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

and they fell silent

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

have the habit of carrying an umbrella, so she stood pirhilly under the eaves, watching

for any

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

what it meant to have the worst luck. Everything that could go 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

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

hadn’t 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 her bag and dashed into the alley

she had just been robbed. Her

chased after him and shocked,

dimly lit, with poor visibility Alter chasing for

stopped too, panting 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

the cash just give me back my bag