Chapter 495 - Truth Time (5)

26 May, Matthew's on-base accommodation, Military Base, City K 

Dominic looked directly at Lexi, before saying "What are you telling me mummy?"

Quietly Lexi said "You heard me Dominic, what you were saying about doing what it is to get pregnant, was not something your Daddy and I did, it was your Daddy Matthew and I."

Dominic's eyes opened wide, and he looked between Lexi and Matthew, and the more he kept looking between them, the more confusion that they could both observe come over his face, before he uttered very quietly, "What are you telling me mummy? Daddy is not my dad?"

Before Lexi could respond, she saw Matthew shake his head and say "Dominic…"

Angrily, Dominic snapped "No, I want mummy to tell me."

Matthew observed Lexi silently having tears run down her face. "Dominic you have upset your mummy, so you will listen to me."

Dominic jumped up, yelled "I am not listening to you Daddy Matthew," before running out of the room.

Lexi yelled "Dominic Yao, come back here," while Matthew jumped up and followed Dominic out of the room.

A few seconds later, Lexi could hear Dominic spit out "Let me out of here Daddy Matthew. I do not want you or mummy with me. You are lying to me."

Matthew's voice followed, calmly saying "No Dominic, you will come back, listen to everything we have to say, ask your questions, and assuming the weather is still good outside, we will consider if you can go outside."

"You are not my daddy, so you cannot tell me what to do."

A couple of seconds silence occurred, and Lexi then heard a crash as if the hallway table crashed to the floor, and Matthew then say "Dominic, stop this. Do not hit or kick me and get yourself back into the lounge room."

"No!" came Dominic's screamed response. Thirty seconds later, Lexi saw Matthew firmly walking into the lounge carrying Dominic in his arms who was hitting out at him, before sitting him down on the chair he was previously sitting on.

Matthew said "You will stay and listen Dominic. Your mummy needs you to do this."

"I want to go to Daddy's parents; they would not do this to me. You hate me mummy by telling me all these lies. Daddy's parents will tell me the truth."

Dominic's words drew loud sobs from Lexi, resulting in Matthew angrily responding "Dominic, your mummy loves you. You have really hurt her. Now enough is enough. You will listen to what we have to say but forget about going anywhere now."

Dominic screamed, "You cannot do that. I hate you both."

Dominic tried to get up from the chair, but Matthew placed his hands on his shoulders before calmly responding "You might not want to be here Dominic, but the more you keep acting like this, the longer this will take and the less likely we will let you go outside to play. Your choice Dominic. Sit and listen and you have the opportunity to go an play or keep going and you will go to your room and stay there until you are ready to listen. But we will be taking away all your electronic devices because your actions have consequences."

"You cannot do that!" came Dominic's indignant response.

Finally gathering herself a little Lexi said "We can Dominic, and we will. You need to make your choice, and do not try to play games in making it."

Lexi watched conflicting emotions pass across Dominic's face before she saw him calming down seemingly wanting to listen. He not only wanted to go outside and play with the other children there is no way he wanted to lose his electronic devices. He thought she did not know, but he used his tablet to play the games she allowed him to have installed and watch age appropriate movies despite being limited to an hour a day screen time.

"Fine, tell me what you have to," came Dominic's response.

Lexi knew that he was sulking, but at least he was ready to listen. Matthew while watching Dominic, moved over and gave her a brief kiss, before whispering, "You have this. He needs to know." The love shining in his eyes gave her all the reassurance she needed.

"As I said before your little temper tantrum Dominic, it was not your Daddy that got me pregnant, it was your Daddy Matthew. My parents, your grandparents were upset that I was pregnant and wanted me to get rid of you. I would not do that and because I was seventeen, they could not legally force me to do that. They wanted to know who your father was, but because I could not contact your Daddy Matthew because of his training and due to their hatred of the military I stayed silent. They saw it shameful that I was pregnant, so as they could legally do it, they married me to your Daddy without me being involved."

"But mummy…daddy…" came a pitiful response from Dominic, followed by sobs.

Matthew sensing that Dominic was about to run again, moved over and squatted so he was in front of Dominic before saying "Dominic, not, there is no need to be upset. Your Daddy will always be important in your life. From what you mummy tells me and having grown up around your grandparents I know it to be true, they did not want you to be with us. By marrying your mummy, your daddy made sure that happened, and despite everything I can only be grateful for that. It allowed me to have you come into my life and your mummy to come back into it. Just because I am your biological father that does not change the role in your life of the a.d.u.l.ts around you, they will always be who they are for you."

Dominic pushed Matthew and run over to Lexi before grabbing her uninjured arm and saying, "It is not true it is mummy?"

Knowing her words could break Dominic's heart "Dominic, it is but you have two daddies, one who made sure that you could be with us and your second daddy who is the one that allowed you to be born.

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