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

a faint smile and

shifted slightly, and

time she finished work, it was already 9:00 pm. She had performed extra surgery that

cab. She didn’t have the habit of carrying an umbrella, so she stood pirhilly under the

any

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

Dominic made her so angry that she found the courage to run to them alone. She figured she could hall a cab

tur her purse was snatched, nearly pulling her off her feet. The robber seized her bag and

moment for her to realize she had just been robbed. Her

chased after him and shocked, “Give me back my

dimly lit, with poor visibility Alter chasing for awhile, the man

to creep inin her heart. Was the third emboldened by the fact that she was a

cash just give me back my bag and phone. We’re both just trying