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 cold voice telling

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

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grimmer at the

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

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 muttered under his breath, “I’ve never noticed

Vincent muttering under his breath and immediately shot him a warning

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

every time something happens to Stephanie, you receive an anonymous message. Have you

a serious question, but Dominick seemed

thinking about.

and was curious

his face as he said coldly and swiftly,

he walked briskly toward the door, his face

Dominick’s retreating figure and called out, “Are you really planning

Havencrest alone?”

women. With something like this happening, he would indeed

Stephanie, Vincent had developed a bit 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

suddenly halted in

the hospital after he had scolded her flashed through

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Stephanie now?!” Kevin shouted anxiously as he suddenly appeared,

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

darkened at the sight of

bodyguards quickly ran in and grabbed Kevin

him away!” Dominick

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

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

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

Vincent quickly

two tall bodyguards overpowered him. He then anxiously asked again, “Dominick, where did you take

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

He was on the

out his right hand, grabbed a fruit knife from the

Bam!

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

and immediately shut his mouth as a drop of cold sweat

Dominick’s voice was low and cold as he spoke through

felt somewhat startled. He thought, “I’ve known Dominick 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 him, disturbing his usually calm demeanor. Was it even possible for Dominick to get jealous? Kevin said Dominick ordered someone to get rid of the baby in Stephanie’s

unlikely, and thought that Dominick might have just said it out

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