Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

140 Alex and Alice

*TAUNTING comes before this chapter. **

They walked to the bed and stood beside Madam Chen. The person stared fervently at Madam Chen’s face for a long while before they cleared the bedside wardrobe and sat on it while staring at the sleeping woman.

Some time passed and for some reason, Madam Chen opened her eyes only to see a shadow looming above her. She instinctively wanted to scream but her voice couldn’t be heard.

“Hi, long time no see, Bella.”

Madam Chen froze when she heard her name. She looked at the person in front of her, she was wearing a mask and when she removed it, she got the biggest shock of her life.

‘Alice?! How is that possible? They attended her funeral!

“Don’t worry, I’m not who you think I am. I’m not Alice, but Alex. Does that ring a bell? Probably not.”

That’s right, Alex doesn’t ring a bell. Is she Alice’s twin?

“That’s right. I’m Alice’s twin sister, Rossa’s mother!”

Madam Chen’s eyes widened in horror. Of course, she knew who Rossa was.

and Madam Chen paid a nurse to kill

woman.

she came home bearing a newborn baby. It was later said that Alice

Chen was skeptical because she was very sure that Alice didn’t give birth to twins. The nurse said so. However, there was no report of another woman giving birth in that hospital a week before and after Alice gave birth… weird, right?

recorded one birth a week before and after Alice’s child was born.

Alice decided to name the dead child Rossa Lee, while the one she brought home was called Jeslyn. However, at a point, especially when Jeslyn was young, Alice

confused as to why Alice would call her child Jeslyn and Rossa. As her Assistant and best friend, she had asked Alice a couple of

isn’t love depicted with a

the Chen family’s record book, Alice wrote the two children’s names. One was

why she made the names that way, so Chen Wales left

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was this

the same hospital as my twin sister. What

was mine!

were no birth records doesn’t mean there truly weren’t. However, that’s not the case. You didn’t treat my daughter well even though she

out of her wealth, her trust, her love, and her child. Not only that, you caused my father to die

forgiveness is not a part of it. Your only

have here; a gun, a whip, poison, I can force your to commit suicide by hanging, or I can burn your mansion down. Which do you choose? I give you 5 seconds before I choose for

in alarm. She tried so hard to say something but couldn’t. She started to say something with her hands flinging around in panic as tears of remorse streamed down

up. I know the pain of being separated from your child, so I’m sending you all off. Don’t worry, Christine and Emilee, plus your husband will join you two after my daughter is done

from her backpack and sprinkled the content around the room. She walked to the window and before she could jump down, Alex lit a lighter and threw it into