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.

Lee, she gave birth to a girl and Madam Chen paid a nurse to kill the child because

woman.

bearing a newborn baby. It was later said that Alice gave birth to

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

hospital only recorded one birth a week before and after Alice’s

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 used to call Jeslyn Rossa.

best friend, she had asked Alice a couple of times but she wouldn’t give her a definite

the name, it 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; Alice doesn’t want to

Alice wrote

explanation why she made the names

1. be.

1/3

what was this

sister’s child, I happened to have also given birth at the same hospital as my twin sister. What do

was mine!

that’s not the case.

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

a part of it. Your only option is death, so how do you

whip, poison, I can force your to commit suicide by hanging, or I can burn

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 her cheeks, yet Alex was

I’m sending you all off. Don’t worry, Christine and Emilee, plus your husband

bottle from her backpack and sprinkled the content around the room. She