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.

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

She wondered whether it was appropriate to discuss the

with you as I

cell phone in between her fingers and

meaning of her subtle words came to her like an epiphany. She made a mental note of

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

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

raised red flags. Out of the blue, he said, "Rachel, come and sit in

with Jack. He

had no choice but to sit in the back seat of the

yelling barbarically, "You better get in soon,

Fortunately for him, the seat of the Land Rover was sizeable enough for two people to be sitting on either side and would

them for the journey, was amused by Eric's reaction. He wondered how the personalities of the siblings could be so contrasting

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

long look and then muttered,

He wanted to shed a tear of joy but maintained his composure,

remainder of the journey was met by an awkward silence as no

what Michael earlier said. He informed her that Eric might have had something to do with

considered herself quite fortunate as she had safely

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

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

solely based on the

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

was sure that hadn't Jack come here today, she would have been at Hiram's mercy

it all turned out

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

over the fact that Hiram's cousin was one of the people who had forced Celine to drink. He chuckled to himself when he

neck to neck and bid for the same

two up his sleeves. He, with his shenanigans, made sure that Hiram's

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

bidding war. It wasn't even in

the property from right under his nose, he swore vengeance. Although he was enraged with Jack, he arbitrated

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