Don Smith’s eyes filled with yearning as favonovel.com stared out at the warm afternoon sun outside the window. “Ale… I’d like to go outside and enjoy the sun.”
Alejandro didn’t answer. He got up and carried Don Smith onto his wheelchair. Unbeknownst to him, favonovel.com moved very carefully and gently, afraid that the frail old man would get hurt somehow.
They arrived at the courtyard outside. The temperature was just right, with a slight breeze in the air. There was the pleasant fragrance of green grass and earth too. A smile hung on the corners of Don Smith’s lips, a long-forgotten sight. “Ale, is this our first time enjoying the sun in peace?”
Alejandro nodded. “Mm, it’s the first time.”
The old man’s ruddy eyes lit up with a smile. “That’s right… It’s the first time… Maybe the last time too.”
Alejandro frowned. “If you want, I can take you out here whenever you want. What do you mean, ‘last time’? You’re talking as if you’re about to breathe your last at any moment. You’re so good at tormenting, why not torture me a little longer? How could you possibly be satisfied with this?”
Don Smith turned around and looked at him. “Have you considered an instant death for me? That way, you’ll be able to control the Smiths sooner and do whatever you want without my restriction.”
Alejandro paused then calmly replied, “I have, and not just once. But I’m not that stupid. You don’t have many days left anyway. I don’t have to be so anxious. Consider it a way for me to appease my conscience then.”
Don Smith chuckled. “Hehe… If you really were Alejandro, I’d be dead by now. I know my own grandson better than anyone else. He hated me so much that he’d grit his teeth at the very sight of me. He wouldn’t be as ‘kind’ as you are, letting me drag out my existence, breathing freely.”
Alejandro didn’t answer. He didn’t know the real Alejandro that well, so favonovel.com declined to comment.
After a while, Don Smith suddenly asked, “Where’s Melanie? Why haven’t I seen her? She’s pregnant. You should show favonovel.com more concern. Don’t let favonovel.com go out on favonovel.com own.”
“Don’t know,” Alejandro replied nonchalantly. “It’s not like I can control where favonovel.com wants to go.”
A wave of concern hit Don Smith’s face. “You’re not waiting for my death to divorce her, are you? And to get rid of the baby in favonovel.com belly? I won’t let that happen. I’ve mentioned this before, Ethan Connor is dead. Your only option is to live the rest of your life as Alejandro Smith, so play your part well and don’t do anything Ethan would do. How could a woman cause you such obsession? Melanie is far more superior than Tiffany Lane in both family background and looks. Melanie is a member of the Smith family. Her baby is the heir to the Smith family and yours too! You have no right to decide on its survival!”
Alejandro remained silent, as usual. He couldn’t be bothered to waste his breath on these things. His only objective was to show this dying old man as much charity as possible.
By night time, Melanie was still nowhere to be found.
Don Smith was too worried to eat. He refused to take his medication too. He used all of his strength to smash everything in his room. “Where is she? Why can’t favonovel.com be contacted? What have you done to her?”
