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. 

was nowhere near the workers when the painting fell, so why did the surveillance footage show

Why are you doing this? Please, let us go,” Lex shuffled in his restraints as he pleaded with Trent. “If we did do something to offend

“Thea Callahan destroyed a painting that was worth one-point-eight billion dollars at the auction banquet. I’ll release you now so you can liquidate your assets, Lex

“What?!” 

“One-point-eight billion?!” 

hell happened,

you destroy a painting worth that much?!”

still tied up, started hurling insults at Thea.

a curse upon their family, and how she had always been nothing but trouble for them.

insults, was unable to get a

Callahan,” Trent

their assets up, the Callahans were worth 1.3 billion in total. This one painting was

then slapped her with

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

of this?!” Lex shouted, slapping her

before Trent after he was done. “Please have mercy on my family,

any mercy when Alex Yates started bankrupting

dawned on Thea. “You… You set me

I’m getting that one-point-eight billion from you, one way or another.

energy leaving him completely. He seemed to have aged ten years in a

old man

“Yes, sir.” 

fully armed soldiers dragged Lex, still sobbing, out of

watched on, frozen in horror.

doomed,

you wicked little b*tch!

you when we

own fault! Why are you dragging the rest

have nothing to do with Thea! Please let me go!”

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