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.

so no need. Why are you here?” She returned to her

everything that happened with my daughter and

you think I would tell

a while before coming clean. “The sisterhood knows I had a child.

up with you. Why should I help you? Why do you think I can’t alert the sisterhood that you are in my house? Have you forgotten what position I hold

Alex stayed silent.

speak?” Diana asked, a little annoyed.

the sisterhood gets

when she heard that. That’s right, Alice gave up everything for Alex’s daughter

eyes and took a deep breath as she welcomed

ago, after you ran away with your pregnancy, your sister was also pregnant.

at the same hospital and Alice’s child was killed by that woman, then you gave Alice your daughter. This is a story you already know.”

Alex nodded.

Doyenne did. She wasn’t sure about

to warn Alice about the impending storm but Doyenne 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.”

with Lu Hao’s first son on the 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, the sisterhood failed, so

Jeslyn Rossa to be connected to the Lu family, but knowing there were more dangers there than the organization, Alice paid no heed to Jeslyn Rossa’s tantrum of wanting to see her ‘older brother‘, which was Lu Hao’s oldest son, Lu

her excessive 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 Alice’s record so the sisterhood thought they died on the island… After all, your parents already charged identities and went incognito,