Julian’s Stand-In Wife

Chapter 777

She called his name once more.

Her voice was mesmerizing, wrapping around Julian’s heart like a twine.

His long fingers slid down her lower back as he mumbled in a low voice, “Diana Winnington, what do I do with you?”

He couldn’t bring himself to hate her.

But he couldn’t love her.

His words were too amorous.

Diana instinctively took a few steps back as she looked at him with fear. “Don’t come close to me.”

Each time he drew nearer to her, she never failed to feel a strong sense of attraction to him.

Julian standing in the narrow hallway suddenly made her feel like the tiny hallway was as vast as the ocean.

As much as she wasn’t desperate for romance, it was hard remaining ambivalent toward his outstanding appearance.

He was just too outstanding.

Diana fingers intertwined as panic and shame at her own thoughts filled her eyes.

“Simon Channing…” He finally broke the silence and turned away from her flushed face, suppressing the urge to take her

there and then. He asked, “Did

Three years ago?

couldn’t remember

possibly

Julian once more. “You shouldn’t

was a direct denial of

trying to cook up a reason for

eyes

but add,

who the woman standing before him was, and not to be

Fire burned in Julian’s heart over Diana’s

all people, Diana

of the night and the intimacy were for her and

and burning love for her. How could

Diana, “If you think it’s not

wanted to punish Kayla, he would be willing

only thing he couldn’t accept was Diana beating

eyes changed the moment he

the way here despite knowing her relationship

As it turned out…

was heartless through and

herself. He could even tell her, his potential sister-in-law,

was simply