Love the Second Time Around Novel

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.”

smirked. “Are you henpecking

I am?” I glared at him, peeved by his devil-may-care attitude when his health was at

sweet nothings are you two whispering? Keep your pillow talk to

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

right, enough talking, more eating,” Grandfather

thing Uncle Frank was right about—it was in fact a tradition in this household

health was

a social drinker and only imbibed alcohol when Grandfather

bypass surgery some time ago, the doctor

allowed to indulge in his drinks during special occasions where our family gathered and the men would drink to his

had me frown in concern. It’s true that it’s a

him a glass of juice

promise I’ll stop after your boyfriend over

at Dominic as if daring him to do

said pleadingly. “Dominic’s not good with alcohol. He was hospitalized one time because he couldn’t

I forgot that in the eyes of someone like my grandfather, who used to guzzle booze as freely as he breathed,

to pick on the latter—more specifically, that he had too weak a stomach and ought to exercise

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

the last part, he looked at me with a raised

cheeks burning. He’d better not put in any more hours in the gym! If his

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

laughed good-naturedly

for the

Dominic very sternly that the latter must

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