Julian’s Stand-In Wife

Chapter 167

Diana had to admit, Julian’s features were attractive no matter where he was. Even though she didn’t think too much about it, she felt uncomfortable when Julian’s deep eyes were fixed on her.

His presence in this room was simply too overwhelming.

Clearing her throat, Diana waited for the man to leave. When it was clear he had no intention of doing so, asked seriously, “It’s already late. Why aren’t you leaving?”

Julian seemed more surprised than her when she voiced her question as if she had said something

pathetically stupid. “We’re not divorced yet.”

she

The man was more serious than her as he explained, “If we stay in different rooms right after reconciling,

how would it look to Grandma?”

Grandma would instantly know that they had lied. Julian’s words did make sense…in a way.

Still, something was still weird. Plus, Diana didn’t want to sleep on the same bed that Kayla had slept in. She quickly said, “I’ll sleep on the couch.”

The couch could be pulled out to be a small single bed. Though it wasn’t big, it was comfortable enough for one person. Diana quickly thought about it and knew it would work, so she turned around to get a quilt from the cupboard.

Snap!

room suddenly went

came

and sleep.‘

could sleep since he was already in bed, but what about her?! She hadn’t

time to make her

into darkness so abruptly, Diana couldn’t get her eyes to adjust so quickly and didn’t dare move for fear of tripping over something. She stood stiffly in place as she waited for

Snap!

light beside

his brows wrinkled in displeasure. He glared half–heartedly

asking Diana to sleep on the bed, and he would take the couch.

her to bed.

This was too much!

help but shrink back at Julian’s furrowed

touch me!” Her sharp voice echoed through

she did feel that her reaction was excessive. But at

face when he forced her

had carried her in. From then on, his

maintain a superficial peace with Julian and put on a strong front, but it turned out that there was