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.

a ride," Jack insisted. He

it was appropriate to discuss the matter at hand with

as I am heading towards my

briskly rotated her cell phone in between her fingers and said, "Give me

her like an epiphany. She

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

He locked eyes with him refusing to back down. But then, he gave in to his fear and reluctantly agreed to follow Jack

every action from there onward raised red flags. Out of the blue,

helpless as a baby as he watched his sister riding shotgun with Jack. He

next move but couldn't come up with any solutions. He had no choice but to sit in the back seat of the car. The idea of sharing the car seat with

heard a man yelling barbarically, "You

him, the seat of the Land Rover was sizeable enough for two people to be sitting on either side and would still have enough space in between them as to avoid

the journey, was amused by Eric's reaction. He wondered how the personalities of the

the parking lot and onto the road, Rachel reminded him, "Can

her a long look and then muttered,

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

was met by an awkward silence as

informed her that Eric might

fortunate as she had safely gotten

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

all, the occurrence of recent events

was convinced that Jack allowed Eric to leave solely based

people who forced her to go to him liked to play with fire, and thus, weren't the ones who did things by the book. Rachel was clear that these men

she would have been at

her, it all turned out

that she'd never step foot inside any bar

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

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 made

neck to neck and

Jack had a trick or two up his sleeves. He, with his shenanigans, made sure that Hiram's cousin would lose the

seemed as if Hiram's cousin was the brain behind the bidding, it was actually Hiram who was pulling strings, even though

war. It wasn't

yearned to acquire that piece of land for a long time. When he found out that Jack had stolen the property from right under his nose, he swore vengeance. Although he was enraged

Jack. Though