Chapter Six #2
“You want to win her over, buy some decorations for inside and outside of your place. Decide where you’re going to stay during that time and just enjoy it.
She bakes so much stuff, and she will go around to the neighbors, even if they don’t like you.
” Enzo Jr. laughed. “I’m a guy that hates pumpkin, yet the moment Liana bakes something with pumpkin, I am a sucker for it, and I cannot get enough, it is so damn good. ”
Liana was amazing. Diego hadn’t even realized what kind of woman she was, but there was so much to Liana than he first anticipated. She was a wild one.
“Liana loves dogs. She’s not crazy for cats.
She heard something that if you die and you own a cat, your cat will eat you.
She did cry about the dog part, but I won’t get into that.
She loves dogs, like, a lot. She has always wanted one, but I don’t know, it was the one thing Dad always said no on, and I guess that meant we never had dogs.
I’ve already told you she loves Halloween.
Don’t forget about Christmas as well. She is so into Christmas.
Mom and Liana always loved Christmas and baking together, setting up these little traditions. ”
“Little traditions?”
“Yeah, like, on December first, there would be a style of cookie, and then maybe on the third, another one. Those kinds of things. Does that make sense?”
“Yeah, it does.” He couldn’t help but smile thinking about the kind of woman Liana was.
“You know, my sister is anything but a doormat. However, she wanted to make Dad proud. I think it was also her way of making Mom proud. She didn’t have Mom or Grandma to prepare her for being a married woman.
Just me and Dad, and let’s face it, Dad never remarried, and I’ve not married yet.
” He shrugged. “We did the best we could.”
“Let me guess, did that involve telling her to do everything her husband told her and to be subservient, even when doing something you don’t want to do?”
“Actually, no, it was more along the lines of asking her to understand her husband and not get too hotheaded if he demands something she doesn’t like.
Also, if he hurt her, then she was to call us up and tell us immediately, so we could come and kick your ass,” Enzo Jr. said, pointing the golf club his way.
“That sounds fair.”
“You’re going to try and win over Liana?”
Diego was about to answer when his cell phone went off, interrupting his conversation.
He glanced down at the caller ID and saw it was Emilio.
Once again, he was tempted to ignore the call.
However, whenever any of his friends called, it was very rare to organize a dinner date. Usually those came via text.
Answering the call, he placed his cell phone to his ear. “This better be urgent.”
“You might want to come down to the spa. We’re all here, and well, let’s just say they ordered a couple of bottles of whiskey, and they’re drunk.”
Diego rubbed at his temples. “I’m on my way.”
“Duty calls?” Enzo Jr. asked.
“My wife has decided to get drunk in the spa. I need to go and pick her up.”
Enzo Jr. burst out laughing. “My sister who doesn’t touch a drop of alcohol is drunk? Now, this I have got to see.”
They left the golf course, made their way out to Diego’s car, seeing as he was the one who picked up Enzo Jr. He didn’t have time to take Enzo Jr. home, so he had the man for company all the way to the spa.
He gave the keys to the valet and told them not to move a fucking inch. Entering the main restaurant section, he saw there were several tables filled with men and women.
“That’s my husband,” Liana said. “Shh, he’s very scary.”
His wife was currently standing in the center of the table.
Emilio had his wife, who had passed out in his arms. Clarissa was with Lorenzo, and finally, Mia and Giovanni were also together. The wives looked awful.
“Are you good, man?” Emilio asked.
“Yeah, I’m good.”
Enzo Jr. stood by his side, looking up at his sister and chuckled. “When she wakes up sober from this, she is going to hate every second of this memory,” he said.
“Jokes are not what we need right now.”
The man beside him seemed to have other ideas, because he just laughed.
This was not helping anyone. Running fingers through his hair, he moved closer to the table and by this time, Liana had decided to sit down. There was mess all around the table.
“Honey, come on, we’ve got to go,” he said.
“No! I’m not going anywhere with you. You think I’m a doormat.
” Right then, she decided to spread herself out on the table.
“See, you want to tread all over me.” She sighed and placed her hands on her stomach.
“And to think I was falling in love with you, and I thought you were starting to have feelings about me, but it was all a lie, wasn’t it?
You were just acting. You hate me and you think I’m boring, and if you don’t ever divorce me and we get pregnant, life is going to suck.
You’re going to keep pretending, and now I know there is no way you’re ever going to love me, and I’m never going to have the love my parents had.
I’ll be in a loveless marriage, with kids, and you’ll probably cheat on me and find some other woman to fall in love with, have kids, and want to be with them more than me. I suck.”
Diego moved to the table, and Liana didn’t push him away. The alcohol was finally having its effect as she was starting to look a little green around the gills.
“I would never cheat on you,” he said, whispering it in her ear, knowing there was a chance she was never going to remember this. “And I no longer find you boring, Liana, and right now, I hope you don’t ever change.”