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.

you a ride," Jack insisted. He locked eyes with Rachel expecting her to agree with

bidding. She wondered whether it was appropriate to discuss the matter at hand with

be able to go with you as I am heading towards my

in between her fingers and said, "Give me

of her subtle words came to her like

up his mind of leaving with Lea. But before he could join her, Jack threw

But then, he gave in to his fear and reluctantly agreed to follow Jack into

of the blue, he said, "Rachel, come and sit

Jack. He stood motionless

choice but to sit in the back seat of the car. The idea of sharing the car seat with a person other than his sister did

he heard a man yelling barbarically, "You better get

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

who was also accompanying them for the journey, was amused by Eric's reaction. He wondered how the personalities of

car out of the parking lot and onto the road, Rachel reminded him, "Can we drop my brother's place first? He

long

he heard his sister's voice. He wanted to shed a tear of joy but maintained his composure,

was met by an awkward silence as no one

Rachel recollected what Michael earlier said. He informed her that Eric might

herself quite fortunate as she had safely

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 were quite hard

knew that she had to be cautious. After all,

was convinced that Jack allowed Eric to leave solely

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

she would have been at Hiram's mercy and would

her, it all turned

she'd never step foot

actions and thus, deduced that his vexation towards him might have been based on his conduct towards his

chuckled to himself when he thought about how he had punished Eric that night. Not only Eric, but he also

long, Hiram's cousin and MK Group went neck to neck

with

brain behind the bidding, it was actually Hiram who was

everything under control and devised an effective plan to win the bidding war.

stolen the property from right under his nose, he swore vengeance. Although he was

quite difficult to swallow his anger towards Jack. Though his cousin bullied Jack's woman, Jack beating his cousin was something that he couldn't