Stuck in you

Jonathan glared at Jack. "He wouldn't dare!"

Jack gritted his teeth in an effort to control himself. He couldn't stand it anymore. He felt like if he stayed here any longer, his father would just make all his decisions for him.

Without saying anything, he abruptly got up and walked out of the room. After a moment of hesitation, Rachel followed him out as well.

As they left, Jonathan and Eric, who were having a pleasant conversation in the ward, turned and looked at the door at the same time.

Then, they turned back to each other with tacit smiles in their eyes.

It was only when Jack reached the balcony that he realized that Rachel was following him.

He put away the pack of cigarettes in his hand and asked indifferently, "Why are you leaving the ward too?"

Rachel smiled thinly. "To let them talk."

Then, after a pause, she added, "Actually, I came out to say thank you."

There was a flicker of emotion in Jack's deep eyes before they became unreadable once again. He put his hand on the balcony railing and lightly tapped on its edge with his slender fingers.

"For what?"

Rachel nodded her head and said earnestly, "Thank you so much for your help in the past few days."

Upon hearing this, Jack smiled bitterly and stepped closer to Rachel, towering threateningly over her.

Rachel couldn't help but nervously take a step back, cornering herself against the balcony railing.

Just as she prepared to push Jack away, however, he stopped in his tracks.

Then, pursing his lips, he said in a low voice, "Do you think I did all those things just to hear a thank you from you?"

Hearing a hint of turbulence in his voice, Rachel held her breath.

Her intuition told her that if she answered yes, he would be furious.

"No. It's not like that..."

"Then why do you think I did those things?" This time, he moved closer to her until his face was almost touching hers.

As Rachel looked into his mysterious eyes, her heart skipped a beat. She had nowhere to retreat, but she didn't dare to push him away. In the end, she leaned against the railing and turned her head to the side so that she wouldn't have to look into his eyes.

Unable to answer his question, she tightened her lips. Fortunately, the light was too dim for Jack to see the awkward expression on her face.

Still, he wasn't going to let her go until he got an answer out of her.

there was a light breeze blowing on the balcony, it couldn't do anything to quell the heat between

for an answer, he became distracted by how beautiful her face looked in

hair leisurely, rolling her locks around his fingers. Her

Finally, she mustered up her strength to

wrong?" Jack asked, feigning

a moment, feeling dumbfounded. Then, coming to her senses, she put her hands on his chest and gave

to calm herself down, she asked, "Can we just

snorted faintly and muttered, "He will be

that Rachel didn't catch his

asked blankly, "What?" "Nothing," Jack replied

to give

"What?"

also think that I am too idle

aback by

could find the words to answer him, Jack continued, "Rachel, I really want to start over with you.

I did in the past again.

me a chance to make it up

himself to finish that sentence out loud because he knew that "make

start afresh, as if they were meeting

to Rachel to say that he was doing all

that she didn't need him to do

for Rachel, even though Jack didn't finish his sentence out loud, she knew what he had meant to

heartbeat pounding in her head, making it impossible for her to

it was, she could deny that

that it made her panic. All of a sudden, Lea's words flashed in her mind. 'Am I really out of

But now

things out loud, Jack knew what she

confident that he could prove his sincerity with his

think too much about it. If you think I've changed, you can give me a chance to

a strong feeling that Rachel would not say no to

in her attitude

was afraid of now was not that he couldn't make her love him, but that

better man by Rachel's side who did not have

and Eric continued to chat with each other, pretending not to notice

"I'll deal

anything

nodded at

around and said, "Dad, are you

can

stay here

Eric and