Crossroads

Chapter 291

Chapter 291

There wasn’t even a trace of lingering warmth left from an embrace after they had gone to bed. What did this even mean?

“Damn it, what does he take me for?” Stephanie cursed under her breath at the ceiling of room 302. She was angry, but her eyes were filled with confusion and frustration.

Last night, Dominick had despicably coerced her into his room. His actions were hasty and demanding. He hadn’t turned on the lights, so she couldn’t see his expression clearly. Exhausted, he had fallen asleep. Her mind had been a tangled mess. and truthfully, she had felt a bit of longing.

When she woke up, the pillow beside her was cold. He had already left.

Still groggy. Stephanie noticed the clothes scattered on the floor. Her heart was

in turmoil, filled with mixed emotions. She grabbed her long coat and quickly fled. She had forgotten to wear underwear the night before, which played right into his hands as if she had served herself up on a silver platter. It was infuriating.

Her hair was disheveled, and she wrapped herself in the coat as she hurried out. She looked truly pitiful.

Just as she stepped out, the elevator across the hall chimed, and a group of residents walked out and bumped into her.

Stephanie blushed as the residents‘ eyes filled with suggestive disdain. The property manager, who had been patrolling the night before, passed by and said. “Ms. Reed, don’t you live in 402 I couldn’t find you with the spare key last night. You didn’t go home to sleep?”

she had been up to last

my husband!” she shouted suddenly, lifting her head in a

ever. Why did I marry

burning with shame, she fled back to Room

She didn’t even order takeout. Probably because she had eaten too many frozen meals and her brain felt undernourished, every time she looked up while lounging in the living room watching TV or resting in bed, she couldn’t help but glare at the ceiling with a

lives right above me! Why does

he refused to say.

was a contest of coldness, she vowed to be even colder than him,

from the Innovate Group called her. “Are the results our?” she asked nervously,

about boring work stuff, Stephanie. Come out and have some fun tonight. Let’s all

director said we’d have results in three days. She

now. Besides, we’re not those shady types. Eloise and the others are here, too. It’ll be good for you to meet

before she could get an answer, but the mention of that particular club changed Stephanie’s expressions.

stared at the burritos on the coffee table, struggling internally for a minute. Then she turned around, quickly went to

spacious club on the north side of the city that

because it was so large and had few patrons.

to see it. Vincent had told her that Dominick had opened this club purely for his own entertainment. The club spanned over 50,000 square feet and had just over 1,000 anonymous members, with a staff of

range and even offered equestrian lessons at a company–owned stable. All the equipment and facilities

open to anyone. As expected, as soon as Stephanie approached the

guards looked tall, bandsome, and fit, like male

friends are having a gathering, and was invited, Stephanie responded calmly. She wasn’t

are allowed inside. The staff’s refusal was polite but firm, in

to ask for help. Just then, the main door opened, and a male employee from the Innovate Group, the one who had called her earlier, walked in

“Hurry up. With this attitude, how do you expect to survive in this

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