Julian’s Stand-In Wife

Chapter 518

“What? What are you talking about?” Kate continued looking at Diana, anger burning in her eyes, as if they were archenemies rather than mother and daughter.

Diana felt her heart grow increasingly colder at Kate’s gaze. She gritted her teeth and was about to speak, but then she noticed a flicker of panic on James’s face.

Suddenly, he raised his hand and slapped himself hard. A loud smack resounded in the hallway.

It was even stronger than the force of Diana’s previous slap.

He looked at Diana with a face bearing the imprint of his palm.

“Diana, I’m so sorry. It was my fault. I shouldn’t have…”

“Shouldn’t have what?” Diana pressed, sharply and relentlessly.

“I…I shouldn’t have dug up your children’s gr-gra…”

James couldn’t even bring himself to finish the sentence. His whole body was already trembling like the final leaf on a dry branch.

Instead, he dropped loudly to his knees and bowed continuously to Diana as he pleaded, “Please, I beg you… I beg you!”

about his reputation, was now prostrating himself at the feet

I was wrong.

see this and tried to pull him up. “Get

She didn’t understand!

you dug up the children’s grave, what difference does it make? Those two children were stillborn! But

heart pounded harder in his chest with

panic grew stronger as her

continued hitting his forehead against the ground, the dull sound echoing in

from the repeated knocks broke Kate’s heart. At the same time, she felt that doing this in front of everyone was

no matter how she tried to pull James up, he refused

with a swift movement, he slapped Kate across

damned woman! Shut

turning colder by the second. He immediately knew that Kate’s words had

and he could only intensify his bows to the younger woman. He even grabbed Kate and forced her to kneel together to apologize

and I were foolish!

his palm to strike himself on the

until his forehead and cheeks were completely covered in bruises that he stopped

This was a hospital.

coming and going, and the commotion they caused became the center

pieces of their conversation, some people concluded that Diana was heartless and cold, and