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

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

dollars at the auction banquet. I’ll release you now so you can liquidate your assets, Lex Callahan. Get

“What?!” 

“One-point-eight billion?!” 

hell

a painting

furious, and still tied

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

was unable to get

Lex Callahan,” Trent

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

to Thea as soon as he was released, then slapped her with all his strength. “Useless

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

accuse you of this?!” Lex shouted, slapping her a few more times in

was done. “Please have mercy

you give mine any mercy when Alex Yates started bankrupting

dawned on Thea. “You…

You can’t do anything about it. I’m getting that one-point-eight billion from you, one

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

man out

“Yes, sir.” 

still sobbing, out of the

other Callahans watched on, frozen

were doomed, and it was

you wicked little b*tch! You did this

didn’t we abort you when we

you

I have nothing to do with Thea!

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