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.”

the room door impatiently, his cold voice telling of his

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sensed his overwhelmingly hostile presence. Vincent thought, “No

their 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

further. He

Kevin. However, as Vincent watched the video of Stephanie climbing up the riverbank all soaked through,

breath and immediately shot him

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

seems that every time something happens to Stephanie, you receive an anonymous message. Have you figured out

rarely asked a serious question, but Dominick seemed distracted as

thinking about.

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 the ministry of information technology. They will have

door, his face

out, “Are you really

Havencrest alone?”

pondered, ‘Dominick has always been impatient with women. With something

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

suddenly halted in his

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

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Kevin shouted

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

expression darkened at the

instructions, the bodyguards quickly ran in

away!”

of Dominick, but now, he couldn’t care

I admit I 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 of the Wellington family to force her to marry you. You’ve

visibly shocked at his words. How dare Kevin insult Dominick! Vincent turned to look at Dominick and saw that he was barely able to contain his rage, seemingly ready to erupt at

the crossfire, Vincent quickly urged the bodyguards,

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

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

barely able to contain his rage. He was on the verge of lashing out, and his

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

Bam!

grazing a strand of hair before flying past and embedding itself forcefully into the intricately carved solid wood door, its blade

by the sudden flying knife and immediately shut his mouth as a drop

low and cold as he spoke through gritted teeth. His eyes bore a deep intensity, seemingly tinged with

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

thought that Dominick

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