Love the Second Time Around Novel

After knocking lightly on the door, I 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 at me and smirked. “Am I seeing things? Has the sun risen from the west instead? Or perhaps you have doped the milk?”

I rolled my eyes in an instant. Hmph! He certainly has a wild imagination! Apparently, he looks too highly of me. I won’t have the audacity to do anything against the law!

Refraining my mind from wandering, I put on a fawning smile and replied, “Of course not. As a good citizen, I won’t do anything against the law. I’m just concerned about you. My mom has told me to take good care of you. As you have been occupied with work lately, I’m worried you can’t sleep well at night, so I got you a glass of warm milk. Just drink it.”

Hearing that, Dominic scanned me from head to toe subtly and scoffed, “Ah! Since when have you taken your mom’s words seriously? I bet you must be having some ploys in your mind.”

What? Having some ploys? I’m just thinking of asking him a few questions.

Before I could open my mouth to refute, he sneered at me and continued, “Anyway, you are overconfident. Do you think you can bribe me with just a glass of milk?”

He then whined deliberately, “Ugh! I’m stressed and exhausted. There seem to be endless meetings for me to attend. I’ve got a stiff neck because of that!”

It struck me right away that he was hinting something at me. Even though he was taking advantage of me, I talked myself into tolerating him.

I leaned closer to him and started massaging his shoulders. “Let me help you get rid of the soreness of your neck. I used to give my dad massages as well.”

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

“Ah! Mr. Hartnell, I—” I was about to bring up the topic of his comic, but he cut me off 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?

 I’d better not go against

and cut some fruits now.” I

home and cut them into slices. After arranging the fruit slices nicely on the plate, I even

well with this fruit platter. Let’s see what else he can

platter to the study to serve him. “There are apples, pears, bananas,

He replied nonchalantly, “Just put it

of the drama series playing on the laptop. Busy? So this is what keeps him occupied at the moment! Am I seeing things? I never know

back. I need to

a piece with the small fork and brought it near

with a smirk and swallowed the piece of fruit. I heaved a sigh of relief at once, glad

his gaze back to the drama series, I grabbed the opportunity to feed him a few

seated next to him to serve him

elapsed, the current episode ended, and the ending music

the advertisement slot, I continued to serve him a piece of banana and asked warily, “Dominic, what inspired you to draw the comic I

was majoring in finance. Undeniably, he drew

was Ustranasion, which was not the slightest bit related to comics. Even so, I loved to

he first knew I had this interest, I almost argued with him when he

changed his mindset and demeanor gradually to please me. There were even times whereby he would volunteer to look for information

I could discuss

If not because he had emphasized that he would give me

to turn the other way around. Instead of giving me a

I had accidentally taken his comic manuscript and submitted it to the