Love the Second Time Around

Chapter 27

 

Chapter 27 Screwed Up

“Hey, there isn’t anything in the fridge, so what am I supposed to do?” I turned towards the living room and yelled.

Without even looking up from the screen, his slender fingers never stopped typing as if they were dancing across the keyboard. However, the words that left his lips the next second were unpleasant.

“Are you the caregiver, or am I the caregiver? All I care about is the food. You should take care of the rest.”

I…

Hearing that, I admitted defeated and decided to leave to get groceries at the supermarket nearby. But I looked down and noticed that I was still wearing the dress from yesterday. I would just be digging my own grave if I went out like this.

 

“Um… Can we skip breakfast today? I want to go home and change.”

As soon as I said that, he slammed his laptop shut and looked up at me, his eyes full of contempt.

 

“What? Should I let you go home and put on makeup too? Let me tell you, I have to have breakfast or I’ll be having gastric pain. If that happens, you’ll be having an even harder time returning your debt.”

I ignored his sarcastic words as all I could focus on were the words “gastric pain” he mentioned. Why would he have gastric pain? For all the yearly checkups we had previously, I recalled that he was always healthier than me.

My mind then wandered back to the fridge; there was nothing except bottles of beer in it. Well, how did you not die from gastric pain then?

Right then, a loud knocking came from the door, and I glanced at Dominic in confusion. Who could it be so early in the morning? It… It can’t be Camille, right?

“What are you standing around for? Go open the door!”

him upon hearing that. If it weren’t for his legs, I would have thought that he must be ordering me around on purpose. Huffing in frustration, I opened

nodded slightly at the sight of me before turning sideways to squeeze his way through the doorframe, keeping as much distance between us

to see him

Hartnell, I’ve brought the

Or else she’s going to come up with another excuse

hand, and he quickly handed it over to me. I opened the bag to look

called his assistant early in the morning to prepare this

curled into a smile. At least he’s got some

your pay. Also, I want to have my

instantly vanished, and I couldn’t even fight back. Annoyed, I ran to the room on the second

I was finally downstairs, Calvin was nowhere to be seen. I wasn’t sure what Dominic was busy with, but I couldn’t care less about him. I left the house

nearby. Besides the mansions and the luxury cars speeding along the road, I was the

living in such a high-class area? They were just making life difficult for themselves since there wasn’t even a place nearby

so why would they think that it wasn’t convenient? Only a working-class person like me

I finally saw a grocer. I was so happy that I almost ran up to

bunch of food products into my basket as though I were a tornado. Earlier, I noticed that Dominic’s kitchen was

left, and there was no way I could get back in time. I

house. I was panting by the time I pushed the door open but was immediately met with Dominic wiping his mouth, with an empty

his head in disdain. “Are you some

toward him, thinking to give him a piece of my mind. Once I reached

shrunk his head unwittingly and stared at me

what if you’re my creditor? So what if you’re crippled? I was so worried that you would get gastric pain from not eating that I ran back here with those bags full of groceries. But

to say something but was interrupted when

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