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.

blowing on the balcony, it couldn't do

he became distracted by how beautiful her

started to play with her long hair leisurely, rolling her locks around his

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

wrong?" Jack asked, feigning

to her senses, she put her hands on

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

"He will

voice was so soft that Rachel didn't catch

him and asked

give

"What?"

I am too

was taken aback

really want to start over with you. And I'll prove myself with

the past again. I

to make

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

afresh, as if they were meeting each other for the

he was doing all these things just

didn't need him to do such

didn't finish his sentence

pounding in her head, making it impossible

deny that she

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

with her. But now that they were

things out loud,

he could prove his sincerity with his actions and

you think I've changed, you can give me a

strong feeling that Rachel would

he had seen the change in her attitude in

of now was not that he couldn't make her love him, but

did not have such a messy past with her, he

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

and help Rachel. "I'll deal with

do anything to help Jack

at his

the table and preparing Eric's medicine, turned around and said, "Dad,

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

I'll stay

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 she had declined. She had no problem