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.”

pushed open the room door impatiently,

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phone, looked up at Dominick and sensed his overwhelmingly hostile presence. Vincent thought,

all major platforms to have their teams monitor the situation and prevent users from uploading and spreading them…”

expression turned even grimmer at the

looked down, not daring to provoke him further. He

of Stephanie climbing up the riverbank all soaked

his breath and immediately shot him a

tapped his finger on the screen, and

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

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

thinking about.

him subtly and was curious as to

then 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.

he walked briskly toward the door, his

called out, “Are you really planning to ignore Stephanie

Havencrest alone?”

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

himself, “Stephanie was in that icy river in the dead of winter, she must be feeling really weak now…” Vincent wondered, ‘Is

suddenly halted

after he had scolded her flashed through his mind. The

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burst open. “Where is Stephanie now?!” Kevin shouted

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

darkened at the sight

ran

away!” Dominick

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

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

How dare Kevin insult Dominick! Vincent turned to look at Dominick and saw that he was barely

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

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

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

his rage. He was on the verge of lashing out, and his face was

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

Bam!

past and embedding itself forcefully into the intricately carved solid wood door, its

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 intensity, seemingly tinged

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 ordered

it unlikely, and thought that Dominick might have just

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