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, his cold voice telling of

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at Dominick and sensed his overwhelmingly hostile presence. Vincent thought, “No wonder he was so

to all major platforms to have their teams monitor the situation and prevent users from uploading and spreading them…” Vincent reported matter-of-factly before asking casually, “By

expression turned even grimmer at the

He swiped on his

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

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

quickly tapped his finger on the

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

rarely asked a serious question, but Dominick seemed distracted

thinking about.

observed him subtly and was curious as

up abruptly with an irritated look on his face as he said coldly and swiftly, “Leave

the door, his face masking a mix of

“Are you really planning to ignore Stephanie

Havencrest alone?”

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

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

halted in his

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

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

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

expression darkened at the sight of

without Dominick’s instructions, the bodyguards quickly ran in and

him away!” Dominick commanded

always been somewhat wary of Dominick, but now, he couldn’t care less. He struggled fiercely as he yelled at Dominick,

to be pregnant either, yet you used

dare Kevin insult 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

infuriated as the two tall bodyguards overpowered him. He

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

the verge of lashing out, and

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

Bam!

Kevin’s head, grazing a strand of hair before flying past

the sudden flying knife and immediately shut his mouth as

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

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

that Dominick might have just

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