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

gossiping and more ime practicing. The operating table won't give you a second chance to make a mistake" tercolleague's expression

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

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

and the occasional carsplashed through the

truly grasped what it meant to have the worst luck. Everything that could go wrong was going wrong, and to make matters worse, she had no one to rely on. How she wished she could be like 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

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

realize she had just been robbed. Her phone, 115, and

and shocked, "Give me

with poor visibility Alter chasing for

emboldened by the fact that she was a woman and there was no one else around? Fighting the urge to tem and nun, she tried to sound calm. then take the cash just give me back my bag and

tall and thin, dressed in a black T-shirt, matching black pants, and a black baseball

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