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

Dominick…

gripped her heart, yet his name

of the bed,

to reach

body weakened. With a sudden

her forehead, and her lips that were now bleeding from being bitten, she crawled forward in

dial his number.

called out his

Park Hotel. I’m not feeling well.

The call connected, but it was a

intimacy. “Dominick is busy with me right now, and we’re quite occupied. He’s spending the

he doesn’t have time for you right now. Is there anything

call was hung

word, felt something

corners of her eyes as 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

her face turned

her breath, unable to suppress the frantic thumping of her heart, she was met with a horrifying sight–a dark red pool gushing from between

echoing in her mind, and it was

pale lips quivered as she uttered incoherent whispers. She was overwhelmed with fear, forgetting the pain in her body as a greater terror engulfed

her child

the phone again, and even her breaths became uneven. Panic seized her, clouding her mind as she continued to call out Dominick’s

save my

the phone to Dominick! Give it to him!

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the baby, but I want, and I can raise my child

won’t disturb your lives. Please, I beg you, save me…”

me, save my

you have

iteration plunging Stephanie’s heart into

“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,

beside it remained

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,

have something urgent

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

me alone in

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

must stay in the hospital for observation tonight, so

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

don’t leave.”

tear–stained face, his expression a mix

interjected, “It’s your duty to accompany your girlfriend. Sir, you should stay with her. Plus,

when, by a twist of fate, his car collided with the one driven by Jessica at a

He looked up at

Dominick’s stern gaze, calmly stating, “She’s fine physically, with a minor concussion and a fractured right wrist. She

rest?” Jessica tore up in anxiety. “What if

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