Love the Second Time Around

Chapter 144

 

Chapter 144 Always Thinking of Him

I gave him an apologetic smile. “Sorry, Uncle Frank. Dominic won’t be drinking. I’ll get him some juice later.”

The last time, he had drunk himself into a stupor and ended up in a hospital. I would really rather not have him repeat that experience again.

Uncle Frank frowned. “I don’t blame you for not knowing your liquor, Lili, but this whiskey here is the good stuff. I specially bought it for this occasion. And you know it’s a family tradition for us men to toast each other at the family gathering.”

I tried to let Uncle Frank down easy. “I’m so sorry, but he really—”

Grandfather harrumphed loudly. “Lili, don’t coddle him. If he wants to drink, drink. If he doesn’t want to, he should say it himself rather than hiding behind his girlfriend.”

 

“Grandpa…” I pouted.

Dominic’s hand covered mine, taking it off the glass. “I’m fine.” He gave me a reassuring squeeze before addressing Uncle Frank. “I’ll have a glass, thank you.”

 

“Now we’re talking.” Pleased, the latter filled more than half the glass. “There you go.”

When Uncle Frank moved on to his next target, I elbowed Dominic in his ribs. “Did you forget about what happened the last time?” I hissed in annoyance. “We’re in the countryside. It’s a long way to a hospital if you get alcohol poisoning again.”

Although we did have the local doctor, a proper hospital would be quite out of the way.

Dominic’s expression was calm. “I know what I’m doing.”

As if! Internally, I was throwing my hands up in chagrin. If that were true, you wouldn’t have been hospitalized in the first place, nor would Benjamin and Yvonne tell me you’d nearly drunk yourself into an early grave.

Unable to resist, I pinched his leg under the table. “Just this one glass, okay?” I said warningly. “No seconds.”

He smirked. “Are you henpecking me?”

peeved by his devil-may-care attitude when his health was at stake. “No seconds, and

Gianna looked at us teasingly. “What sweet nothings are you two whispering? Keep your

In retrospect, Dominic and I did act like quite a couple

eating,” Grandfather said.

one thing Uncle Frank was right about—it was in fact a tradition in this household for the men to

his health was better, he used to have

other hand, was a social drinker and only

heart bypass surgery some time ago, the doctor had told him to cut back on

was how the tradition was born—Grandfather was allowed to indulge in his drinks during special occasions where

 It’s true that it’s

for today! Drink something non-alcoholic, okay?” I passed him a glass of juice and raised my own by way of toasting. “Cheers to your

okay. I promise I’ll stop after your boyfriend over there downed a drink with

at Dominic as if daring

“Dominic’s not good with alcohol. He was hospitalized one time

that in the eyes of someone like my grandfather, who used to

pick on the latter—more specifically, that he had

head in amused exasperation, I watched Dominic nod amicably in response to Grandfather’s chiding

he said the last part, he looked at me with a

 He’d better not put in any more hours in the gym! If his stamina becomes any better in bed, I’d

a sign of how much I cared about him. Aunt Vivienne, in particular, joked that I was always thinking of him, so

laughed good-naturedly while I

lasted for the rest of the

telling Dominic very sternly that the latter

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