Julian’s Stand-In Wife

Diana felt as if someone had hit her head with a brick.

This was the child she had painstakingly brought up day by tedious day, night by torturous night, through all the fatigue of not getting even three hours of sleep a day.

She thought she understood him, but in actual fact, Julian’s words had more power over her child than she did as his mother.

Not only was Sean willing to acknowledge Julian, but he was even willing to go home with Julian and abandon his mother.

“Mommy, don’t be sad.” Sean remained very clear-minded. ” It’ll be good for everyone if Betty and I go home with Daddy.”

That was especially so given Betty’s condition. “The house we’re staying in belongs to Uncle Simon. We’ll have to return it to him one day.”

Since they now had a father, he didn’t want Mommy to be involved with other men.

That might make Daddy angry.

Sean had been seriously contemplating what getting married meant.

Of course, he understood that his mommy and Mr. Julian were currently divorced.

But this didn’t change the fact that they were his and Betty’s parents.

could change the ties between

so foreign to him. “Daddy’s place has many

Daddy’s rich and powerful.

no harm following

us, and we’ll

hit Diana’s head like a

he was

conditions were far superior to

very own son, whom she single-handedly raised,

on the verge of an

to be defeated so

didn’t let her sorrow

low and said to Sean,

you that I’ll support whatever decision you make. Since you want to go with Daddy, go ahead. I’ll pack

could no longer hold herself back and rushed into the room. She hurriedly

a second longer, she feared she might

had never felt

yet her children didn’t choose