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

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

her feelings for him might resurface, she replied, “Let’s talk about it

sending the message. Her heart was still

and Dominic walked in. She quickly set her phone aside. “Um…. I was just about to go to sleep. Is everything okay? He tossed alle onto

he

“Why were you

upset. But now, the incre she pondered it, the

back at her, and replied,

and his footsteps echoed softly down the

to find tan. She picked up the documents he had brought and examined them. As she read, it felt as though someone had squeezed her heart, making

been scheming against her. He had also staged the robbery in the

stab him had been carefully planned, and there had never been any

the small town hospital, who had broken into her home in

Simon.