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. 

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

haven’t done anything against your family. In fact, our Tommy is good friends with Joel Xavier! Why are you doing this? Please, let us go,” Lex shuffled in his restraints as he pleaded with Trent.

Lex off. “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 Callahan. Get me the money in exchange for the rest of your family. They

“What?!” 

“One-point-eight billion?!” 

hell

you destroy a painting worth

and still tied up, started hurling insults at

and how she had always been nothing but trouble for

speechless by their insults, was

Lex Callahan,” Trent ordered.

up, the Callahans were worth

to Thea as soon as he was released, then slapped her

“It wasn’t me,

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

he was done. “Please have

mine any mercy when Alex Yates started bankrupting us because of a phone

Thea. “You… You set

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

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

the old man out

“Yes, sir.” 

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

other Callahans watched on,

Callahans were doomed, and it was all because of Thea.

Callahan, you wicked little b*tch!

you when we

you dragging the rest of us

with

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