Chapter 20Miami, the near future
Alex didn’t really know what to think of the stranger standing before him who seemed amused when he said, “So, wait, is this like the moment when Darth Vader says to Luke Skywalker, ‘Luke, I am your father’?
“I’m sorry,” Alex went on, “but you can understand my skepticism. First, I was told at a young age that my father was the president of the United States, who died of a massive heart attack in the White House. Then I was told as a teenager that my real father had been legendary tennis champ Dimitri Orlov, who died of congenital heart disease. But then I learned recently that that same father was first and foremost a political assassin.
“So, I think you can understand my skepticism. I mean it’s like something out of Anastasia or that movie where Richar
