Stuck in you

What Jack said made Rachel red with rage, as if somebody had slapped her. Both of them hung up at the same time.

She took a deep breath trying to calm down, but instead let out a forced laughter. 'What is wrong with me? Why should I get involved in this sort of thing in the first place?

This is insane!' she thought.

After all she had done for him, his mistress felt wronged and he immediately called her to lash at her. Rachel regretted offering to help him.

Her sullen mood made her want to just doze off. She was about to lift the quilt when her phone lit up, breaking the darkness in her lonely room.

The sound of the unending vibration and the sight of a familiar phone number made Rachel's heart beat faster. She slid the screen and answered the call.

From the other end of the line, a gentle voice she hadn't heard for so long filled in the silence of the night. "Rachel, were you asleep?"

As if the sound of his voice put her in a daze, Rachel blinked her eyes twice to make sure she wasn't dreaming. "Not yet," she quickly replied.

"That's great. I was afraid I'd woken you up." His gentle voice hinted of listlessness. "It's three o'clock in the afternoon here. I just got off work."

"You sound really busy," Rachel remarked, noticing the tiredness in his tone. "Please take care and get some rest."

He chuckled, "I'm fine. I had a surgery today, that's why I'm a little tired.

By the way, I will be back in a week."

Rachel's eyes widened. "Really?"

"Hmm." The joy and surprise in Rachel's voice lighted him up, as if all fatigue in his body had suddenly escaped. "Give me one more week."

Devoid of any emotion, Jack instructed his secretary to buy an air ticket for him as soon as possible so he could go and check on Celine. He had been calling her repeatedly, but her phone was off.

He closed his eyes as his fist clenched around his phone.

Cooling down, he once again rang his secretary to take his order back. "Forget it. Don't book the ticket. The schedule is still arranged as usual."

The calmness in his tone surprised even Austin Lin, his secretary. "Have you already...?" Austin Lin started but soon trailed off. After all, this was Jack's private matter.

"I'll call off the air ticket now."

his hand and rubbed the crease between his eyebrows. "Is it true that I often behave like this

how to respond to his boss's sudden

lately?

silent for a while, trying to weigh in his words and how

"Go ahead."

been having quarrels with

stirring up his anger lately, and he would inevitably bring his anger

been having such fights for the past six months and

thoughts, he pounded the handrail of the stairs with his fist, careful not to make any sound that Austin might hear from the other side of the line. After seconds of silence, Jack managed to answer in a low voice, "I

Fu. There's no need to apologize," said Austin, sensing the heaviness of the

down and

I

gripped her phone tightly, squinted, and stared at it closer. She checked the message's log once more to make sure that she was not

much as the message surprised her, she

apology was totally useless. Rachel always thought that people should

made her feel ridiculous. She decided

would no more interfere with the relationship between Jack and his woman. If he decided to make trouble for Eric, she would find another way to

his four-day business trip, Jack asked the driver to send him back to his

sofa and rushed toward the door as soon as she heard someone coming. She had been

knew that he would call. That night, she didn't want to see him. She didn't want to hear his

forgive Jack. It was hard for her to believe he loved her after putting

missed calls the next morning, resentment turned into regret, but

called Jack to apologize, but his indifferent attitude made her

home, so she

he saw her standing right before him, Jack's eyes glittered. With pursed

Jack's cold glare and nonchalant words made her tears rush down instead. "I can't

and held her by her shoulder. "Stop it." He let out a

his heart ache. He could

her attitude and tried pleasing him. She graciously ran into the kitchen to make him a bowl

few days after. It was time for him to check out from the hospital. Coincidentally, today was

soon as Lea set foot on her motherland, she couldn't wait to call

beautiful airline stewardess dragging her suitcase and

though, as she

hailed a taxi and put her luggage into the trunk. After telling the driver her home address, she called