Shattered Longings
Chapter 2
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.
situation eventually led to the
Margaret Reed, left him when he was eight and
the following year, Dorothy passed away. Shortly after, they received the shocking news that Margaret had also died of illness in a
time.
blamed all of this on Dorothy and Bella. The Miller family was compelled to take Bella in as she was left with
an eye, 19 years had passed. Three years ago, Richard
rummaged under her bed for the ledger before curling up in bed to examine it closely. Ever since Dominic went abroad three years ago, she had been cutting back on her expenses and seizing
recorded all the money saved in the ledger over the
able to repay the money that the Millers had spent
way. She could only
and Dominic. He could regain his peace
awake by the alarm. After gathering herself, she quickly got out of
maids in Miller Manor had resigned when Dominic left. All this while, Bella was the only one taking care
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and got the table ready in the dining room. However, Dominic didn’t show up for breakfast on
he had just returned from abroad. The food was getting
said, but there
but to knock again, and he
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