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

he was eight and disappeared without a

shocking news that Margaret had also died

time.

Dorothy and Bella. The Miller family was compelled to take

an eye, 19 years had passed. Three years ago, Richard passed away, and Dominic left the

up in bed to examine it closely. Ever since Dominic

saved in the ledger over the past

dollars, she’d be able to repay the money that the

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

Bella and Dominic. He could regain his

was jolted awake by the alarm. After gathering herself,

when Dominic left. All this while, Bella was the only one

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got the table ready in the dining room.

lag since he had just returned from

said,

no choice but to knock again, and he finally