told Matthew years ago because I knew looking at Dominic and photos of Matthew when he was his age that he was Matthew's son. Chester, you told, and I suspect Andrew always had his suspicions. Circ.u.mstances conspired against us, with Dominic's leukemia diagnosis and Matthew was found to be an almost perfect match for him. Yes, you an wait for a better match, but as even my oncologist told me when I asked, the more you wait for a better match to prevent saying anything the more risky it can become."

"So?" came a contrite response from Andrew. Phillip was right, he had worked it out years ago about Dominic's parentage, but he kept the secret as much as Phillip and Chester had.

"So, we all have to accept the consequences and just pray hope it does not destroy our family. But more importantly we must deal with Dominic. This will destroy him if it is not handled correctly. While I love you all and would love to be here and deal with that, Matthew needs to be dealt with and of everyone that just has to be me alone."

Without waiting for a response, Phillip turned and walked out, heading to his waiting car to drive back to the family villa. Other than Matthew the other worry was their good for nothing parents finding out about Dominic. Their attitude, given how this was going to make him feel, could destroy everything, even if Matthew forgave Lexi.

When Phillip left, Chester quietly said "Phillip is right. We must handle this properly with Dominic Lexi. No matter what, he deserves to know the truth because it is too close to breaking wider than the people who we know can keep the secret. How will Dominic feel if we do not tell him…"

Lexi looked at Chester and started sobbing again, causing Andrew to say "B*stard. What about Lexi, you do not give a care about her…"

"F*ck you Andrew. I do and I always will care about her. I can forgive you for burying your head in the sand when everything went down with respect to Lexi's marriage, but afterwards you walked away. If I remember your exact words, you said she got herself into the mess it was her problem to sort it out and you would do nothing. I could not stand by and watch the hurt, so I stepped up regardless of my personal situation. So do not talk about me not caring."

"Shut up…!" yelled Andrew

"I will not. Yes, you stepped in as you matured and realised your mistake but do not pretend that you were always there, you were not."

Chester moved hugged Lexi, and said "I know this is upsetting, but how do you want to handle this?"

"Handle it, I just want it to go away to protect Dominic…"

Wiping away the tears Chester said "I know Lexi. That is why we have all done what we have done. Dominic is not a curse or a burden, but you need to be honest with him. Tell him who his biological father is. He loves Matthew, and that relationship will not be harmed. But, and despite how much I hate Richard's parents, be sensitive. They are the only grandparents he will ever have, even though they are not that biologically. Our parents are dead, and even if they were alive, there is no way you would have them in Dominic's life because they were mentally abusive to all of us, and you would not want that inflicted on him. And Matthew's parents are just as bad as our parents ever were, maybe worse, and there is no way that Matthew would want them anywhere near his son, or your future children. Most importantly, despite all their manoeuvres and their thirst for money, power, and position, they seem to love Dominic unconditionally."

"But…"

"Lexi, you want to talk about their fight. We know money, power and position drives it. But we all suspect they know that Dominic is not Richard's child and what they see is that the fiction they built up around Dominic and Richard will be destroyed by your marriage. Think about it, it explains why they never objected to Dominic in my care while you sorted yourself out and then moved your business back when you were ready to return and the idea that he returned to live with you on your return. They see, their last tenuous link to Richard going from your marriage, hence the fight."

As Chester finished silence descended in the room for a couple of minutes, before Andrew said, quietly, "I think he is right Lexi. Richard's parents feel threatened, but I do not believe Dominic will see them as anything other than his grandparents as they are the only grandparents he has known. Negotiate and tell the truth, but we will support a fight to get back your share of the family inheritance for Dominic. Despite his need for control, that is the one thing he followed through with on the agreement with our parents."

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