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.

chuckled again. “I know you won’t say anything, so no need. Why are you here?” She returned to her seat with a stoic

to know everything that happened with my

think I would tell you?” She

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

you think I can’t alert the sisterhood that you are in my

Alex stayed silent.

speak?” Diana asked, a

away from my child. Her death will be in vain if the sisterhood gets Jeslyn… you’re her godmother too, so I’m sure you won’t

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

her eyes and took a deep breath as

with your pregnancy, your sister was also pregnant. You two gave

was killed by that woman, then you gave Alice your daughter. This is a story you

Alex nodded.

did. She wasn’t sure about why you suddenly requested a year’s leave, so

five years. When I got out a year later, I learned that Jeslyn or Rossa…

“She answers both.”

Alice thought it was a good and bad thing, considering that Doyenne sent people to take Jeslyn Rossa back

Rossa to be connected to the Lu family, but knowing there were more dangers there than the organization, Alice paid no heed to

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