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. 

was nowhere near the workers when the

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

at the auction banquet. I’ll release you now so you can liquidate your assets, Lex Callahan. Get me the money in exchange for

“What?!” 

“One-point-eight billion?!” 

hell

you destroy a painting worth

tied up, started hurling insults

accused her of being a curse upon their family, and how she had

speechless by their insults, was unable

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 one

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

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

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

knelt before Trent after he was done. “Please have mercy on my

Yates started bankrupting us because of a phone call from

on Thea. “You… You set me up?!”

Trent said. “It doesn’t matter if you know. You can’t do anything 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 out will be

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

old man out

“Yes, sir.” 

Lex, still

on, frozen in

was completely serious. The Callahans were doomed, and it

you wicked little b*tch! You did this to

you when we

you

nothing to do with Thea! Please let

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