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.

would. Pink had been living with her grandchild for so long but had no idea. She saw how Mulan almost ruined Valen’s life, yet, she turned a blind eye.

She wailed loudly, detesting herself even more. 2 Diana wasn’t feeling pity for her but still patted her

had composed herself and asked, “what about Maverick, where did he go when all these were happening? Vera was already living with him while she was pregnant. She should have given birth with

before Vera was supposed to give birth, Maverick was caught up in a

Alex gritted her teeth and balled her hands in

glass cup. Telling Alex everything in detail was

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

up, Vera went to Country G and after the deed was done, she was transported to Rose City before Maverick’s men that escorted Vera around finally got through to Maverick, Ruben was able to carry out the

prison 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

nodded. “Network in Country M at the time was very bad, so the men couldn’t get through to Maverick and at

Not Damien?” Alex wiped her

“Ruben.” Diana frowned.

“How so?”

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

Ruben played a part in confusing his brother?” Alex