Crossroads

Chapter 322

Stephanie looked at him, her breath quickening slightly, about to ask him something.

rgo and turned towards the bathroom.

But suddenly, all his anger vanished as if it had been an illusion. Dominick let her go

Stephanie’s heart skipped a beat, and she quickly followed him. She urgently grabbed his wrist, wanting answers. “What did you just say?”

“Stubble” Dominick avoided her question. He was facing a mirror. He turned his head and looked into her eyes with a serious expression, _uncomfortable.”

Stephanie felt like he was toying with her. She angrily shouted, “Tin asking you about what you just sud.”

“shave me

and I’ll tell you” His tone was calm.

Stephanie was baffled by his behavior. One moment, he was furious. The next, he acted as if nothing had happened.

She stared deeply into his eyes, trying to understand him, but they were like a bottomless abyss that she couldn’t see through

“I don’t have a razor for men she finally shouted in exasperation

to come

“I have one upstairs.” He pulled a key from his suit pocket and placed it in her hand, his tone light. “Go get it now. Stephanie, remember to co back” he reminded her at the end.

Stephanie clutched the key to apartment 502 tightly, watching him relax against the headboard, eyes closed. He looked handsome and at ease as if waiting for her to serve him.

He didn’t live in the vast Wellington villas on Crimson Peak, where he had plenty of servants at his beck and call. Instead, he insisted on living upstairs in her apartment just to annoy her..

understand your strange habit of squeezing into this little place,” she muttered angrily as she turned

by his illness, sounded annoyed as if he

and frustrated. Stephanie didn’t catch all his grumbling. She slammed the door hard and went upstairs to 502 to fetch the

she shut the door, the man on the bed stood up, Dominick’s

to the counter, picked up a box of fever–relief pills for migraines, and popped two into

hated taking

all week, exhausted from the intense

the first thing he wanted to do was

were strange, and the more he desired, the more unsettled

her drawers and closet, rummaging through her

really be sick. He shouldn’t have said those

his razor in apartment 502. Her mind still racing from his earlier words, she rushed back, determined to confront

room, she saw Dominick rummaging through her wardrobe. She was momentarily stunned, then furious. “Hey!

to glance at her, his

but Stephanie hurried over, retrieving the black,

don’t like it, then leave. This is my house. Stop messing with my stuff!” she snapped, smoothing out the coat

left it here when he came to her place last time on

away, or you can forget about living here, Dominick commanded, his tone firm and cold, clearly disapproving of the

enough of

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Chapter 322

stay in this haunted little apartment

are you up to now? Dominick, you are so self–centered and annoying?” she retorted

even more irritated, his tone dripping with sarcasm. “You find me annoying, but do you know what your precious Little Pillar has been up to lately? He’s

know exactly what kind of person Oscar is. Dominick, you are the unpredictable one. Not everyone has to put up with your temper. I can do just

fell silent. Dominick stared at her almost frighteningly,

Stephanie felt regretful for saying she could do just fine without him. Stubbornly, she held his gaze,