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. 

did not. She knew she was nowhere near the workers when the painting fell, so why did the surveillance footage

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 you, I promise I’ll personally make

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

“What?!” 

“One-point-eight billion?!” 

hell happened, Thea?!”

did you destroy a painting

furious, and still tied up, started hurling insults

being a curse upon their family, and how she had always been nothing but

was

Lex Callahan,” Trent ordered.

action. Adding all their assets up, the Callahans were worth 1.3 billion in total. This

as he was released, then slapped her with all

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

this?!” Lex shouted, slapping her a few more times in rage.

“Please have mercy on my

when Alex Yates started bankrupting us because of a phone call

“You… You

“It doesn’t matter if 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 out

his energy leaving him completely. He seemed to have aged ten years in a single instance. “We’re doomed!” he wailed

old man out of

“Yes, sir.” 

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

on, frozen in horror.

serious. The Callahans were doomed, and it was all because

you wicked little b*tch! You did this

abort you when we

your own fault! Why are you

nothing to do with

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