Crossroads

Chapter 31

As dusk fell, Stephanie continued running relentlessly. Her face was pale as if she had been frightened.

The mountain road was rugged and uneven. Stephanie tripped and lost a shoe, but she couldn’t care less about that. She gasped for breath as she hurried westward, as if someone was chasing her relentlessly.

Stephanie remembered that there was a village nearby. She needed to find someone and to call for help.

Just then, the atmosphere around her shifted, and the thick clouds rolled violently in the sky. Soon after, it began to drizzle, soaking her thoroughly.

Suddenly, Stephanie’s eyes lit up when she saw a shabby tile house ahead. She then ran toward it excitedly.

“Is anyone there?” she shouted while cautiously looking back over her shoulder.

As Stephanie reached out to knock on the door, she realized it wasn’t closed. She pushed the door open and looked inside. Because it was already dark and the sky was filled with dark clouds, Stephanie couldn’t see clearly inside the house.

“Hello, I’ve been abducted here. Please help me…” She said in a panic as she stepped inside carefully.

Stephanie had been forcefully abducted by several men from the hospital to this secluded rural area.

Just moments ago, she seized the opportunity to grind the rusty hoe against the rough rope binding her hands to the wall. Immediately, she untied the rope from her feet and fled in a panic.

Now, Stephanie’s wrists bore numerous bloody gashes from the hoe, and blood was trickling down her wound. Yet, she ignored her injuries and just kept running, fearing they would capture her again.

The rain fell and stung her wounds, causing her face to scrunch up in agony.

However, the moment Stephanie stepped into the silent tile house, her body froze.

She found that there was no one there, not a trace of life, just utter silence.

Stephanie looked around, her face pale as she stared blankly at the shabby, dirty tile house and the item’s scattered all around.

Just then, a terrifying lightning bolt slashed across the sky, followed immediately by a thunderclap that made her tremble in fear. The rain outside poured down furiously as if the sky were collapsing, accompanied by thunder and lightning.

Stephanie kept shrinking back as she looked around fearfully.

She then felt discomfort in her abdomen and instinctively rested her right hand on it as she lowered her head, her complexion instantly turning pale.

At that moment, Stephanie recalled the harsh words Dominick had previously hurled at her, his voice cold and ruthless.

“There are plenty of women who could bear my children. And you, Stephanie, don’t have the right. Remove the child from her

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womb…”

Wellington ordered that the child to be removed. You’d better cooperate,

a jumbled mess, filled with a constant interplay of these

still–flat abdomen.

threatened and intimidated by those ruthless thugs, and now have to flee in panic. I’m all alone and helpless in this dark, stormy night. It’s all because of Dominick!

fiercely outside. The rolling torrents were so

the mountains.

alarm, “Come out! Hurry up and get

was standing in the middle of the house

trembled violently and shook continuously. She saw many large boulders crashing down outside the door

She felt as if her legs were weighed down

suddenly filled the

looked around with a grim expression.

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drowned out many other sounds. Someone speculated. “It might be a landslide knocking down

near the houses at the foot of the mountain. Stay safe, or we might

to Dominick, held an umbrella over him and said respectfully, “Mr. Wellington, we’ve already sent people to look around. This place is dangerous, you should

we don’t even know where to start looking. It’s really dangerous to stay here, we should head back!” Vincent also

destroyed Stephanie’s tracks, making it

nerves seemed to be holding something back, his gaze sharply

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ran toward the left despite the

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behind him immediately grew anxious and caught up. Dominick was already soaked through as he was crouched on the ground amidst the dirty

at the shoe buried in the

dashed forward in the direction the shoe tip pointed in, ignoring the people

far when

the house before him, which was now buried under mud and reduced to

must be what we just heard

the ruins in shock. “Regardless,

towards the ruins, forcefully lifting the broken door plank, and shouted

thunder

behind Dominick immediately jumped into action and hurriedly

He wondered, “Is Stephanie in this house? If she

and privileged image and immediately joined in to help move some large objects, an anxious look on his face. At that

He was overwhelmed with too many emotions and pounded his

ruins.

as his eyes filled with unbearable anxiety. They all knew that under such conditions, rescuers wouldn’t be able to arrive in

helplessness. He despised himself for being unable to do something,

shocked to see him like

and indifferent

thunder didn’t

were frightened, each digging frantically

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