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

She gave a faint smile and said, “Spend

and they fell

She had performed extra surgery that afternoon and was exhausted.

making it difficult to hail a cab. She didn’t have the habit of carrying an umbrella, so

any available

the occasional carsplashed through the paddles

wrong was going wrong, and to 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 just when she thought she might have a chance at love, Dominic shattered her

that she found the courage to run to them alone. She figured she could hall a cab at the nest intersection, as it was less than

With a strong tur her purse was snatched, nearly pulling her off

had just been robbed. Her phone,

quickly chased after him and shocked, “Give

dimly lit, with poor visibility Alter chasing

emboldened by the fact that she was a woman and there was

my bag and phone. We’re both just trying