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!”

now

me. I

and tried to pull him up. “Get

She didn’t understand!

Those two children were stillborn! But you are Diana’s father, a living person. How could she humiliate you like

harder in his

glancing behind Diana, and his panic grew stronger as her

the dull sound echoing in

on his forehead from the repeated knocks broke Kate’s heart. At the same time, she felt that doing

pull James up, he

he slapped Kate across

woman! Shut

looked at Diana and saw how her face was turning colder by the second. He immediately knew that Kate’s words

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

I were foolish!

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

until his forehead and cheeks were completely covered in

This was a hospital.

going, and the commotion they caused became the

that Diana was heartless and