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.

the name "Lucas" across the display screen of her phone, she felt

on the

are you now?"

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

been working too hard lately. So, I decided to request a day's off for you today. Enjoy your well-deserved rest at

about it. She frowned and there was a feeling of apprehension in her heart that she just couldn't explain. She

did you request 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

worked late at night on an overtime, she could still go to

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

how to explain to Rachel why he suddenly

when he came out of the director's

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

busy as the phone calls

"Are you okay, Rachel?"

that it was odd that

and

don't have to do that. You can cry to me if you feel

when he heard

like Lea could have

relaxed her other hand on her hip. Her belly had started to bulge as her baby grew

Henry reminded her in

at him. The more she saw his face, the more disgusted she felt because of what she

she ever thought that he

are you talking about? Mind what you're

a long

then bent her head down at her belly and affectionately touched it. "Baby, I understand how hard it is for you

know what kind of person

filled with an intense feeling of worry. Was it

'What happened to him?

of danger?' she wondered to

nasty situations flooded her mind. Rachel took a step back and let herself fall to the sofa. The TV suddenly turned

accidentally sat on the remote control of the TV and it was turned

and was about to turn the TV off when her attention was suddenly drawn to the news that was currently playing

entertainment

for his wife at various banquets in the recent past, our reporters were able to take some revealing pictures of

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

blurred, but the faces of Jack and Celine were clearly visible. Although the image was not very clear, Rachel could easily recognize the

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 than

that she didn't notice that her

intense ache

filed a leave of absence for her and why

knew about it, 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

so pathetic for