Alex Johnson: The Unknown Heir

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Potter City

In a hot summer's afternoon, on a slightly busy street, a young man in his late nineteens could be seen peddling a bike as fast as his legs could.

Looking at this young man, his body was already dampened completely with his sweat, and his handsome face which was also utterly covered with beads of sweat was etched with tiredness.

But despite this, the young man doesn't seem to notice nor bothered about it as the hastiness in his eyes was much more intense.

He kept cycling hysterically as if his life depended on it, turning and navigating both objects and creatures.

Finally, after a long time of nonstop cycling, an excited expression appeared on the young man's face, then his eyes brightened with strong light as if he just saw light at the end of an utterly dark tunnel.

Instantly, the young man added more force to his legs and pedaled his already extremely fast bike faster when suddenly, the young man heard an unexpected loud vroom of an oncoming vehicle.

At first, a dumbfounded and confused look replaced the excitement on the young man's face as he knew well that he wasn't riding his bike in the vehicle's lane.

But quickly, he controlled and steered his bike away just as the red sports car driving as his the owner has a spare life somewhere else was about to hit him, but unfortunately for him, the moment he turned away, the red sports car collided with his back tire, sending him, his bike, and everything on it flying away into the distance before finally crashing down with loud scattering sounds.

"Bastard, are you blind or what?! didn't you see me coming?!" A furious roar abruptly exited the car as it came to an abrupt stop with a loud screech, leaving behind black marks on the interlocked road.

Hearing the furious roar that came out, Alex Johnson, a poor orphan who was on his way to deliver pizza to a customer groaned with extreme pain.

After a lot of effort, he forced himself to stand on his kneel from the flat-face position he fell, then a huge confusion appeared on his pale and pain-filled face. "Was I the one at fault?"

Although the pain he was going through right now was so much that he has to clench his teeth against each other from yelping and crying out, he still managed to gaze around him to check if he was the one at fault here, but he wasn't.

After a few seconds, he sighed with pain and gazed around the crowd of people that had started gathering and pointing at him with pitiful expressions on their faces, but looking at the way they were standing, it shows that they have no intention of getting involved, well… Alex Johnson doesn't have the time nor space to bothered about this.

Just as he was about to start searching around for the pizza he was going to deliver to the customer, he felt a bone-biting pain run all over his body, especially his elbows, so he raised them. But what he saw immediately made his brows furrow tightly.

The skin on his elbows right now was completely pilled off and was currently gushing out thick and crimson red blood.

Seeing this, Alex's mind went blank for a few seconds, then he started trying to understand how things have reached this extent when a cold furious voice that sent a chill crawling down his spine sounded slightly behind him.

"Are you blind or what, I ask you?"

Alex Johnson instantly became startled, then he quickly swirled around.

But the moment he saw the speaker, a young man who also doesn't seem to have clocked 20 yet but had a bully look on his face and was dressed in colorful pants and shirts, a wry look appeared on his face.

'Great! I just have to encounter this bastard at a moment like this!' He sighed mockingly in his mind despite the bone-rupturing pain he was going through.

As for the speaker, Cliff Sotto, one of Alex Johnson's greatest bullies. The instant he also saw Alex Johnson's face, a dumbfounded look replaced the initial furiousness on his face for a while before it instantly disappeared and turned into a strong contemptuous, disgust-filled, and then ridiculing look.

"Look who we've got here, the school's slave," he suddenly chuckled brightly, but Alex Johnson dares not make a sound, so he kept quiet despite the pain he was going through.

He planned to remain like this until Cliff Sotto had all his fun and leave him be, but what Cliff Sotto uttered next sent his heart racing.

"Now that you've caused a dent in my car, how're you going to pay now?"

Immediately, Alex's face became filled with nervousness and fear, then he stuttered. "But… but… but you… you're clear… clearly the one who drove on the wrong lane, why… why would I still pay for the damage caused?"

The moment he stuttered this, the crowd who were initially giving him pitiful gazes instantly gasped, then their eyes widen and they began to mutter behind their breaths in shock.

"He… he actually dares to blame Cliff Sotto?"

"Wow! What great courage he has there!'

"Is he tired of living a good life?"

They continued gasping and gaping with shock, amazement, ridicule, contempt, and all sort of emotions in their voices.

As for Cliff Sotto, a cold look that could petrify someone to death Immediately covered his mockery-filled face, while the scared expression on Alex Johnson's face directly intensified.

He already realized that he has fucked up just now since he has played into Cliff Sotto's hand at the end.

Just as he was about to say something out of self-defense, he saw Cliff Sotto's arm clenching up and raising in an attacking position.

Alex Johnson instantly closed his eyes tightly and cringed. But just as he felt the breeze of the fist on his face, clearly the sign of it about to collide with him and probably mutilate it and break his teeth, a cold melodious voice that sounded like the voice of a guardian angel entered Alex Johnson's ears.

"What's going on here?"

The moment the voice sounded, Cliff Sotto's arms came to an abrupt stop, and instantly lost all strength before directly patting Alex Johnson's shoulder with a fake care.

"You okay, right?"

He uttered while clenching his teeth unhappily.