Stuck in you

Jack nodded back. No matter what happened, it had nothing to do with him anymore.

He had already done so much for the sake of their previous relationship.

But they should accept that it would be better if they ended their friendship.

He took a piece of tissue to wipe his hands with. "Rest well. I need to go back now. Call me if anything happens."

He turned around and was about to leave, but Celine reached out and grabbed his suit. She held on to it tightly as she stared straight into his eyes. "Don't go," she said in a coarse voice.

Beads of tears started to flow down from her eyes and down to her pillow.

He hesitated for a while as he looked at her. At length, he finally took her hand and placed it back in the quilt. "The nurses are just outside. Call them if you need anything," he said in a calm tone of voice.

"I feel scared when you're not here.

But if you really have to leave, can I go with you? I don't want to be left here all alone."

Celine gritted her teeth and forced herself to sit up. The intravenous needle connected to her arm was moved at an irregular angle and her blood started to flow into the tubing.

Jack felt that he had no choice but to pull up a chair and sit down next to her bed. "Go to sleep. I will not leave," he said.

'Rachel must be asleep already,' he thought to himself.

The two never noticed that just outside the ward, a man proudly put away his mobile phone and left the hospital with a brief smile on his lips and a spring in his steps.

He had had a stomach problem and gone to the hospital to have himself treated.

He never expected to see Jack with Celine in his arms as he hurried to get in.

At Rachel's apartment

It was already late but she remained sitting on the sofa. She barely moved from her initial position when she first sat on the sofa earlier that evening.

It made her feel colder and colder the longer she sat there. Her body started trembling gently like she was dropped into an ice cooler.

She called Jack's phone, but he was not within the service area.

She thought to call Austin, but she remembered that she had deleted all of his call logs, and she never saved his contact information.

Rachel sat on the sofa like a statue. She stayed there, unmoving, until a bright ray of sunshine started to push its way through the window and to her eyes.

It made her feel like her spirits were uplifted.

Rachel sighed deeply, as the disappointment slowly took a firm grip at her heart. She brought herself up from the sofa and was about to prepare for work.

She dragged herself to the bathroom, and decided to just wash her face. When she got out of the bathroom, she suddenly heard her mobile phone vibrating against the table.

'Did he finally call?' she thought to herself.

saw was the name "Lucas" across the display screen of her

Lucas," Rachel greeted on the

you now?" Lucas

there was something odd with Lucas' call that

you've been working too hard lately. So, I decided to request a day's off for you today. Enjoy your

that Lucas did for her, she felt uneasy about it. She frowned and there was a feeling of apprehension in her heart that she just couldn't explain. She felt that something bad was about

There's really no need for it." "It's nothing. I just want you to

on an overtime, she could still go to work the next day. It was normal for

today that requires your attention. You can take the day to have a rest. Anyway, there is something

Rachel why he suddenly decided to do what

said to Rachel when he came out of the director's office yesterday. He never expected that those words would prove to

at her phone long after they ended the call. She planned to call him back to ask more about the matter, but Lea's call interrupted that call and she had

morning made her feel so busy as the phone calls came

"Are you okay, Rachel?"

Rachel thought that it was odd that they all acted strange

and now it was

you don't have to do that. You can cry to me if you feel like you need to. Jack is such

Lea's arm when

expected that a beautiful woman like Lea

her hip. Her belly had started to bulge as her baby grew within.

Henry reminded her in a

bothering me!" Lea glared back at him. The more she saw his face, the more disgusted she felt

thought that he

disbelief. "What are you talking about? Mind

flock together. Jack has been your friend for a long time. I am starting to think that you're not so

her belly and affectionately touched it. "Baby, I understand how hard it is for you to have such a father," she whispered

don't know what kind of person

an

'What happened to him?

he in some kind of danger?' she wondered to

mind. Rachel took a step back and let herself fall to

control of the TV

she sat on and was about to turn the TV off when

the entertainment news broadcast on

past, our reporters were able to take

her like a cold iron hand had

of Jack and Celine were clearly visible. Although the image was not very clear,

a worried face. He looked anxious as he waited outside the door of the operating room. Then there was a picture of him with his

didn't notice

ache that

and

she, of all people, was the last one who found out about it. She had sat alone in the living room of the house and waited for him the whole night. She had even felt worried

felt that she was so pathetic for what