Julian's Stand in Wife

That was the freedom Betty had been looking forward to for a long time. It was time she had to herself to let her hair down.

Julian didn’t want to interrupt her.

Julian left her door and turned to walk back to the master bedroom he shared with Diana. He lifted his hand, and knocked on the door.

Diana heard the knocks, but didn’t stand up. “What do you want?”

She sounded sullen and clearly upset, which frustrated Julian.

“Diana…” he coaxed in a low voice. “Open the door for me, come on.”

Everyone in this house was ignoring him, and it was souring his mood.

He had seen that Diana was clearly in a bad mood, but because he wanted to see Nina off first, he didn’t rush to talk to Diana about it.

“Nina has something she wants me to convey to you.”

Nina…

Diana thought again about her best friend, who said such hurtful words not long ago. She suppressed the pain overflowing from her heart, and said, “There’s nothing to be said. I want to be alone.”

happened between you and Nina?” Julian leaned against the door, trying to talk to her through

“Nothing much.”

did say unpleasant stuff

the other hand, she too had said something unpleasant about Nina. She actually called her a third wheel, and insisted Nina to give up on her relationship with

when she knew very well how much Nina

give up on someone

shouldn’t have thought that Nina would heed

Jim’s side had

things through with the Jennings. However, there was

thought about it, and finally called

had been over a month since

never initiated contact

was true of Jim,

surprise, he did—very swiftly, too. His

“Professor

only when she needed help. Suddenly, she found herself unable to voice

His voice filled with expectations and concern, he asked,

“Good, good. Thank you for your concern, Professor Hughes. The babies and I are fine.