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

with him late at night, especially after

she replied, “Let’s talk

after sending the message. Her heart was still

the door creaked open, and Dominic walked in. She quickly set her phone aside. “Um…. I was just about to go to sleep. Is

he turned and

were you

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

glanced back at her, and replied,

behind him, and his

by his attitude, Bell guessed he had probably gone to find tan. She picked up the documents he had brought and examined them. As she read, it felt as

He had also staged

had been carefully planned, and there had never been any genuine threat. She

in the small town hospital, who had broken into her

Simon.