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 straight

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

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

on her way upstairs bella noticed the doce was and decided to close it for

she reached out for the doorkeeh, adeafening dap of thunder shock the house.

sleep with him because he know there would be a thundersroom. He had no other intentions. She was certain he was genuinely

to her room, where the sound of thunder fill–dber mind

longer to trail to cower in the corner of turbed,

rain began to fall in a steady drizzle. Despite

She found her earplugs and managed to drift

awakened by a chons of birds only to find

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

child living with her mother in the small

sat up and sweiched. As the blanket slipped off her, she caught a glimpse of something pale

was cut short as his eyes widened an astonishest, she stared at Dominic, who had somehow ended

The scent of us body wash lingered on him, though he had forgotten to get dressed and was only wearing