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.

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

stare at Rachel for an answer, he became distracted by how

his fingers. Her jet black hair

involuntarily, feeling breathless all of a sudden. Finally, she mustered up her strength

wrong?" Jack

to her senses,

herself down, she asked, "Can

will be happy if

didn't catch

and asked blankly,

stepping back to give her

"What?"

also think that I am too idle

aback by

words to answer him, Jack continued, "Rachel, I really want to start over with you. And I'll prove

same mistakes I did in the past again. I just hope you don't reject

chance to make

couldn't bring himself to finish that sentence out loud because he knew that "make it up to you" were not the

afresh, as if they were meeting each other for

that he was doing all these things just to make

them knew that she didn't

even though Jack didn't finish his sentence out loud, she knew what

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

she could deny that she

her panic. All of a sudden, Lea's words flashed in her mind. 'Am I

her. But now that they were about

these things out loud,

was confident that he could prove his sincerity with his

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

a strong feeling that Rachel would not say no to

change in her attitude

anymore. What he was afraid of now was

did not have such a messy past with her, he would

returned to the ward, Jonathan and Eric continued to chat with each other, pretending not to notice them. After a while, Jonathan

"I'll deal with the

to do anything to help Jack save his

nodded at his

medicine, turned around and said, "Dad, are

to his son and replied, "Jack can drive me home. You

I'll stay here

of the spare rooms meant for family members. Both Eric and Jack had suggested that she hire a nurse, but she had declined. She had no problem staying here