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,

his shoes and went straight

pale. “Ms. Jones, I’m so sorry. I

He’s just drank. You should go get

way upstairs bella noticed the doce was

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

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

door behind him and returned to her room, where the sound of thunder fill–dber mind with countless

longer to trail to cower in the

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

She found her

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

flitted about under the eaves outside her window. She must have been away during the spring when they bust their nest. Now, their young had hatched, and the alr was filled

hadn’t sonnything like this since she was a child living with

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

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

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