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 phone

Dominick…

yet his name echoed

her eyes welling with tears and jaw clenched, she struggled to crawl towards the edge of the bed, using her elbows for support. Her trembling hand reached out

to reach

breaths came in disarray, her body weakened. With a sudden twist on the

from her scraped back, 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. Her trembling fingers

dial his number.

called out his name

Hotel. I’m not

The call connected, but it was a

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

have time for you right now. Is there

call was

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

the 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

face turned

of her heart, she was met with a horrifying

echoing in her

uttered incoherent whispers. She was overwhelmed with fear, forgetting the pain in her body

she losing her child to

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

save my

phone to Dominick! Give it to him! My child! Ask him to send someone

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can raise my child by myself…” Her voice trembled

lives. Please, I beg you, save me…” She choked on tears as

save

phone you have dialed

plunging Stephanie’s heart into the

“Save me…

between her legs as the

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

woman beside it remained motionless, her

phone screen illuminated the

the entire suite

“Save my child…”

“What’s wrong?”

bed, her voice sweet as she addressed the man outside the

urgent

finding no missed calls. Yet, an

don’t leave me alone in

She scrambled from the bed without a care for the IV drip

stay in the hospital for observation

clutching Dominick’s right arm tightly,

don’t leave.”

at her tear–stained face,

you should stay with her. Plus, you bear some responsibility for this traffic

fate, his car collided with the one driven by Jessica at a turn while he was answering a

is she?” He looked up

fine physically, with a minor concussion and a fractured right wrist. She shouldn’t

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

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