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 eyes as if forcing herself to recall something. Based on her memory, she swiftly jotted down notes on the whiteboard, including some diagrams and

in her mind.

her expression heavy with frustration, as

tranquil, with only the faint sound of

Suddenly, a

ringing

and the marker in her hand fell to the floor. She turned to look at the phone flashing on the

grabbed the eraser and wiped

sofa beside her, bent down to retrieve the marker that had fallen to the floor, and

found it under the potted fern on the left side of the TV cabinet. As she reached for it, her movements hesitated,

and

touched it, her expression

ornament over, revealing a reflective lens. It was another camera. “How many cameras are there in this

was different from the ones she had found earlier. Was it another group of

phone on the TV cabinet continued to ring incessantly, the caller

unfamiliar caller ID. Her left hand clenched the newly found red camera tightly, her emotions barely contained, squeezing it

answer button, her hoarse voice sofily utering the

Matthew Rowen, the chief

me. I was the one responsible for you when you

her, Stephanie responded through gritted

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one who operated on her when she was