Julian's Stand in Wife novel Chapter 401

Julian’s Stand-In Wife By South Wind Dialect Chapter 401

Oh, how amusing!

Should Diana say that James was very articulate, or should she call him heartless?

Diana looked at him with a mocking gaze. “Then I suppose I have to thank you.”

James immediately wiped away his tears and stood up happily. He even tried to get closer to Diana, but she retreated a few steps to avoid him.

It was hard to imagine that the man with such a personality was actually her birth father.

Diana looked at his face, which resembled hers, and felt her heart beat faster in her chest.

If it were possible, she wished she had never come to Richburgh when she had turned eighteen, let alone to the Winnington family. At the very least, she could hold on to her imagination that her parents were great people.

James could sense Diana’s distaste for him, and awkwardly withdrew his hand.

“It’s good that you understand my good intentions.”

Diana nodded. “Sure.”

It was pointless to talk about it.

She now knew that it really was James’s fault that she was lost as a child; that was enough.

Her heart had turned colder after that revelation.

Just what kind of beast would deliberately lose his biological daughter so that his mistress’s daughter could take the lost daughter’s place within the family? Plus, when Diana returned home to be reunited with her family, he refused to acknowledge her. Even on his deathbed, he refused to admit his mistakes.

Worse, for the sake of that illegitimate daughter, he was going to give Diana to an accursed old lecher from the Pabian family!

Hah.

Aside from mockery, Diana couldn’t muster any energy to show any other expression.

“It seems you love Lucy deeply,” Diana said, looking at James with eyes that radiated an unnerving chill.

The sight was such that James wanted to subconsciously bend over for her, but he caught himself and straightened up in an exaggerated manner. He blurted out, “I love you too.”

When these words came out of James’s mouth, Diana wasn’t the only one who wanted to throw up. Lucy was sorely tempted to spit in James‘ face.

Thinking about it, she wondered if she would have any recollection on why James would deliberately lose her.

Unexpectedly, Lucy was the one on the verge of crying blood when she heard Diana’s words.

Looking as if she was about to explode, Lucy screamed, “What do you need to think about?! It’s all in the past! What’s worth pursuing about when you were a child? Your father has already kneeled and apologized to you, yet you still refuse to forgive him! Are you so intent on hanging on to the past?!”

Diana was stunned by the intensity of Lucy’s outburst.

“What else are you hiding from me, Lucy? Were you on the phone with Kayla just now? What did she say to you?”

Why was Lucy suddenly so worked up after hanging up her call with Kayla?

Lucy was oddly insistent that Diana not pursue her past. Was it possible that there was more to the story than James deliberately losing her?

Lucy and Kayla must’ve kept something else from her.

But Diana had gone missing at the age of three, after which James brought Kayla into the family.

Diana and Kayla never had any interaction before that, so what else was there to hide?