Love the Second Time Around Novel

Chapter 22 No Choice

Evidently, what Dominic meant was if I didn’t value my life, then I should go ahead and reject him.

Needless to say, I still wanted to live, but I was also not willing to cooperate. After all, women do not think with the bottom half of their bodies. What we had was already in the past, so I couldn’t understand why he kept pestering me.

I could only blame myself for being a fool. Being married was one of the worst decisions that I had ever made. It not only restricted my freedom but also blinded me. For the past few months, I felt like a bird locked up in a cage. If only I loved myself more back then, maybe I wouldn’t have ended up with a b*stard like Julius.

After imagining one hundred and one scenarios of Julius’ death, I suddenly felt a smack at the back of my hand.

Huh? Did Dominic just smack me?

I innocently rubbed the back of my hand while staring at him, scolding, “Are you crazy? Why did you hit me?”

Dominic raised his eyebrows slightly at that, looking all smug but deadly attractive at the same time.

“Hello, earth to Liliana. Clearly, your heart is somewhere else. Do I even matter to you?”

“Of course you do. But you said so yourself that my heart is somewhere else!” I lashed back at him. After I blurted it out, I realized I shouldn’t have said that. I glanced back at him, who was beside me, and I could feel the pressure from his gaze.

“My heart is suffocated by money, so how could I be thinking of anything else?”

I carefully added another sentence to save my previous statement. After seeing disdain on his face, I secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Then, I quickly picked a black dress and went to the fitting room.

After putting on the dress, I came out of the fitting room, feeling flustered.

Since I wasn’t paying attention while picking clothes, I chose a dress that had a huge side split up to my thighs. What was worse was that it also had a deep V neck. Great, that’s just great—everything is out in public. You know what? I might as well don’t wear any clothes!

next to me seemed a little worried that I might not buy the dress. Thus, she continuously threw praises at my figure and

my face from the mirrors. After a while, I told her my decision. “I-I… this… I want t-this.” For some reason, my tongue decided to fail me, and I lost the ability to

came in like a bucket

to wear anything than to wear this. Why don’t I just grab a black robe for you so you can run naked at the party

at his remarks. If you don’t

that, I waved my hand in anger. “I change my mind; I won’t be getting this anymore. This is obviously just a long lingerie robe! What’s the point of having so much fabric

seemed a bit too out of place. Flustered, I raised my

heck? Dominic’s actually

Doesn’t he hate me?

times and looked at his face again, and it was back to

a moment, I thought I was

Dominic’s request, he chose a lavender halterneck dress, which screamed elegance with the right

had great taste. The dress hid my insecurities, which was my flat-chestedness, and at the same time, accentuated my

with Dominic. Calvin didn’t follow, though; probably because wasn’t used to these kinds of events, so I had

arrived, the dinner party had not started yet, but the hall was already full of celebrities.

of dinner party is this? It was very visually pleasing for a person like me, as I usually would not

other words, there were many good-looking men at the

firm believer in appreciating all types of beauty. And because of

also the main reason why I could put up with Julius. His appearance stood out among

him eventually, my appreciation for gorgeous human beings had always stayed the same. It stubbornly stuck

much, maybe I will hammer your eyeballs on the

voice had always been invigorating. Hence, that sentence alone woke me up from

happened to know this person as well. He was

“You’re here, Dom. Is this your girlfriend? She’s very cute and