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.

balcony, it couldn't do anything to quell

answer, he became distracted by

long hair leisurely, rolling her locks around his fingers. Her jet black hair was as smooth as silk

breathless all of a sudden. Finally, she mustered up her strength

wrong?" Jack

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

herself down, she asked, "Can we just speak normally? What if Dad comes out

"He will be happy if he

voice was so soft that Rachel didn't catch his words even from such a close

at him and asked blankly, "What?"

to give her some

"What?"

that I

aback

continued, "Rachel, I really want to start over with you. And I'll prove myself with

in the past again.

to make it up

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

that they could start afresh, as if they were meeting each other

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

she didn't need him

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

pounding in her head, making it impossible for her

that

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

along with her. But now that they

didn't say all these things out loud,

his sincerity with his actions

too much about it. If you think I've

strong feeling that Rachel would

had seen the change in her attitude

he was afraid of now was

was a better man by Rachel's side who did not have such a messy past with her, he

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

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

was willing to do anything to

nodded at his father

clearing the table and preparing Eric's medicine, turned around and

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

I'll stay here

staying 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 had no problem