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.”

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

on his lips. Besides, it wasn’t like

been able to protect his

once invincible man seemed to have deflated after experiencing this incident,

become more humble,

now as she was only filled

day she miscarried, she couldn’t forgive herself

at him, as if doing so would dull the

all of you from big, wealthy families

where she was going with this.

and you… To protect one woman, you can

‘that woman‘, and she

to

was obvious

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

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

was no way Luke would’ve been good enough to get the information he had gotten

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

never let