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.

display screen of

Lucas," Rachel greeted on the

you

at home. Why? What's wrong?" Rachel felt that there was something odd with Lucas' call that early in

So, I decided to request a day's off for you today. Enjoy

the thoughtful gesture that Lucas did for her, she felt uneasy about it. She frowned and there was a feeling of apprehension in

for a leave in my behalf? There's really no need for it." "It's nothing. I just want you to slow down a little

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

requires your attention. You can take the day to have a rest. Anyway,

idea how to explain to Rachel why he

to Rachel when he came out of

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

busy as the

"Are you okay, Rachel?"

thought that it was

and now it

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

pulled Lea's arm when

woman like Lea

held the phone tightly in her hand as she relaxed her other hand on her hip. Her belly had started to bulge as her baby grew within. An intense feeling of anger made her curse

forget about fetal education," Henry reminded her

more she saw his face, the more disgusted she felt because of what she

did she ever thought that he was so handsome from the

in disbelief. "What are you talking about? Mind what you're

feather flock together. Jack has been your friend for a long time. I am starting

hard it is for you to have such a father," she whispered to

that you don't know what kind

longer hear the rest of Lea's words as her heart was suddenly filled with an intense feeling

'What happened to him?

he in some kind of danger?' she

mind. Rachel took a step back and let herself fall

of the

about to turn the TV off when her attention

was the entertainment news broadcast on

our reporters were able

breaking news made Rachel's heart skip a beat. It felt to her like a cold

clearly visible. Although the image was not very clear, Rachel could easily recognize the two at

of the operating room. Then there was a picture of him with his head close to her as he whispered something to her ear. Each picture shown brought shock to her that felt more intense

she didn't notice that her tears had already started

ache that

understood why Lucas filed a leave of absence for her and why Lea called her just to curse

it. She had sat alone in the living room of the house and waited for him the whole night. She had even felt worried about

felt that she was so