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“Be my replacement Angelica.”

“What?”

“I want you to replace me Angelica. I’m about to get married to the man of my dreams whom I’ve loved for so many years now, but his family want an heir and I’m unable to conceive but I don’t want to lose this marriage if they’re to find out that I can’t provide the heir they want, so please replace me Angelica. Bear a child for my husband in my place, and in return I’ll give you all the money you could ever ask for, but after that, you’ll leave our lives for good as if you’ve never existed.”

A cold wind howled into the hotel room from the open windows making Angelica come back to her senses with a shocked start. She looked up to catch sight of the streaks of lightening that flashed in the sky outside, it felt as if a storm was on its way.

Yes, a storm was indeed on it’s way into her life. She looked down at the white wedding dress she was wearing and scoffed in a self derisive tone. Anyone who saw her would think today was her wedding day as she was donning a full bridal attire, however the truth was far from it, instead today was the day she would be replacing her old friend from her teenage years who was also her look alike as the bride of the country’s famous CEO of the Stoll enterprises, Nicholas Stoll, a man she had never once seen before.

They said people were usually born with a double in this world, somewhere out there, is always someone who looks just like you with your every feature being the exact same, and for Angelica, that double was Diana Wilbert, a girl she had met years ago and had been astonished at their twin like resemblance. Back then Angelica and Diana had been friends for a while but inevitably, the difference in status kicked in as Diana was the daughter of a very wealthy family, while Angelica was just an ordinary girl whose mother left her and her father just a mechanic who owned a small repair shop in downtown Sylvannia. Slowly, Diana began to distance herself from Angelica and they eventually grew apart, before they both graduated and never saw each other again after that, well…until a few weeks ago.

Angelica’s father had been laying sick in a hospital bed suffering from a critical heart attack, in her desperate moment where Angelica had nowhere to turn to, her boss refusing to give her a loan to pay for her father’s surgery, Diana suddenly appeared at almost the right moment like an angel sent to help Angelica out of her trying times, however the price for saving her father proved to be something she couldn’t believe when she’d heard it.

“Be my replacement Angelica.”

Angelica could still remember Diana’s request vividly in her mind, actually, it had been playing repetitively in her head right from the moment she had said yes to Diana just in order to save her father’s life. Angelica was someone who was more than willing to do anything for the sake of her family, which was why she used to run two jobs just to pay the bills and her brother’s college tuition until her father had a heart attack and things began to go terribly wrong.

The wind once again blew into the hotel room Angelica was sitting in waking her from her thoughts, she stood up and walked towards the windows about to pull them close to reduce the cold blowing in when her eyes sighted the beautiful celebration taking place in the distance.

Far in the hotel’s exquisite garden, a wedding was currently taking place, all the guests were seated in their seats in a perfect order, looking towards the altar, Angelica could not spot the groom’s face, all she could see was a tall and broad back from her point of view, however the bride’s face was right in her sight, and it was a face completely identical to her own. Large doe like eyes with lovely glimmering hazel orbs, a small pin nose and heart shaped lips, which in Diana’s case was curled up in a wide smile as she was beaming from ear to ear, and as for Angelica, her face only held an uncertainty and internal sadness.

Right now Diana was the bride, but just a few hours later they would switch places and to the world Angelica would now be known as Diana Stoll, the official wife of Nicholas Stoll for a duration of nine months which she would bear a child, a child that would officially belong to the real Diana and Nicholas Stoll. And as for her, she would exit their lives as if she had never been there, it would be as if she never existed.

Angelica stared for some time at the couple who officiated their marriage by sharing a kiss before she went back into the room again and shut the windows. She sat on the bed again, her hands curling nervously together, time slowly passed without her realizing until all of a sudden, the locks on the door twisted and it was pushed open, Angelica quickly swung her head up with a start, her heart beating faster.

It was an attractive looking woman with a thick and curvy body who’d walked in, Angelica recognized her as Shandra, Diana’s personal assistant who seemed quite close with Diana, and was also the only one who knew about this secret exchange between them.

“It’s time.” Shandra informed with a straight face showing professionalism, knowing that Angelica was already aware of what she was talking about. Angelica got on her feet instinctively, her heart which was hammering loudly seemed to plunge into the pits of her stomach quickly picked up a faster pace again.

Nevertheless, Angelica nodded her head silently before slowly following behind Shandra who had turned to lead the way. They walked through a shortcut door in the hotel, Angelica keeping her head down the whole time with the veil on her wedding dress let down to conceal her face, though it wasn’t as if there was currently anyone walking along the path they were taking, in fact there wasn’t a single soul, Diana must have made sure of that.

Angelica wasn’t aware how long it took, but they finally arrived at the VVIP suite in the hotel, where she would be sitting waiting as Nicholas’s newly wedded bride in place of Diana, this was where they’d switch places.

Shandra pushed the door open, then made a hand gesture for Angelica to go in. Angelica gulped hardly peering into the dark room she was brought into before looking over at Shandra’s stern face, then took a step to go inside when Shandra’s sudden voice stopped her in her tracks, “Just remember what you were hired to do, your only job is to bear a child and that’s it, don’t start to develop any ideas along the way or even grow selfish, because that will only incur dire consequences.”

Angelica turned around, her gaze slightly bewildered as she stared at Shandra. The woman offered her a shallow smile, “Just a casual reminder, go on then. From this moment on, your countdown starts, do everything you can to conceive a child as soon as possible, and you’ll get all the rewards Diana has promised you.”

Angelica seemed distracted by her own thoughts at Shandra’s reminder when the woman’s voice travelled into her ears again. “For your own sake, I just hope you get the task done without any ulterior motives, otherwise…”

Darkness slowly concealed Angelica’s bewildered face as Shandra finally closed the door then left.

“What did she mean by ulterior motives?” Angelica muttered to herself feeling slightly confused.

A thought fleeted into her mind as she slowly realized what Shandra had meant by that final warning she had given. Though Angelica had never seen the man before, she had heard that Nicholas Stoll was an incredibly handsome man. Could it be that what Shandra was trying to say was that she shouldn’t end up falling in love with him along the way and just focus on her task of bearing him a child?

If that was the case then there was nothing to worry about, because she had absolutely no plans of developing any personal or emotional feelings, her goal was perfectly clear to her, all she had to do was get pregnant, bear a child, and leave after that.

At this exact moment, the room’s door clicked and opened, Angelica whirled around to see a tall figure at the door, the light coming from behind him created a shadow around him where she couldn’t make out his face due to the darkness inside the room. Angelica hadn’t been able to look for the light switch yet because she had been lost in her own thoughts since she was brought into the room.

As that broad and tall figure wordlessly began to approach her, Angelica’s heart which seemed to have taken a break began to beat faster again, she felt like she’d not been given enough time to prepare for the man’s arrival until he just suddenly did.