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 eyebrows. "Is it true that I often

know how to respond to his

been like this lately? Is it because of

weigh in his words and how dangerous the

"Go ahead."

been having quarrels with

silence. Celine had been stirring up his anger lately,

fights for the past six months and it was always him who would

his balance while on the height of these 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 have brought my personal emotions to

to apologize," said Austin, sensing the heaviness of the

a long chat with her friend, Rachel was about to lie down and sleep when

sorry for tonight's phone call. I was

stared at it closer. She checked the message's log once more to make sure that she was not having illusions. Indeed,

as the message surprised her, she had no idea what

happened, an apology was totally useless. Rachel always thought that people should

after hurting Rachel's feelings made her feel ridiculous. She

more interfere with the relationship between Jack and his woman. If he decided to make trouble for Eric, she would find

asked

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

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

She hated Rachel. She couldn't forgive Jack. It was hard for her to believe

the next morning, resentment turned into

to

would tell her when Jack would come home, so she decided to wait for

saw her standing right before him, Jack's eyes

been holding back a lot of words she wanted to say, but Jack's cold glare and nonchalant words made her tears rush down instead. "I

let out a deep breath and continued, "I didn't mean that. When

couldn't help but feel his heart ache. He could never endure seeing

well. She carefully lowered her attitude and tried pleasing him. She graciously

on Eric's hand finally healed a few days after. It was time for him to check out from the hospital. Coincidentally, today

on her motherland,

a beautiful airline stewardess dragging her suitcase and laughing while on a phone call made

care, though, as she was too deep into the call. She only hung

hailed a taxi and put her luggage into the trunk.