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.

trying to cause a frantic search to satisfy your vanity? Don’t play this trick with me next time, Stephanie. If something happens

up and shouted with resentment, “I know! I know! I’m just a tool for

and reddened

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

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Dominick and Stephanie just looked at each other in silence,

go back.” His voice was much calmer

was still squatting

felt annoyed. He scolded her, “Stephanie, what’s the matter with you?

me!”

head down, her gaze fixed

with tears.

you returned to Reed Villa today, you’ve become sentimental. I don’t have time to keep an eye on you.

much patience for women and

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

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

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angrily, “Stephanie, you are the sole heiress of the Reed family, the wealthiest family in Caetorium, and your mother was the first heiress of the military and political Clark family. Even after your mother died of illness and Gary remarried, you are still more fortunate than many others out

and yelled back furiously, “You know nothing,

her fists as she recalled the past with

pain suppressed deep inside that threatened to tear

tears glistened in the corners of her eyes,

her deceased mother, she couldn’t

in the city. But in the end, that despicable Courtney, she had an affair with my father and became pregnant with his son…” Stephanie’s voice choked up as she looked

he was just a poor boy. It was because my grandfather, Thomas Clark, appreciated and supported him that

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

what

at a disadvantage, so she came forward to help me and accidentally pushed Courtney, who then fell and miscarried. My father blamed my mom for Courtney’s miscarriage and actually sent her

the end,

She committed suicide

control her tears anymore. Ever since she left the Reeds, she had told herself to endure it all, to

depended on each other and moved to Havencrest,

Nelson Villa and Reed Villa, but she simply grinned and bore it. However, today, she couldn’t bear

cold tombstone, her tears rolled down her cheeks and

Stephanie, his face stern and composed, and

She cried.

and the suicide

didn’t pursue the issue

that despicable Courtney shortly after her mother had been laid

She utterly despised the

school in

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But why?

have to do this to me too? He cheated on me with Claire. Why is it always the

down her cheeks and blurred her vision, she looked

Stephanie murmured, “Why….

did they do this to

was utterly emotional as she turned to

does it 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 wrong? Why does it have

her with her stubborn yet tear

crying. She turned her head away, no longer meeting his

frail body, looking lonely and helpless as she grappled with her pain alone. She had been reluctant to share her personal sorrows with others as they

Reed Villa and seeing Gary, Claire, and Courtney, Stephanie

cemetery, the setting sun cast its glow on Stephanie’s delicate shoulders. As

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had never known how to comfort

awkwardly the two words, his tone cold and distant, hardly sounding

snapped, feeling like he was mocking

the tears from the corners of her eyes, choked