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 quell the heat

he became distracted

locks around his fingers.

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

Jack asked, feigning

dumbfounded. Then, coming to her senses,

Jack didn't budge even a little bit. Finally, taking a deep breath to calm herself down, she asked, "Can we just speak normally? What if Dad comes

muttered, "He will be

voice was so soft that Rachel didn't catch his words

asked blankly,

back to give her some space.

"What?"

also think that I am too idle these

taken aback

"Rachel, I really want to

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

to make it up

out loud because he knew that "make it up to you"

start afresh, as if they were meeting each other for

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

knew that she didn't need him to do

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

pounding in her head, making it impossible for her

she could deny that she was

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

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

out loud, Jack knew what

his sincerity with

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

had a strong feeling that Rachel would not say

he had seen the change in her attitude

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

did not have such a messy

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

he specially asked Jack to stay behind and help Rachel. "I'll deal with the company affairs,

to do anything to help Jack save

smiled and nodded at his

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

son and replied, "Jack can

stay here

family members. Both Eric and Jack had suggested that she hire a nurse, but she had declined. She