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 are you doing this? Please, let us go,” Lex shuffled in

painting that was worth one-point-eight billion dollars at the auction banquet. I’ll release you now so you can liquidate your

“What?!” 

“One-point-eight billion?!” 

hell happened, Thea?!”

a

Callahans, shocked, furious, and still tied up, started hurling insults at Thea.

and how she had always been nothing but trouble for

was unable to get a

Callahan,” Trent ordered.

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

soon as he was released, then slapped her with all his strength. “Useless thing! You’ve ruined

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

General Xavier falsely accuse you of this?!” Lex shouted, slapping her a few more

have mercy

any mercy when Alex Yates started bankrupting us because of a phone call from Thea Callahan?”

“You… You set

anything about it. I’m getting that one-point-eight billion from you, one way or another. I’m the deputy

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

the old man out of here.”

“Yes, sir.” 

Lex, still sobbing, out of the room.

Callahans watched on, frozen

doomed,

you wicked little b*tch! You did this to

we abort you when we

own fault! Why are you dragging the rest of us

with Thea! Please

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