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

lips. Besides,

able to

seemed to have deflated

more humble, cautious,

his maturity now as

she miscarried, she couldn’t forgive

seemed to have turned into a sharp knife she used to lash out at him, as if doing

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

she

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

‘that woman‘, and

to find

obvious he didn’t

if she was

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

would’ve been good enough to get the information he had

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

never