Shattered Longings

Chapter 67 He Has Been Good to Her

Chapter 67 He Has Been Good to Her

Tella found herself reminiscing about her childhood. She used to be terrified of thunder.

One night, when Alchand was away, a violent thunderstorm struck, and she had huddled at the foot of her bed with tears streaming down her face.

Suddenly, Dominic burst into her room and said coldly, “Come sleep with me tonight”

That was why, despite his hatred for her, she always clung to him. She remembered the few times he had been kind.

He had been kind, but now she wanted to move on, both from him and from her pain.

“Mr. Miller, you’re back…”

Sylvia’s voice cut through the tense atesphere Dominic, with a hint of annoyance, released Bella,

shoes and

turned pale. “Ms. Jones, I’m so sorry. I didn’t

“It’s okay. He’s just drank. You should go get some rest.

passed Dominic’s room on her way upstairs bella noticed the doce was and

doorkeeh, adeafening dap of thunder shock the house. Her heart sank to

fear of thunder, she cralized that Domine had asked her to sleep with him because he know there would be a thundersroom. He had no other intentions. She was certain he was genuinely drunk, even though he didn’t appear overly intoxicated. How she could he remember that she was and thunder? It seemed more like a subconscious reaction triggered by the

and returned to her room, where

longer child, no longer to trail to cower in the corner of turbed,

to fall in a steady drizzle. Despite this, thender continued

was sulting from Insomnia, She found her earplugs and managed to drift off

a chons of birds only to find that her explues were nowhere

outside her window. She must have been away during the spring when they bust their

child living with her mother in the small town. It wa sararesight in

was exceptionally trosh, and the day was bright and sunny, she sat up and sweiched. As

short as his eyes widened an astonishest, she stared at Dominic, who had somehow ended up in her

scent of us body wash lingered on him, though he had