Chapter 551 - Family Intervention (1)

1 June, Matthew's Villa, City K

Lexi sat her mobile down and looked at Matthew before saying "They agreed. Did you…?"

"Get Monica and Jessica to agree? They did. Not without having to work on them for a while. It was only when I reinforced to them Dominic's health and our need to deal with this issue to give him the best chance. That softened them, to the point Jessica said that she would talk to her father and see if he was free. Paraphrasing her words, while in business her father tolerated your father, he hated the attitude that he demonstrated particularly when her marriage became known. Given how close he has always been to Jessica, if he can come it will make things so much easier…"

"Fingers crossed. You saw the attitude at breakfast…"

"I did. You did not deserve that. I know he is hurting and blames us for that but being as disrespectful as he was is inappropriate."

"Then he transferred that hate to you, when you cut off his internet access for the day and limited his Xbox gaming to thirty minutes."

"Lexi, he needed to realise that there are consequences to behaving like that. If I must be the mean person to get that through to him, then I will be that person. No matter how much he hates us, you deserve his respect as you have always tried to put him first. Plus, if we do not stop him now we are just making problems for ourselves when he gets into his teenage years and wants to rebel against his parents. If he is anything like the two of us…"

"Oh my god, do not give him ideas. I used getting your help with study to try and seduce you into a relationship, let alone the attitude that I displayed around home…"

"Trying to seduce me? Mmmm, not the way I remember it. You did not have to do anything to seduce me, as you already had me in the palm of your hand. The issue was, I had to keep my hands off you, and that was almost impossible…"

Smiling, Lexi said "You generally succeeded in that."

Matthew, with a sweet smile on his face, sat down on a chair across from Lexi and said "I tried. I was your older brothers' friend, and they both made it clear that we had to help them castrate any man that dared get close to their sister. There I was. Bound by what they expected, but desperately being the one who wanted to get close to you and have a relationship."

"And…?"

"I have been through training to resist torture in the military, and in some respect that was easier than the day in and day out torture I felt in being so close to you, wanting to pounce on you but remembering the plans that your brothers had for any man who got close to you…"

Smiling Lexi said "There was that occasion, where you gave in…"

"You were too hard to resist in the end. I knew what I wanted, and you were what I wanted, but there was a line at that time I was not willing to cross, no matter how tempting it was to want to cross it…"

Lexi smiled before adding "Sometimes I wish you had. I was prepared at that time, and…"

Shaking his head Matthew groaned out "Thank goodness I did not know that then Lexi…"

"Despite how old fashioned my parents were, the one thing they were not hypocritical about was that they knew teenagers had s.e.x. Apparently, mother's parents walked in on the two of them in her bedroom when they were seventeen, with my grandmother's friend also being there. From what I was told, they were grilled by both sets of parents and they found out from their friends that they had been having s.e.x for at least two years, no protection. You can imagine, both my maternal and paternal grandparents, embarrassed at their children being caught having s.e.x, forced their children into a marriage."

"What does that have to do with things?"

"They handed by brothers when they were fourteen protection and replaced it, used or not every six months. I remember the conversation I heard them have with Andrew. Cutting a long story short it was use protection, do not get a girl pregnant, and we do not want to know what you have been doing. But the warning was that if they got caught or a girl got pregnant, the only outcome was marriage. And it did not matter if they were underage, because it would happen. Mother had a somewhat different conversation with me, basically saying never to trust a man and take steps myself to ensure that I was protected. She said the best option was to wait until I was married, but if I could not, to do it somewhere that no one knew me and insist that my partner wear protection. That was the most uncomfortable conversation that I had. But…"

"There was something about the conversation?"

"Correct. As I was growing up, I never believed that the two of them were happy. That conversation when she thrust the protection at me sealed my view. After a little pushing, she did say, that if I got caught or fell pregnant, that I would not like the outcome because society deemed women who slept with men outside marriage, w*ores and they would be driven from society. For women, to prevent that the only option was marriage which never would be happy."

"But you never thought your mother would condemn you to what happened to her?"

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