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!”

was now

I was wrong. I’m

this and tried to pull him

She didn’t understand!

children’s grave, what difference does it make? Those two children were stillborn! But you are Diana’s father,

his chest with each word

Diana, and his panic grew stronger as her elegant

ground, the dull sound echoing in the

forehead from the repeated knocks broke Kate’s heart. At the same time, she

matter how she tried to pull James up, he refused

with a swift movement, he slapped Kate across

damned woman!

second. He immediately knew that Kate’s words had only served to fuel the fire that

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

I were foolish!

face as he spoke, and he raised his palm to strike himself on the face, one

his forehead and cheeks were completely covered in bruises that

This was a hospital.

the commotion they caused became the center of

bits and pieces of their conversation, some people concluded that Diana was heartless and cold, and they began to