Chapter 480 - Another attack (4)

25 May, Military Vehicle travelling between Matthew's Villa and Military base, City K 

Hearing that Lexi had hung up on him, Matthew turned to Bronwyn who was sitting in the passenger seat of the vehicle saying "I am guessing you spent the night with John at his parent's villa, if you came here?"

"Hey Boss, I do not ask you about your love life so why question me?"

"Just a statement of fact Lieutenant, nothing else."

"Like you, I have no choice about the order issued. You know as well as I do the order recalling all generals to base means all immediate families have to be taken back to base as well. I am guessing the only reason…"

"I know. I am breaking standing orders, but with Lexi's injuries we cannot easily get her back to base and my on-base accommodations are not suitable. Warrant Officer Wang is arranging for around the clock military guards to be at the villa to protect Lexi and Dominic. There will be hell to pay, but what can I do?"

Without thinking, Bronwyn immediately dialled a number on her phone, before placing it on speaker so the two of them could be in the conversation while Matthew drove. On answering Bronwyn hit a series of numbers before saying "Secure line dad."

"You better be getting back to base; you know the situation."

"Dad, you think I am an idiot. It is an order for me, not something optional."

"Why the hell were you not on base…"

"I have a personal life dad, a boyfriend, and I spent time with him and his family…"

"He better not…"

"You do not want that answer dad, so forget about asking that question."

Matthew could not help bursting out laughing, here was Head Honcho being taken to task by his daughter.

"Who is with you," came an angry response. "This is a secure military line, and you have a civilian with you, or is it that daughter stealing police officer."

Through his laughter Matthew said, "You have it wrong."

"Athos!" spat out Head Honcho. "What in the world!"

"The Nang Family villa is not far from my villa, so it made sense for the Lieutenant to come and travel with me. Plus, I had to leave my adjunct at the villa because…"

"Your wife. I heard that she was released from the hospital."

"Correct. With all the injuries she suffered moving her quickly is not too easy. I know the standing orders but trying to do that too quickly may not be appropriate. When I left, she was still in bed, so it would be time before she could even be able to travel to the base. Then there is the fact my on-base accommodations are not really suitable…"

"That I know. The General Staff have not forced the base commandant, given he has only months to live to vacate his accommodation, so General Man cannot move into that accommodation and you into his." There was a pause, before Head Honcho continued "You have something to ask?"

"Not really ask, just to inform you what I have done. You know my villa has reasonable security which was enhanced when I returned to City K. I told my adjunct, who by the way has stayed at my villa with my wife to arrange for around the clock guards at the villa, until we have a better handle on the situation and I can better arrange her move in the most comfortable way."

"You should have..."

"Discussed it with you. That is within my purview as second in command of the base here. You are just being informed, and I have other means…"

"You will go over my head to the president. You forget I know about you and your family connection to the president."

"Dad," interrupted Bronwyn "You want to play games, I might even call Uncle Thomas and get him to call the president…"

"Lieutenant Li!" came an angry response. "How dare you threaten me with using your uncle. That…"

"Man, who loves his only sister and only niece. You think it will be too hard to get him to do it."

Matthew turned slightly while driving and Bronwyn could see his somewhat stunned look. It was not as if he did not know about her background, despite keeping it secret from John.

Trying to calm the situation Matthew added "Speak to Major Yu at the base hospital. When he discharged Lexi from the hospital, he made it clear to both of us that we need to minimise, until he gives her all clear, having too many trips in vehicles. Dragging her back before we have a better handle on the situation could potential be an unnecessary trip."

In a resigned tone "Fine, give me thirty minutes and I should have that cleared, but no troops are to be deployed until I give the final confirmation."

"Got it," came Matthew's response before signalling to Bronwyn to end the call. As she did, he said "You heard the order, put that out but call your boyfriend and ask him could he go and be with Lexi until this is all sorted."

Seeing a slight nod, Matthew returned his full focus to driving back to base as quickly as he could. While driving, he started to run through some of the intelligence that he and Bronwyn had been reviewing in the last few days. Could this be the next of the single attacks that Officer N had been referring to in her detailed report about what the Devil's, no David Hwang's plans were. The scant information they had would hint towards that, but he knew well enough jumping straight to that conclusion would be dangerous and risk exposing Officer N, because they had nothing else to back up the conclusion.

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