Julian’s Stand-In Wife

“Have you really not compared yourself with Betty before?” Julian asked in disbelief.

He knew Sean protected Betty all the time, always standing in front of her and defending her. But how could he possibly not compare himself to her in the midst of doing so?

‘You want to be protected too, right?” Julian grabbed Sean’s hand before he stubbornly stood up to walk away.

This was the first time the father and son pair held hands after so many days.

Julian ran his fingers over each one of Sean’s.

“Daddy’s protecting you.”

His words were sudden.

Sean’s heart leaped as he suddenly realized something. When he turned back, he saw that Julian had taken the pill.

“Daddy!”

in his mind vanishing into thin air. He crouched next to Julian anxiously, trying hard to pry open his father’s mouth and make the man

Julian kept his mouth shut

he finally opened his mouth to speak. “It’s useless, Sean. I’ve eaten

seemed to have seen

never chosen Betty over you.

just a human being, and a human being was just too weak. In the face of these drugs and

police, but I had insufficient evidence before. Now that I’ve taken the pill and you’re injured, the police who’ll soon be here will see this hard

use of the hurt Enzo caused them to stop the latter from

of their money. If that happened, many

of others. But now, not only was he Sean and

from putting his life at stake, Julian couldn’t think of a faster way to gather hard

might in turn bring blessings upon

he hoped they would be delivered

them so