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.

girl and Madam Chen paid a

woman.

was discharged, she came home bearing a newborn baby. It was later said that Alice gave birth

didn’t give birth to twins. The nurse said so. However, there was no report of another woman giving birth in that hospital a week before and after

birth a week before and

child’s naming, Alice decided to name the dead child Rossa Lee, while the one she brought home was called Jeslyn. However, at

As her Assistant and best friend, she had asked Alice

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

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

explanation why she made the names

1. be.

1/3

what was this woman saying?

hospital as my twin sister. What do you expect? You can’t find anything even though you searched because the

was mine!

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

sister out of her wealth, her trust, her love, and her child.

how do you 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

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

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

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 lighter