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.

display screen of her phone, she felt a wave of disappointment

Lucas," Rachel greeted on the phone as she

are you now?"

something odd with Lucas' call

nothing, Rachel. I noticed 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

there

it." "It's nothing. I just

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

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

how to explain to Rachel why he suddenly

of the director's office yesterday. He never

ended the call. She planned to call him back to ask

feel so busy as the phone calls came

"Are you okay, Rachel?"

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

Lucas and now it was

too hard, Rachel. You know you don't have to do that. You can cry to me

when he heard

like Lea could have such a bad

had started to bulge as her baby grew within. An

Henry reminded her in a gentle tone

at him. The more she saw his face, the more

thought that he was so handsome from the

"What are you talking about?

been your friend for a long time. I am starting to think that you're

touched it. "Baby, I understand how hard it is for you to have such a father," she whispered to her tummy with

you don't know what

her heart was suddenly filled with an intense feeling of worry. Was it because of Jack that Lucas filed a

'What happened to him?

he in some kind of danger?' she wondered to

took a step back and let herself fall to the sofa. The

control of the TV

was about to turn the TV off

was the entertainment

the CEO of MK Group has showed off his love for his wife at various banquets in the recent past, our reporters were

heart skip a beat. It felt to her like a cold

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

pictures of Jack 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 her as he whispered something to her ear. Each picture shown brought shock to

depressed that she didn't notice that her tears had

intense ache that gripped

understood why Lucas filed a leave of absence for her and why Lea called her just

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

was so