The Almighty Dragon General

Chapter 13

 

 

Outside the Callahans’ villa. 

Dozens of jeeps screeched to a halt as the soldiers that had ridden them here charged onto the Callahans’ home. 

Panic erupted amongst the Callahans. Lex, who had gone to bed, got up again and approached the soldiers in his pajamas. “What’s happened, sir?” he asked the leader frantically, his face pale. 

“Take them.” 

With their order issued, two soldiers grabbed Lex by his forearms and dragged him away. 

 

The others, still groggy from sleep, were also forcibly pulled into the jeeps. 

Meanwhile, a loud bang erupted from Thea’s home. Benjamin and Gladys were awoken suddenly as soldiers filed in and dragged them away. 

Cansington Hotel basement. 

Thea sat tied up on the ground. Soon enough, her family was also brought in. Her grandfather, Lex Callahan; her father, Benjamin Callahan; her uncle, Howard Callahan; her second uncle, John Callahan, and everyone else. No one had been left out. 

All of them had been tied up, too. 

They looked at each other in panic and confusion, not knowing what they had done to offend the Xaviers, or why they were now in a basement. 

Trent sat on the only chair in the room, taking a drag of his cigarette. 

“Do you know why I brought you here, Thea Callahan?” he asked, his expression cold as the soldiers behind him looked on. 

She knew she was nowhere near the workers when the painting fell,

fact, our Tommy is good friends with Joel Xavier! Why are you doing this? Please, let us go,” Lex shuffled in his

release you now so you can liquidate your assets, Lex Callahan. Get me the money in exchange for the rest of

“What?!” 

“One-point-eight billion?!” 

the hell happened, Thea?!”

a painting worth that much?!”

furious, and still tied

her of being a curse upon their family, and how she had always been

was

Callahan,”

action. Adding all their assets up, the Callahans were worth 1.3 billion in total. This one painting was enough to bankrupt them

her with

down her swollen red face. “It wasn’t me, grandfather!” she

of this?!” Lex shouted, slapping her a few more

“Please have mercy on my family,

Trent said coldly. “Did you give mine any mercy when Alex Yates

dawned on Thea. “You…

you know. You can’t do anything about it. I’m getting that one-point-eight billion from you, one way or another. I’m the deputy commander on the western border. Wiping you

to have aged ten years in a single instance. “We’re doomed!” he wailed in despair. “The Callahans

man out of

“Yes, sir.” 

fully armed soldiers dragged Lex, still sobbing, out of the room.

on, frozen in

The Callahans were doomed, and it was

Callahan, you wicked little b*tch! You

you when

Why are you dragging the rest

with Thea!

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