Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

179 Finding out the truth

“Diana… I’m sorry for what I did in the past. I know I hurt your feelings, forgive me.” 1

“We were friends, Alex, at least I treated you that way but you never saw me as one…” she placed the drink on the table and got up. Diana walked to the white wall behind her and placed her palm on it. Just like Maverick’s Cabin house, the wall splitted in two. Behind the wall was another wall with pictures stuck to it.

The pictures were of three young teenage girls. Alice, Alex, and Diana. In almost all the pictures, Alice and Diana formed a heart shape with their index and thumb fingers joined together and Alex placed her index finger in the middle of the heart, dividing it in two.

All the pictures they took in different yearstogether were like that except one which has no Alex in it. Alice and Diana made a love shape that wasn’t divided.

“You should still remember what these pictures stand for, right?” Diana asked while looking at the pictures.

Alex didn’t stand up from her seat because she could see the photos clearly. “It’s our journey in the organization.”

“Good that you still remember. When we started, we believed what they fed us until we found love, but what did you do, Alex? You betrayed me… you betrayed our sacred bond!”

Alex said nothing in defense. She had always been a bad girl from the beginning, whenever she did something and tried to explain, no one except Alice believed her, so she stopped explaining and rather chose to bear all accusations.

Why are you here?” She returned to

to know everything that happened with

makes you think I would tell you?” She raised

knows I had a

caught up with you. Why should I help you? Why do you think I can’t alert the sisterhood that you are

Alex stayed silent.

speak?” Diana asked, a

death will be in vain if the sisterhood gets Jeslyn… you’re her godmother too, so I’m sure

right, Alice gave up everything for Alex’s daughter that she loved dearly. Letting Alice’s sacrifice go

closed her eyes and took a deep breath as she welcomed the

your pregnancy, your sister was also pregnant.

hospital and Alice’s child was killed by that woman, then

Alex nodded.

returned to the organization, thinking no one from the sisterhood knows. Well, the Doyenne did. She wasn’t sure about why you suddenly requested a year’s leave, so she sent a

found out and had me locked away for five years. When I got out a year later, I learned that Jeslyn or Rossa…

“She answers both.”

forbidden island. I and Alice thought it was a good and bad thing, considering that Doyenne sent people to take Jeslyn Rossa back from the island but because Lu Hao got involved,

dangers there than the organization, Alice paid no heed to Jeslyn Rossa’s tantrum of wanting to see her ‘older brother‘, which

cries and rejection of food for weeks. Seeing that her daughter might die, Alice had no choice but to tamper with Jeslyn Rossa’s memory and I also helped her destroy the child’s and