Stuck in you

Marcus' words failed to goad Jack in surrendering. Rubbing the space in between his eyebrows, Jack sighed. "I've been exhausted lately."

Michael snorted. "And why is that?"

Eric was the only one who knew exactly why Jack was so tired.

"He has been taking care of Rachel," he stated proudly.

Eric patted Jack's shoulder. He didn't notice the smile that carved into his lips.

Rachel was half asleep when the bed sank. The smell of alcohol wafted across her, and she couldn't help but wrinkle her nose.

"Did you drink?" she murmured.

Jack's eyes widened. "Is the smell that strong?"

He made sure that he took a shower before coming to bed in fear that the smell might cause her to vomit.

Rachel slowly opened her eyes, yawning. "I have a good nose."

She tapped her nose to emphasize her point. "It's not that strong though. Did they leave?"

Jack pulled her into a kiss. "No, they're still in the living room."

"Why did you leave them?"

"Eric is with them right now."

"Eric?"

"Yes. There's no need to worry about them. Let's sleep now."

Michael and Marcus had initially planned to drink with Jack. However, Jack decided to run away and let Eric serve as his scapegoat.

Eric's head hurt so much in the morning from all the drinking he did. In fact, it took him a few hours to get over his hangover.

When Rachel saw the two men again, they began to complain to her.

While Jack was playing with his lighter indifferently, Michael took his time to ridicule them. "You're so awesome, Rachel. You've already turned this playboy into a good husband."

She almost choked on her juice at the man's words. At the sound, Jack immediately set aside his lighter and patted her on the back. "Drink it slowly," he instructed.

Marcus couldn't help but be surprised by the scene. Even when Jack and Celine were together, he had never seen them in such an intimate relationship. Most of the time, Celine would take it upon herself to please Jack, not the other way around.

Marcus coughed awkwardly. "By the way, how's Eric doing? He was so drunk he couldn't even stand up when we left."

him mention Eric, Jack froze and snuck

could say anything, Rachel frowned and snapped, "You two crossed

went into

cool gaze. In fact, it felt as if they had bullied Eric and were now

enough to pretend to be innocent after betraying

raised his hands up in the air. "I gave him three

drink

six feet under as the two

You know that Eric's not good

nanny had said, Eric was

a man knocked at the door and poked his head in. "It's time for fireworks. Come on.

party of one of best friends. To

all still in their early twenties, they still had a way of celebrating very

a yacht and invited

was one of the people he had invited, so he took Rachel out here

discharged from the hospital for more than half a month, she stayed most of her time in her home. The only place she ever went

home most of the time because she was insecure about her

busy with his work, he wasn't always with her all the time. These days, he noticed that she had grown even

to take her out for a walk, the birthday invitation came by just

and decided to take her. After all, there weren't that many people on

on the deck setting off the fireworks. Three hot girls dressed in bikinis were chasing after one another as they yelled gleefully as the

of the beautiful women. Glancing at

the man's eyes quickly vanished, and he said nothing in

echoed throughout the yacht as the fireworks

stared at the sky thoughtfully, not noticing that Jack was

you cold?"

clothes. Before she came out of the washroom as she got ready for the party, Jack had been so worried that she'd be insecure of her

for her if she wanted, but she refused to

knew that this was a fear that she needed

was sent by Eric and dressed herself in a simple T-shirt and a pair of

one really noticed

out dressing like

that. Her eyes were bright under the hat, and he couldn't help

feeling surged through

He had

a girl

approaching autumn, the

over them, but he was still afraid that she might catch a

can go get a

grabbed his arm.