Julian’s Stand-In Wife

Chapter 1005

“Okay,” Julian said with a nod, even before Noel completed his sentence.

He was probably annoyed with Noel.

Noel smiled bitterly. He did something he shouldn’t have done. It was right of Mr. Fulcher to be annoyed with him.

To his surprise, Cecilia refused to let him go.

“Mommy, where are you going?”

Her words stopped Noel dead in his tracks.

“I…”

Before Noel could say anything further, Cecilia pulled her wrist out of Shiloh’s grasp and clung to Noel. Her touch made him feel like he was being thrown into a furnace. His entire body burned as he stood stock-still, staring at Julian.

Embarrassing.

Noel felt utterly and completely embarrassed.

“Mr. Fulcher, please don’t misunderstand. Ms. Jarvis sees me as her mother.

know.” Julian pulled Cecilia back gently, and pressed her down on the stool. He said firmly, “Sit still and let the doctor

Noel a look and dismissed the

prescription. “This is the prescription. I’ll

quality, and Shiloh trusted only the ones he sourced himself. Julian

“Sure,” he agreed.

the door as they

he returned to the room, Cecilia had

still in the middle of the day. Julian was standing right there, so he

was standing guard at

disappeared in the

darkened with displeasure, and he went off in search of her. But no matter how

while, he received a call from

Fulcher,” Noel stammered. “M-Ms. Jarvis has been running after my car for a long

bear to leave so quickly, he wouldn’t have realized that Cecilia had been chasing

stilted. He paused for a moment before saying,

be apart from Noel, work in the office just had to wait. Julian assigned someone else to take over Noel’s

didn’t expect Cecilia to demand Noel to keep her