Shattered Longings

Chapter 35 Cutting Off the Long Hair She Grew for Him

Bella was startled. She gasped as the pain from the wound on her forehead intensified, causing her face to turn pale.

Once she saw who it was, she frowned and asked, “What are you doing?”

It was Magdalena, who sighed in relief and said, “It looks like you want to wash your hair, but it’s not convenient for you. Let me help you. It would be a shame to cut off such beautiful hair.”

Bella was about to decline, but Magdalena had already gone to the bathroom to get hot water.

She couldn’t shake the feeling that something was off. First, Dominic had stopped her from taking a shower, and now someone was inexplicably preventing her from cutting her hair.

Suddenly, she remembered something. She had kept her hair long because Dominic liked it.

He had once, while drunk and pressing her beneath him, shown a fascination with her long hair, often playing with it between his fingers. Since then, she hadn’t cut it.

But now, there was no need for her to humiliate herself, trying to please him anymore. If that was the case, there was no point in keeping it.

Glancing toward the bathroom, Bella picked up the scissors, took a deep breath, and cut her hair off at shoulder length, tossing it into the trash bin

to start over,

courtyard and the hair in the trash, she froze for a moment. A woman who cut off the long hair she

still, so she returned to work at the hospital the next day. The trouble from the previous Incident seemed to have

leader, those small troublemakers couldn’t cause much of a stir. As long as she didn’t bring any problems with her, the hospital

heard the sounds of a funeral

to the window to check. A funeral procession carrying a coffin and a portrait passed by

entrance into the world and an equally grand

in the portrait, her heart missed a beat. It was the man

she was a doctor, accustomed to life and death, watching a life end before her eyes, especially when it wasn’t due

that shot, and a wave of fear and dizziness

home, she ran into Leonard, who was crouching at the entrance, talking on the phone. He greeted her,

his face, Bella couldn’t help but think of his ruthless

Long Hair

back to

felt a bit puzzled but didn’t

it might be best to move out. She had returned here because it was her birthplace, but everything that had happened since had soured her

to be found here anymore. She began to seriously consider

thought took hold, it