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. 

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. “If we did do something to

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,

“What?!” 

“One-point-eight billion?!” 

hell

you destroy a painting

Callahans, shocked, furious, and still tied

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

was unable to

Callahan,” Trent

the Callahans were worth 1.3 billion in total. This one painting was enough to

Thea as soon as he was released, then slapped her

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

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

done. “Please have mercy on my family, General Xavier,” he pleaded desperately.

coldly. “Did you give mine any mercy when Alex Yates started bankrupting us because of a phone call from

Thea. “You… You set

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 will

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

man out of here.”

“Yes, sir.” 

armed soldiers dragged Lex, still sobbing, out of

watched on, frozen in horror.

Xavier was completely serious. The Callahans were doomed, and it was all because of Thea.

little b*tch! You did

you when we

your own fault! Why are you dragging

nothing to do with Thea! Please let

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