When I got to the place where he lived, Alex King left his things in a corner, It was on the first floor of a residence, it was humid in summer, and cold in winter, and there is almost no privacy, the apartment where he lived was really small, and he only had one room, and this belonged to his mother.
From a very young age, Alex used to share it with his mother, but as he got older he decided to leave the room for his mother, and he used to sleep on the floor in the small living room.
Alex went straight to his mother's room, she had commissioned him to bring to the hospital today, when he went to visit her, a small box that was of much sentimental value for her, upon entering the room, he immediately recognized the box, from little one remembered that his mother took care of that box as if it were a treasure, and whenever he tried to find out the contents of it, his mother avoided him.
She was very curious why her mother asked to take her to the hospital today.
Upon arriving at the hospital, Alex found her sitting on her bed. Mrs. Estela was in her forties, but perhaps due to the deterioration of her illness, she looked like an elderly woman.
«Mother, what are you doing sitting on the bed? You know you have to rest.
Mrs. Estela sitting on the bed looked really worried.
"Alex, son, come over, sit next to me, did you bring what I asked for?"
Alex King nodded, handing the small box to his mother.
"I need to tell you the whole truth about who your father is."
Alex frowned, as if his temper had changed, and said coldly: "Mother, I don't want to know who that man is, if he didn't care about us, why should I care about him?"
"Son, first listen to what I have to tell you, and after you know the truth, you make a decision."
Alex sat next to his mother, while he waited for her to tell him her story.
"25 years ago I worked in the house of the King family, one of the great families in Soleil City, I was the trusted lady of the Charlotte house."
At that moment Estela couldn't hold back her tears as she spoke.
Estela looked Alex in the eye as she told him: «At the King family home I met your father, Alexander King, he was the only son of the younger brother of the family patriarch, since he was a child he was studying in the United States, and after graduating he returned to the family.
Shortly after we fell in love, and married in secret from the family, so that they would not oppose our relationship.
But the patriarch of the family did not like that, and from then on he always saw your father in a bad way.
What happened to my father? Alex said surprised.
Estela hurriedly said: "Son, your father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer when you were 2 years old, because we did not have money to pay the hospital bill, your father died when you were 4 years old."
Alex was very surprised, "But mother, if my father was from the King family, how could he not have money to pay the hospital?" Alex asked, feeling his entire world collapse with that simple question.
Estela no longer controlled her crying: "Son, although your father was from the King family, the family abandoned the family of three to us."
But why did they abandon us? Why didn't they want us?
Son, 17 years ago the King family banished your father.
They got upset with your father, because your father insisted on investing in a new company in the United States, in the field of technology and internet companies.
And she wanted the King family to invest part of their capital in her.
The patriarch of the King family, your father's uncle, prohibited your father from investing in that company, back then.
Years before, countless companies went bankrupt and many investors were ruined by similar companies.
But your father was very tenacious, and he decided to invest most of his own money in buying shares in that company, and thus prove to the King family that he was right.
But soon after, the stock price started to drop, and your father was losing money.
When the King family found out, they called a meeting where they demanded that your father sell all the shares he had just bought, and undergo house arrest for two years, for disobeying the family patriarch, or he would be banished.
Because your father's failure would be taken as an embarrassment to the King family.
And since your father refused, we were banished from the family.
Alex, very confused, asked: «I understand, but there is something that I still don't understand.
Why didn't my father sell the shares he had bought to pay for his treatment?
"When your father bought the shares, I placed them in a trust in your name, and until you were 22 years old, those shares and the money generated from them, could not be touched.
There is still a year to go before the deadline is met.
I was not supposed to tell you anything yet, but I was very afraid that something would happen, that it would prevent me from telling you the whole truth, and that is why I decided to advance everything.
Your father made that decision, long before he knew he would be banished from the King family, and when it all happened, it was too late to undo what was done.
It was in those days that your father's illness worsened, but he refused to use what little money he had left to buy medicine.
Your father told me, that we would not be accepted back into the family, and that the money that was left, had to last until the term of the trust expired.
He did not want to be treated, because he said that with the money that was left, he could not be cured, and it would only lead our family of three to ruin.
Estela didn't speak anymore, she just handed Alex the old box.
Alex King took the wooden box in his hand and looked at it carefully, then, with a little force, he opened the wooden box with a click.
When the wooden box was opened, an extreme fragrance suddenly escaped, and Alex took a sip, only feeling refreshed. Inside it were not many things, just two old envelopes, a folder with documents and many worn photos.
When removing the envelope, a photo stood out, in it you could see a young couple with a baby in their arms, the woman was also quite tall, she had long hair, and her skin was white as a snowflake.
She was awesome; However, this attractive woman looked icy cold and seemed concerned by the expression on her eyebrows.
The man was tall, he wore a fairly elegant suit, and his face denoted intelligence, his gaze was directed at the woman in the photo, and from the way he was looking at her it could be said that this man loved the woman very much.
Behind the photo with delicate writing you could read:
Second birthday of our son Alex.
Just reading that line made Alex King's entire body shake, two tears rolled down his face, as he looked again at the photo where he was together with his parents.
"Son, you better go home, and review all those things calmly" Estela said as she took Alex's hands.
Alex King closed the wooden box, got up, went over to his mother, and after kissing her on the forehead, said «Mother, I will reward you for so many things that you have suffered all these years, even if it is the last thing I do. ».
Leaving the hospital room, Alex went to find the doctor on duty, to ask about his mother's current condition.
From the doctor's information, Alex learned that his mother needed to be treated urgently, and undergo a long and expensive treatment to overcome her illness.
The whole process could not be delayed for more than a month, because her mother's life would be put at risk.
Asking the hotel administration for the price of treatment, Alex held his breath.
All the treatment of his mother, would cost $ 150,000, and had to be canceled in 3 parts, $ 50,000 before starting the treatment, $ 50,000 in the middle of the treatment and the rest, it would be 1 month before the end of the recovery period.
Alex went home very worried when he thought about where he would get the money for his mother's operation.At his house, Alex took the first envelope that was in the box he received from his mother, inside he found a letter and when he read it he realized that it was from his father addressed to him.
Son, if you're reading this, it's that I'm dead, I'm sorry, I knew I was going to die, and I didn't want to drag our family into misery after my death.
Your mother tried to convince me to treat me, but I knew deep down that there was no chance (I think a man about to die has the right to act a bit selfish).
I wish I had time to teach you so many things, so I wrote this letter for you, with what I consider to be the most important things.
Take care of your mother, you are the man of the house, she loves you more than anything in this world.
I asked your mother, after my death, to go away from the King family, and to raise you as an ordinary person.
That you learn the price of hard work, you must appreciate people for what they are worth and not for what they have, never oppress the weak, or succumb to the strong.
Always follow your heart.
She loves You
Father.
Alex King was moved, His hands were shaking, being him, a person who had suffered needs all his life, who always felt abandoned by his father, but now he knew the truth about him, and felt his father's love through that letter.
The second envelope, the letter from his father explained, everything related to the trust in his name.
His father had decided to use a bank with little force in the country, to avoid the obstacles that the influence of the King family could put him if he did it in an older bank, where his family would surely have a lot of influence.
Inside the folder the documents were letterhead with the name of the bank "Fortis Bank SA / NV - Hong Kong".
Alex King did not recognize this name, and that gave him a feeling of loss, in so many years, many things could have happened, in that time many banks closed or went bankrupt, maybe the bank that his father used was one from them.
It was necessary to discover what had happened to the bank, and if there was some of the assets left by his father, perhaps with that money he could pay for his mother's hospital expenses.
I touch his pants pocket for his phone to use the internet browser and look up bank information.
But when I looked in his pockets he didn't find it.
He recalled that the last time he used his phone, it was in Lucy Williams's car when he pulled it out to check the time.
I must have left it in his car. Thought.
Alex decided to go to a nearby cyber café, to investigate what happened to that bank, but no matter what he discovered, the important thing is that he had a father who loved him.