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.

led to the divorce

when he was eight and

the shocking news that Margaret had also died of illness in a foreign place. Dominic and Margaret

time.

Miller family was compelled to take Bella in as she was left with

passed. Three years ago, Richard

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 past three

just another 100 thousand dollars, she’d be able to repay the money

in any other way. She could only try her very best to clear off the debts

to both Bella and Dominic. He could regain his

was jolted awake by the alarm. After gathering

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

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the kitchen and got the table ready in the dining room. However, Dominic didn’t show up for

since he had just returned from abroad. The

she said, but

choice but to knock again, and he finally