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 to

you chose this dump. His low, hoarse voice, made worse by his illness,

grumbling. She slammed the door hard

she shut the door, the man on the

walked to the counter, picked up a box of fever–relief pills for migraines, and popped two into his mouth, swallowing then

hated taking medicine.

been flying back and forth all week, exhausted

home, the first thing he

the more he desired, the more unsettled he fel

her presence, Dominick wandered around, bored, opening her drawers and closet, rummaging through

shouldn’t have said those things to

in apartment 502. Her mind still racing from his earlier words,

the room, she saw Dominick rummaging through her wardrobe. She was momentarily stunned, then furious. “Hey! Why did you throw that coat

her, his voice cold and indifferent. “I don’t like

seemed to feel justified, but Stephanie hurried over, retrieving the black, men’s coat from the trash can,

my

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

can forget about living here, Dominick commanded, his tone firm and cold, clearly disapproving

of his overbearing attitude

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Chapter 322

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now? Dominick, you are so self–centered and annoying?” she retorted angrily.

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 no saint

is. Dominick, you are the unpredictable one. Not everyone has to put up

fell silent. Dominick stared at her almost frighteningly, his

felt regretful for saying she could do just fine without him. Stubbornly, she held his gaze, but her heart was in