Crossroads

Chapter 25

Dominick wondered in confusion, “Stephanie went missing?”

After she left Reed Villa, she didn’t return to the hotel and suddenly vanished without a trace.

Vincent was also helping to search for Stephanie and couldn’t help but complain, “What on earth is Stephanie up to? She doesn’t even pick up her phone. Is she doing this on purpose to make us search for her?”

Dominick gazed at the slowly setting sun in the sky, his stern face masking his emotions, feeling somewhat irritated.

Scott hurriedly parked the car in front of the hotel and leaned out to shout to Dominick, “Dominick, we’ve found her. She’s at the cemetery…”

Dominick pondered in bewilderment, ‘She’s at the cemetery?”

When Dominick arrived at the cemetery with the others, he immediately recognized the wornan squatting in front of a tombstone in the west section of the graveyard. It was none other than Stephanie herself,

Dominick then approached her with a complex expression and heavy steps

He stood beside Stephanie and scolded her sternly, “Stephanie! What on earth are you trying to do? Are you intentionally making everyone worried, trying to cause a frantic search to satisfy your vanity? Don’t play this trick with me next time, Stephanie. If something happens to the child, you won’t be able to handle the consequences.”

Stephanie suddenly looked up and shouted with resentment, “I know! I know! I’m just a tool for bearing children to your”

When Dominick met Stephanie’s tearful and reddened eyes, his eyebrows furrowed slightly

Afterward, he glanced at the tombstone in front of Stephanie, which bore the name Madison Clark, Dominick then realized that this was the grave of Stephanie’s mother.

As the sun began to set in the west, the sky started to darken. Meanwhile, Dominick and Stephanie just looked at each other in silence, making the already gloomy cemetery seem more cerie

After a long while, Dominick coldly said, “Let’s go back.” His voice was much calmer than before.

Stephanie did not respond to him. She was still squatting in front of the tombstone, unwilling to leave.

Dominick looked down at her frail figure and inexplicably felt annoyed. He scolded her, “Stephanie, what’s the matter with you? Stop acting spoiled and throwing tantrums. I have no patience with women!”

“Come back with me!” He repeated sternly.

“I don’t need you to tell me what to do.” Stephanie kept her head down, her gaze fixed on the photo of her mother on the tombstone, her eyes brimming

with tears.

Dominick was frustrated. “Your mother passed away six years ago. Don’t tell me that just because you returned to Reed Villa today, you’ve become sentimental. I don’thave time to keep an eye on you, Come back with me right now!”

He really didn’t have much patience for women and bent down and simply pulled Stephanie to her feet.

But, for some reason, she was being stubborn today. With her eyes red and swollen, she clung tightly to her mother’s gravestone, refusing to let go.

Stephanie cried out, “I won’t gal I don’t want to! I won’t let you force me. None of you can force me…

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Dominick wondered in confusion, Stephanie went missing?”

After she left Reed Villa, she didn’t return to the hotel and suddenly vanished without a trace.

Vincent was also helping to search for Stephanie and couldn’t help but complain, “What on earth is Stephanie up to? She doesn’t even pick up her phone. Is she doing this on purpose to make us search for her?”

Dominick gazed at the slowly setting sun in the sky, his stern face masking his emotions, feeling somewhat irritated.

Scott hurriedly parked the car in front of the hotel and leaned out to shout to Dominick, “Dominick, we’ve found her. She’s at the cemetery…”

Dominick pondered in bewilderment, “She’s at the cemetery?”

When Dominick arrived at the cemetery with the others, he immediately recognized the woman squatting in front of a tombstone in the west section of the graveyard. It was none other than Stephanie herself.

Dominick then approached her with a complex expression and heavy steps.

“Stephanie! What on earth are you trying to do?! Are you intentionally making everyone worried, trying to cause a frantic search to satisfy your vanity? Don’t play this trick with me next time,

“I know! I know! I’m just a

Dominick met Stephanie’s tearful and

of Stephanie, which bore the name Madison Clark. Dominick then realized that this was

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and Stephanie just looked at

coldly said, “Let’s go back.” His voice was much calmer than

not respond to him. She was still squatting in front

figure and inexplicably felt annoyed. He scolded her, “Stephanie, what’s the matter with

with me!”

down, her gaze fixed on the photo of her mother on

with tears.

returned to Reed Villa today, you’ve become sentimental. I don’t

much patience for women and bent

her eyes red and swollen, she clung tightly to her mother’s gravestone, refusing to

don’t want to! I won’t let you force me. None

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wealthiest family in Caetorium, and your mother was the first heiress of the military and political Clark family.

his words and yelled back furiously,

her fists as she

the pain suppressed deep inside that

Dominick angrily as tears glistened in the

her deceased mother, she

Stephanie’s voice choked up as she

that?! Back then, he was just a poor boy. It was because my grandfather, Thomas Clark, appreciated and

after he uttered such ungrateful words, she began to hate her own

what had happened

and accidentally pushed Courtney, who then fell and miscarried. My father blamed my mom for Courtney’s miscarriage and actually sent her to prison. And in the

the end, my mom

She committed suicide in

tears anymore. Ever since she left the Reeds, she had told

aunt Diana depended on each other and moved to Havencrest, living a frugal life, Fearing to worry Diana, Stephanie endured

Nelson Villa and Reed Villa, but she simply grinned and

tears rolled down her cheeks

his face stern and composed, and didn’t know what to

She cried.

family and the suicide of her

didn’t pursue the issue of Courtney’s miscarriage further, yet he

hated him for being so heartless as to marry that despicable Courtney

She utterly despised the

another school in her senior

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But why?

Claire. Why is it always the Peterson sisters? Why do they have to give me

her cheeks and blurred her vision, she looked up at the sky

Stephanie murmured, “Why….

did they do

turned to look at Dominick,

have to be so hard?! I’ve always worked hard, giving my all no matter what I do. But why is life so unfair?!” Stephanie cried out in despair, which soon turned into helpless sobbing, “What have I done wrong? Please tell me. What did I do

he listened to her with her

She turned her head

alone. She had been reluctant to share her personal

to Reed Villa and seeing Gary, Claire,

its glow on Stephanie’s delicate shoulders. As Dominick looked at

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what to say as he had never known how to comfort someone, especially a

squeeze out awkwardly the two words,

business!” Stephanie snapped, feeling like

corners of her eyes, choked up, trying to isolate herself