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.

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

woman.

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

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

birth a week before and after Alice’s child was

was called Jeslyn. However, at a point, especially when Jeslyn was young, Alice used

call her child Jeslyn and Rossa. As her Assistant and best friend, she had

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 to tell her

wrote the two children’s

explanation why she made the names that way, so Chen Wales

1. be.

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was this woman saying?

birth at the same hospital as my twin sister. What

was mine!

there truly weren’t. However, that’s not the case. You didn’t treat my daughter well even though

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

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

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

Chen widened her eyes in alarm. She tried so hard to say something but couldn’t. She started to say something with her hands flinging around in panic

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

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