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

low, hoarse voice, made worse by his illness, sounded annoyed as if he disliked

grumbling. She slammed the door hard and went upstairs to

on the

fever–relief pills for migraines, and popped two into his mouth, swallowing then dry.

taking

forth all week, exhausted from the intense work

first thing he wanted to do was see her.

and yearning were strange, and the more he desired,

opening her drawers and closet, rummaging through her things, and

really be sick. He shouldn’t have

still racing from his earlier words, she rushed back, determined

room, she saw Dominick rummaging through her wardrobe. She was momentarily

at her, his voice cold and indifferent. “I

but Stephanie hurried over, retrieving the black,

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

he came to her place last time on a

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

Stephanie had had enough of his overbearing attitude and

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Chapter 322

need to stay in this haunted

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

valued the coat, he became even more irritated, his tone dripping with sarcasm. “You find me annoying, but do you know what your precious Little Pillar has

Dominick, you are the unpredictable one. Not everyone has to put up with your temper. I can do

fell silent. Dominick stared at her almost frighteningly, his gaze piercing into her

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