Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

181 Finding out the truth (3)

Eat tears pulled out of Alex’s eyes. She could feel the stabbing pain in her chest. She slowly clawed her chest. Her daughter and sister suffered so much, yet her sister told her nothing about it. 1 On that day, while they were fighting the enemies, Alex saw her sister bleeding from the stomach and it wasn’t a bullet wound, so Alex thought it was the enemies‘ blood. After all, they were using anything dangerous- that included guns and surgical tools. If she knew that the blood on Alice’s stomach was from Alice’s injury, she wouldn’t have allowed her to continue fighting.

Coming to that realization, Alex couldn’t contain her sorrow anymore. She cried so hard that her voice broke.

All these while, Diana was looking at her without consoling her. That was how she cried too. Everything was Alex’s fault, so I’ll let her cry blood! She thought.

After a while of Alex’s silent sobbing, her mind jolted and she quickly asked; “Th- the child?” She already knew who the child her daughter gave birth to was.

If the stillborn Vera gave birth to was switched with Jeslyn’s son, then does Alex need a soothsayer to tell her who the child was? However, she was hoping it wasn’t what she was thinking.

“Valen Lu…” Diana paused to watch how Alex broke down even more.

been living with her grandchild for so long but had no idea. She saw how Mulan almost ruined Valen’s life,

wasn’t feeling pity for her but still patted her shoulder anyway.

already living with him while she was pregnant. She should

caught up in a life and death battle with the Dark Age

gritted her teeth and balled her hands in tight fists.

Diana took a sip from the glass cup. Telling Alex everything in detail was so that Alex

was better she knew everything at once than to get them bit by bit. She doesn’t like such

got through to Maverick, Ruben was able to carry out the plan with guards around because the head of

when Code four was killed for betrayal. Maverick hates betrayers and wouldn’t spare anyone even if they were his trusted subordinates. However, what she cared about at the moment was why the other guards couldn’t reach Maverick in time. “Network was disturbed?” This was the

M at the time was very bad, so the men couldn’t get through to Maverick and at the same time. Vera was able

Alex wiped

“Ruben.” Diana frowned.

“How so?”

what Ruben’s plans are. I didn’t get to find out how Ruben replaced Jeslyn with Vera without Damien knowing. But what I know Is that Damien never intended for Jeslyn to hold on to Maverick’s child. He wanted Jeslyn to give birth, snatch the child and send him to Maverick, then when Maverick starts to look for the mother, Damien would

a part in confusing his brother?” Alex