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That explained why she was so angry with him and his assumption about her.
“She loves to cook and bake.It goes down the line from our mother to our grandmother, and great-grandmother.They loved to cook, and when they did cook, it was a sign of their love.”Enzo Jr.sighed.“She loves romance, although she claims not to.Liana is a sucker for a romance movie and story, although she will try to hide it.She also loves big monster movies.The bigger and more lame, the better.She cannot get enough of them.She hates horror movies, and if she does ever sit through one, expect to stay up with her throughout the night, because they terrify her that much.Dad and I had to do that a few times.Especially around Halloween.She loves that time of year as well.She is a sucker for candy.Has she started decorating your place yet?”
Diego shook his head.
“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.”
