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.”

open the room door impatiently,

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

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

even grimmer at the mention of her

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

the video of Stephanie climbing up the riverbank all soaked through, he muttered under his breath, “I’ve

heard Vincent muttering under his breath and immediately shot him

on the screen, and deleted the video

subject. “Dominick, it seems that every time something happens to Stephanie, you receive an anonymous message. Have you

Dominick seemed distracted as if his

thinking about.

was curious as to what

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

toward the door, his face masking a mix of

“Are you

Havencrest alone?”

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

bond with her. He muttered to himself, “Stephanie was in that icy river in the dead of winter, she must be feeling really

halted

image of Stephanie looking confused and scared in the hospital after he had scolded her flashed through his mind. The more

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open. “Where is Stephanie now?!” Kevin shouted anxiously as he suddenly appeared, surprising Vincent

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

darkened at the sight

the bodyguards quickly ran in and

him away!” Dominick commanded

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

pregnant by accident. She isn’t willing to be pregnant either, yet you used the power of the

Dominick and saw that he was barely able to contain his rage,

in the crossfire, Vincent quickly urged the bodyguards,

two tall bodyguards overpowered him. He then anxiously

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

the verge of lashing out, and

his right hand, grabbed a fruit knife from the table, and

Bam!

hair before flying past and embedding itself forcefully into the intricately carved solid wood

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

to question how I treat her!” Dominick’s voice was low and cold as he spoke through gritted teeth. His eyes bore a deep

Vincent felt somewhat startled. He thought, “I’ve 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

it unlikely, and thought that Dominick might

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