Julian’s Stand-In Wife

The moment Sean yelled, Julian heard Betty’s voice in the midst of the choruses of the electronic lock warnings.” Daddy!

Sniff… Come quickly! Mommy… Mommy’s bleeding…”

Bleeding?

Julian’s face turned ashen immediately.

The image of Diana bleeding on that rainy day emerged in his mind.

No!

Impossible!

She wasn’t pregnant this time.

How could she be bleeding?

She couldn’t be having a miscarriage, either!

“Let me take a look first,” Julian said, striving to keep his composure. He yelled to Diana to stop her from her wild

counterattacks, and hurried over to her.

At the next second, his countenance changed.

His face paled.

How did this happen…

How did this happen?!

bleeding. Her blood was bright red, a

almost fainted

for Noel, instructing the latter to

hospital.

realized that his legs were too weak to support him. He

Diana.

Diana having a miscarriage on that rainy day kept playing non-stop in his mind, making

bowstring.

to have

him up, and stretched his arms out. ” Let me help

were in the past, Julian would never

now, there was crippling

Yet, at the thought

to her, he found himself growing

said, although he had no idea how he managed to squeeze out

himself feeling increasingly faint amidst the chaos and children crying around him. It took him

him to walk in

before Julian stepped into the car, Sean grabbed the door handle and said icily, “I don’t want you

hurting Mommy!”

Julian hadn’t insisted on locking him outside the door

have fainted!

coldness filled

chills down Julian’s

like a warning to