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.”

to her, instead of trying to protect her all the

on his lips. Besides, it wasn’t like he could

hadn’t even been able to protect his own

deflated after experiencing this incident,

more

now as she

to the rainy day she miscarried, she couldn’t

used to lash out at him, as

Diana said. “Are all of you from big, wealthy

froze, unsure of where she was going with this.

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

and she knew he could only

Julian to find out

obvious

matter even if she was the

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

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

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

Diana would never let it