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."

and snuck a glance

anything, Rachel frowned and snapped, "You two crossed

into a coughing

were now being scolded by his parent. When he glanced at Jack, he couldn't even believe

shameless enough to pretend to be innocent after

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

drink too much," Jack

been six feet under as the two sneered

had happened, so she nodded in agreement. "It really is too much. You know that Eric's not good at drinking. The nanny had to help him go back

to what the nanny had said, Eric was forced to

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

best friends. To be more specific, the celebrant was

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

yacht and invited his

had invited, so he took Rachel out

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

at home most of the time because

she had grown even slimmer than before, and her skin was so pale after not going out in the past

excuse to take her out for a walk, the birthday

take her. After all, there weren't that many people on the yacht, and it

deck setting off the fireworks. Three hot girls dressed in bikinis were chasing

women. Glancing at him,

the man's eyes quickly vanished, and he

girls' laughter echoed throughout the yacht as the

not noticing that Jack was

cold?"

came out of the washroom as she got ready

prepared a wig for her if she wanted, but she

this was a fear that she needed to

a simple T-shirt and a pair of jeans. The brim of her

one really noticed

dressing like that, Jack

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

surged

dull and conservative. He had never seen

now looked even lovelier. She looked like a girl who had just graduated from college.

the days were approaching autumn, the weather was still

was no sea breeze washing over them, but he was still

get a

no need." She grabbed his