Crushed Affections (Dominic and Bella)

Chapter 67

Chapter 67 He Has Been Good to Her

Tella found herself reminiscing about her childhood. She used to be terrified of thunder.

One night, when Alchand was away, a violent thunderstorm struck, and she had huddled at the foot of her bed with tears streaming down her face.

Suddenly, Dominic burst into her room and said coldly, "Come sleep with me tonight"

That was why, despite his hatred for her, she always clung to him. She remembered the few times he had been kind.

He had been kind, but now she wanted to move on, both from him and from her pain.

""Mr. Miller, you're back..."

voice cut through the tense atesphere Dominic, with a hint of annoyance, released

shoes and went

I'm

smiled gently. "It's okay. He's just drank. You should go get some

her way upstairs bella noticed the doce was and decided

for the doorkeeh, adeafening dap of thunder shock the house. Her heart sank to her

asked her to sleep with him because he know there would be a thundersroom. He had no other intentions. She was certain he was genuinely drunk, even though he didn't appear overly intoxicated. How she She gently closed the door behind him and returned to her room, where the sound of thunder

longer to trail to cower

intermittently for over an hour before the rain began to fall in a steady drizzle. Despite this, thender

found her earplugs and

a chons of birds only to find that her explues were nowhere to be

young had hatched, and the alr was filled with their cheerful chips. She hadn't sonnything like this since she was a child living with

sat up and sweiched. As the blanket slipped off her, she caught a glimpse of something pale in her peripheral vision. Her yown was cut short as his eyes widened an astonishest, she stared at Dominic, who had somehow ended up in her

forgotten to shower. The scent of us body wash lingered on him, though he had forgotten to