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 the heat

he became distracted by how beautiful her face looked in

his fingers. Her jet black hair was as smooth as silk to the

her lips involuntarily, feeling breathless all of a sudden. Finally, she mustered up her strength to ask,

wrong?" Jack

coming to her senses, she put her hands on his chest and gave him

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

snorted faintly and muttered, "He will be happy if he

didn't catch his words even from such a close

asked blankly, "What?"

give

"What?"

think that I am too idle

aback by

I really want to start over

same mistakes I did in the past again. I

to make it up to

himself to finish that sentence out loud because he knew that "make it

he hoped was that they could start afresh, as if they were

be unfair to Rachel to say that he was doing all

that she didn't need

finish his sentence out loud, she knew what he had meant

heartbeat pounding in her head,

could deny that she was moved by

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

Jack not getting along with her. But now that they were about to

say all these things out loud, Jack knew what she

was confident that he could prove his sincerity with

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. But if

strong feeling that Rachel would not say no

seen the change in

to him anymore. What he was afraid of now was not that he couldn't make her love him, but that he would have

not have such a messy past with her, he would be at a

Eric continued to chat with each other, pretending not

"I'll deal with the company affairs,

to do anything

at his

turned around

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

I'll stay

Both Eric and