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.”

door impatiently,

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

taken down and deleted. Notifications have been sent to all major platforms to have their teams monitor the situation and prevent

even grimmer at the

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

expect Stephanie to be so daring as to jump into the river to save Kevin. However, as Vincent watched the video of Stephanie climbing up the riverbank all soaked through, he muttered under his breath, “I’ve never noticed how stunning

heard Vincent muttering under his breath and immediately shot him a warning

tapped his finger on the screen, and deleted

something happens to Stephanie, you receive an anonymous message. Have

but Dominick seemed distracted as if his mind was

thinking about.

subtly and was curious as to what Dominick

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

that, he walked briskly toward the door, his face masking a mix of

called out, “Are you really planning to ignore Stephanie

Havencrest alone?”

with women. With something like this

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

suddenly halted in his

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

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

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

at the

quickly ran in and grabbed Kevin

him away!” Dominick commanded

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

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 wishes and you’re no better

look at Dominick and saw that he was barely able

Vincent

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

she’s so weak now, and yet you ordered someone to remove her child. From the

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

knife from the table, and hurled it

Bam!

grazing a strand of hair before flying past

sudden flying knife and immediately shut his mouth as a drop of cold sweat

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

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 it even possible for Dominick to get jealous? Kevin said Dominick ordered someone to get rid of the baby in

Vincent found it unlikely, and thought that Dominick might have

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