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?!

bright

almost fainted from the

up in his arms and yelled for Noel, instructing the latter to fetch

hospital.

that his legs

Diana.

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

bowstring.

seemed to have lost

Noel held him up, and stretched his

Julian would never allow

was crippling fear

Yet, at the thought of anything that had

to her, he found

although he had no idea how he managed to

chaos and

in him to walk in step

door handle and said icily, “I don’t want you

hurting Mommy!”

outside the door and dealing with that damned electronic lock,

have fainted!

never-seen-before coldness filled Sean’s

sent chills down

like a warning