Love the Second Time Around Novel

After knocking lightly on the door, | entered right away and placed the glass on his desk. “Take this glass of milk

so you will have a good sleep later.”

Dominic lifted the glass and scrutinized it for quite a while before he looked atand smirked. “Am | seeing

things? Has the sun risen from the west instead? Or perhaps you have doped the milk?”

| rolled my eyes in an instant. Hmph! He certainly has a wild imagination! Apparently, he looks too highly of me. |

won't have the audacity to do anything against the law!

Refraining my mind from wandering, | put on a fawning smile and replied, “Of course not. As a good citizen, |

won't do anything against the law. I'm just concerned about you. My mom has toldto take good care of you.

As you have been occupied with work lately, I'm worried you can’t sleep well at night, so | got you a glass of

warm milk. Just drink it.”

Hearing that, Dominic scannedfrom head to toe subtly and scoffed, “Ah! Since when have you taken your

mom's words seriously? | bet you must be having sploys in your mind.”

What? Having sploys? I'm just thinking of asking him a few questions.

Before | could open my mouth to refute, he sneered atand continued, “Anyway, you are overconfident. Do

you think you can bribewith just a glass of milk?”

He then whined deliberately, “Ugh! I'm stressed and exhausted. There seem to be endless meetings forto

attend. I've got a stiff neck because of that!”

It struckright away that he was hinting something at me. Even though he was taking advantage of me, |

talked myself into tolerating him.

| leaned closer to him and started massaging his shoulders. “Lethelp you get rid of the soreness of your

neck. | used to give my dad massages as well.”

| was rather confident with my massaging skills. At the sight of the look on his face, | was convinced that he was

satisfied with my skills as well.

“Ah! Mr. Hartnell, I—" | was about to bring up the topic of his comic, but he cutoff by saying, “I'm a bit

hungry and feel like eating fruits.”

Damn it! I'm sure he is doing this on purpose. Is his stomach a bottomless pit? It's barely two hours after dinner,

but he’s already hungry, huh?

Even so, | only dared to grumble inwardly. I'd better not go against his will. If not, he will surely givea hard

tagain!

“Wait for a while. | go and cut sfruits now.” | turned and walked out of the study at once.

| took out all kinds of fruits available at hand cut them into slices. After arranging the fruit slices nicely on

the plate, | even placed a small fork above the fruits.

Pfft! I'm serving him perfectly well with this fruit platter. Let's see what else he can say then!

Scoffing inwardly, | carried the fruit platter to the study to serve him. “There are apples, pears, bananas, and

dragon fruits here. Enjoy yourself.”

Dominic's eyes glued to the screen of his laptop. He replied nonchalantly, “Just put it aside. I'm busy now and

have no tto eat.”

| rolled my eyes again at the sight of the series playing on the laptop. Busy? So this is what keeps him

occupied at the moment! Am | seeing things? | never know that he loves to watch this kind of series!

Gritting my teeth, | tried my best to hold myself back. | need to calm down. I mustn't unleash my wrath on him!

| pulled a chair and sat next to him. Recalling that he liked dragon fruits, | picked up a piece with the small fork

and brought it near his mouth. “Try this. | have just tried. It's sweet.”

He turned to look atwith a smirk and swallowed the piece of fruit. | heaved a sigh of relief at once, glad that

he was willing to eat it.

While he shifted his gaze back to the series, | grabbed the opportunity to feed him a few more pieces.

Coincidentally, | had been watching the series as well. When | was seated next to him to serve him the

fruits, | tended to fix my eyes on the screen unknowingly.

As telapsed, the current episode ended, and the ending music sounded. Only then did | remember my

mission.

During the advertisement slot, | continued to serve him a piece of banana and asked warily, “Dominic, what

inspired you to draw the comic | Only Want to Be With You?”

Dominic was majoring in finance. Undeniably, he drew comics because of me.

At that time, my major was Ustranasion, which was not the slightest bit related to comics. Even so, | loved to

read various types of comics since young. Subsequently, it piqued my interest to draw comics myself.

Nevertheless, it was a different case for Dominic. Initially, he was never interested in comics. When he first knew

| had this interest, | almost argued with him when he criticizedas childish.

Later, he had changed his mindset and demeanor gradually to please me. There were even times whereby he

would volunteer to look for information for my reference.

Even though | could not explain the sudden change in him, | was more than happy with that. Undoubtedly, it was

a blessing, as | could discuss something I liked with the person | loved. Thus, the moment I discovered that he

was drawing comics secretively, my jaw dropped in surprise.

Out of curiosity, | kept persuading him to lethave a look at what he had drawn, but he was not willing. If not

because he had emphasized that he would givea surprise later, | would surely continue to pester him until

he gave in.

Nevertheless, things had happened to turn the other way around. Instead of givinga lovely surprise, he had

cheated onwith Camille.

Then | had accidentally taken his comic manuscript and submitted it to the magazine company.

| was unaware of that till the magazine company requested to sign a contract withone day. Only then did |

realize that | had taken the wrong manuscript.

| had hesitated for quite a while, thinking if | should reveal the truth to the magazine company.

However, | was young and had a different mindset at that time. Not to mention, | was feeling dejected after

Dominic cheated on me. Thus, | ended up getting a grip on myself and just let it be.

By the t| cooled my head off and thought of explaining to the magazine company, it was too late, as

everything had been finalized.

It sentinto a tizzy when James askedabout my feelings when | drew the comic. Nonetheless, | was

gradually prevailed over by my curiosity about what Dominic was thinking when he drew the comic.

Upon hearing my question, Dominic only threwa glance and replied placidly, “I didn’t think of anything. | was

just scribbling for fun.”

| pouted my lips and was not surprised that he would not reply toproperly. Scribbling for fun? Apparently, he

is bluffing me, huh!

“How was it possible that you were not thinking about anything at that time? More or less, you had to spend

stplanning on the characters and plot. Con, just share with me.” | continued pestering him with my

sweet smile as | served him another piece of fruit.

| was convinced that sooner or later, Dominic would be willing to open up his heart to me. Anyway, | have

expressed my sincerity by serving him well with the fruits and putting on my brightest smile. He should at least

givestips, shouldn't he?

Even so, Dominic continued to button his lip regardless of how he enjoyed the fruit feeding session.

“Unlike you, | won't treat comics as a priceless treasure, and | won't invest all my tworking on the thing. |

drew that just to pass time,” he mockedwith a smirk.

Boiling up with anger, | retorted with my cheeks puffed up. “Is there anything wrong with that? I love to draw

comics. Do you have a problem with that?”

Damn it! | have spent such a long ttrying to please him, but he spoils my mood with his mockery instead!