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.

his mother. He has poor habits, and he

to bed, Julian went to the corridor outside her 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

rudely

suppressed his fatigue and replied, “What exactly

recounted what

sleeping

Julian on the phone, her drowsiness left her. Her ears perked up,

finally hung up, she asked Vans eagerly,

kids. I’m sure Julian knows what he’s doing. Don’t go texting Diana just because you heard that the twins are crying. I

you into taking Julian’s toothbrush for

“Strange.”

“What’s so strange?”

who the biological father of the twins are?” A gulp of refreshing cold water cleared up Vans’s mind, and he said excitedly, “I

swallowed hard, clearly affected by

in his chest as he thought about how blind he had

his words absurd. Her face contorted

“She got involved with too many men, she doesn’t know

Bam!

bed, got changed, and left

Vans before she left.