Chapter 307 - You should have stopped it (3)

19 April, Matthew's Villa, City K

Lexi reached over and picked up her ringing mobile, immediately seeing the number. Frustrated that they were interrupted she said "That witch. How dare she…"

Matthew, knowing with those few words that it was Richard's mother, before Lexi could answer the phone reached over and took it from her, answering it and immediately placing it on speaker phone placing it on the bed.

"How dare you, you b*tch allow my son to be slandered like that in the press. You should have stopped it."

Matthew, touched his finger to Lexi's lips and could see them darken with pleasure despite their interruption, and said "Madam Yao, please mind your manners."

"Go kill yourself you useless soldier, but that ungrateful brat of a daughter-in-law on the phone." Came the spat response filled with venom.

Taking a breath, Matthew calmly responded "Firstly, my wife is here with me, but if you are going to be like that you can forget about me handing the phone to her. I will not have you abuse her like that, simply because you are angry at something."

"Shut up, this is between that ungrateful brat and me, not you. The both of you should simply go and die because my son does not deserve to be treated like this."

Shaking his head to Lexi Matthew continued calmly as before "The more that you continue abusing my wife, the longer it will be before I hand the phone to her as I will not allow her to be abused by you. Secondly, even if you are angry remember that there can be consequences for your statement about me, particularly since my promotion was announced yesterday morning. Take my warning, or otherwise you could quickly find the military authorities arranging for a nice little prison cell for you to spend a few days in…"

"As if anyone would dare put me in prison."

"Madam Yao, I just am explaining your options. And finally, what are you talking about. We have no idea."

Looking at Lexi, Matthew observed the smirk on her face. She was enjoying the crossing of verbal swords.

"That b*tch let lies get publicised in the media about my son's death. She should have stopped it."

"Lies, Madam Yao. What lies? I know the media contacted my office late yesterday and I was telephoned about a story they intended to run about my wife's first husband. They had police reports and photographs that set out what the police found at the scene. I would say that, unless you are accusing the police of staging the scene, and the eye witnesses to the crash and those who tried to save your son and his mistress of all colluding to tell lies that you are mistaken."

"My son was innocent…"

"Madam Yao, you might think he was innocent, but the evidence clearly shows he was breaking his marriage vows and with his mistress in an extremely compromising position…"

"So, what. That b*tch should have made sure that my son was protected to protect my grandson, particularly as he was forced into that marriage."

Lexi, despite having fun listening to Matthew logically take her former mother-in-law down, decided to speak. "That is not my obligation now. My age at the time of the accident helped protect your son and his mistress, but it is not my obligation to protect him forever."

"Your perverted brother made sure it was kept out of the press and he should have continued doing that…"

"Chester is not perverted. He is married to the love of his life. More importantly it was not possible to maintain the pressure to keep the secret. My PR team has been contacted regularly over the last twelve months for comment about Richard's death. I made no comment and asked them to remember that I had a child who would be hurt. Even that request would lose its power eventually. It was always a question of when not if it came out, so why waste energy preventing the inevitable."

"That is, you damn obligation driving my son to his death…"

Frustrated, Lexi responded to the aggression "I try and respect you, but driving Richard to his death? You must be kidding. He was too focused on his mistress, the blow job she had just performed on him and his pleasuring her with his fingers while they were driving in the car rather than on the road. You want to blame someone, look at him and his inability to control his libido, not me."

"If you performed your duties as a wife, why would he have gone looking for someone else?"

Matthew, touched his finger to Lexi's mouth, knowing that she was about to lose control. "Madam Yao, Lexi had three weeks prior given birth, and you expected her in the last trimester of her pregnancy and just after birth to be focused on your son and his pleasure, you have to be kidding. Let alone anything else."

"It was her role as a wife…"

"Do not go there. A wife is not a s*xual toy for the husband's personal use and abuse. She is a person and should be respected. But you want to go there and make it all about your son, watch what I can do under the law…"

"You are full of it, and both of you are trash…"

"Opinions never take the place of truth. We will let you have your rants. You can try and manipulate the press as you did yesterday, breaching the law regarding matters involving children. We have let you go, because this involves your son but there is a point, that you are perilously to reaching that I will act, and you will not like the outcome…"

"There is nothing you can do. The law and right is on my side, particularly as Lexi was married to my son…"

"There you go, getting to the crux of the matter. You keep going I will have that marriage declared invalid and then try…"

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