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.

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

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

Stephanie’s tearful and

front of Stephanie, which bore the name Madison Clark. Dominick then realized

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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

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

respond to him. She was still squatting in front of the tombstone,

inexplicably felt annoyed. He scolded her, “Stephanie, what’s the matter with you? Stop acting spoiled and throwing tantrums. I

with me!”

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

with tears.

passed away six years ago. Don’t tell me that just because you returned to Reed Villa today, you’ve become sentimental. I don’t have time to keep an eye on you. Come back with me right

for women and bent

her eyes red and swollen,

won’t go I don’t want to! I won’t let you force

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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,

profoundly hurt by his words and yelled back furiously, “You know nothing, Dominick! How dare you

with tears, and she instinctively clenched her fists

pain suppressed deep inside that threatened to tear

tears glistened in the corners

she remembered her deceased mother, she couldn’t help but let 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 up at Dominick and shouted as if venting all her anger, “Do you know that Courtney, that

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

had always deeply respected her father, but after he uttered such ungrateful words, she

recounted what had

Largued with Courtney. My mom was afraid that I would be at a disadvantage, so she came forward to help me and accidentally pushed Courtney, who

end, my

died… She committed

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

Diana depended on each other and moved to Havencrest, living

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

she held onto the cold tombstone, her tears rolled down her cheeks and dropped onto it

face stern and composed, and didn’t know what

She cried.

avoided recalling the past with the Reed family and the suicide of her mother.

her mother’s suicide in prison, didn’t pursue the issue of Courtney’s miscarriage further, yet he

heartless as to marry that despicable Courtney shortly after her mother had been laid

She utterly despised the

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But why?

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

her tears streamed down her cheeks and blurred her vision, she

Stephanie murmured, “Why….

did they do

emotional as she turned

I do. But why is life so unfair?!” Stephanie cried out in

he listened to her with her stubborn yet

her head away,

She had been reluctant to

returning to Reed Villa and seeing Gary, Claire, and Courtney,

sun cast its glow on Stephanie’s delicate shoulders. As Dominick

口

as he had never known how to

out awkwardly the two words, his

Stephanie snapped, feeling

corners of her eyes, choked up, trying