Love the Second Time Around Novel

Chapter 14

Chapter 14 Accepting Her Fate

Although I had no inkling where Dominic had been in the past few years or how he had been doing, he did not seem so destitute that he hadn’t the money to hire a caregiver, what with his luxurious car and having an executive assistant.

A sliver of regret crept into me at my rash words earlier. For some reason, I couldn’t shake off the feeling that he had dug a trap and was just waiting for me to fall into it.

“Are you going back on your word now? Weren’t you the one who said you’d do your best to accommodate me? I’m just asking you to take care of me, yet you can’t even do such a simple thing? Liliana, are you really sincere in apologizing and making amends?” Dominic finally spat coldly when I hesitated for too long without saying anything.

Anxiously stealing a gander at him, I saw that his cheeks were now puffed up against his chiseled countenance.

Even if I know that it’s a trap, how can I decline when both of us have said as much? In fact, isn’t there a saying that goes like this—curses, like chickens, come home to roost?

“Alright, I agree. But let me make it clear that I’ll only be taking care of you. There’ll be no monkey business!”

“But of course! What monkey business do you have in mind? Did you really think that I’ll use my hands and mouth on you?”

hell? Ugh! How I wish to clobber him! Truly, I’ve never met anyone with a more serious lack of filter than him. Ah,

at my parents’ place in Dellmoor. I miss

that you’ve got to tell them about your divorce

was going home to feel my parents out since I wasn’t certain whether they would be able

more apt about the taciturn Calvin.

be starting your duties tomorrow. I’ll have Calvin

decline. Sighing, I went upstairs. Throughout it all, I kept

they were both lecturers. Though they were highly educated, their

they held fast to the classic principle of dating for the express purpose

door. But at the thought that they might reprimand me later, I wavered, for their lecture could truly bore

who opened the door,

corridor behind me before asking, “Where’s Julius? Didn’t

“No… He’s in the office,

it was a last-minute decision to come over, so my

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