Crossroads

Chapter 135

How did last night unfold so unexpectedly?

Everything seemed to happen with a natural ease…

Stephanie couldn’t quite fathom it herself, but her heart still raced, her thoughts in disarray.

Morning light streamed through the window, casting a soft glow across the room. The clock on the wall pointed to nine o’clock, and the man beside her had already risen.

“You’ve certainly got quite the vigor.” Her voice held a playful, slightly teasing tone.

Despite staying up late into the night, he had woken at five in the morning. Normally he would slip away quietly, but today he lingered with a buoyant mood, disrupting her dreams.

Throughout her sleep, her dreams had been dominated by him. It was maddening.

“How much longer do you plan to hide in there?”

Suddenly, a light tap on the bathroom door interrupted her. “Remember you said I can’t bully you with our sons around, Come out, it’s breakfast time. You need to refuel” His familiar, deep voice carried a hint of laughter, and he was clearly in high spirits.

Stephanie’s cheeks blushed anew. He had been overly persistent and clingy last night. Unable to resist him, she had casually mentioned their sons to coax him into giving her some space!

After finishing her morning routine, she opened the bathroom door with a pout, only to find the man outside looking refreshingly energetic. Despite staying up all night, he seemed unfairly lively. It irked her.

“Are you sleepy?”

Still groggy from sleep, she retorted, slightly annoyed, “Our sons’re hungry.”

Dominick stepped closer. “Are you truly that exhausted?” His tone was unexpectedly earnest.

His hand instinctively brushed aside a few disheveled strands of her hair, his gaze dropping to her flushed cheeks and lingering on her lips.

“Stephanie, from now on…you’ll need to adapt to me quickly,” he said in a hoarse voice.

“What?”

words poised on the tip of her tongue. Without explanation, he simply wrapped his left arm around her waist. She breathed shallowly, his touch stirring a whirlwind

breaths intertwined, each exhale a dance of

head downstairs

“Yeah.

Without looking at him, she turned shyly and hurried to the

advantage just now, she would have undoubtedly given

left her feeling somewhat

Chapter 135

um, why did you?” Her cheeks flushed as she asked, her words

Suddenly, she looked up, her gaze complex as she fixed it on him.

outright, but Dominick grasped her meaning, his expression tinged with irritation as he shot

lower her

pride that prevented him from forcing women into sharing intimate

wouldn’t have been able to resist,

felt her heart swelled with a sweet warmth once again, eliciting a silly grin as she

at her with a hint of exasperation, observing her lips curl into a

of dignity seemed to fade into

for her to

I completely forgot to show you something.” Stephanie suddenly became animated, pushing her

noticed her increasingly frantic search and swiftly approached.

inquiry as she continued to sift through

of you happen to see the bag I brought back from

you’re looking for in

are ultrasound photos

it, she proudly presented it to him, eager to

with a smile as she excitedly showed him. He naturally extended

her abdomen, where their

him, her arms instinctively wrapping around his neck as she leaned in close to whisper in his ear, “Let me tell you about those old men at the hospital. They’re such phonies, always fawning over these ultrasound pictures, calling them precious and adorable. It’s just two tiny blobs of flesh, and yet they’re making such

children are just tiny blobs of

shared a close moment. She saw a glint of amusement in his typically composed eyes, his chest subtly rising and falling with laughter,

He genuinely seemed content.