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 his

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at Dominick and sensed his overwhelmingly hostile presence. Vincent thought,

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

grimmer at the mention of

down, not daring to provoke him further. He swiped on his phone and played a

Stephanie climbing up the riverbank all soaked through, he muttered

breath and immediately shot him a

tapped his finger on the screen, and deleted

it seems that every time something happens to Stephanie,

rarely asked a serious question, but Dominick

thinking about.

him subtly and was curious as to

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

the door, his face masking a mix of

Dominick’s retreating figure and called out, “Are you really

Havencrest alone?”

with women. With something like this happening, he would indeed

Stephanie, Vincent had developed a bit of a bond with her. He muttered to himself, “Stephanie was in that icy river in the dead of winter, she must be feeling really weak now…” Vincent wondered,

halted

of Stephanie looking confused and scared in the hospital after he had scolded her

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Kevin shouted anxiously as he suddenly appeared, surprising Vincent and the

the video earlier and thought, ‘After being rescued, Kevin suddenly confessed to Stephanie and asked for her forgiveness. Is he

darkened at the sight of

quickly ran in and

away!” Dominick commanded

now, he couldn’t care less. He struggled fiercely as he

I had wronged 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 power of the Wellington family to force her to marry you. You’ve never respected

words. How dare Kevin insult Dominick! Vincent turned to look at Dominick and saw that

Vincent quickly urged the bodyguards, “Get him out

utterly infuriated as the two tall bodyguards overpowered him. He then anxiously asked

now, and yet you ordered someone to remove her child. From the

rage. He was on the

his right hand, grabbed a fruit knife from

Bam!

a strand of hair before flying past and embedding itself forcefully into the intricately carved solid wood door, its blade

and immediately shut his mouth as a drop of cold sweat slid down his

no right to question how I treat her!” Dominick’s voice was low and cold as

so indifferent, but now he seems…jealous, envious? It’s as if someone touched something very important to

that Dominick might

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