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.

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

quite fazed by his constant bidding. She wondered whether it was appropriate to

to go with you as I am

absentmindedly. Lea briskly rotated her cell phone in between her fingers and

of her subtle words came to her like

join

He locked eyes with him refusing to back down. But then, he gave in to his fear

there onward raised red flags. Out of the blue, he said, "Rachel,

helpless as a baby as he watched his sister riding shotgun with Jack. He stood motionless as Rachel opened the front door of the

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 a person other than his sister did not amuse

he heard a man yelling barbarically, "You

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

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

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

a long look and then muttered,

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

an awkward silence as

recollected what Michael earlier said. He informed her that

fortunate as she had safely

ins and outs of how the society operated after she had closely witnessed the extent human beings could go to quench their thirst of

cautious. After all, the occurrence of recent events almost cost Eric

that Jack allowed Eric to leave solely based on

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

come here today, she would have been at Hiram's mercy and would have been forced to

it all turned out

to herself that she'd never

behind Hiram's preposterous actions and thus, deduced that his vexation

forced Celine to drink. He chuckled to himself when he thought about how he had punished Eric

went neck to neck and

up his sleeves. He, with his shenanigans,

the brain behind the bidding, it was actually Hiram who was pulling strings, even though he had other businesses to attend

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

he found out that Jack had stolen the property from right under his nose, he swore vengeance. Although he

to swallow his anger towards Jack. Though his cousin bullied Jack's woman, Jack