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.

a nurse to kill the child because she didn’t want her husband to

woman.

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

that Alice didn’t give birth to twins. The nurse said so. However, there was no report of another woman giving birth in

only recorded one birth a week before

she brought home was called Jeslyn. However,

would call her child Jeslyn and Rossa. As her Assistant and best friend, she had asked Alice a couple of times but she wouldn’t give

like 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

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

explanation why she made the names that way, so Chen

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

was mine!

mean there truly weren’t. However, that’s not the case. You

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

should punish you? Nah, asking for forgiveness is not a part of it. Your only option is death, so how do you choose to

here; a gun, a whip, poison, I can force your to commit suicide by hanging, or I can burn your mansion down. Which do you choose? I

started to say something with her hands flinging around in panic as tears of remorse streamed

Don’t worry, Christine and

and sprinkled the content around the room. She walked to the window and before she could jump down, Alex