NovelEnglishChapter 70
hapter 70 Mlusion
ella thought she must have misheard when she looked up, he had already named and walked away
he couldn't shake the feeling that his tone was strange. It didn't seem like he was just playing along with her
joke. It had sounded unusually serious. Gaither imagination
few days later, Bella returned to her old job at Horizon Hospital
orizon Hospital was where she'd been since ber internship. The work environment was farlar, and despite the
unpleasant rumors about the hospital's finances earlier, she ad no reason to hesitate to go back, especially since
the hospital director was happy to have her. he was a sentimental person, and it was her sentimentality that had
kept her holding on to Dominic for so many years.
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s soon as she stepped into the office, her colleague made an uncomfortable joke, "Didn't you funda rich
boyfriend? why bother with a hospital job? Did you break up?i
ella didn't socialize much, and naturally, she wouldn't accept jokes from people she wasn't familiar with. She
gave a faint smile and said, "Spend less tgossiping and more practicing. The operating table won't give
you a second chance to make a mistake" tercolleague's expression shifted slightly, and they fell silent
resentfully.
by the tshe finished work, it was already 9:00 pm. She had performed extra surgery that afternoon and was
exhausted. All she wanted was to go hand snuggle into her
Jesfortunately, the rain was pouring down, making it difficult to hail a cab. She didn't have the habit of carrying
an umbrella, so she stood pirhilly under the eaves, watching the ad for any available cabs.
new people were around, and the occasional carsplashed through the paddles as it spedby
At that moment, she truly grasped what it meant to have the worst luck. Everything that could go wrong was
going wrong, and to make matters worse, she had no one to rely on. How she wished she could be like other
women, with someone to lean on and be with. But tha Thinking about Dominic made her so angry that she found
the courage to run to them alone. She figured she could hall a cab at the nest intersection, as it was less than
two kilometers away
She hadn't run far when she heard meid footsteps behind her. With a strong tur her purse was snatched, nearly
pulling her off her feet. The robber seized her bag and dashed into the alley ahead.
It took a moment for her to realize she had just been robbed. Her phone, 115, and everything else were in that
purse!
She quickly chased after him and shocked, "Giveback my be Stop!"
The alley was long and dimly lit, with poor visibility Alter chasing for awhile, the man suddenly stopped
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Bella stopped too, panting as fear began to creep inin her heart. Was the third emboldened by the fact that she
was a woman and there was no one else around? Fighting the urge to tem and nun, she tried to sound calm.
then take the cash just giveback my bag and phone. We're both just trying to get by."
The man was tall and thin, dressed in a black T-shirt, matching black pants, and a black baseball cap.
As she spoke, he slowly turned to face her. "Are you trying to negotiate with me? Don't be ridiculous. I'm not just
taking your purse. I'm taking you too. I've been following you for
a while. You've got a nice fig. | didn't think you'd be foolish enough to chase afteralone."
Bella looked past the man into the deep, endless darkness behind him. The alley seemed to stretch on forever.
The robber in front of her looked like a demon riven from the darkness. She had never imagined something like
this could happen to her.
he no longer cared about her bag. She turned and ran as fast as she could, now the one being chased.
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