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

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. “If we did do something to offend

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

“What?!” 

“One-point-eight billion?!” 

hell happened, Thea?!”

did you destroy a painting

and still tied up,

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

insults, was unable

Lex Callahan,” Trent ordered.

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

her with all his strength. “Useless

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

General Xavier falsely accuse you of this?!” Lex shouted,

“Please have mercy on my family, General

any mercy when Alex Yates started bankrupting us because

on Thea. “You… You set me up?!”

from you, one way or another. I’m the deputy commander on the western border. Wiping you out

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

man

“Yes, sir.” 

still sobbing, out of

on, frozen in

serious. The Callahans were doomed,

b*tch!

didn’t we abort you

fault! Why are you

to do with Thea! Please

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