Crossroads

Chapter 59

Dominick reclined against the car, adopting a leisurely posture. His eyes, partially veiled, lazily traced patterns on the car window with hist Fingertips, as if indifferent to the world around him.

“Not only did you deceive him, but you also orchestrated a plan to harm him in ways that he could never fathom…”

With each chilly, sonorous syllable, Claire’s complexion paled, as if the weight of Dominick’s words pressed upon her soul.

“No, that’s not true,” she protested, her lips trembling in denial.

“Stop your baseless accusations!”

Claire’s agitation grew, a mounting sense of dread and unease enveloping her in the confined space of the car. Desperately, she grasped at the door handle, wanting to escape.

But the door remained locked, trapping her within.

Dominick, disdain evident in his gaze, opened his eyes fully, fixing Claire with an unwavering stare through the rearview mirror.

“Ms. Peterson, according to this hospital report, you’re medically incapable of bearing children. So, may I ask, where did your daughter come

from?”

He casually tossed a bundle of papers toward her, his eyes ablaze with contempt and impatience. “While your daughter is truly related to the Nelson family, the DNA test shows that you’re not her mother…

“You first planned to get Kevin into legal trouble, then sought your brother–in–law’s help to save him, hoping to earn his gratitude so you could marry him and become part of the wealthy Nelson family. But Stella’s insistence that he marry another woman thwarted your plans. So you patiently bided your time abroad, waiting for the right moment to return with his daughter…”

“No! That’s not it”

With these accusations, Claire’s heart pounded with fear and apprehension.

‘No… he couldn’t possibly know,” she tried to comfort herself

Her thoughts spun in disarray.

This long–buried secret was unknown even to her sister, Courtney, so how could Dominick know about it so well?

Could it be that fateful year, he…

Startled, Claire looked up, meeting Dominick’s inscrutable and forbidding eyes in the rearview mirror.

Claire’s mind was in a mess, while she was drowning in fear and anxiety

The incessant ringing of her phone in her pocket jolted Claire back to the present.

Realizing she had been summarily dismissed from the car by Dominick, she turned her gaze toward the highway, where his vehicle had vanished into the distance, leaving her heart racing uncontrollably.

“Claire, are you alright?”

As the call connected, Courtney’s voice crackled with concern and urgency. “Why did Dominick look for you out of the blue?”

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Claire held her phone and said in a trembling, low voice, “He knows everything.

he knows everything since a long

to be frightened. She raised her voice and shouted repeatedly into the phone, her trembling voice suppressing her fear

anxiety.

“What?”

know about Stephanie’s taking away and our

hurt her again, I’ll ensure you

cutting words sent a shiver down Claire’s

known about it, then…” Courtney’s voice trailed off, tinged with a mix

influence, how could Claire and Courtney remain unscathed if Dominick

he really knows

voice was tinged with

revelation, and she gripped her

Claire had asked the same

hands has no reason to exist.” That

her heart gripped by a relentless fear, as if she

many of her secrets known by him, she lacked the means to retaliate

Kevin by your side?” Courtney’s voice came from the

wanted Claire to cling onto Kevin?

“Kevin, you

u should go back.”

with a complex expression, urging him to

Kevin had taken a solid blow from Dominick, leaving a bruise on his chest. Luckily, they were in a hospital and could bandage it up

least half a month for the bruise to heal, and

has a bad temper.” Stephanie felt

“I’m fine.”

felt inferior to Dominick, whether

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fight since childhood. You don’t need

his head, chuckling at her, “I never expected you

his generation in the Wellington family. Plus, there

you were always the best to me,” Stephanie, sitting next to him, spoke up

was taken aback by her words and looked

Beauty lies in the eyes of the

“And now…” His gaz

her grew increasingly intense, his voice tinged

urged again, emphasizing, “We’re both married now, and we can’t

Their love was

seemed destined to

expression became complex and conflicted. He couldn’t pinpoint exactly when, but every time he heard about Claire and their daughter,

feel…” Kevin suddenly

Stephanie

ring incessantly. The caller seemed to have

Our daughter fell at the amusement park and

and her voice was audible even to Stephanie beside

with a complex gaze. Before hanging up, he responded, “I got

daughter is injured, so you should go back soon,” Stephanie said calmly

There was no

calmly about his daughter. For a moment, Kevin felt

if she truly didn’t care about him

found out about my daughter when Claire returned to the country…” Kevin hesitated, wanting to explain some things,