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.”

impassive. “I don’t plan on going back anytime soon. I’m aware that he’d only check on al project like this once,

sighed. “Ms. Jones, after spending almost 20 years in one place, can you really adapt to the sudden change in the people and things around

“This is where I was born. It’s not exactly foreign

her to return to Joville. She couldn’t tell if it was her own idea or if

probably wouldn’t be the type to nudge her in such a

The bright moonlight, filtered through the tree branches, painted the room in silvery hues but offered no solace to

her phone chimed, breaking the silence

it was a message from Lia and casually unlocked it, only to see Dominic’s

just six words without even a punctuation

you coming back to

responded, “No. There’s

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

Coming With Me or

she have to return?

would leave too. This place wasn’t where she wanted to