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.

across the display screen of her phone, she felt a wave of disappointment wash all over

Rachel greeted on the phone as she

you

odd with Lucas' call that early in the morning. "Is there

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

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

no need for it." "It's nothing.

an overtime, she could still go to work the next

take the day to have a rest. Anyway, there is something that I need to take care of. Talk to you later.

idea how to explain to Rachel

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

She planned to call him back to ask more about the matter, but Lea's call interrupted that call and she had to

so busy as

"Are you okay, Rachel?"

it was odd that they all acted strange that

Lucas and

yourself too 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

when

that a beautiful woman like Lea could have such

had started to

education," Henry reminded her in a gentle tone of

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

she ever thought that he was so handsome from the

are you talking about? Mind what you're

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

I understand how hard it is for you to have such a father," she

me that you don't know what kind

heart was suddenly filled with an intense feeling

'What happened to him?

some kind of danger?'

took a step back and let herself

of the TV and it was

immediately reached for the remote control that she sat on and was about to turn the TV off when her attention was suddenly drawn to the news that was currently playing on the

was the entertainment news

our reporters were able to take some revealing pictures of the CEO last night. And this had a lot of

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

blurred, but the faces of Jack and Celine were clearly visible.

carrying Celine into the hospital with 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 head close to

that she didn't notice that her

an intense ache that

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

who found out about it. She had

she was so pathetic for