Crossroads

Chapter 21

Dominick didn’t do anything inappropriate towards her. He simply took some gauze and hydrogen peroxide from the medical kit to dress her wound.

The wound was somewhat deep, and as the hydrogen peroxide touched the cut, Stephanie couldn’t help but frown. Dominick glanced at her, still wearing a cold expression and saying nothing, but his movements became much gentler. After he finished, Dominick turned to tidy up the medical kit while Stephanie quickly slipped her shirt back on.

When Dominick turned back to look at her, she had already put on her jacket and was nervously meeting his gaze.

“Thank you,” Stephanie said awkwardly,

Dominick didn’t respond. Instead, he looked at her intently for a moment as if pandering something.

“Let’s go back.” He suddenly spoke up and strode toward the door.

However, Stephanie didn’t follow up immediately. When Dominick reached the door, he turned back to look at her with some displeasure, saying again, “Back to Wellington Villa.”

Stephanie sat in the wooden chair, biting her lip. “I need to wait for my aunt to come back. I have something to talk with her about,” she explained, hesitant to leave.

“Your aunt’s still in the sanatorium on a new medication. She can’t come home just yet, Dominick said flatly.

Stephanie was taken aback by the fact that he even knew about this.

With no excuses left, she lowered her gaze to her ankle, bit her lip, and braced herself to stand up. Then, she walked towards him with small steps.

Dominick seemed preoccupied with something else and barely paid attention to her as she followed him.

They walked out, one in front of the other…

The old apartment building had no elevator, forcing Stephanie to tackle five flights of stairs.

Each step sent a jolt of pain through her ankle, making her wince and pale slightly.

Dominick, naturally fast with his long legs, was already out of the building when he turned around and realized Stephanie was not in sight.

His brow furrowed as he stood impatiently, looking up toward the stairs.

Just as Dominick looked up, his usually stern face softened in surprise.

He frowned and took the stairs two at a time, finding her sitting on a step on the second floor.

“What’s this? Lost your tongue? Couldn’t you say your foot was injured?” he shouted, clearly angry.

Stephanie was already throbbing with pain, and his shout only fueled her grievance.

She couldn’t understand why he was yelling at her. “It is none of your business!” she retorted.

Dominick’s face darkened with anger.

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His patience was wearing thin, He watched her stubborn defiance and quickly bent down to scoop her up.

off guard, Stephanie felt extremely uncomfortable and instinctively struggled. “Put me down, I can walk on my

own?” Dominick repeated through

he was thoroughly provoked, and he

down besides the

arms crossed, and watched her like

on!” His voice was a

she felt a little frightened, panicked,

and took a step. She wouldn’t let him look down

the truth was, her right ankle, already twisted, was swollen now from walking down

floor.

left foot landed, but her right

She quickly grabbed the staircase railing, saving herself from a worse fall. But she

barked.

Show me you

of helping, Instead,

eyes began to moisten as

down, completely losing the strength to rise

head, her hands clutching the stair railing tightly, enduring

to steel herself

the pain was just

up, the

eyes narrowed. “What was that?

lifted her head, meeting his gaze. Her eyes held a stubborn defiance, yet she

into her eyes, unexpectedly feeling

behave yourself, he warned coldly, taking

her body tensed up as he carried

dare to move. She

was truly difficult

“Mr. Wellington.”

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upstairs to look for Stephanie but

commanded in a cool

was stuffed into the car, looking

her seatbelt, their bodies pressed close together, Stephanie felt incredibly

immediately looked up, sternly calling

not to move

Dominick called her by her name, her face

slammed the car door shut. His eyes narrowed as he looked at Stephanie through the window. “I don’t

lips at his words, not daring

standing there, watching the fading car lights with a thoughtful

get violent when you busted

from another direction with a teasing smile. He just saw Dominick carrying a woman down and wondered when he had ever shown such tenderness

ignored his

joke further and

he looked down at the smartphone screen

angle, a photo showed a man and a woman seemingly wrapped in an intimate embrace, and it was

to a surveillance camera above

here before you got that MMS, but there’s no way they could have been hugging like in the photo.” He turned to Dominick with a sly grin..