Julian's Stand in Wife novel Chapter 1272

In a voice so soft and unwittingly pitiful, she asked, “Julian, why are you being so fierce to me?”

Julian’s heart melted at once. The troubled and cold look in his eyes faded.

“I’m not being fierce,” Julian said as he grabbed her hand, leading her to the front passenger seat. He ignored Jim completely as he started the car, fully intending to bring Diana home. “Don’t cry. I have a surprise for you at home.”

With that, he glanced at the rearview mirror and saw that Jim was really following behind them.

Julian ignored him.

Instead, he focused his attention on Diana seated next to him, asking her in a low voice that was starkly different from how he spoke just now, “Who told you about your family background?”

As he had expected, Diana said, “Professor Hughes.”

Julian’s heart fell with a thud.

Jim had appeared in their lives in a very strange manner. He was also inexplicably linked with Enzo. Now...he even revealed to Diana about her birth circumstances.

Julian began feeling upset, but he didn’t show it on his face for fear that Diana would worry.

Diana sensed his thoughtfulness and lamented how far they’ve come, and how emotionally stable things were between them now that they had grown older.

If it were in the past, they would have started fighting with each other over this.

But this time, Julian patiently coaxed her. The worry in his eyes was clear to see.

It soothed Diana’s frazzled nerves. If he had a good reason for hiding her birth circumstances from her, she should give him a chance to explain himself.

“This is the document Jim gave me,” Diana said, pulling out the two pieces of paper from the folder that she brought along with her and handing them to Julian.

He was driving, so he couldn’t look through the documents. Diana decided to just read out the contents for him.

“Jim said that because Enzo offended you and Sean, this document is his way of compensating me.”