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

and they

9:00 pm. She had performed extra surgery that afternoon and was exhausted. All

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

any

around, and the occasional carsplashed through the

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

to run to them alone. She figured she could hall

her. With a strong tur her purse was snatched,

took a moment for her to realize she had just been robbed. Her phone, 115, and everything

shocked, “Give me back my

dimly lit, with poor

the fact that she was

bag and phone. We’re