Crushed Affections (Dominic and Bella)

Chapter 70

hapter 70 Mlusion

ella thought she must have misheard when she looked up, he had already named and walked away

he couldn't shake the feeling that his tone was strange. It didn't seem like he was just playing along with her joke. It had sounded unusually serious. Gaither imagination

few days later, Bella returned to her old job at Horizon Hospital

orizon Hospital was where she'd been since ber internship. The work environment was farlar, and despite the unpleasant rumors about the hospital's finances earlier, she ad no reason to hesitate to go back, especially since the hospital director was happy to have her. he was a sentimental person, and it was her sentimentality that had kept her holding on to Dominic for so many years.

s soon as she stepped into the office, her colleague made an uncomfortable joke, "Didn't you funda rich boyfriend? why bother with a hospital job? Did you break up?i

faint smile and said, "Spend less time gossiping and more ime

surgery that afternoon and was exhausted. All she wanted was to go home and snuggle into

it difficult to hail a cab. She didn't have the habit of

were around, and the occasional

someone to lean on and be with. But tha Thinking about Dominic made her so angry that she found the courage to run to them alone. She figured she could

hadn't run far when she heard meid footsteps behind her. With a strong tur her purse was snatched, nearly pulling her off her feet. The robber seized her bag and dashed into the alley

just been robbed. Her phone, 115, and

him and shocked, "Give me back

with poor visibility Alter chasing for

was no one else around? Fighting the urge to tem and nun, she tried to sound calm. then take the

and thin, dressed in a black

Don't be ridiculous. I'm not just taking your purse. I'm taking you too. I've been following you