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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turned her blurred vision

Dominick…

yet his name echoed

the bed, using her elbows for support. Her trembling hand reached out for

to

her body weakened. With a sudden twist on the bed,

lips that were now bleeding from being bitten, she crawled forward

dial his number.

called out his name as if grasping for

Park Hotel. I’m not feeling well.

The call connected, but it

a hint of intimacy. “Dominick is busy with me

now. Is there anything you need me

call was hung

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 wave of pain in her stomach,

her face turned ghostly white, her

she was met with a horrifying sight–a dark red

only one thought echoing in her mind, and

overwhelmed with fear,

she losing her child to

uneven. Panic seized her, clouding her mind as she continued to

me, save my

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

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but I want, and I can

me…”

save my

have dialed is

heart into the abyss, as if there was no hope

“Save me…

fixed on the dark red pool between her legs as the heavy scent of blood filled

the phone screen, her trembling fingers poised

beside it remained motionless, her eyes

illuminated the

enveloped the entire suite in

“Save my child…”

“What’s wrong?”

that moment in the hospital emergency room, a woman lay on the bed, her voice

something urgent

quickly, finding no missed

me alone in the

She scrambled from the bed without a care for the IV drip and threw herself at

for observation tonight, so you can’t leave,” the nurse said, rushing to her aid as she got up from the

nurse’s insistence, Jessica was adamant, clutching Dominick’s right arm tightly, her voice faint with pleading,

don’t leave.”

face,

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

his car collided with the one driven by

He looked up at the

Dominick’s stern gaze, calmly stating, “She’s fine physically, with a

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

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