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.

with Sean. “A boy who’s completely spoiled by his mother. He

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 called

being rudely

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

recounted what had happened

be sleeping

left her. Her ears perked up, and she eavesdropped

asked Vans eagerly,

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

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

“Strange.”

“What’s so strange?”

mother, why must Diana take a DNA test to know who the biological father of the twins are?” A gulp of

clearly affected by his agitation. ‘What

betrayed Julian!” Fury rose in his chest as he thought about how blind he had been about Diana. “And not

absurd. Her face contorted

doesn’t know who the twins’ biological father is.

Bam!

she got out of bed, got changed, and

forget to fling a pillow at Vans before she left.