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

was appropriate

I won't be able to go with you as I am heading towards my parents' house," Lea stated, her voice filled with

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

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

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

But then, he gave in

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

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

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 a person other

about to jump inside of the car when he heard a man yelling barbarically, "You better get in soon, boy. Or

ran down his spine as 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

Eric's reaction. He wondered how the personalities of the siblings could be so contrasting

lot and onto the road, Rachel reminded him, "Can we drop my brother's place first? He lives near the

long look and then muttered,

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

journey was met by an awkward silence as no one uttered

Michael earlier said. He informed her that Eric might have

herself quite fortunate as she had

the society operated after she had closely witnessed the extent human beings could go to quench

After all, the

was convinced that Jack allowed Eric to leave solely based on the fact that he was

play with fire, and thus, weren't the ones who did things by the book. Rachel was clear

today, she would have been at Hiram's mercy and would have been forced to do his

for her, it all turned

a promise to herself that she'd

thus, deduced that his vexation towards him might have been based on his conduct towards his so-called

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

Hiram's cousin and MK Group went neck

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

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

the bidding war. It wasn't even in his wildest dreams that Jack would

the property from right under his nose, he swore vengeance. Although he was enraged with Jack, he arbitrated that the latter didn't beat his cousin for

the whole story, Hiram found it quite difficult to swallow his anger towards Jack.