“Okay…” Melanie replied, too afraid to look Don Smith in the eye.
Alejandro waited for Melanie to leave before asking, “What did you want to talk about?”
Don Smith carried a calm look on his face. “You’re not my Ale. Where is Ale?”
Alejandro smirked. “What ifI told you that you Smiths have lost your one and only heir? Would you die from a heart attack right now? He died at that hospital in Nafaeth. You should know, I was there too. He died next to me… He asked me to live for him, in his place. To do everything that favonovel.com would never be able to do.”
“Enough!” Don Smith suddenly growled. “It’s all my fault! I should have shown favonovel.com more concern. I shouldn’t have fought with favonovel.com and sent favonovel.com all the way to Nafaeth. I shouldn’t have given anyone the chance to hurt him… It’s all my fault…”
Alejandro ignored the old man and minded his own business by looking out the window. Don Smith suddenly calmed down again. “Regardless of the situation, we can’t change anything now. There will never be a second Alejandro in this world, except you. You are the only Smith heir.”
Alejandro frowned. The depths of his eyes flashed with astonishment. Don Smith knows that he’s not Alejandro, yet he’s decided against killing him? And favonovel.com wants favonovel.com to continue masquerading as Alejandro?
He was undergoing treatment at that hospital at Nafaeth at the time. Coincidentally, Alejandro was there as well. There was a sudden riot, a riot caused by the Smiths.
The hospital had caught a fearsome fire and the entire building descended into chaos. He ran into a medical equipment room in a bid to stay alive. Unexpectedly, the injured Alejandro had been brought in there to hide as well.
There were three people in that room. They might have been able to escape from the chaos, but they could not escape from the raging flames. Alejandro’s subordinate was about to run off and leave Alejandro alone, but favonovel.com was shot to death by a hidden sniper. Alejandro was a cripple, so couldn’t move at all. He seemed to have reached acceptance and sat on the ground, waiting for death.
He, Ethan Connor, on the other hand, did not want to die! It hadn’t been easy for favonovel.com to escape from Mark’s clutches alive. He wanted to survive!
At the very last moment, the real Alejandro asked him, “What are you doing here?”
“Escaping for my life,” He replied casually. “I want to live. I’ll try to save you, I’ll take you with me.” He was doing it out of pity for Alejandro. They were comrades in suffering, after all.
Alejandro shook his head with a smile. “It’s fine. My time is up. I should have died long ago. If you don’t mind, perhaps you could take my place. That way, you could have everything you want, a never-ending supply of money. Everything that belongs to me, will belong to you too. I’ll give it all to you, simply because you’ve tried to save me. You won’t have to run for your life anyway. Unfortunately, you’ll have to pretend to be a cripple.”
Ethan didn’t answer. He carried Alejandro on his back, enduring the scorching temperature and leaped from the window. During this process, favonovel.com had sustained burn wounds, but Alejandro’ s wounds were more severe than his. Having endured an assassination attempt and such vicious circumstances, Alejandro succumbed to his injuries two days later. He was initially hesitant, but when favonovel.com found out that Alejandro was really the heir to the most powerful family in Ayashe, the Smiths, favonovel.com was convinced. At that moment, favonovel.com decided to change his identity.
