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

house, where George was sitting on the sofa in the hall, his face dark, obviously in

up and down, slightly relieved to see her unharmed. “Mrs. Wellington, we were worried

phone had been broken

say anything, hesitating momentarily as she

to the country?”

down at

cane, walked to her side, and

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somewhat strange, as if she had been

lips, unwilling to

his cane and said, “Sandra has made you soup.

in her heart. She followed Sandra to the dining room to

I don’t

bathtub with warm water and sunk into it, her mind filled with the

now.

before, and he was never an ordinary person. That place

her.

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

over heels for Dominick because he was the one who saved you on that high school trip. But listen, when you were taken by

was drunk. He shook her

to look at the full–length

felt a little dizzy. She climbed out of the bathtub, grabbed a large towel

on the wall

she murmured, “So, he

him, do

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

night.

spring breeze brought a light drizzle, making the night air

stood quietly by the window, gazing into the distance with deep thoughts

traffic flowed swiftly,

alley at a crossroads in Havencrest leading

and quickly turned their steering wheels,

so brazenly? The bodyguard in the driver’s seat was infuriated and got out of the car. The car owner suddenly changed lanes,

He raised an eyebrow as he glanced at

who was blocking the way seemed even more

pressed his lips as if guessing something, his mocking gaze watching the

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