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,

at Rachel for an answer, he became distracted

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

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

wrong?" Jack

coming to her senses, she put her hands

a little bit. Finally, taking a deep breath to calm herself down, she asked, "Can we just speak normally? What if Dad comes

"He will

catch his words even from such a

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

back to give her some

"What?"

that I am

aback by this

really want to

I did in the past again. I just hope

to

out loud because he knew that "make it up

as

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

she didn't need him to do

his sentence out loud, she knew what

could feel her heartbeat pounding in her head, making it impossible for her

deny that she

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

not getting along with her. But now

these things out loud, Jack

prove his

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

Jack had a strong feeling that

had seen the change in her attitude in the

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

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

each other, pretending not to notice them. After a while, Jonathan

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

was willing to do anything to help Jack

and nodded at

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

"Jack can drive

stay here

meant for family members. Both Eric and Jack had suggested that she hire a