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 display screen of

greeted on the phone

are you now?"

that there was something odd with Lucas' call that early

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

uneasy about it. She frowned and there was a feeling of apprehension in her heart that

"It's nothing. I

she could still go to work the

your attention. You can take the day to have a rest. Anyway, there is something that I need to take care of.

to Rachel why he suddenly

he said to Rachel when he came out of the director's office yesterday. He never expected that those words would prove to be wrong that

long after they ended the call. She planned to call him back to ask more

her feel so busy as the phone calls came

"Are you okay, Rachel?"

that it was odd that they all acted strange

Lucas and now

can cry to me

Lea's arm when he heard

a beautiful woman like Lea could have such

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

fetal education," Henry reminded her

bothering me!" Lea glared back at him. The more she saw his face, the more disgusted she felt because of what she found out

she ever thought that he

in disbelief. "What are you talking

together. Jack has been your friend for a long time. I am starting to think that you're not so different from

head down at her belly and affectionately touched it. "Baby, I understand how hard it is for you to have such a father,"

that you don't know what kind of

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

'What happened to him?

of danger?' she

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

remote control of

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

was the entertainment news broadcast on

his wife at various banquets in the recent past, our reporters were able

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

the people on the video were blurred, but the faces of Jack and Celine were clearly visible. Although the image was not very clear,

hospital with a worried face. He looked anxious as he waited outside the door of the operating room. Then there was a picture of

she didn't notice that her tears had already

an intense ache that gripped her

why Lucas filed a leave of absence for her and why Lea

the last one who found out about it. She had sat alone in the living room of the

that she was so pathetic for