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,

and went

pale. “Ms. Jones, I’m so sorry.

gently. “It’s okay. He’s just drank. You

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

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

had no other intentions. She was certain he was genuinely drunk, even though he didn’t appear

and returned to her room, where the sound of

child, no longer to trail to cower in the corner of turbed, but she still couldn’t

continued intermittently for over an hour before the rain began to fall in a steady drizzle.

found her earplugs and managed to drift

momng, she was awakened by a chons of birds

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

she was a child living with her mother in the small town.

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

cut short as his eyes widened an astonishest, she stared at Dominic, who

he hadn’t forgotten to shower. The scent of us body wash lingered on him, though