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.

balcony, it couldn't do anything

Rachel for an answer, he became distracted by how beautiful her

long hair leisurely, rolling her locks around his fingers.

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

Jack asked, feigning

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

Finally, taking a deep breath to calm herself down, she asked, "Can we

snorted faintly and muttered, "He will be happy if he

catch his words even from such a close distance.

him and asked blankly,

back to give her

"What?"

think that I

taken aback by this

could find the words to answer him, Jack continued, "Rachel, I really want

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

to make it up to

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

could start afresh, as if they were meeting each

say that he was doing all these things

them knew that she didn't need him

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

heartbeat pounding in her head, making it

it was, she could deny that

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

with Jack not getting along with her. But now

all these things out

confident that he could prove his sincerity with his actions and

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

strong feeling that Rachel would not

he had seen the change in her attitude in the past few

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

side who did not have such a

continued to chat with each other, pretending not

and help Rachel. "I'll deal with the company affairs, so

was willing to do anything

at his

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

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

stay here

the spare rooms meant for family members. Both Eric and Jack had suggested that she hire a nurse, but she had declined. She