Crossroads
Chapter 73
Chapter 73
“Babe…”
That gentle and crisp male voice whispered in her ear, “Babe…” He repeated over and over with utmost tenderness, softly calling her nickname.
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“Stop it, it’s so cheesy!” Only her mother would use that tone to call her by that nickname.
Stephanie’s brows furrowed, looking struggle. She found the voice eerily familiar.
She was sure she had heard this gentle voice before.
‘Who are you… She opened her mouth to shout, but her body shuddered with a start. The next second, she abruptly opened her eyes, staring
at the white ceiling above, feeling the faint smell of disinfectant at the tip of her nose.
That was when she realized she had been dreaming,
She was in a hospital.
“Hospital?” She murmured, her face pale, her mind blank.
She looked around, her vision blurry, and the beeping of the heart rate monitor filled her ears
“Why am I in a hospital?”
Her body was feverish, her mind sluggish, and she was barely able to grasp the situation.
“What did you say?”
Meanwhile, in the still of the early morning, police and rescue teams were busy at the factory…
“Did you say Stephanie is in the hospital?”
Vincent clutched his phone, his voice filled with disbelief.
“What?” Dominick strode forward impatiently, snatching the phone from his hand, his voice low and shocked.
“Stephanie is in the hospital!”
n the hospital!”
“How could she be in the hospital?‘
Meanwhile, Stephanie was still at a loss. “Why am I in a hospital?”
Her thoughts were heavy, and there seemed to be a man…
Suddenly, as if remembering something critical, Stephanie’s expression turned anxious, and her heart raced. She quickly threw off the white hospital blanket, checking her abdomen nervously.
She tensed up, looking intently at her smooth stomach.
Then, Stephanie sighed in relief.
She recalled meeting a man at the company gala, a gentleman in a black suit. Then, Isaac mistook her for Jessica and escorted her into the
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venue before she left.
Isaac had followed her, trailing her to the underground parking, where she stumbled upon Dominick and Randall in a shootout Isaac had clamped a hand over her mouth, forcibly taking her away.
At the abandoned chemical plant, Isaac had held a cold blade against her abdomen, ready to cut her open…
Stephanie’s thoughts scrambled, and she
her train of thought, that
we ran the company together, this would never
the corporation’s 50th anniversary is ruined! The stock price will tank tomorrow. Dad, I’ve told you, Dominick is too
George to the hospital under the guise of visiting Stephanie, but
the fire.
air was chilly,
on his cane, listened to his
celebration for the company’s 50th anniversary, but this just had
how Steffi is doing!”
“Where’s Stephanie?”
figure hurried over, Dominick,
she immediately scowled and blocked his
Stephanie and Jessica are the ones suffering now. Next time, it could be us!
out of
He didn’t care about the fact that she was his
“Is Stephanie here?”
George, repeating the question with clenched teeth, his voice filled with
wife for that mistress. And you still have the nerve to
grandfather, Dominick’s stem face
angry,
really
understand how she could be
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the management issues at his company! There’s a shareholders‘ meeting tomorrow, and I don’t think he’s fit for his current position anymore…”
jumped in, seizing
couldn’t bother with the
usual sharp demeanor
confusion. His brows furrowed, and
room.
the bed, his eyes widened. Stephanie was
man approach her, and somehow, she felt a bit
he approached the hospital bed, he looked down at her with a piercing gaze that seemed to interrogate her,
shiver running through her spine as his intense and sharp
you here?” he suddenly demanded in
pressed her lips together,
turning her
growing
kwas
gaze as she recalled some things. She
over, pressing his hands on her shoulders, forcing her
factory?” His voice was
factory, he found Isaac attacked in a small office room. He could still remember he saw a man
Who saved you at the factory?
irritable, his question as he
shoulder throbbed under his firm grip. She furrowed her brows in anger and glared up at the
her, Dominick had rushed to Jessica’s rescue and didn’t care about her fate. She couldn’t believe he had the nerve to
question her.
none of your
face hardened at her
her pale face. He looked away, his grip loosening as
he pressed, struggling
bit her lip,
“Stephanie!”
face, and roared
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was so intense it seemed to shake her very soul, and
head, having
He seemed…desperate.
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