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.

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

woman.

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

there was no report of another woman giving birth in that hospital

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

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

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

of Rose, and rose is for love… isn’t love depicted with a heart symbol?” That explanation was

was that, in the Chen family’s record book, Alice wrote the two children’s names. One was Rossa Lee and

the names that way, so Chen Wales left the names

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the same hospital as my twin sister. What

was mine!

mean there truly weren’t. However, that’s not the case. You didn’t treat my daughter well even though she was harmless to you.

trust, her love, and her child. Not only that, you

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

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

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

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 taking

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