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..

little place,”

by his illness, sounded annoyed as if he disliked it too.

She slammed the door hard and went upstairs to 502

shut the door, the man on the

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

taking

back and forth all week, exhausted from the intense work and

he wanted

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

small apartment filled with her presence, Dominick wandered around, bored, opening her drawers and closet, rummaging through her

He shouldn’t have said those things to her

racing from his earlier

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

glance at her, his voice cold and indifferent. “I don’t like it.”

over, retrieving the black,

like it, then leave. This is my house. Stop messing with my stuff!” she snapped, smoothing out the coat and hanging it back in the

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

Dominick commanded, his tone firm and cold, clearly disapproving of

Stephanie had had enough of his overbearing attitude and constant threats.

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Chapter 322

to stay in this

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

dripping with sarcasm. “You find me annoying,

of person Oscar is. Dominick, you are the unpredictable one. Not everyone has to put up with

her furious outburst, he suddenly fell silent. Dominick stared at her almost frighteningly, his gaze piercing into her eyes.

saying she could do just fine without him. Stubbornly,