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

his lips. Besides,

hadn’t even been able to protect

man seemed to have deflated after experiencing

had become more

now as

day she miscarried, she couldn’t forgive herself or

tongue seemed to have turned into a sharp knife she used to lash out at him, as if doing so would dull the overwhelming

you from

froze, unsure of where she was going with this.

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

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

needed Julian to find out the

it was obvious he didn’t

it’s Kayla, so it doesn’t matter even if she was the biggest factor behind the

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

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

never