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.

to the divorce of

Margaret Reed, left him when he was eight and disappeared without

Shortly after, they received the shocking news that Margaret had also died of illness in a foreign

time.

blamed all of this on Dorothy and Bella. The Miller family was compelled to take Bella

had passed. Three years ago, Richard passed away, and Dominic

before curling up in bed to examine it closely. Ever since Dominic went abroad three years ago, she had been cutting back on

saved in

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

the Miller family in any other way. She could only try her very

Dominic.

After gathering

Bella was the only one taking care of the huge manor. Since

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in the dining room. However, Dominic didn’t show up for breakfast

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

served,” she said, but

no choice but to knock again, and