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

shifted slightly, and they fell silent

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

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

for any available

occasional carsplashed through the paddles as

matters worse, she had no one to rely on. How she wished she could be like

to run to them alone. She figured she could

meid footsteps behind her. With a strong tur her purse was snatched, nearly pulling her off her feet. The robber seized her bag

her to realize she had just been robbed.

after him and shocked, “Give me back my be

alley was long and dimly lit, with poor visibility Alter chasing for

fact that she was a woman and there was no one else around? Fighting

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