Chapter 515 - A deal with the lesser Devil

29 May, Matthew's villa, City K

After Lexi was wheeled out of the room, Matthew quietly said "Let us take this discussion to my study."

A couple of minutes later, with Warrant Officer Wang standing guard outside, Matthew handed Warren Gong a glass of single malt whiskey, before taking the glass he prepared for himself and sitting down. He knew that Warren Gong had no idea that he had switched on multiple anti-surveillance devices to protect this conversation. With how paranoid Warren Gong was the more he acted to protect the conversation the better.

After taking a sip, Warren said "Where in the world did you get this?"

Once he has his sip, Matthew quickly thought about when he first obtained this whiskey. It was just after he had found out everything that had happened with Lexi and that she had left Dominic with Chester and headed overseas. He had accepted any overseas mission he could take, and after one particularly mission he had ended up in England with a short break and met up with some British SAS soldiers who he had formed a friendly rivalry with, and he was dragged by them long on a trip into Scotland where they went to distillery after distillery. It was a small independent boutique distillery where he stumbled on this singe malt, and ever since then he arranged for at least twelve bottles a year from their top premium and another from their premium releases to be shipped to him. He had to pay an exorbitant fee to have it shipped to him, but it was worth it. The tongues it had loosened over the years, and the intelligence he had gotten…Find authorized novels in , faster updates, better experience, Please click /book/the-soldier-husband_15095783406874805/a-deal-with-the-lesser-devil_50411672183040334 for visiting.

Matthew looked directly at Warren before "All I can say was that it was a trip in Scotland."

"It has the perfect mix you like with these."

Matthew took note, and for the help he had given him and Lexi today he would, after he cleared it with Head Honcho send him a bottle.

"It does, but it is impossible to get locally. It was by chance I came across this distillery and can get them occasionally to ship me a bottle."

After taking another sip, Matthew sat his glass down and said "Two things. The easier one is Dominic…"

"He just needed someone who loved Richard unconditionally to talk to him. He is smart enough to have figured out that for my sister and brother-in-law, they used Richard as a pawn for their own ends. I could always see that, and as much as I could had him at my place, with my family, to give him a sense of normality. He felt at home more with me than he ever did with his own parents."

"How does that…?"

"Play into everything. Richard barley trusted his parents, and the one time he gave them the chance while he was overseas, they abuse that trust." Warren took another sip of the Whiskey, and continued "Cutting a long story short, that is how that so-called marriage happened. I only knew about the agreement because the lawyers those two idiots consulted came and asked me a question. I tried talking them out of it, but they were adamant. I simply thought Richard could walk away but Lexi's parents were too smart for that and put in a huge penalty clause. Normally I would have loaned Richard the money, but I had just purchased a new company and had sunk a significant amount of money into it, beating off Lexi's parents for the purchase. The clause was pure revenge, because they knew that I could not get Richard out."

Warren signed and said "All I could do was tell Richard to make the best of the situation and move forward with his life but extracting a promise from him that he would not take his anger about everything on Lexi. My mistake was to believe his words about his treatment of Lexi. The one thing I know for certain, is despite there the biological connection only being faint due to a common ancestor, Richard viewed Dominic as his son. For that reason, I will do what I need to do to protect him, even if it is from my sister and what I need to do to help him deal with the challenges that he faced. To me, he will always be a great nephew. Not what your wife wants to hear, but that is how I see him."

Hearing what Warren said, Matthew calmly said "Hence why you came to me…?"

"It was the excuse I needed. If it had been for any other reason you would have refused. Can you forgive the ruse?"

"With what you brought me, absolutely." Matthew could see Warren tense up, and he held his hand up saying "Do not worry, there is state of the art counter surveillance technology in here, so it is safe to talk."

"…"

"I took your offer to my superiors, and your terms were partially agreed to. The extent of the immunity against prosecution relates to the dealings with the Devil and his subordinates. But they indicated that once he is dealt with, each person protected will have a once chance card they can play from the government. The cooperation to bring down the Devil will be confirmed once in criminal matters."

Warren sat quietly for a couple of minutes thinking, while sipping his whiskey, before saying "You knew my terms…"

"My superiors could have offered nothing, but they are meeting you more than half way."

Warren paused again before nodding, adding "I guess, but I want to see the agreement before I sign off on it. The sooner we deal with this, the sooner we can agree on when I will come back to spend some time with Dominic and get out of here. I gather from Lexi's reactions that will be the only thing that makes her happy."

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