Crossroads

The mobile phone kept ringing, sounding a little noisy in this silent ward.

Kevin looked at his mobile phone with a complex expression. He knew Claire called him to urge him to go back...

the But he didn't want to leave now.

"Kevin, isn't it for the wedding that you came to Caetorium? Remember to give me the invitation. Stephanie and I will definitely be there... Dominick looked at Kevin and said meaningfully in a cold voice.

Kevin's face instantly darkened when he heard this.

"You should go. Kevin."

Stephanie was afraid that the two would fight again like they did in the morning. Kevin was no match for Dominick, and he would definitely be beaten up.

"What about you?" Kevin asked with concern.

"What do you think I'll do to her?"

Dominick was unhappy when he heard them caring about each other, Then he sneered contemptuously, "Her family is in the parking lot. They will come up soon. Do you want them to see your affectionate look..."

Kevin frowned with confusion when he heard that Stephanie's family would come up later.

He looked at Stephanie opposite and said quickly, "Steffi, take good care of yourself. Just call me if you need anything"

Kevin didn't stay there any longer. He was Stephanie's ex-husband and Claire's husband as well. The relationship was complicated. If there were any misunderstandings, their reputations would be affected.

Stephanie didn't look at his back anymore. She turned around, deadpan, and went to the hospital bed in a bad mood.

Dominick, however, stared at Kevin's back with gloomy eyes and clenched his fist tightly as if he was angry about something.

Kevin's words, "Just call me if you need anything", made him feel particularly annoyed.

Dominick thought, 'If she needed anything, why didn't she call me but call Kevin instead...

Stephanie's family came to the ward to visit Stephanle, but they found that Dominick's face was gloomy as if someone had just angered him.

"Steffi, you are so careless. How could you eat carelessly? Fortunately, the baby was saved." Samantha had recovered from the last time that she had been hospitalized for high blood pressure. She looked at Stephanie and reproved bér loudly.

She then turned to look at Dominick with a flattering smile on her wrinkled face and said, "Mr. Wellington, Steffi has been spoiled, and she is a little willful. Forgive her this time. I'm sure she will reflect on herself and make changes..."

Being scolded, Stephanie lay on her side on the bed and turned her back to them, not bothering to look at them.

Gary was forced to come here by Samantha. He just glanced at Stephanie as if he didn't care if she was very ill.

On the contrary, he occasionally looked at Dominick with meaningful eyes.

"Steffi, take good care of yourself. I made you creamy beet soup. I heard it's very effective in enriching the blood. It's still hot. Get up and have some soup.

Courtney, Stephanie's stepmother, came with Gary to visit Stephanie. With a concerned smile, she placed a bowl of soup on the table, Stephanie lay on the hospital bed and ignored them. Seeing this, Samantha looked unhappy. "Did you forget the basic manners?"

If Dominick hadn't been there, she would have started scolding Stephanie. She suppressed her anger and said, "Get up right now and drink the soup Courtney made for you. Take care of the baby in your abdonten!"

Stephanie, with a livid face, lay on her side on the bed as if she hadn't heard anything.

She wouldn't drink the soup Courtney made.

"She needs a rest."

Dominick, who had been silent all the time, looked around at them and suddenly said in a cold voice.

Obviously, he wanted them to leave.

Upon hearing this, Stephanie's family didn't stay any longer and left after the hypocritical chat.

But before leaving, Courtney couldn't help but take another look at Dominick's side face, feeling suspicious.

She thought, "Dominick asked Claire to call Kevin back, and then he called Samantha and asked us to come to the hospital. Why did he do these strange things?"

"What exactly do you want to do?"

Dominick had heard this several times today, but this time, Stephanie was the one asking the question.

Her family had left, and the ward door was not locked. She and Dominick were the only ones in the ward.

"Dominick, you called them to come over, right?"

Stephanie stared at Dominick with a cold face. "Where is Jessica? Don't you need to accompany her? What exactly do you want to do here with me? If you have anything to say, just say it!" Her tone was cold and distant.

She lay on the hospital bed, and Dominick stood beside the bed.

He looked down at her. Stephanie noticed that he slightly opened his lips and prepared to say something. After she waited for a few minutes, he didn't say anything.

"Kevin and I were locked in the ward last night. We didn't do anything."

Stephanie thought that Dominick came here just to investigate and teach her a lesson. It seemed reasonable for a man to cheat on his wife and have a mistress, but a woman would be called shameless if she was doubted to have a dubious relationship with a man.

She did not hide her anger and stared at Dominick with a livid face.

Dominick looked at her but still didn't speak Thinking that he didn't believe her, Stephanie became even angrier.

She wondered, "Why should I explain to him? Those messy things between him and Jessica..." The more she thought about it, the angrier she Chapter 60

became. She pulled the white quilt and covered her head, not wanting to look at him a anymore.

Thinking of Jessica, she clenched the quilt tightly.

"How much would you have to abort the child in your belly? Just name your price..."

"I can give him a child if Dominick wants."

"Even if you give birth to this child, I will become its stepmother and bully it. It's a real eyesore!"

That day, Jessica shouted at Stephanie arrogantly in th in the private room of the restaurant. Stephanie wanted to retort her, but the words stuck in her throat, which made her feel humiliated.

There was a trace of sadness in Stephanie's eyes. She subconsciously touched her abdomen with her right hand.

She thought, 'T'll leave after giving birth to the child. George will treat his great-

grandchild well...Property belongs to Nôvel(D)r/ama.Org.

Stephanie's eyes lit up when she thought of George, as if she had found a spark of hope.

She lifted the quilt above her head and looked for her mobile phone anxiously. She wanted to call George immediately.

But as soon as Stephanie lifted the quilt, she heard a calm voice. "Don't move."

She tensed up all over and looked sideways at the man beside the hospital bed. He hadn't left yet.

"The doctor said that you must be hospitalized for a week," Dominick's voice sounded a little strange, as if he deliberately said in a calm voice. "You can't get out of bed."

Stephanie withdrew her hand and stopped looking for her phone. She lay down on the bed.

Dominick looked at her for a while, feeling something was weird, She was not usually so obedient.

Inexplicably, he remembered what Vincent had said before. "Women are all like this. If men don't explain something clearly, they will have random thoughts." Suddenly, Dominick's expression became a little complicated. Finally, he said with difficulty and awkwardness, "I didn't put the medicine that caused the bleeding..."

"I knew." Stephanie, lying on the bed, indifferently replied as if she didn't want to hear his voice.

Upon hearing her response, Dominick was a little surprised and a little happy.

"I didn't go to the hotel to see you that night because..." Stephanie's face gradually turned pale when she thought of that phone call. "I'm not interested in what happened to you two. Stop talking, okay?"

She interrupted him with a cold face, pulled the quilt, and wrapped herself up.

Dominick looked complicated and fell silent.

After a while, Stephanie heard his footsteps and his cold voice as he told the nurse. "Keep an eye on her."

The ward door was closed with a click, Stephanie heaved a sigh of relief. She felt oppressed whenever she was in the same space as Dominick Because of this accident, she understood more clearly about the gap between her and him.

She cut off all the unrealistic notions that she had hidden in her heart.

Having a cervical polyp was not a severe disease, but for a pregnant woman, it needed to be treated m to carefully Stephanie cooperated with the medication. After two days of medication, her condition had improved significantly.

"Okay. I will go back after the doctor approves me to leave in a few days..."

At about seven o'clock in the evening, George called Stephanie. She was a little nervous when she received the call, thinking that he would scold her, but luckily, he didn't.

George seemed to have known that her condition had stabilized, so he was in a good mood and asked her if she was really pregnant with twins.

Mentioning the children, Stephanie rarely smiled. She said, "It was not e

sure before because the embryds were too small, but now, they are confirmed to be twins, and through the amniotic fluid gender test, the doctor said both of them are boys..."

It was not that Stephanie favored sons over daughters. She had grown up in the Reed family and knew that in wealthy families, daughters were used as tools for marriage, and sons would be the heirs they focused on cultivating.

If her children were boys, even if she could not be with them in the future, the Wellington family would value them.....

Thinking of this, Stephanie felt somewhat sad.

u are George was very excited on the other end of the call. Stephanie could hear him yelling at Brad. He laughed and said happily, "Steffi, you a pregnant with twins. I will have two grandchildren by the end of the year!"

His joyful voice infected Stephanie, and she also smiled.

"Ms. Reed, what makes you smile so happily?" The nurse came in with a dinner.

"It's time to have dinner."

George vaguely heard this and said, "Have a good meal. You are pregnant and need nutrients."

He suddenly thought of something and added, "Where's Dominick? Ask him to buy what you want to eat..."

e's good mood was ruined when she heard the name "Dominick".

Stephanie's

"I know," she responded dully and hung up the phone. Stephanie took the fork and prepared to eat, but when she opened the lunch boxes, she saw fried shrimp with eggs, fried goose liver, and spinach. These were all blood-rich foods, but they were her hated food. "For my children, I must try to get rid of the picky problem." She picked up a piece of fried goose liver, stuffed it into her mouth unwillingly, and chewed it expressionlessly, really wanting to spit it out.

The nurse was surprised. Stephanie ate and looked in pain as if she was taking medicine. She ate fried eggs with shrimps, but she only ate shrimps and deliberately shook off the eggs with a fork.

"Ms. Reed, is there something wrong with these-dishes?" the nurse couldn't help but ask.

Stephanie blushed, feeling embarrassed. "..." "She's a picky eater, and she doesn't like eating eggs!"

A low and clear voice came from outside the ward.

Stephanie looked towards the door, and her face darkened immediately, thinking,

"Why is he here again?"