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?!

blood was bright red, a sharp contrast

almost fainted

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

hospital.

tried to stand up, he realized that his legs

Diana.

day kept playing non-stop in

bowstring.

to have lost all

Fulcher,” Noel held him up, and stretched his

the past, Julian would never allow Noel to hug

now, there was crippling fear in his

at the thought of anything that had to do with Diana and anything

her, he found himself growing increasingly

no idea how he managed

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

walk in step with Noel

grabbed the door handle and said icily,

hurting Mommy!”

Julian hadn’t insisted on locking him outside the door and dealing with that damned electronic

have fainted!

never-seen-before coldness filled

chills

like a