Senona seemed to feel that she had not explained herself well, even after she had finished, and her tone was a little impatient. “Anyway, I mean, Desiderius is dead, and the one you saw was probably a fake.”
Allyce froze for a long moment before responding.
“You mean that Desiderio died when he went abroad for treatment three years ago, that he didn’t survive at all then, but was replaced by this current ‘Desiderio’? The one who came home was also this current ‘Desiderio’?”
“That’s what he means, I came to the hospital for a check-up and as I wasn’t very familiar with him I went the wrong way and went to the warehouse and then I saw a death certificate with Desiderio’s name on it, but I’m not sure if it’s true or not, you’ll have to check the exact facts yourself…”
Senona was walking along, talking fast and breathing a little heavily.
Allyce nodded silently, thinking Senona couldn’t see, before continuing: “I know, take care, I’ll check.
Senona asked with concern in her voice: “It’s all right with you, Severo will help you, won’t he?
“Yes, take care, thank you and goodbye”. Allyce said nothing about her divorce from Severo, and after hearing Senona say “goodbye”, she hung up the phone.
He held the phone in his mind for a few moments.
His heart was pounding with shock.
He had thought of a myriad of possibilities, that Desiderio might have some kind of agenda, that his concern for Allyce wasn’t pure, but that didn’t mean he didn’t care about her either.
But it had never occurred to him that this Desiderio was not “Desiderio”.
If the man she had always called “uncle” was not Desiderio, then who was she?
The DNA report, which she had later verified, was true.
The only reason she had not taken another test was that she had not got Desiderio’s hair and thought she might be wrong.
But she was naïve.
If what Senona said was true, then it had to be a conspiracy.
And this “Desiderius” was so powerful that he had been able to replace a man for three years without anyone noticing.
The more she thought about it, the more Allyce felt a shiver run down her spine.
He pressed Severo’s number in a cold sweat and hung up quickly.
I could no longer call Severo, I no longer had a relationship with him.
She could no longer sit still, she couldn’t even think about work, she searched the internet for news about the Alvidrez group from three years ago.
But Desiderio hardly appeared in the news.
The image on the Internet was the same as Desiderio’s image.
She was in Cloud Cit, Desiderio was in Sky City, and if she didn’t investigate, she couldn’t solve the mystery.
So I had to go to Ciudad del Cielo.
With this in mind, Allyce grabbed her bag and headed out.
He walked to Ester’s office door and coughed twice before saying, “Ester, I’m not feeling well and may not be in the office for a while, so call me if there’s anything particularly important.”
“Agreed”.
Allyce received Ester’s reply and covered her lips again, coughing violently and feigning weakness, before turning to leave.
There were Desiderio’s people in the company, and whereas before she had only thought that Desiderio had been sent to help her secretly, now she thought it was Desiderio who had been sent to spy on her.
She wondered how long she could hide under the pretext of being ill.
…
Allyce left Moon Culture Media and headed straight to the airport.
I had bought the last flight to Ciudad del Cielo.
When he arrived in Ciudad del Cielo, just in the afternoon, he stayed in the same hotel where Severo had stayed last time and had the same room.
Standing in front of her room, she remembered the last time she and Severo had stayed here.
She smiled to herself, feeling that she was simply asking for it.
He didn’t have that much time to think about anything else, now he had to find out something useful before Desiderio discovered his whereabouts.
After a quick shower and a change of casual clothes, he donned sunglasses and a duck’s tongue hat to disguise himself, and made his way to the entrance of the Alvidrez Group.
He waited for a long time, until it was dark, before he saw Desiderio come out, surrounded by a group of people.
A subordinate stepped forward and opened the car door for Desiderio, who crouched down and prepared to get in.
But for some reason, before he went in, he turned around and looked at the place where Allyce was.
Allyce had hidden behind a flowerbed, and her position was backlit, so she shrank back, knowing that Desiderio would not be able to see her.
As Desiderio’s car drove away, Allyce hurried to hail a car and followed.
The driver asked her: “Where to, Miss?
“Follow the car in front. Allyce watched Desiderio’s car anxiously for fear of losing it.
The driver sniffed and looked at her in astonishment, but without another word, followed her.
Shortly after leaving, the driver answered a phone call, probably from a colleague.
As soon as the driver got on the phone, he shouted at the top of his lungs: “I have a girl in my car chasing a man, there is a limousine in front of her …”.
Allyce: “…”
Only when the driver hung up the phone did he realise what he had just said and gave Allyce a slightly embarrassed look.
And Desiderio’s car was already parked.
Allyce didn’t have time to listen to what the driver was going to say, he simply took out a hundred yuan and handed it to him. “Uncle, you don’t need to find it, thank you”.
Allyce looked at the not-so-sophisticated restaurant in front of her and was a little surprised.
Desiderio had always been very sophisticated and western in style, preferring elegant and comfortable surroundings, and this restaurant seemed a very average environment.
Allyce followed him, holding back her doubts.
He went in and looked around the lobby, but there was no Desiderius.
Could it be in a private room?
Allyce asked the waiter, seemingly casually: “This place is big, do you have a lot of private rooms?
The waiter smiled and said: “There are more than twenty”.
Allyce kept quiet, there were so many rooms that she decided not to risk looking for them and waited outside for Desiderio to come out.
He ordered a light meal and ate it while waiting for Desiderio.
I hadn’t even eaten when Desiderio came out.
As when he entered, he was followed by two of his men and no one else.
He walked in a hurry and did not notice Allyce.
Allyce looked back at the booth through which he had exited, and at that moment another man emerged from the booth.
This person was again a familiar face and Allyce opened her mouth in surprise and mentally shouted out the person’s name.
Amado Mejía!