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!”

man, who always cared about his reputation, was now prostrating himself at

I was wrong.

bear to see this and tried to pull him up.

She didn’t understand!

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

heart pounded harder in his

Diana, and his panic

the dull sound echoing in

knocks broke Kate’s heart. At the same time, she felt that doing

to pull James up,

with a swift movement, he slapped

damned woman! Shut

face was turning colder by the second. He immediately knew that Kate’s words had only served to fuel the fire that was already burning bright in Diana’s

only intensify his bows to the younger woman. He even grabbed Kate and forced her

I were

spoke, and he raised his palm

wasn’t until his forehead and cheeks were completely covered in bruises that he stopped and looked at Diana with

This was a hospital.

the commotion they caused became the center of

and pieces of their conversation, some people concluded that