Chapter 87: [Bonus - ]Right excuses
The Zhu Family gets together in the old residence a few times a year. It was already a tradition in the family and everyone was often there. Heaven attended to a few of them until she found all sorts of excuses not to. Dominic bought all the excuses she said in the past, not forcing her to go with him. Even so, he would always mention it to her out of formality.
To be fair, the immediate family members in the Zhu Family — except Axel — were all welcoming toward Heaven. However, the relatives weren’t much. Although they didn’t have the cheek to pick on her right in front of Dominic or Grandma Zhu, they would never fail to bring up Dominic’s childhood ’sweetheart’.
One could guess what sort of things the original Heaven had to listen to, making her insecurity and negativity grow worse.
It was the very reason Heaven disliked going to this type of event. In other people’s eyes, she was nothing but a cunning and ambitious wench who successfully squeezed herself into the upper echelon by using her child.
She was not qualified, to be precise. Or rather, they deemed her a thief, stealing Ivy Wei’s position in the family.
Just thinking about dealing with those types of things gave her a headache. Heaven wanted to focus on mending her relationship with her husband and son, but well, dealing with the rest of the family was bound to happen. It was just that it happened earlier than she fathomed.
"Ah!" Heaven winced, snapping back to the current lapse when a slight pain struck her shoulder. She glanced over her shoulder, glaring at the culprit who bit her. "Dom, I’m not vaccinated. Stop biting me."
"But I am, so you won’t get rabies," he humored.
"You were distracted." Dominic propped his knuckles against his temple, lying on his side. His hands underneath the blanket were wrapped around her unclad body, pulling her closer to him. "You said you will go to sleep. I don’t see you sleeping. Was this about the family gathering?"
Heaven sighed as she rolled until she was facing him. "What do you think?"
"If you don’t want to go, don’t go. It’s not really important," he remarked calmly, eyes fixed on her.