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 the child because

woman.

bearing a newborn baby. It was later said that Alice gave birth to twins. One died and

so. However, there was

week before and

Rossa Lee, while the one she brought home was called Jeslyn. However, at a point, especially when Jeslyn was young, Alice used to call

and Rossa. As her Assistant and best friend, she had asked Alice a couple of times but

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

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

she made the names that way, so Chen Wales

1. be.

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what was this woman

happened to have also given birth at the same hospital as my twin sister. What do you expect? You can’t

was mine!

no birth records doesn’t mean there truly weren’t. However, that’s not the case. You

and her child. Not only that, you

I should punish you? Nah, asking for forgiveness is not a part of it.

have here; a gun, a whip, poison, I can force your to commit suicide by hanging, or I can

in alarm. She tried so hard to say something but couldn’t. She started to say something with her hands flinging

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

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