Chapter 463 - What do you think? (4)

14 May, Military hospital, City K

Matthew nodded, before saying "You have to ask. Remember that I will not force you. In the end it is all about you and what you want and need."

Closing her eyes, Lexi relaxed slightly before saying "I do not deserve you. I denied you all this time with Dominic, and yet…"

Lexi watched Matthew shake his head before responding "It is me who does not deserve you. I put you in the position through my choices."

Lexi squeezed Matthew's hand before saying "No. Lies have hurt us, and no more."

Matthew leaned over and gave her a brief kiss before sitting back. As he sat back down Lexi asked, "Other than the Joan issue, have they finished?"

"No," came Matthew's quick response. They spoke to us about our friends, your family and business and our home. They have not come at us about our relationship and the situation with Richard. They will then push again on Joan."

Lexi slightly hitched her breath. That was going to bring to out everything with Dominic. "Do we have to?"

"Yes, last week I reacted badly, and was verbally abusive to you about having kept the secret about Dominic. But I have calmed down and processed why it happened. You know I do not blame you for that. When you fell pregnant, you were only seventeen. Yes, my training restricted our ability to speak but I failed to make sure you knew what to do if there was an issue. But your parents were the real villains. They wanted to control your life and force all their children to live a specific way that they believed ensured their position in society. Then, you acted to protect yourself through simply accepting the lie forced on you, because of Richard's behaviour during that so-called relationship and then to protect Dominic."

Matthew squeezed her hand and added "Do not worry about it. The reality is Bronwyn knows everything. I had to tell her for her help today. Unlike normal lawyers, Bronwyn's ability to keep things secret is limited. She is required to disclose information when security clearance checks are being performed."

"So, we do not have to talk about it?"

"You can avoid it, but not me. I will have to talk to them about it. My preference is for you to be there when I do so. You do not have to talk about it if you do not want to."

Lexi nodded and asked, "Talking about Bronwyn, what do you think about court today?"

"Richard's parents dug themselves a massive hole. You could see when we spoke with them before the court, they knew the truth about Dominic's parentage and want to persist with the fiction they have built in their mind."

"We know that is because Richard died, and they want to persist that he lives on in Dominic. While my parents were still alive, I did not want the fight that revealing the truth would cause. By the time that they died I was so use to the lie that I did not want to challenge anything. Even when you came back into our lives, I was willing to continue with it because revealing it was something I did not want to deal with. But there was no way I was going to let them take our son from us."

Tears started to run down Lexi's face, and she felt Matthew reach over and start to wipe them off. "Do not blame yourself. The truth has come out, and we can deal with it."

Matthew paused and looked directly in her eyes before continuing "Lexi, the hole they dug I will not let them get out of. They refused the option we gave them, which will in fact be better that what the court would have given them if Dominic was Richard's son. I am not sure if you saw it over the link, but you could see when the reality dawned on them. They had pushed too far, as we are fighting back. The reality of that fight is that if they lose, they lose everything. They lose their relationship with Dominic, the money, and assets that they have access to, and the potential that they will have to pay back huge sums of money. Their only option is to continue to fight because for them that is not an option."

"The money-hungry controlling nature." Lexi paused and said "Dominic, where is he? They will get her brother involved, and he will take Dominic."

"Lexi, Dominic is at," Matthew paused and looked at his watch, before adding "his afterschool activities. He is staying with Chester and Phillip tonight and they will bring him here. They are surrounding him with bodyguards for his protection."

Matthew noticed the moment Lexi relaxed, before adding "We all know the open secret about the Gong family heading one of the largest criminal groups in the country. The authorities, particularly with the current head, Richard's uncle Warren who is highly intelligent and keeps himself shielded from obvious criminal activities, are unable to pin anything on them to take down the gang."

Lexi, asked "You think she will do something?"

"Obviously, Richard's mother will try to convince her brother to help her illegally and he will tell her no because he will not want the attention. That rejection, given how hot headed she is will have her act herself, without caution. We can guard against that. Trust me, and our brothers to keep him safe."

"Matthew it is hard to do that. She always gets her way."

"Not this time, Lexi. What she will try to do is predictable and we can guard against that. More importantly when Ben dropped in to see me yesterday, I asked him to arrange that Dominic is transported anywhere other than on base in a military vehicle. Unusual, but my argument was that given you and I are currently in hospital he needs extra protection until at least I am released. She tries to grab him, that will be facing charges in a military, not a civilian court."

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