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.

Sean. “A boy who’s completely spoiled by his mother. He has poor habits,

outside her room. He peeked into Sean’s room to make sure the boy wasn’t

at being rudely awakened in the middle of the

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

what

happened to be sleeping right

her drowsiness left her. Her ears perked up, and she eavesdropped on

Vans finally hung up, she asked Vans eagerly, “Are

go texting Diana just because you

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

“Strange.”

“What’s so strange?”

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

by

in his chest as he thought about how blind he had been about Diana. “And

words absurd.

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

Bam!

was so angry that she got out of bed, got

didn’t forget to fling a pillow at Vans before