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.”

left the disposing of Luke’s corpse to her, instead of trying to protect her

Besides, it wasn’t like he

hadn’t even been able

have deflated after experiencing this incident, and he had

had become more humble, cautious, and

see his maturity now as she was only

the rainy day she miscarried, she couldn’t forgive

knife she used to lash out at him, as if doing so would dull the overwhelming hatred that threatened to pour

all of you from big,

froze, unsure of where she

preserve the existence of his family, and you… To

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

Julian to

was obvious he

even if she was the biggest factor behind the babies‘ death,

and ambushed, it was impossible to say that Luke didn’t have any help from an

Luke would’ve been good enough to get the information he had gotten on his

believe that Julian hadn’t thought of it, but he simply hadn’t bothered to investigate. It even seemed that was all there was to it once

would never