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 red, a sharp contrast from her

almost fainted

Noel, instructing the latter to fetch the car and

hospital.

stand up, he realized that his legs were too weak to support him.

Diana.

miscarriage on that rainy day kept playing non-stop in his mind, making him as tense as

bowstring.

have lost

and stretched his arms out.

in the past, Julian would never allow Noel

there was crippling fear in his

thought of anything that had to do with Diana

her, he found himself growing increasingly

had no idea how he managed to squeeze out

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

in step with Noel toward

Sean grabbed the door handle and said icily, “I don’t want you coming! You

hurting Mommy!”

him outside the door and

have fainted!

coldness filled

sent chills

was like a warning to