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.

she saw was the name "Lucas" across the display screen of her phone, she felt a wave of disappointment wash all over

greeted on the phone as she dried

are you now?" Lucas

Rachel felt that there was something odd with Lucas' call that early in the morning.

Rachel. I noticed that you've been working too hard lately. So, I decided to request a day's off for you

for her, she felt uneasy about it. She frowned and there was a

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

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

important in the hospital today that requires your attention. You can take the day to have a rest. Anyway, there is something that I need to take care of. Talk

had no idea how to explain to Rachel why he suddenly decided to do what he

still remember clearly the words that he said to Rachel when he came out of

call him back to ask more about the

morning made her feel so busy as the phone calls

"Are you okay, Rachel?"

would I not be okay?" Rachel thought that it was odd that they all acted strange

it was Lucas and

that. You can cry to me if you feel like you need to. Jack

when

a beautiful woman like Lea

her hip. Her belly had started to bulge as

about fetal education," Henry reminded her in a gentle

his face, the more disgusted she felt because of what

thought that he was so handsome from the

"What are you talking about? Mind what

together. Jack has been your friend for a long time. I am starting to think that

at her belly and affectionately touched it. "Baby, I understand how hard it is for you to

tell me that you don't know

an intense feeling of worry. Was it because of Jack that Lucas filed

'What happened to him?

kind of danger?' she

step back and let herself fall to the

control of the TV and

and was about to turn the TV off when her attention was suddenly drawn to

was the entertainment news broadcast

off his love for his wife at various banquets in the recent past, our reporters were able to take some

a beat. It felt to her like a cold iron hand had gripped her heart tightly that

blurred, but the faces of Jack and Celine were clearly

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

felt so depressed that she didn't notice that her tears

felt an intense ache that

of absence for her and why Lea called her just to curse Jack for

out about it. She had sat alone in the living

that she was so