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.

uncomfortable and instinctively struggled. “Put

own?” Dominick repeated through clenched teeth,

seemed he was thoroughly provoked,

the rusting stair railing

arms crossed, and watched her

His voice was a cold command.

urged by his sinister voice, she felt

She wouldn’t let him look down on her, and she would

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

floor.

but her right

hit the floor. She quickly grabbed the staircase railing, saving herself from a worse fall.

Dominick barked. “I

me

showing no intention of helping, Instead, he continued

began to moisten as she heard

losing the strength

her head, her hands clutching the stair railing tightly, enduring

to steel

was just too

sorry…” She choked up, the words

narrowed. “What was that? Louder!”

gaze. Her eyes held

into her eyes, unexpectedly

on, behave yourself, he warned coldly, taking

resist, though her body tensed up as

dare to move.

difficult

“Mr. Wellington.”

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the apartment, the driver was about to go upstairs to look for Stephanie but

the door,” Dominick commanded in a

stuffed into the car,

he leaned over to buckle her seatbelt, their bodies pressed close together, Stephanie felt incredibly embarrassed ad instinctively squirmed a

immediately looked up, sternly

daring not

called her by her

Brad take a look at her ankle,” Dominick instructed the driver and forcefully slammed the car door shut.

lips at his words, not

there, watching the fading car lights with a

get violent when you busted

approached from another direction with a teasing smile. He just saw Dominick carrying

ignored his teasing

Vincent didn’t dare joke further and spoke honestly. “No MMS from the satellite

looked down at the smartphone screen in

showed a man and a woman seemingly

a surveillance camera above the apartment building.

but there’s no way they could have been hugging like in the photo.” He turned to Dominick with a sly grin.. “Because Kevin was