Crushed Affections (Dominic and Bella) novel Chapter 1

"Get an abortion!"

Bella Jones heard a familiar voice as she passed by the stairs at the hospital.

Dominic Miller?

Was he finally back after three years?

Bella held her breath as she stopped. She felt a little guilty for eavesdropping.

She heard the sound of a woman sobbing as she pleaded, "I don't want to abort my baby… Please…"

"You can always have another one in the future." The man spoke coldly, showing no intention of comforting her. The decision was final.

Dominic had returned. He even brought a pregnant woman with him.

Feeling uneasy, Bella couldn't stand eavesdropping any further and fled the scene.

…

Bella sat in the clinic, retrieving that familiar phone number from her phone. However, she couldn't bring herself to dial it.

Dominic didn't inform her of his return this time around. He might have done it on purpose.

"Dr. Jones, aren't you getting off work?" asked a passing nurse.

"You can go first. I still have some work to do."

Bella knew that Dominic would move back to Miller Manor once he returned. Therefore, she specifically stayed in the hospital until midnight to avoid him.

They were "strangers" who had been living under the same roof for 19 years. In their case, "strangers" meant they had no blood relations. They were neither family, friends, nor a couple.

Bella was 18 years old when Dominic discovered the portrait she had secretly drawn of him and all the diary entries she had written about him. The extreme look of disgust and hatred on his face was a sight that she could still remember vividly.

Her crush on Dominic was exposed right at that moment. He had zero regard for her feelings and threw the diaries and drawings onto the floor before stomping all over them.