Julian’s Stand-In Wife

Nina held Diana’s hand. “I’m glad I don’t have to give birth. It’s hard enough for you, giving birth to the twins and then having to deliver another pair of twins now.”

Diana was puzzled. “What do you mean by that? You and Vans don’t plan to get married?”

After Nina had stayed over at Vans’s place the last time, Diana thought they would reconcile. Plus, there had been no news from Lina Jennings’s end. With that, Diana assumed Vans had given up on pursuing Lina and was getting serious with Nina.m getting married. In fact, Nina was even prepared not to have children for a lifetime!

“It’s hard,” Nina said.

She thought of Vans’ mother’s predicament, and it pained her.

“Vans won’t give up on his mother. For the sake of his mother, he has to go along with the Stanleys’ wishes.

Coincidentally, Lina is interested in him now. And I think… they’ll eventually get engaged. After this engagement, they should get married quite quickly.”

Diana widened her eyes, looking at Nina in disbelief. “What about you? If Vans really got together with Lina, why would you say you won’t get married and won’t have children? Are you going to wait for him forever?”

“I’m not waiting for him.” Nina leaned on Diana’s shoulder, not daring to meet her eyes. “I’ve made a deal with Vans. Once he resolves the family matters and takes his mother out of the family, we’ll be together again. He won’t make me wait forever. But by then… I’m afraid I’ll be old. It’ll probably be difficult to have children.”

Her voice grew softer as she spoke, but it made Diana’s heart ache.

are you so

had firmly stood by her side,

was willing to spend her entire youth waiting for him,

she endured felt like a knife through

day, they had

Nina didn’t let go and didn’t give up, Vans would also make an effort to be by her side. He wouldn’t let

time, Vans

years would it take to bridge that gap? No one

didn’t answer

he couldn’t let go of the Stanleys and their conditions, he shouldn’t have gotten

most profound love in the world. Now, holding Diana’s hand, it felt as if Nina was trying to share her happiness with

about it, the angrier

Are you just going to wait?” Diana grabbed Nina’s shoulder, making her look directly into her eyes. “Or are

Mistress…

don’t have to put it in such harsh terms,” Nina

that agreement, she hadn’t dared

deeply about it.