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

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

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

sudden. Finally, she mustered up her strength to ask, "Jack, can you please step

Jack asked, feigning

Then, coming to her senses, she put her

budge even a little bit. Finally, taking a deep breath to calm herself down,

will be happy

that Rachel didn't catch his words even from such

up at him and asked blankly, "What?"

give

"What?"

I am

taken aback

she could find the words to answer him, Jack continued, "Rachel, I really want to start over with you.

same mistakes I did in the past again. I just

to make it

couldn't bring himself to finish that sentence out loud because he knew that "make it up to

start afresh, as

he was doing all these

that she didn't

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

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

she could deny that she was moved

of a sudden, Lea's words

years had passed with Jack not getting along with her. But now that

didn't say all these things out loud, Jack knew what she

his sincerity with his actions and gain her

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

that Rachel

seen the change in her attitude in

certainly wasn't indifferent to him anymore. What he was afraid of now was not that he

not have such a messy past with

the ward, Jonathan and Eric continued to chat with each other,

asked Jack to stay behind and help Rachel. "I'll deal

was willing to do anything to help Jack

nodded at his father

around and said, "Dad, are you leaving? Let

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

stay

days, she had been staying in one of the spare rooms meant for family members. Both Eric and Jack had suggested that she hire a nurse, but