Shattered Longings

hapter 70 Mlusion

ella thought she must have misheard when she looked up, he had already named and walked away

he couldn’t shake the feeling that his tone was strange. It didn’t seem like he was just playing along with her joke. It had sounded unusually serious.

Gaither imagination

few days later, Bella returned to her old job at Horizon Hospital

orizon Hospital was where she’d been since ber internship. The work environment was farlar, and despite the unpleasant rumors about the hospital’s finances earlier, she ad no reason to hesitate to go back, especially since the hospital director was happy to have her.

he was a sentimental person, and it was her sentimentality that had kept her holding on to Dominic for so many years.

s soon as she stepped into the office, her colleague made an uncomfortable joke, “Didn’t you funda rich boyfriend? why bother with a hospital job? Did you break up?i

and said, “Spend less time gossiping and

slightly, and they

had performed extra surgery that afternoon and was exhausted. All she wanted was to go

to hail a cab. She didn’t have the habit

for any

were around, and the occasional carsplashed through the paddles as it

make matters worse, she had no one to rely on. How she wished she could be like other women, with someone to lean on and be with. But that was a losery she couldn’t afford. And

about Dominic made her so angry that she found the courage to run to them alone. She

run far when she heard meid footsteps behind her. With a strong tur her purse was snatched, nearly pulling her off her feet. The robber seized

to realize she had just been robbed. Her phone, 115, and everything else were in that

quickly chased after him and shocked, “Give

long and dimly lit, with poor visibility

by the fact that she was a woman and there was no one else around? Fighting the urge to tem and nun, she

my bag and phone. We’re both just