Crossroads

Chapter 29

“Don’t run! Catch her!” The footsteps behind Stephanie grew louder, accompanied by a rough, raspy voice. Frightened, her face turned pale as she desperately ran toward the elevator.

“Ah, let me go!” Stephanie kept pressing the elevator button frantically. She was about to rush in just as the elevator doors opened when a tall man with a fierce expression on his face came charging at her down the stairs before pinning her down.

The man throttled and warned coldly, “You heard it just now. Dominick ordered for the child to be removed. You’d better cooperate, or don’t blame us for being nasty!”

on hearing Dominick’s name, Stephanie’s eyes reddened as she retorted, “No! This is my child! I won’t have the baby taken

I

away!”

“Mr. Wellington said you have no right to bear his child!” A man in a white coat hurried over and shouted impatiently to two other men, “Hurry up and do it!”

“No!” Stephanie was on the verge of weeping with fear,

“Let me go. I don’t want to go ahead with the procedure…” She trembled in fear as she struggled under the man’s grip and cried out desperately, “Help me! Please, help me. I don’t want this. Let go!”.

“What’s that noise?”

The hospital was undergoing a change in shift and the corridors of the inpatient department were relatively quiet. Two nurses happened to pass by and they looked around in confusion.

“What are you doing?”

The nurses walked toward the source of the noise and saw three men acting suspiciously at the stairwell entrance.

“We’re just disposing of some special medical waste…” Shortly after, they heard a loud bang as two men in white coats forcefully. closed a large lid.

The nurses found it odd, but the three men had already pushed the large white bin into the elevator.

“I’ve never seen these doctors before. Which department are they from?”

“Forget it, our hospital is so large and we often have interns coming in…” Another nurse remarked without giving it much thought as she watched the elevator doors shut slowly.

After the elevator doors closed, it quickly descended to the underground parking garage on the basement level.

Stephanie was thrown into a large bin filled with dirty bed sheets, the lid pressing down tightly on her. She struggled to breathe and she began to lose consciousness as her brain was slowly deprived of oxygen.

She wondered in despair, ‘Why is Dominick so cruel? Why won’t he hear me out…

As Stephanie felt increasingly hopeless and despondent, her mind grew fuzzier. Just before she passed out, she faintly heard a

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sinister remark, “The money has been transferred. Get rid of her as soon as possible.”

the room door impatiently, his cold voice telling of

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phone, looked up at Dominick and sensed his overwhelmingly hostile presence. Vincent thought, “No wonder he was so angry at the hospital

related videos online have been taken down and deleted. Notifications have been sent to all major platforms to have their teams monitor the situation and prevent users from uploading and spreading them…” Vincent reported matter-of-factly before asking casually, “By the way, how is Stephanie doing

even grimmer at the mention

him further. He swiped on his phone

climbing up the riverbank all soaked through, he muttered under his breath,

Vincent muttering under his breath and

his finger on the screen, and deleted the

seems that every time something happens to Stephanie, you receive an anonymous message. Have you figured out

question, but Dominick seemed distracted as if

thinking about.

subtly and was curious

then stood up abruptly with an irritated look on his face as he said coldly and swiftly, “Leave the anonymous messages to the ministry of information technology. They

he walked briskly toward the door, his face masking

out, “Are you really planning to ignore Stephanie

Havencrest alone?”

With something like

was in that icy river in the dead of winter, she must be feeling really weak now…” Vincent

halted

hospital after he had scolded her flashed

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now?!” Kevin shouted anxiously as he suddenly

earlier and thought, ‘After being rescued, Kevin suddenly confessed to Stephanie and asked for her forgiveness. Is he showing concern for his ex-wife

expression darkened at the sight of

ran in and grabbed Kevin by the

him away!” Dominick

had always been somewhat wary of Dominick, but now, he couldn’t care less. He struggled fiercely as he yelled at Dominick,

her before. But you slept with Stephanie and she got pregnant by accident. She isn’t willing to be pregnant either, yet you used the

was visibly shocked at his words. How dare Kevin insult Dominick! Vincent turned to look at Dominick and saw that he was barely able to contain his rage, seemingly ready to erupt at

crossfire, Vincent

utterly infuriated as the two tall bodyguards overpowered him.

and yet you ordered someone to remove her child. From the very beginning, you’ve

contain his rage. He was on the verge of lashing out, and his face was dark

grabbed a fruit knife from the table, and hurled it straight at Kevin without

Bam!

narrowly missed Kevin’s head, grazing a strand of hair before flying past and embedding itself forcefully into the intricately carved solid wood

the sudden flying knife and immediately shut his mouth as a drop

I treat her!” Dominick’s voice was low and cold as he spoke through gritted teeth. His

if someone touched something very important to him, disturbing his usually calm demeanor. Was it even possible for Dominick to get jealous? Kevin said Dominick ordered someone to get

Vincent found it unlikely, and thought that Dominick might have just said it out

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