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 less time gossiping and more ime practicing. The operating table won’t

slightly, and they

she finished work, it was already 9:00 pm. She had performed extra surgery that afternoon and was exhausted. All

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

any

occasional carsplashed through the paddles

she wished she could be like other women, with someone to

to run to them alone. She figured she could hall a cab at the

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

realize she had just been robbed.

after him and shocked, “Give

poor visibility Alter chasing for awhile,

as fear began to creep inin her heart. Was the third emboldened by the fact that she was a woman and there was no one else around? Fighting the urge to tem and nun, she tried to sound

back my bag and phone.