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.

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

bidding. She wondered whether it was appropriate to discuss

with you as I am heading towards my parents'

phone in between her fingers and

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

he could join her, Jack threw a dirty look towards him and

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

raised red flags. Out of the blue, he said,

he watched his sister riding shotgun with Jack. He stood motionless as Rachel

in the back seat of the

man yelling barbarically, "You better

his spine as he heard these unsettling words. He promptly got in the car. Fortunately for him, the seat of the Land Rover was

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

of the parking lot and onto the road, Rachel reminded him, "Can we drop my brother's

threw her a long look and

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

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

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

quite fortunate as she had safely gotten away from

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

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

allowed Eric to leave solely based

the ones who did things by the book.

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

all turned out

made a promise to herself that she'd never

tiring day. He pondered 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

also contemplated over 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

cousin and MK Group went neck to neck and bid for the

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

cousin was the brain behind the bidding, it was actually Hiram

war. It wasn't even in his wildest dreams

long time. When he found out that Jack had stolen the property from right under his nose, he swore vengeance. Although he was enraged with Jack, he arbitrated that the latter didn't

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