Shattered Longings

Chapter 93 A Silent Showdown

After wrestling with her thoughts for 20 minutes, Bella finally caved.

She took a cup of coffee and went to Ian’s office. When she got there, he was busy with paperwork, so she waited at the door for him to finish.

When Ian looked up and saw her, he didn’t seem surprised. He put his papers aside and said, “Come in.”

Bella placed the coffee on his desk. “When did it start?”

Ian smirked a little. “You’re curious, but pretending you don’t care. You probably already figured it out–it started while he was abroad. About six months after he left, they broke up right before he came back.”

Bella did the math. Dominic was gone for three years, which meant he and Amber were together for two and a half.

Two and a half years wasn’t as long as the nearly 20 years she’d spent with him, but Amber had been his girlfriend- already won.

She wondered why she had come to dig up this pain. She didn’t even have the right to feel jealous.

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had never been. In that way, Amber

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saying anything, Ian leaned back in his chair. “Why stop asking now? If there’s

he

not the type to fall in love easily. Sometimes there are other reasons

just like that. She had spent years trying to make him love her, but it

doesn’t love Amber. She just wouldn’t leave him alone, and now she’s even followed him to Joville. I heard you’re staying with a friend–keep it that way for now. Don’t go

Ian to tell her that. She already knew. She didn’t have

made Bella feel worse, just like she’d feared. As she walked out of Ian’s office with her head down, she was hit by a strong perfume and the sharp sound of high heels

clenched in her coat pocket, and

The perfume was unmistakable–Amber’s.

saw Amber staring at her with a confident