Shattered Longings

Chapter 39 Are You Coming With Me or Not?

“Where are you going?” Bella asked with a frown.

Leonard sighed. “My father called me. I’ve got to go on a business trip overseas. It’s out of my hands. Heaven only knows when I’ll be allowed to return.”

Just then, Dominic emerged from his room. Bella clamped her mouth shut and hurried through her morning routine before rushing off to the hospital.

After Leonard left, Dominic became even busier. He was often away all day, usually returning home long after Bella had finished work. His assistant, Magdalena, and the team he brought with him were just as busy.

Since she got off work early, Bella would prepare dinner so that they could eat as soon as they returned, but she never joined them. After that night, she felt a strange tension between her and Dominic, so she avoided him whenever possible.

Dominic had mentioned that he would only be staying for half a month, and time had flown by. Bella could tell that their project was wrapping up soon. An inexplicable unease crept into her heart. Had he not come, would she have already found peace?

While she was cooking, Magdalena joined her in the kitchen. “We’re heading back to Joville tomorrow.” Bella tensed up. “Oh, I see… Safe travels!”

Magdalena smiled. “Are you not coming back with us? Are you really going to stay here forever? The development project will take at least another year to complete, and it’s quite large in scale. If Mr. Miller doesn’t have the time to oversee things here, he probably won’t be coming back.”

on going back anytime soon. I’m aware that he’d only check on

after spending almost 20 years in one place, can you really adapt to the sudden change in the people

her lips. “This is where I was born.

was trying to persuade her to return to Joville. She

wouldn’t be the type to nudge her in

and still, sleep eluded Bella. The bright moonlight, filtered through the tree branches, painted the room in silvery hues but offered

of a sudden, her phone chimed, breaking

it, only to see Dominic’s

and to the point, just six words without even a punctuation mark, yet it stirred up a storm of emotions within

back to

she responded, “No. There’s

there was no point. She had left to close the chapter on a senseless past,

39 Are Your Coming With

she have to return?

too. This place wasn’t where she wanted to be. In a world