Shattered Longings

Chapter 83 Need Someone to Warm the Bed

Bella’s heart pounded as she gazed intently at Dominic She had never looked at him with such boldness or seriousness.

So, she was family to him, and he would protect her.

Noticing her gaze, Dominic frowned slightly and said with a flippanttore, “What are you staring at? you don’t actually want to be my girlfriend, do you? If you were, you’d have to fulfill your duties.”

Bella nervously avertedber

gee “Anyway, thanks for today. How about I take you out for dinner?”

Dominic replied with annoyance, don’t need your dinner or your meager salary. If you really want to thank ine, what I need is someone to warm my Bella was speechless. Deciding to take his comment is a joke, she silently lowered her head and pretended to tiddle with her fingers.

my bed.

She was the reason his family had been torn apart when he was young, yet he still treated her this way. Despite his usually harsh attitude, shecouldn’t bring herself to resent him. Back at Miller Manor, Bella was drying her hair after a shower when her phone buzzed with a message from Dominic, asking her to come over

da beat. Being alone with him late at night, especially after what had happened, made

she replied, “Let’s talk about it tomorrow. I’m going

sending the message.

in. She quickly set her phone aside. “Um…. I was just about

he turned

“Why were you at the

hadn’t gotten around in asiding eller because she’d been an upset. But now, the incre she pondered it, the stranger

passed, glanced back at her, and replied,

and his footsteps echoed softly down

Bell guessed he had probably gone to find tan. She picked up the documents he had

just been scheming against her. He had also

spot where the attacker was supposed to stab him had been carefully planned, and there had never been any genuine threat.

The mentally disabled patient she’d encountered in the small town hospital, who had broken into

Simon.