Julian's Stand in Wife novel Chapter 281

Chapter 281

This was the second time Julian had run his hands over Diana’s stomach. Last time, he had touched her at the same spot when he thought she was in pain due to her period, and had brought her to the hospital afterwards.

Back then, she hadn’t known about the babies in her belly. But this time…

The threat he had given her still rang clear in her mind.

Diana looked down at the slender hand resting on her lower abdomen. Yet, she didn’t feel the longing and warmth that she remembered in the past.

At this moment, she could only fear terror for him.

She feared he would attack her babies, and she feared….

That he would disappoint her yet again.

She raised her hand and pushed his hand away. “Don’t touch me.”

Her voice was loud and cold, though tinged with a hint of fear.

The back of Julian’s hand turned red from where she had hit him.

She had used a lot of force when pushing his hand away.

He looked down, staring at her hand before he reached out to grab it. “Let me see.”

The bruise from when he had accidentally touched her had gotten worse. Her hand looked like it was swollen. She hadn’t tended to it, despite being back for so long.

His eyes looked so caring; if Diana didn’t know better, such a look would’ve given her the wrong impression. She pulled away her hand firmly from him and said, “You don’t have to worry about it.”

“If not me, who? Oliver?”

Julian felt hollow, and his heart ached painfully at her rejection of him. He glared at her. Before Diana could reply with an angry retort, he continued, “Don’t get any ideas. If you don’t want me to get the wrong idea about you and Oliver, and you don’t want me to insult him, you should just go along with me.”

Once again, another threat.

Diana sighed ruefully. She didn’t understand why Julian was so fond of taking everything she did or said as a personal insult. Thinking about it for a while, she finally said, “I came back because I thought Kayla would stop bothering me after I apologized.”