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

woman.

newborn baby. It was later said that Alice gave

that Alice didn’t give birth to twins. The nurse said so. However, there

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

Rossa Lee, while the one she brought home was called Jeslyn.

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

for love… isn’t love depicted with a heart symbol?” That explanation was weird, so Bella took it as; Alice

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

why she made the names that way, so

1. be.

1/3

what was this woman

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

was mine!

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

of her wealth, her trust, her love, and her child. Not only that, you caused my

a part of it. Your only option

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

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

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

small bottle from her backpack and sprinkled the content around the room. She walked to the window and before she could jump down,