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.”

Dominick pushed open the room door impatiently, his

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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 because of

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 doing

at

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

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

muttering under his breath and immediately shot

tapped his finger on the screen,

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

a serious question, but Dominick seemed distracted as if his mind

thinking about.

was curious as to

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

toward the door, his face

you really planning to ignore Stephanie and go

Havencrest alone?”

pondered, ‘Dominick has always been impatient with women. With something like this happening, he would indeed abandon Stephanie,

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

suddenly halted in his

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

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Kevin shouted anxiously as he

Kevin suddenly confessed to Stephanie and asked for

at the

Dominick’s instructions, the bodyguards quickly ran in and grabbed Kevin by the

him away!” Dominick

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

But you slept with Stephanie and she got pregnant by accident. She isn’t willing to be pregnant either, yet you used the power

shocked at his words. How dare Kevin insult Dominick! Vincent turned to look at Dominick and saw

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

utterly infuriated as the two tall bodyguards overpowered him. He then anxiously asked again, “Dominick, where did you

child. From the very beginning,

He was on the verge of lashing

fruit knife from the table, and hurled it straight

Bam!

hair before flying past and embedding itself forcefully into the intricately carved solid wood door, its blade gleaming

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

have no right to question how I treat her!” Dominick’s voice was low and cold as

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

unlikely, and thought that Dominick might

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