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.”

things going?” Dominick pushed open the room door impatiently, his cold voice telling of

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presence. Vincent thought, “No wonder he was so angry at the

monitor the situation and prevent users from uploading and spreading them…” Vincent reported matter-of-factly before asking casually, “By the way, how

expression turned even grimmer at the mention

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

of Stephanie climbing up the riverbank all soaked through, he muttered under his breath, “I’ve never noticed how stunning her figure was. No wonder this

breath

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

every time something happens to Stephanie, you receive an anonymous message.

question, but Dominick seemed

thinking about.

curious as to what

face as he said coldly and swiftly, “Leave the anonymous messages to the ministry of

briskly toward the door, his face masking a mix of

called out, “Are you really planning to ignore Stephanie

Havencrest alone?”

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

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, ‘Is he really going to leave her like

halted in his

and scared in the hospital after he had scolded her flashed through his mind. The

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Stephanie now?!” 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

expression darkened at

ran in and grabbed Kevin

him away!” Dominick commanded

of Dominick, but now, he couldn’t care less. He struggled fiercely

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 her

to look at Dominick and saw that he was barely able to contain his rage, seemingly ready to erupt at

Vincent quickly urged the bodyguards,

two tall bodyguards overpowered him. He then anxiously asked again, “Dominick,

ordered someone to remove her child. From the very beginning, you’ve only ever seen her

on the verge of lashing out, and his

fruit knife from the table, and hurled it

Bam!

of hair before flying past and embedding itself forcefully into the intricately

flying knife and immediately shut his mouth as a

right to question how I treat her!” Dominick’s voice was low and cold as

known Dominick for many years and have never seen him like this. He’s always so indifferent, but now he seems…jealous, envious? It’s as if someone touched something very important to him, disturbing his usually calm demeanor. Was

unlikely, and thought that Dominick might have just

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