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The Soldier Husband

Having left his hometown with shattered relationships due to his decision to join the military Matthew Rong returns after nine and a half years, uncertain of how people will treat him. Lexi Yao, the only person who supported his decision, left less than two years later leaving her family and her child. Just weeks after the birth of her child in an arranged family marriage her husband of less than a year died, putting her in a position that she could not cope. Eventually, when she was ready, she returned to her hometown to resume full-time care of her child bringing her now successful fashion business with her. Matthew had never forgotten the promises Lexi made to marry him prior to and in the twelve months after he joined the military, despite her marriage and becoming a widow. He hoped that he would be able to marry her and secure for them both the future that they had believed was there for them as teenagers. Just after Matthew’s return, having reluctantly agreed to drive Matthew home after a celebration for not only his return but the engagement of their brothers, Lexi and Matthew were kidnapped by the terrorist who helped make Matthew’s career seeing his rapid promotion to General. To protect Lexi, Matthew knew he needed to use changes in the law to protect her and their assets that the Terrorist sought to exploit and committed to her through a forced marriage ceremony at the hands of the Terrorists. For Matthew this was the one thing that had kept him going, and for Lexi she only agreed to protect herself believing there was no legal validity in the ceremony. On their rescue Lexi was confronted with the truth of another forced marriage and was determined to escape this to have her own life, free from domination by men. Matthew not only was left to fight to secure the love of his life but to protect his friends and family from the terrorist who decided that they were fair game in the pursuit of his goals. Can Matthew succeed and win? Can Lexi learn to trust and forgive Matthew? Will the one secret that she has been keeping for eight years drive them apart? This is the story of their journey, with their friends and family along for the ride. Note – for those who have read my first story Offer to the CEO, our favourite couple makes appearances here, with Anna becoming a huge supporter and friend of our Female Lead. Extract: “Matthew, you b*stard. You knew our marriage would be valid, and you forced it on me. You are no better than my parents who arranged my first marriage?” “What did you want me to do? Let you be killed?” “You should have thought about me, not your own selfish needs. Get the hell out of my sight and let me be I'm going to stay away from you.” “Forget it. You are the wife of a military officer. You will live in my villa and forget about going anywhere without my permission. It is not safe.” “Safe? I am not safe from you, everyone, everything and everywhere else is safe!” Please note the cover artwork is not mine. Also while at the start of this story it may seem that the lead is male, in fact the lead is a female lead (be patient for this to be shown)

klmorgan · Urban
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998 Chs

Investigation (1)

28 December, Central Police Station, City K

John Nang sat in his office wondering what had happened in the last few hours. Yes, there had been rumours of a potential kidnapping of someone, but they were so vague that even his intelligence had even just yesterday dismissed them as too difficult to consider acting on. He was grateful that he had been able to contact his three most trusted subordinates in quickly. It was going to be an issue as the day progressed minimising those who came in, as the last thing anyone needed was for this to get out.

He stopped and though about what to do and realised that most of his subordinates that would be in today had not recently spent any time on general policing duties. Today he would assign them to that task and use the excuse that the matter they were dealing with here was highly sensitive that no one could enter or be involved unless he personally approved. He hated separating his team, but this was a case of the needs must.

Looking out, he noticed the three subordinates had all arrived and had gotten themselves a coffee while waiting for him to come out. He took a breath and exited his office, and headed over to the entry door, locking it and putting in place the other necessary security measures. He quickly picked up an internal telephone and advised the reception desk as to who they were expecting and as soon as they arrived, he was to be let know before ending the call.

He paused, turned and sat down with his subordinates. He was trusting them with the lives of his friends, and this would be hard because if anything happened to them, he would not know what to do. "Gentleman, I am sorry to have called you in however, we need to investigate an incident that would have happened sometime between 11:45pm and 1:30am"

"The head of the local special forces at the army base, Colonel Matthew Rong has apparently disappeared. He and I were at a gathering at Club TJ's, and he left with another friend a Miss Lexi Yao, the owner of the fashion brand LY, and one of the three heirs to the Yao fortune. Her brother Andrew Yao heads the family company Jax Corp and her brother Chester oversees Jax Corp's entertainment division. Colonel Rong is the brother of Phillip Rong the CEO of JL International. I have arranged for the CCTV footage from Club TJ's to be provided and as much along the most obvious route to track the vehicle to where it was found."

Before he could continue there was a knock on the door, and John called out "One moment." He walked over, and unsecured the door before opening it.

It was the desk officer he passed as he entered the station "Sir, I have a Warrant Officer Wang, from the Army on a secure line. He says that he has a message from a General Man."

That was a name all four men knew immediately. General Man was the officer in charge at the Army base. Something must be serious to have sent someone here to the police station, rather than a phone call. John snapped "Put it through immediately."

As soon as the phone rang, John answered it "Warrant Officer Wang here sir. I have just spoken to General Man at the base and am on my way back. He has given me an order and information I am to give to you personally but has requested that until I get there you speak to no one at the base."

"I will wait for you to get here Warrant Officer Wang. The desk officer will be given instructions to show you through to our office as soon as you arrive."

With that John ended the call, realising that General Man must have the concerns that he and Matthew had about Major Hung, for him to give such an order to Matthew's adjunct. HE turned back to the desk officer and said, "As soon as Warrant Officer Wang arrives, he and whoever is with him is to be immediately brought here. We will open the door for them to come in."

After re-securing the door, John paused and looked around. This was going to be difficult to handle, as it was dragging his personal life into his working life and had been something, he did everything to avoid in his policing career, as he wanted to be judged on his work, not because of who he was.

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