Julian’s Stand-In Wife

Meanwhile, Betty was still awake.

Her eyes flew wide open the moment she heard about her brother crying.

She kept struggling to leave the room, looking as if she wanted to go and look for Sean.

Julian could tell what she was trying to do, but this time, he didn’t let her have her way.

Julian carried her back to the bed, not even bothering to read her a story. “Betty, it’s already past midnight. You must go back to sleep!”

He tucked her into the sheets, not taking no for an answer.

Before, Julian had never treated Betty like this. Although she was ill, she wasn’t completely ignorant or unfeeling.

Especially now, with how frightening Julian seemed.

Her eyes welled up with tears.

The sight of her tear-filled eyes made Julian recall what Mrs. Lay had said about Sean crying silently in his room.

That wasn’t how a man should behave!

He could understand why Betty cried, but not why Sean did the same.

boy who’s completely spoiled by his mother. He has poor habits, and he doesn’t have an ounce of

room. He peeked into Sean’s room to make sure the boy wasn’t crying anymore and was fast asleep. Only then did he close the door, relieved. After that, he

was clearly unhappy at being rudely awakened in the middle of the

suppressed his fatigue and

recounted what

be sleeping

moment she heard Julian on the phone, her drowsiness left her. Her ears perked up, and

up, she asked Vans

knows what he’s doing. Don’t go texting Diana just because you heard that the

defend herself. “If I didn’t trick you into taking Julian’s toothbrush for me, we wouldn’t

“Strange.”

“What’s so strange?”

to know who the biological father of the twins are?” A gulp of refreshing cold water cleared up Vans’s mind, and

swallowed hard, clearly affected by

his chest as he thought about how blind he

found his words absurd. Her face

doesn’t know

Bam!

so angry that she got out of bed, got

to fling a pillow at Vans