Crossroads

Chapter 37

“I’m spending Christmas at Wellington Villa this year…”

It was late at night, and Stephanie had been feeling down all day. Unable to sleep, she wandered out to the backyard to relax. herself.

Gazing at the precious flowers and exquisite pergolas in the Wellington Villa garden, she thought everything felt surreal to her. She never imagined herself living in such a magnificent place.

“No wonder those women look at Dominick so eagerly… Stephanie felt that life with Dominick after marrying him was truly luxurious.

A gust of night wind blew, causing Stephanie to shiver and rub her hands together. She felt it was really cold.

“What are you doing here?” Suddenly, a deep voice sounded behind her.

Stephanie immediately became alert.

She turned around to see Dominick striding towards her, and for a moment, she didn’t know what to say.

Stephanie wondered why he had come back. Wasn’t he supposed to stay at the hospital with Jessica?

It was silent all around with dim moonlight tonight. Only the orange streetlights in the garden illuminated the scene. Dominick noticed her slightly reddened cheeks from the cold wind.

“Why aren’t you sleeping at this hour and standing here!” He sounded somewhat impatient.

She wanted to retort that it was her freedom, but she didn’t dare.

“After 10 o’clock at night, you should go back to your room and sleep!” Dominick seemed to see her through, ordering her coldly.

“Why should I!” She couldn’t help but exclaim, feeling indignant.

She thought he was so gentle with Jessica, but he scolded her as soon as he came back. She wanted to know the reason.

mar.

Dominick’s expression grew even more complex. Taking a step forward, he said, his voice inexplicably tinged with anger, “Do you think it’s suitable for a pregnant woman to wander around at night?”

“I didn’t…” She was about to retort but then remembered that she had indeed gone out for a while just now.

Dominick looked down at her hands, which were red from the cold, becoming even more impatient. Without saying much, he pulled her towards the house straightway.

He noticed that her hands were indeed cold, and Dominick became more anxious.

Suddenly dragged by him, Stephanie was quite dissatisfied. “Hey, let go. I can walk by myself…”

Dominick listened to her protest behind him, very upset. He led her into the house and immediately let go of her.

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“Go back to your bedroom!” His voice sounded somewhat impatient.

Stephanie looked at his sullen face, feeling even more resentful.

“I won’t sleep!”

puffed up her cheeks and

face darkened with anger. He was infuriated that she dared to

would reflect on how to be a good mother, but you wandered around

her lips, not daring to retort again, looking down, and feeling

if she were truly reflecting,

to your room and rest.” This time, his tone

not sleeping,”

eyes, staring at

troublesome and hard to

do…” Dominick remembered others advising him not to make things difficult for Stephanie. Looking at her, he grew angrier the more he thought about it, suppressing his temper

and muttered. “Your grandfather said pregnant women shouldn’t eat too much, but I have

for a moment. He was infuriated by her comment about having

feeling

the chef,” she whispered, noticing Dominick about to summon someone and immediately stopped him. “I don’t want to wake

eating those tasteless nutrition meals, which are even worse than

Stephanie was

darkened with anger, and he stared at her with complex

was happening, but the two of them eventually sneaked into the

thought she could sneak into the kitchen while everyone was asleep and find something to

Dominick glanced at her, gesturing for her not to get in the

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useless in the kitchen. Despite years of

watching Dominick bring out some pasta, cut some beef, and even marinate the beef with some spices to make

back to the trout with beans Dominick stewed a few days ago, she was surprised. She didn’t expect him to be such a good

a special hobby

holding the knife paused for a moment. He turned to her with a puzzled look,

her.

quickly adding, “Actually, men who can cook

some past events, his expression

he was a bit different tonight and thought it might be because of

you make fried

up at her, clearly seeing

didn’t know why he bothered

fish in the small pond at home, brought over

eggs, and water into a batter, remove the gills from the live fish in the pond, dip them in the batter, fry them in oil until golden brown, and then a plate of fried fish was

“Dominick, you’re really amazing!”

the large bowl of pasta from him and picked up two pieces of fried fish with a fork, tossing them into the

looked at her excited expression, feeling annoyed. He couldn’t believe she actually had the nerve

table and began to eat voraciously while Dominick

expression became serious. He didn’t know what had come over him tonight. He actually helped her with such a boring

feeling especially good. She approached him

at her smiling face, feeling frustrated, and ordered, “Go to bed now!” Stephanie immediately changed into her pajamas

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happiness and a hint of disbelief. Dominick cooked pasta for her and even made the fried fish she had been craving for a long time. She wished he could be

shower, she

faint

thought. He lifted the blanket and lay on the other side, only to discover that she had separated

surge of annoyance, Dominick, with a dark face, crossed over the pillow and directly pinched her nose with his right hand as if punishing

uncomfortable, struggling to