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.

screen of her

greeted on the

are you now?" Lucas

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

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

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

did you request for a leave in my behalf? There's really no need for it." "It's nothing. I just want you

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

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

to Rachel why he suddenly decided to do what he

remember clearly the words that he said to Rachel when he came out of the director's office yesterday.

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 to answer it

so busy as

"Are you okay, Rachel?"

okay?" Rachel thought that it was odd that they

and now it

Rachel. You know you don't have to do that. You can cry to me if you feel like you need

pulled Lea's arm when he heard her

like Lea could have such

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

fetal education," Henry reminded her

his face, the more disgusted she felt because of what she found out that

he

"What are

has been your friend for a long

hard it is for you to have such a father," she whispered to her tummy with a sigh

that you don't know what kind of person I

words as her heart was suddenly filled with an intense feeling of worry. Was it because of

'What happened to him?

he in some kind of

step back and

remote control of the TV and

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

entertainment news broadcast on

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

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

clearly

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 the

depressed that she didn't notice that

ache

and why Lea called her just to curse Jack for what he

found out about it. She had sat alone in the living

that she was so pathetic for what she