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.

blowing on the balcony, it couldn't do anything to quell the heat

Rachel for an answer, he became

his fingers. Her jet black hair was as smooth as

a sudden. Finally, she mustered up her strength to ask, "Jack, can

Jack

moment, feeling dumbfounded. Then, coming to her senses, she put her hands

didn't budge even a little bit. Finally, taking a deep breath to calm herself down, she asked, "Can we just

faintly and muttered, "He will

Rachel didn't catch his words

and asked blankly, "What?"

to give her some

"What?"

think that I am

was taken aback

him, Jack continued, "Rachel, I really

past again. I just hope you don't

to make

he knew that "make it up to you" were not the appropriate words for what he wanted

afresh, as if they were meeting each other for

he was doing all these things just

that she didn't need him to

his sentence out

heartbeat pounding in her head, making it

it was, she could deny that she was moved by Jack's

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

But now that they were about to

all these things out loud, Jack knew what

he could prove his sincerity with his actions

hand casually and said, "Don't think too much about it. If you think I've changed, you can give me a chance to start over again.

had a strong feeling that Rachel would

change in

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

side who did not have

chat with each other, pretending not to notice them. After a while, Jonathan finally got

leaving, he specially asked Jack to stay behind and help Rachel. "I'll deal with the company affairs, so you don't have to worry too

do anything to help

and nodded at his father

clearing the table and preparing Eric's medicine, turned around and said, "Dad, are you leaving? Let

replied, "Jack can

stay

rooms meant for family members. Both Eric and Jack had suggested that she hire a nurse,