Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom novel Chapter 179

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. 

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

“I want to know everything that happened with my daughter and Alice.” 

“What makes you think I would tell you?” She raised a brow. 

Alex hesitated for a while before coming clean. “The sisterhood knows I had a child. Before they come for her, I need to be prepared.” 

“Hahahaha… karma has finally caught 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 there now?” 

Alex stayed silent. 

“You won’t speak?” Diana asked, a little annoyed. 

“Alice died to keep the sisterhood 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 want your goddaughter dead.” 

Diana’s muscles tensed when she heard that. That’s right, Alice gave up everything for Alex’s daughter that she loved dearly. Letting Alice’s sacrifice go to waste is something she cannot take. 

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath as she welcomed the memories that carne to her. 

“26 years ago, after you ran away with your pregnancy, your sister was also pregnant. You two gave 

birth 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. 

“After that, you left Country G and 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 mole after you. I killed the mole, but she had already told Doyenne something. 

I tried 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… what should I call her?” 

“She answers both.” 

“Fine, Jeslyn Rossa got entangled 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 they sank the island. 

It would have been a good thing for 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 Ren or Maverick as he choose to be called. 

Jeslyn Rossa got sick due to 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, so the sisterhood couldn’t do anything for those years. 

Although it worked, Jeslyn Rossa didn’t stop bothering Alice to give her a sibling. We both know that Alice’s womb was removed after she gave birth to her dead baby, so she couldn’t give birth anymore, which was why when she saw that Christine girl, she adopted her. 

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Things got better at Alice’s side but who would have thought that Damien Yu, Feng Yu’s twin would see Jeslyn Rossa as a good chess piece to bring Maverick down?” 

“What has this got to do with Psycho?” Pink frowned. 

“Remember Jeslyn and Maverick Lu got entangled on the island, right? That was when Maverick fell in love. He also disturbed his father to bring him Rossa. All these caused a stir in Country M, so Damien. Yu got to know that Maverick liked someone. 

Around eleven years ago… Jeslyn was 15 at the time if I’m not mistaken. Damien Yu injected Jeslyn with ATOM through the health care service Jeslyn received in school after getting injured in a play. You already know that part, right?” 

Alex shook her head stiffly. Most of Jeslyn’s childhood she knew nothing about because she was 

hiding and preventing the sisterhood from discovering anything. She had no idea that the sisterhood 

thought Alice and Jeslyn died on the island. 

She only got to know that Jeslyn had the ATOM virus Inside her when she turned 16. Ever since, she started to send the suppression pills every month to Alice. It was on one of those deliveries that the sisterhood caught on to her activity and investigated to find out the child they thought was dead 

didn’t die and also, the child was hers and not Alice’s.