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.

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

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

with her long hair leisurely, rolling her locks around his fingers. Her jet black hair was as smooth as silk

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

Jack asked, feigning

dumbfounded. Then, coming to her senses, she

herself down, she asked, "Can we just speak normally? What if Dad

and muttered, "He will

didn't catch his words even from

up at him and asked

give her some

"What?"

that I am too

taken aback

I really want to start over

make the same mistakes I did in the past again. I just hope you

to make

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

he hoped was that they could start afresh, as if they were meeting each other for the first

Rachel to say that he was doing all these things just to make it up

she didn't need him to

for Rachel, even though Jack didn't finish his sentence out

could feel her heartbeat pounding in her head, making it impossible for her to think

that she was

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

years had passed with Jack not getting along with her. But now that they were about to

things out loud, Jack knew what

his sincerity with his actions and

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

had a strong feeling that Rachel

in her attitude

indifferent to him anymore. What he was afraid of now was not that he couldn't make her love him, but

man by Rachel's side who did not have such a messy past with her, he would be

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

to stay behind and help Rachel. "I'll deal with the

was willing to do anything to

nodded at his father in

preparing Eric's medicine, turned around and said, "Dad, are you leaving? Let me drive you

and replied, "Jack can

I'll stay

in one 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 all