Stuck in you

'You piece of shit!' Eric cursed himself in his heart and trod slowly, hoping to disappear completely behind Rachel.

Jack was greeted by a queer countenance on Eric's face as he drifted past Rachel. Ignoring the strange expression, he pointed towards his watch and asked Rachel, "Rachel, do you wish to go back?"

Rachel took a deep breath, and then she blurted, "Well, yes. And, thank you."

Jack frowned slightly and said, "You don't have to thank me, ever. And by the way, Hiram didn't do anything to you, did he?"

Lea's ears perked up as she heard Jack's words. "What happened?" she inquired. She wore a perplexed expression on her face as she threw a cautious look towards Jack and Rachel simultaneously.

Michael, who was standing right behind Jack, was amazed by Lea's delicate features. He waggishly started whistling.

Lea was bewildered by his actions. As soon as Michael felt her burning eyes on him, he started whistling even louder. 'Just wow! I wonder how a girl like Rachel friends with such an alluring person,' Michael thought and chuckled to himself.

When Eric, who previously wished to disappear off the face of the earth, witnessed the ongoing events, his face turned a darker shade of red. He bellowed at Michael, "Shut up or else you'll face my wrath."

Michael smiled slyly as he saw the look on Eric's face. "Oh, it's you."

He then threw a casual glance at Eric's hand as he raised his eyebrows in astonishment and uttered, "Is your hand still attached to your body?"

"I swear!"

"Michael!" Eric and Jack yelled at the same instant, but Jack's hoarse voice clearly trumped Eric's. Michael looked over his shoulder in astonishment.

"Don't mess around with him," Jack said aloofly.

With a dubious expression, Michael made an unimpressive effort of saluting Eric and said sarcastically, "My apologies, boy."

"You bastard!" exclaimed Eric, as he clenched his fists in utter rage. "Who do you think you are? I am not a kid, you moron!"

"I shall have none of this anymore!" Rachel stated affirmatively as she pulled Eric back. Lea joined the duo, and she tried to comfort Eric. "Don't worry, we won't be talking to this man anymore," she said in absolute disgust.

Soon Jack had Rachel's undivided attention to him as she questioned, "Is there anything you wish to tell me, Jack?"

Jack threw her a serene look and said, "Do you want to go back with me or not? I'll gladly give you a ride."

"No, thanks for the offer, but we…" Rachel stuttered.

go, my car is nearby. I'll give you a ride," Jack insisted. He locked eyes with Rachel expecting her

constant bidding. She wondered whether it was appropriate to discuss the matter

to go with you as I am heading towards my

phone in between her fingers and said, "Give

and the true meaning of her subtle words came to her like an epiphany. She made a mental note of calling Lea later to apprise her

with Lea. But before he could join her, Jack threw a dirty look towards him and stated affirmatively, "You are going with

But then, he

raised red flags. Out of the blue, he

sister riding shotgun with Jack. He stood motionless as Rachel opened the front door of the

back seat of the car. The idea of sharing the car seat with a

to jump inside of the car when he heard a man yelling barbarically, "You better get in

he heard these unsettling words. He promptly got in the car. Fortunately for him, the seat of the Land Rover was sizeable enough for two people to be sitting on either side and would still

reaction. He wondered how the personalities of

road, Rachel reminded

a long look and then

quite relieved when he heard his sister's voice. He wanted to

the journey was met by an awkward

her that Eric might

quite fortunate as she had

knew all the ins and outs of how the society operated after she had closely witnessed the extent human beings could go to quench their thirst of worldly desires, and heard some rumors that

had to be cautious. After all, the occurrence of recent events

was convinced that Jack allowed Eric to leave solely based

him liked to play with fire, and thus, weren't the ones who did things by the

have been at Hiram's mercy and would have been forced to do his

her, it all

to herself that she'd never step foot inside any bar ever

the motive behind Hiram's preposterous actions and thus, deduced that his vexation towards him might have been based on his conduct towards his so-called cousin. He was also assured that whatever Michael had said

the fact that Hiram's cousin was one of the people who had forced Celine to drink. He chuckled to himself when he thought about how he had punished Eric that night. Not only Eric, but he also

MK Group went neck to neck and bid for

or two up his sleeves. He, with his shenanigans, made sure that

bidding, it was actually Hiram who was pulling strings, even

and devised an effective plan to win the bidding war. It wasn't even in his wildest dreams that Jack would sabotage

he found out that Jack had stolen the property from

Jack. Though his cousin bullied Jack's