The Solider Husband

March 7 years ago, C.h.e.s.ter Yao's Villa

C.h.e.s.ter gathered Lexi in his arms. The last ten months has been an utter disaster for her, particularly given she was only seventeen when their parents forced her into an arranged marriage. Unlike him, she was not prepared for that.

He knew what he was getting into marrying Susan. The idea of marrying a woman and having s*x with her turned his stomach, but he knew that he had to play by the rules and respect his marriage vows. All he could do was gather the evidence of her ongoing infidelity and divorce her when the situation was right.

Lexi, however, was given no choice. Their father as she was under eighteen signed the civil marriage doc.u.ments on her behalf.

However, what caused it and followed shocked C.h.e.s.ter when Lexi had told him the story. What he needed do was prioritise Lexi's wellbeing at this time and forget what their parents wanted for her. Lexi has just broken down and confessed everything, some things he suspected and others he had no idea about.

She had confirmed that she had been pregnant with Dominic at the time of her marriage and that Richard was not his father. But, according to the agreement between Richard and their father Lexi had to maintain the public position that Dominic was Richard's son.

Lexi wanted to ignore the deal but their father after Richard's parents made comment about wanting to take care of their grandson made it clear that unless Lexi maintained the fiction of Dominic's parentage he would ensure that she not only lost custody of Dominic to Richard's parents, but would lose any rights to receiving entitlements in Jax Corp and it would go to Richard's parents.

As she said, she did not care about Jax Corp for herself, but cared about it for him and Andrew in the future and the potential for Dominic. C.h.e.s.ter tried telling her that Jax Corp did not matter, but as Lexi said it was his lifeline and Andrew was so looking forward to building a career that she could not do that to them.

Then, she unloaded on him as to what was worse. From the time that they married, Richard was verbally and physically abusive. He slapped her, cut her with a knife, and even r.a.p.ed her. By the time that she was six months' pregnant, she was so terrified that she simply did whatever he wanted to prevent him from continuing his abuse. All she wanted by this time was to ensure that she gave birth to a healthy child.

Then, she told him the day of Dominic's birth Richard had not only informed her that he was divorcing her he would be taking custody of Dominic as soon as Dominic was able to be separated from her. The statement had added to it that the only reason he married her was that he was incapable of fathering children with his true wife, and Dominic would be the perfect child for them to raise. That sent her into labour, and Richard abandoned her to go to his mistress, only showing up just before Dominic was born.

From them until his death in the vehicle accident Richard had spent most of his time with his mistress, and the two of them taunted Lexi about the soon loss of her child. As she told him that simply shot her confidence in being an effective mother for Dominic over time eroding her ability to b.r.e.a.s.t feed Dominic but to otherwise care for him.

Apparently, the day of the accident, Richard left the house telling her that he was seeing his lawyer not only to divorce her but to take custody of Dominic as she could not care for him. When the police came to tell her that he was killed in the car accident with the woman who was his mistress did she feel some sense of relief. But then Richard's parents started, as they wanted to take care of Dominic as according to them, she could not do so without a father, and they wanted to ensure that their grandson was raised right.

After listening to Lexi, the two questions C.h.e.s.ter had was to confirm that Dominic's biological father was Matthew Rong, and that she still wanted to pursue her dream to become a fashion designed. Having received that confirmation, C.h.e.s.ter proposed to her an option, that given the recent loss of Richard could work.

As C.h.e.s.ter said, playing on the young grieving widow card and having Dominic stay with his Uncle and Aunt would defeat arguments. The only promise that he extracted was within ten years Lexi had to tell Matthew the truth otherwise he would and help Matthew gain custody of Dominic. Lexi ultimately agreed to this.