Crossroads

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“Wait, just a moment…”

Stephanie abruptly halted the taxi, but soon, a tinge of embarrassment crossed her face as she said, “Never mind, please continue.”

“Miss, you seem a bit pale,” the taxi driver remarked, casting a concerned glance her way.

Phanie offered a strained smile and assured him, “I’m alright.”

Her gaze drifted to the left window of the car, her expression tinged with disappointment.

A fleeting uncertainty gripped her, ‘Was it him, or was it not?”

“Why am I even concerning myself with him?” she murmured, her head bowed in frustration.

Upon returning to her suite in Royal Park Hotel, Stephanie checked the time. It was already eight in the evening.

Restless, she suddenly recalled something and rushed to the bed, grabbing the hotel phone to dial the internal line. “Hello, has anyone visited me during my absence?”

Despite the polite response from the hotel staff, her disappointment deepened. “Oh, I see. Thank you.”

She was even worried that he might miss her while she was out at the milkshake shop and had rushed back for him.

“Wait, why would I be worried that he missed to catch me here?” she thought.

An inexplicable stir of emotions coursed through her, leaving her bewildered.

“What is he so busy with?” Stephanie pondered, perched at the bed’s edge, eyeing her suitcase hesitantly. “Should I wait for him to return to Havencrest with me?”

Finally, after washing her face in the bathroom, she made a resolve. If Dominick failed to contact her tonight, she’d secure a flight back to Havencrest the next morning.

“Is it work or another’s company that consumes him?”

Knowing Dominick’s demanding schedule and the weight of responsibilities atop his shoulders, Stephanie couldn’t help but empathize with him. She often saw him working late into the night in his study

She was his wife, but

it she grappled with expressing

ssing her concern for him amidst his hectic life.

Lying on the bed, Stephanie scrolled through her phone, hesitating with something. “Would I disturb him now if I called him?”

Suddenly, a sharp pang

gwracked her abdomen, causing her to double over and drop her phone.

“Ouch, it hurts…” Stephanie winced, her complexion drained as she clutched her midsection.

Labored breaths escaped her as the pain intensified.

Beads of cold sweat dotted her forehead as trembling overtook her frame, thwarting her attempts to rise

Stephanie gasped, grappling with the agony. Perplexed by the sudden onset of discomfort despite her normalcy throughout the day, she mumbled, “Why is this happening

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pale complexion, she turned her blurred vision toward her

Dominick…

gripped her heart, yet

the

needed to

breaths came in disarray, her body weakened. With a sudden twist on the bed, she tumbled to the

the disheveled hair clinging to her forehead, and her lips that were now bleeding from being bitten, she crawled forward in a frenzy, finally reaching for her phone.

dial his number.

out his name as

Hotel. I’m

but it was

flirtatious, carried a hint of intimacy. “Dominick is busy with me right now, and we’re quite occupied. He’s spending the night

have time for you right now.

was hung

utter a word, felt something choking her throat, making it hard to

lay in a frantic heap on the floor, clutching the phone tightly in her right hand, feeling utterly hopeless and humiliated. With another wave of pain in her stomach,

looked down, her face turned ghostly white, her

suppress the frantic thumping of her heart, she was

thought echoing in her

with fear, forgetting the

losing her child

uneven. Panic seized her,

save my

desperately, shouting into the phone, “Jessica, give the phone to Dominick! Give it to him! My child! Ask him to send

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but I want, and I can raise my child by myself…”

me…” She choked on tears as she pleaded in a trembling

me, save my

have

into the abyss, as if there was

“Save me…

fixed on the dark red pool between her legs as the

tears as she gazed at the phone screen, her trembling fingers poised to dial 911, but suddenly, all

beside it remained

screen illuminated the

enveloped the entire suite in an

“Save my child…”

“What’s wrong?”

room, a woman lay on the bed, her voice sweet as she addressed the man outside the ward window, sensing

urgent to attend

his phone and glanced quickly, finding no missed calls. Yet, an inexplicable agitation gnawed at

leave me alone

to leave, she panicked. She scrambled from the bed without a care for the IV drip and threw herself

been in an accident and your body is weak. You must stay in the hospital for observation tonight, so you can’t leave,” the nurse said, rushing to her

adamant, clutching Dominick’s right arm tightly, her voice faint with pleading,

don’t leave.”

her tear–stained face,

your duty to accompany your girlfriend. Sir, you should stay with her. Plus, you bear some responsibility

of fate, his car collided with the one driven

she?” He looked up at

calmly stating, “She’s fine physically, with a minor concussion and a

up in anxiety. “What if the crew thinks I’m slowing

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