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

face turned pale. “Ms. Jones, I’m so

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

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

doorkeeh, adeafening dap of

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

the door behind him and returned to her room, where the sound

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

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

She found her earplugs and managed to

she was awakened by a chons of birds only to find that her explues

about under the eaves outside her window. She must have been away during the spring

hadn’t sonnything like this since she was a child living with her mother in the small town.

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

an astonishest, she stared at Dominic, who had somehow

to shower. The scent of us body wash lingered on him, though he had forgotten to