Crossroads

Chapter 289

Chapter 289

These past few days had been particularly exhausting.

Three days passed before the results of the Innovate Group advertisement came out, leaving Stephanie anxious and waiting. As soon as she returned to her room at 402 from her trip, she collapsed into bed, her mind a chaotic mess, filled with a sense of wanting to escape.

She wondered. Who exactly is Lucy? What if I can’t land the Innovate Group ad? Why did she make me participate in the ad audition? And why was I told to stay away from Vincent!

These questions and more tormented her mind, turning into nightmares that felt like endless mazes with no way out.

“Stephanie, don’t make me angry.

“Don’t do things you shouldn’t, and stay away from those men because I don’t like it.”“

She jolted awake, lying flat on her bed, staring blankly at the ceiling.

She felt sluggish, and Dominick’s voice echoed in her head. It was low and grumbling, filled with irritation, just like when he used to get mad at her.

Dreaming of her life in Wellington Villa surprisingly made her nostalgic.

Stephanie turned her head towards the window. The sky was a murky gray, making it hard to tell if it was morning or evening

“Achoo!” A cold wind had blown in, making her shiver. She quickly got up, grabbed a thick coat, and wrapped it around herself. She guessed that the cold had woken her up.

Stephanie hurried to shut the window tightly. Looking out, she saw that the streetlights in the neighborhood below were lit. It was already evening.

They had taken a flight back at dawn and arrived in Havencrest by around 8 AM. She was so tired that she forgot to turn on the heater. She grabbed a few tissues to cover her nose and realized she had caught a cold again

around noon. She cilled back, barely saying “hello” before Molly’s fierce

caught another cold! Do you have a fever? Do you have any

to the loud questions on the other end and couldn’t help but admire Molly’s swift reaction. Her few months working as a nanny for the Roberts family seemed to have given

in her left hand, Stephanie stared at the reading of 100.76 degrees. She

drink plenty of water, and rest. If it goes over 102.2 degrees, get to the hospital

taken aback but stubbornly refused to admit

voice always sounds guilty when you lie. I don’t know how you’ve

Stephanie quietly listened, feeling that Molly had changed and matured somehow.

old nag, Stephanie signed, her voice heavy

when she began working at the Roberts, Stephanie checked on her friend.

other end of the line increased.

It was Andy’s voice,

“I just saw you eat three slices of pizza with my own eyes! How can you still. be hungry? Go find something else

innocent voice. “But my tummy is still hungry. It’s growling. Listen, you can

belly, clearly irritated. That’s because

saying?” Molly asked, returning to the phone.

realizing that with Andy pestering Molly, quitting her job would not be

her think, “Molly would make a great mom. For some reason, this thought made Stephanie

herself as a

small apartment felt so cold and empty with just her

phone and ate absentmindedly at the coffee table. The TV in front

in the tabloids for a while.” She missed seeing his name in the

hadn’t meant to rush him off that day. “I wonder if he’s mad?” Probably not. He

if Lucy decided to target him? And if Vincent knew, then

back in the bowl, repeating his name over and over, lost

Reed, do you believe I

who I am. Just cooperate and don’t ask questions. I’m

drove a black Ferrari himself.”

She

hoped it was him, but it wasn’t,

Stephanie greeted her.

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