136 — THE MASKED STRANGER

Alex was stunned.

“Gustavo… the CEO?”

Tariq nodded. “Yes, the CEO.”

“H-how? Why?”

“Well, five years ago, Gustavo got into a dangerous accident and fell into a coma. Investigations revealed that his brakes were tampered with but the Spanish mafia still hasn’t been able to find out who was responsible until this day.”

“Wait. Did he… die?”

Tariq pursed his lips.

“No, he didn’t. He’s still in a coma as we speak.”

Alex was perplexed.

“Then how come…”

“The thing is, the Spanish mafia lied to everyone that he’d recovered from coma a year after the accident. Mendez and his brother are inseparable. They’re literally joined at the hip. There was absolutely no way he was going to survive without Gustavo, so a year after the accident, he decided to clone his brother.

The procedure was ridiculously expensive and there was a ninety percent chance that it wasn’t going to work, but Mendez refused to give up.

Rather surprisingly, he was able to successfully clone himself after the first try.

That is
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