Love the Second Time Around Novel

Chapter 79 Inexplicably Disappeared

Seething, I glowered at Dominic. Yet, I remained quiet as I didn’t know what to say.

Finally, I closed my eyes morosely and muttered, “Hurry up and leave. I want to sleep.”

He’s still his usual self, all right. His barbs can make someone burst a blood vessel anytime.

I closed my eyes for a long time, but I didn’t hear the door opening or closing. Having run out of patience, I opened my eyes again. As soon as I turned my head, I spotted Dominic sitting on the couch.

At the sight of him, I was taken aback for a moment, at a loss as to why he was still here.

“Didn’t I ask you to go home, Dominic? Why are you still here?”

“This is a public space, so why do you care whether I leave? Hurry up and sleep,” he replied placidly.

“Whatever!” I huffed. Then, I kept silent.

Ugh! Speaking to him is just inviting scorn! Why on earth was I so stupid to open myself to criticism?

This time, I kept my eyes screwed shut and ignored him entirely. Surprisingly, I fell asleep very quickly and even slept through the night.

The moment I woke up in the morning, I instinctually looked at the couch. Dominic was no longer there though I wasn’t sure whether he had left in the wee hours.

Nonetheless, I wasn’t all that bothered because I realized that I could move. While I was still feeling sluggish, I could undoubtedly move.

Well, it looks like my inability to move yesterday was due to the lingering effect of that damn drug. Now that a day has passed, my condition has probably improved significantly.

Recalling Dominic and my parents’ assurances that I was going to be discharged soon, I didn’t suspect anything further.

Soon, my parents came and brought me breakfast—nutritious chicken soup.

doing pretty well, and I could go home to recuperate once the remaining drug was out of

her about the kind of drug

that it was a kind of psychotropic drug that paralyzed the nervous system. In short, one would be rendered incapacitated after consuming the drug. One wouldn’t be able to talk either, and it would affect one’s physical functions. In cases of overdose, it

had overdosed me, so I could have died

enveloped me after hearing that, and gratitude toward Dominic again welled up

is rather sharp, he

treat it like water off my back without taking any offense if he ever provoked me with words again, just for that

woke up this morning, and he’s still not here yet though it’s almost noon now. And Shannon said he kept watch here every day? Hah! That’s probably an exaggeration on

perfectly fine. Since I could move now, my parents left

the hospital anyway, so it would be better for them to go home and rest

my parents left, I was bored lying on the bed, so I closed my eyes and napped for a bit.

that it was Dominic, but I was greeted by the sight of a man in a cap

among my acquaintances who would dress in such

about me being hospitalized and only learned that Shannon told him when I

well without worrying about anything else, promising to

I heard that, and I felt that I was truly indebted to

going since this was a hospital, he couldn’t stay for long. After chatting with me for a bit, he

in the day, Benjamin and Mitch

received his

wasn’t all that

talked with

came to visit, but Dominic never showed

days I was hospitalized, my parents came every day. Likewise, Shannon also visited for a short

like a dog with a bone. Later, however, she probably ran out of

and Mitch visited thrice

even once ever since then. I had absolutely no inkling what was keeping him so busy that he

the sixth day, my parents settled the discharge procedures