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

11:22 Fri, 21 Jun

Chapter 29

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

Dominick pushed open the room door impatiently, his cold

宽66%嗇

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

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

even grimmer at the mention

him further. He swiped on his phone and played a video he had

Vincent watched the video of Stephanie climbing up the riverbank all soaked through, he muttered under his breath, “I’ve never noticed how stunning

his breath and immediately shot him a

shrank back, quickly tapped his finger on the screen, and deleted

every time something happens to Stephanie, you receive

but Dominick seemed distracted as if his

thinking about.

was curious as to what Dominick was

stood up abruptly with an irritated look on his face as he said coldly and swiftly, “Leave the anonymous messages to

walked briskly toward the door,

and called out, “Are you really planning to ignore Stephanie

Havencrest alone?”

has always been impatient with women. With something like this happening,

in that icy river in the dead of winter,

halted in

confused and scared in the hospital after he had scolded her flashed through his mind. The more Dominick thought about it, the more

Fri, 21

Chapter 29

66%

door burst open. “Where is Stephanie now?!” Kevin shouted anxiously as

confessed to Stephanie and asked for her forgiveness. Is he showing concern for

at the sight of

Dominick’s instructions, the bodyguards quickly ran in

him away!” Dominick

couldn’t care less. He struggled

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

Dominick and saw

getting caught in the crossfire, Vincent quickly urged the bodyguards,

the two tall bodyguards overpowered him.

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

the verge of lashing out, and his

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

Bam!

before flying past and embedding itself forcefully into the intricately carved solid wood door, its

by the sudden flying knife and immediately shut his mouth as a drop of cold sweat slid down his

I treat her!” Dominick’s voice was low and cold as he spoke through gritted teeth. His eyes bore a deep intensity, seemingly tinged

seems…jealous, envious? It’s as 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 rid of the baby in

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

11:22 Fri, 21 Jun

Chapter 29