Shattered Longings

Chapter 2 A Timeless Crush

Dominic froze at that instant. His expression appeared extremely cold under the dim lights.

“Bella, you’re asking for trouble!”

Indeed, Bella knew she was asking for trouble. Back then, when her mother, Dorothy Jones, brought her to the Miller family, she called out his name for the first time.

Yet, he rejected her brutally. “You disgust me, just like your mom,” he said.

The still air once filled with intimacy was replaced by hostility. Dominic was squeezing Bella’s wrist so hard that she felt it might snap at any minute. Finally, he got up and left after slamming the door behind him.

The world went quiet instantly. Bella lay on the bed like a soulless puppet, where the physical pain was nothing compared to the emotional pain she was going through.

Some people were buried in obscurity from the very start. It felt as if they were trapped in an endless dark tunnel, and each step was a struggle for them.

Bella took some time to get up. She walked toward the bathroom and washed all the exhaustion away.

In the year that Dorothy was terminally ill, the both of them had no choice but to turn to the Miller family for help. Dorothy could only think of her childhood friend, Richard Miller, as Bella’s father had abandoned

them.

this situation eventually led to

left him when he was eight and disappeared without a

following year, Dorothy passed away. Shortly after, they received the shocking news that Margaret had also died of illness in a foreign place. Dominic and Margaret

time.

all of this on Dorothy and Bella. The Miller family was

an eye, 19 years had passed. Three years ago, Richard passed away,

it closely. Ever since Dominic went abroad three years ago, she had been cutting back on her expenses and seizing every opportunity

saved in the ledger over

thousand dollars, she’d be able to repay the money that the Millers had spent raising

way. She could only try her very best to clear off the debts before leaving this

both Bella and Dominic. He could regain his peace once she

After gathering herself, she quickly got

All this while, Bella was the only one taking care of the huge manor. Since Dominic was back, someone had

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spent some time in the kitchen and got the table ready in the dining room. However, Dominic

might be dealing with jet lag since he had just returned from abroad. The food was getting cold, so Bella gathered her courage and

served,” she said, but there

to knock