Julian’s Stand-In Wife

Chapter 354

That’s right.

Julian had thought wrongly.

All this time, he had been used to Diana being a meek young lady at his side. He had forgotten that she was also a hardened woman who had fought her way from the countryside to Richburgh all on her own.

Even during the incident with Luke, all Julian could think of was not scaring her or letting her dirty her

hands.

It was better if those kinds of things were left to him.

Yet, he had forgotten that Diana would need to go through those things to soothe herself and vent her

emotions.

She wasn’t a canary or a fragile flower. She wasn’t a delicate peony… No, she was a tree.

A tall and firm one that stood unfearing against the howling winds.

“I’m sorry,” Julian said in a hoarse voice. He hadn’t eaten much in the past few days, his mind filled with only thoughts of Diana and worry that she would think of doing something unthinkable. “I didn’t think it through.”

her, instead of trying to protect her all the time and

bitter smile spread on his lips. Besides, it wasn’t like he could protect

hadn’t even been able to protect

have deflated

more humble, cautious,

maturity now as she was

the rainy day she miscarried,

at him, as if doing so would dull the overwhelming hatred that threatened to

you

she was going with

his own child to preserve the existence of his family, and you… To protect one woman, you can also ignore the death of your own

forgotten that Luke had mentioned ‘that woman‘, and she knew he could only be referring to

Julian to

obvious

if she was the biggest factor behind

had been trapped and ambushed, it was impossible to say that Luke didn’t have any help

been good enough to get

that Julian hadn’t thought of it, but he simply hadn’t bothered to investigate. It even

Diana would never let it