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.”

of trying to protect her all the time and sheltering her from the

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

been able to protect

man seemed to have deflated after experiencing this incident,

more humble,

his maturity now as

to the rainy day she miscarried, she couldn’t

into a sharp knife she used to lash out at him, as if doing so would dull the overwhelming hatred that

you from big, wealthy

froze, unsure of where she was going with this.

and you… To protect one woman, you can also ignore the death

‘that woman‘, and she knew he could

Julian to

it was obvious he didn’t

Kayla, so it doesn’t matter even if she

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

good enough to get the information he

he simply hadn’t bothered to investigate.

would never