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 he threaten you three

Three years ago?

couldn’t remember a single

possibly have

more. “You

a direct denial of Julian’s

trying to cook up a reason for why

eyes was too piercing

couldn’t help but add, “I’m not Kayla

standing before him was, and not to be

heart over Diana’s words as he emphasized once more, “And I’m not treating you as

that, of all people, Diana should

the love, the hugs in the middle of the night and the intimacy

beating heart and burning love for her.

another possibility, and he said to Diana, “If you think it’s not enough for her to just be behind bars, you can

to punish Kayla,

thing he couldn’t accept was Diana beating around

eyes changed

way here

As it turned out…

heartless through and

a woman who gave him a child, he could leave another woman behind bars to fend for herself. He could even tell her, his potential sister-in-law, that he could make Kayla’s life in

was simply