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 his

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

online have been taken down and deleted. Notifications have been sent to all major platforms to have their teams monitor the situation and prevent users from uploading and spreading them…”

expression turned even grimmer at the

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

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

heard Vincent muttering under his breath and immediately shot him

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

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

but Dominick seemed distracted as if his mind

thinking about.

was curious as to what Dominick was

as he said coldly and swiftly, “Leave the anonymous messages to the ministry of information technology. They

that, he walked briskly toward the door, his face

“Are you really planning to ignore

Havencrest alone?”

With something like this happening,

a few days with Stephanie, Vincent had developed a bit of a bond with her. He muttered to himself, “Stephanie was in that icy river in the

suddenly halted

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

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

‘After being rescued, Kevin suddenly confessed to Stephanie and asked for her forgiveness. Is

at

ran in and grabbed Kevin by

him away!” Dominick

couldn’t care less. He

had wronged her before. But you slept with Stephanie and she got pregnant by accident. She isn’t willing to be pregnant either,

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

caught in the crossfire, Vincent quickly urged the bodyguards, “Get

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

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

rage. He was on the verge of

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

Bam!

past and embedding itself forcefully

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

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

now he seems…jealous, envious? It’s as if someone touched something very important to him, disturbing his usually calm demeanor. Was

found it unlikely, and thought that Dominick might have just

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