Crushed Affections (Dominic and Bella)

Chapter 70

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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

people she wasn't familiar with. She gave a faint smile and said, "Spend less time gossiping and more ime practicing. The operating table won't give you a second chance to make a mistake" tercolleague's

was already 9:00 pm. She had performed extra surgery that afternoon and was exhausted. All she wanted was to go home and snuggle

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

occasional carsplashed through the

other women, with 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

her. With a strong tur her purse was snatched,

for her to realize she had just been

shocked, "Give me

was long and dimly lit, with poor visibility Alter chasing for awhile, the

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

dressed in a black T-shirt, matching

negotiate with me? Don't be ridiculous. I'm not just taking your purse.