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.

Chen married Alice Lee, she gave birth to a girl and Madam Chen paid a nurse to kill the child because she didn’t

woman.

later said that Alice gave birth to twins. One died and

nurse said so. However, there was no report of another woman giving birth in that hospital

a week before and after Alice’s child was

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

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

and rose is for love… isn’t love depicted with a

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

made the names that way, so Chen Wales left the names

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was this

my

was mine!

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

out of her wealth, her trust, her love, and her

think I should punish you? Nah, asking for forgiveness is not a part

me make things clearer. I have 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

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

up. 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

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