Crossroads

Chapter 90

Chapter 90

Stephanie felt dazed and couldn’t quite remember how she had left that dreadful underground basement.

The echoes of boxing and fighting sound, piercing screams, and the sound of bones cracking still lingered in her ears.

In the quiet night, a champagne–colored Rolls–Royce was parked in the dimly lit alley. Someone opened the car door for her. She stood by the door, glancing to her left.

At this moment, hurried footsteps approached. Someone respectfully reported, “It’s confirmed. After waking up at the private hospital in Serenburg, he flew back to the country, likely returning to Pearson Villa in Frostvale.”

Stephanie didn’t know what

at they were talking about, nor did she want to know.

Dominick strode towards her expressionlessly. Under the dim street lights, he appeared even more upright and imposing, exuding a heavy

sense of pressure.

She lowered her head and quickly sat in the car without waiting for him to approach. She sat stiffly upright, hands clenched into fists, trying

to conceal her inner unease..

Dominick reached the car door, staring complexly at her restrained profile.

With a bang, he suddenly slammed the car door shut.

“Take Mrs. Wellington back.” His cold voice echoed in the spacious and eerie alley.

Stephanie was startled for a moment, but she didn’t lift her head. The car quickly started and gradually moved away.

Until the car slowly turned the corner of the alley, she couldn’t help but look back.

He was nowhere to be seen,

She remained very quiet throughout the journey, her gaze absentmindedly watching the scenery flying past the window, her mind in turmoil.

Around nine in the evening, the car arrived at Wellington Villa

The servants hurried up as soon as the car stopped, looking anxious. “Mrs. Wellington, where have you been? Mr. George Wellington has been

looking for you.”

“Grandpa.”

She went to

the sofa in the hall, his face

slightly relieved to see her unharmed. “Mrs. Wellington,

phone had been

didn’t say anything, hesitating momentarily as she looked towards George.

to the country?”

lightly, “Hmm.” She looked down at her toes, not

his cane, walked to her side, and asked in a deep

Chapter 90

somewhat strange, as

pressed her lips, unwilling

cane and said, “Sandra has made you soup. You should grab

felt a warmth in her heart. She followed Sandra to the dining room to eat a

do things I don’t like,

sunk into it, her mind filled

now.

was never an ordinary person. That place

her.

bathtub blurred her vision, and her thoughts were in chaos, unable

head over heels for Dominick because he was the one who saved you on that high school trip. But listen, when you were taken by those bandits, he was probably behind it all. He crafted a fake

was drunk. He shook her shoulders and

to

little dizzy. She climbed out of the

on the wall

moment of trance, she

him, do you?

of March, she walked to the window in her bathrobe. In the distance, the lights of the bustling streets were

night.

brought a light drizzle, making the

by the window, gazing into the distance with

flowed swiftly, hurrying to their

suddenly shot out from a side alley at a crossroads in Havencrest leading to

normally were startled and quickly turned their steering wheels, screeching as

to block our car so brazenly? The bodyguard in the driver’s seat was infuriated and got out

expression unchanged. He raised

who was blocking the

guessing something, his

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