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.

Chen married Alice Lee, she gave birth to a girl and Madam Chen paid a nurse to kill

woman.

later said that Alice gave birth to

to twins. The nurse said so. However, there was no report of another woman giving birth in that hospital a week before

recorded one birth a week before

the one she brought home was called

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

reminds me of Rose, and rose is for love… isn’t love depicted with a heart symbol?” That explanation was weird, so Bella took it as;

most surprising thing about it all was that, in the Chen family’s record book, Alice wrote the two children’s names. One was Rossa

explanation why she made the names that

1. be.

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was this woman

child, I happened to have also given birth at the same hospital as my twin sister. What do you expect? You can’t find anything even though you searched because the

was mine!

the case. You didn’t

and her child.

not a part of it. Your only option is death, so how do

by hanging, or I can burn your mansion down. Which do you choose? I give you 5 seconds before

Chen widened her eyes 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

so I’m sending you all off. Don’t worry, Christine and Emilee, plus your husband will join you two after my

that said, Alex pulled out a small bottle 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