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,

Jack continued to stare at Rachel for an answer, he became distracted by how beautiful her face looked in such

with her long hair leisurely, rolling her locks around his fingers. Her

breathless all of a sudden. Finally, she mustered up her strength to ask,

What's wrong?" Jack asked,

Then, coming to her senses, she put her hands on his

breath to calm herself down, she asked, "Can we just speak normally?

"He will be happy

catch his

up at him and asked blankly,

to give her some

"What?"

you also think that I am

taken aback

I really want to

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

chance to make it up

he knew that "make it up to you" were not

could start afresh, as if they were meeting

be unfair to Rachel to say that he was doing all these things just to

of them knew that she didn't need him

didn't finish his sentence out loud, she

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

was, she could deny that

a sudden, Lea's words

along with her. But now that they were about to divorce, he wanted to start

these things out loud, Jack knew what she was

confident that he could prove his sincerity

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

feeling that Rachel

the change in her attitude in

wasn't indifferent to him anymore. What he was afraid of now was not that he couldn't make

did not have such a messy past with

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

behind and help Rachel. "I'll deal with the company affairs, so you don't have

willing to do anything to help Jack save

at his

Eric's medicine, turned around and said, "Dad, are you

his son and replied, "Jack can

stay here

days, she had been staying in one of the spare rooms meant for family members. Both Eric