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

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

her locks around his fingers. Her

all of a sudden. Finally, she

Jack asked, feigning

feeling dumbfounded. Then, coming to her senses, she put her hands

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

muttered, "He will be happy if

Rachel didn't catch his

looked up at him and asked blankly, "What?" "Nothing," Jack replied lightly,

back to give her

"What?"

you also think that I

taken aback

I really want to start over with you. And I'll

make the same mistakes I did in the past

to make it up

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

afresh, as if they were meeting each other for the first

say that he was doing all

she didn't

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

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

deny that

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

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

say all these things out loud, Jack knew what she was

his sincerity

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

strong feeling that Rachel

in her attitude in the past few

of now was not

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

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

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

anything to

and nodded at his father

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

and replied, "Jack can drive me home. You can

I'll stay here

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