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.

was very cross with Sean. “A boy who’s completely spoiled by his mother. He has poor habits, and

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

at being rudely awakened in

heard that it was Julian, he suppressed his fatigue and replied, “What

recounted what had

happened to be sleeping right next to

left her. Her ears perked up, and she eavesdropped

up, she asked Vans eagerly, “Are both

what he’s doing. Don’t go texting Diana just because you heard that the twins are crying. I haven’t settled scores with you over the

toothbrush for me, we wouldn’t be

“Strange.”

“What’s so strange?”

why must Diana take a DNA test to know who the biological father of the twins are?” A gulp of refreshing cold water cleared up Vans’s mind, and he said

swallowed hard, clearly affected by his agitation. ‘What do

Julian!” Fury rose in his chest as he thought about how blind he had

absurd.

got involved with too many men, she doesn’t

Bam!

out of bed,

Vans before