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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she turned her blurred vision toward her

Dominick…

heart, yet his name echoed relentlessly in her

eyes welling with tears and jaw clenched, she struggled to crawl towards the edge of the bed, using her

needed to

body weakened. With a sudden twist on the bed, she tumbled to

bleeding from being bitten, she crawled

dial his number.

out his name as if grasping for

come to the Royal Park Hotel.

call connected, but it was a woman

flirtatious, carried a hint of intimacy. “Dominick is busy with me right now,

have time for you right now. Is there

was

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

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

turned ghostly white, her eyes widening

to suppress the frantic thumping of her heart, she was met with a horrifying sight–a dark red

only one thought echoing in

She was overwhelmed with fear,

losing her child

even her breaths became uneven. Panic seized her, clouding her mind as

save my

the phone to Dominick!

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the baby, but I want, and I can raise my child by myself…” Her voice trembled in

I beg you, save me…” She choked

save my

have dialed

each iteration plunging Stephanie’s heart into the abyss, as if there

“Save me…

the heavy scent of blood filled

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

woman beside it remained

screen illuminated

the entire

“Save my child…”

“What’s wrong?”

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

something urgent to

phone and glanced quickly, finding no missed

alone in

bed without

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 aid as she got up from

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

don’t leave.”

at her tear–stained face, his

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

had just left Elite High School when, by a twist of fate, his car collided with the one driven by Jessica at a turn while he was answering

looked up at

stating, “She’s fine physically, with a minor

anxiety. “What if the crew thinks I’m slowing them down

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