Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

141 Alex’s regrets

“… I watched the family fall apart in the hands of a riff–raff. If I couldn’t even protect my family from a nobody like Damien, then, how can I protect it from others?” She shut her eyes tightly as memories flashed through her mind. 1

There were no sweet memories between her and her family. It was either she was having a heated argument with Alice, her mother, or father.

Other times, it was her threatening to leave the house. The last one was after Alice slapped her. She fought back and in the end, Old Man Lee gritted his teeth and disowned her.

Alex had thought that was the best thing that could ever happen to her…getting disowned. Unfortunately, it was the beginning of her misery.

Her eyes opened and tears gushed out.

I can feel our daughter will be different from us. I

on the tiled floor and rested her back on the wall with her hands supporting her knees before she started speaking slowly like she was having a non–serious conversation with a friend who was sitting in front

things got tough and took on another identity and appearance, thinking everyone would believe I died too, but I was wrong… so wrong, sister. I was informed that they are searching for me and the baby I ran away with. Alice, the child isn’t theirs, she’s not supposed to be theirs. She’s

stood there intimidating her mildly freckled face. Her full and long lashes, just like Jeslyn’s sat there protecting and

finding out everything and still doesn’t see me as his mother–in–law, then what about my daughter? Will she ever accept me?” Tears

badly that it wanted to explode. Alex had never regretted anything in her life like she was regretting her irrational

right did she have to seek revenge for the suffering her daughter went through when she had intentionally made

they were scheming against her daughter and family but she couldn’t do anything because she was hiding away from

on her birthday night, She wouldn’t have gone through that pain and agony she went through.

living with a virus in her body. She wouldn’t be

difficult at all, but because of her mother, it became an

my

more Alex blamed herself, the more her