Crossroads

Chapter 255

Today, Stephanie was home alone,

She sat at the dining table, sipping a large glass of milk with a seemingly natural demeanor. As Molly left and closed the door, Stephanie immediately put down her breakfast. In truth, she was suffering from stomach acid and couldn’t eat. She was just pretending.

She was expressionless as she quickly stood up and walked to the balcony. She brought an extendable aluminum ladder into the apartment.

Stephanie placed the ladder against the cast wall of the living room, climbed up, and defily removed a black, thumb–sized device from a hidden comer of the ceiling.

She then found three more identical devices in the other corners of the living room. These were wireless surveillance cameras

Stephanie knew that the living room, her guest room, and even the balcony were equipped with these cameras. Apart from the bathroom, there were hardly any blind spots in the apartment.

She didn’t bother searching for the cameras in other places. It seemed unnecessary.

Stephanie threw the four small electronic devices from the living room into the trash, returned the ladder to the balcony, and found a 90×60 cm whiteboard, a whiteboard marker, and an eraser from a storage cabinet by the balcony.

Sitting on the sofa, she placed the whiteboard on her lap, holding it with her left hand while her right hand sketched

Occasionally, she furrowed her brows, annoyed, and erased everything she had previously drawn, then started over.

“It’s not like this, it’s not like this..” Stephanie muttered to herself

whole.

her memory, she swiftly

in her mind.

would stop, her expression heavy with

was tranquil, with only the faint sound of her erasing the whiteboard

Suddenly, a

ringing broke

marker in her hand fell to the floor. She turned to

on high aler. She immediately grabbed the eraser and wiped all the text

on the sofa beside her,

of the TV cabinet. As she reached for it, her movements hesitated,

up the marker and yanked the ornament of the

touched it, her

she flipped the delicate, palm–sized ornament over, revealing a reflective lens. It was another camera. “How many cameras are there

different from the ones she had found

phone on the TV cabinet continued to

the newly found red camera tightly, her emotions barely contained, squeezing it with all her

are you?” Stephanie pressed the answer button, her hoarse voice sofily utering the three

I’m Matthew Rowen, the chief

was the one responsible for you when you first had the car accident, be continued,

Stephanie responded through gritted

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one who operated on her when she was rushed into the emergency room. How could