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…
thoughts scrambled, and she looked
broke her train of thought,
when we ran the company together, this would
of all days, the corporation’s 50th anniversary is ruined! The stock price will tank tomorrow. Dad, I’ve
hospital under the guise of visiting Stephanie, but
the fire.
night air was
on his cane, listened
company’s 50th anniversary, but this just
down, let’s see how Steffi is doing!” George
“Where’s Stephanie?”
moment, at the hospital’s left elevator entrance, a tall and imposing figure hurried over, Dominick, his clothes
approaching, she immediately scowled
also offend so many people for your own desires. Stephanie and
of my
the mood to argue and was visibly irritated. He didn’t care about the fact that she was his aunt and pushed
“Is Stephanie here?”
with clenched teeth, his voice
a snort, George exploded in anger. “You bastard! You neglected your wife for that mistress. And you still have the nerve to come
stem face flashed with a
wasn’t angry,
was really
how she could be
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issues at his company! There’s a shareholders‘ meeting tomorrow, and I don’t think he’s fit
also jumped in, seizing
bother with
sharp demeanor
furrowed, and he strode to the hospital room, opening
room.
he looked toward the bed, his eyes widened. Stephanie
watching the man approach
the hospital bed, he looked down at her with a piercing gaze that seemed to interrogate her, as if
as his intense and sharp eyes fixed
here?” he suddenly demanded in
pressed her lips together, offering no
at all, turning her back to
was growing
kwas
recalled some things. She seemed like
leaned over, pressing his hands on her shoulders, forcing her to
the factory?” His voice
infiltrated the factory, he found Isaac attacked in a small office room. He could still remember he saw a man and a woman embracing each other in the
you at the factory? Who
irritable, his
in anger and glared up at the man
care about her
question her.
of your
hardened
at him when he saw her pale
at the gala?” he pressed, struggling to contain
her
“Stephanie!”
face, and roared her name, a name burned into the deepest
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shake her very
her head, having mixed feelings at
He seemed…desperate.
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