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

fainted from the

yelled for Noel, instructing the

hospital.

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

Diana.

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

bowstring.

seemed to have

and stretched his arms out.

it were in the past, Julian would never

crippling

Yet, at the thought of anything that had to do

happen to her, he found himself

no idea how he managed to

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

walk in step

car, Sean grabbed the door handle

hurting Mommy!”

outside the door and

have fainted!

never-seen-before coldness

chills down

was like a warning to