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.

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

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

her locks around his fingers. Her jet black hair was as smooth as silk

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

wrong?" Jack asked, feigning

Then, coming to her senses, she put

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

muttered, "He will be happy if he sees

soft that Rachel didn't catch his words even

at him and asked blankly, "What?"

back to give her some space.

"What?"

also think that I am too idle these

aback by this

to answer him, Jack continued, "Rachel, I really want to start over

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

me a chance to make it up

"make it up to you" were not the appropriate words for what he wanted to

hoped was that they could 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

that she didn't need

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

in her head, making it impossible

it was, she could deny that she was moved by Jack's

her that it made her panic. All of a sudden, Lea's words flashed in her mind.

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

these things out

was confident that he could prove his sincerity with his

her hand casually and said, "Don't think too much about it. If you

strong feeling that Rachel would not say no

had seen the change in

to him anymore. What he was afraid of now was not that

man by Rachel's side who did not have such a messy past with

Jack and Rachel finally returned to the ward, Jonathan and Eric continued to chat with each

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

to do anything to help Jack

at his father in

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

pointed to his son and replied, "Jack can

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