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.

saw was the name "Lucas" across the display screen of her phone, she felt a wave of disappointment wash all

greeted on the phone

you now?" Lucas

there was something odd with Lucas' call that early in

noticed that you've been working too hard lately. So, I decided

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 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

to work the next day. It was

nothing important in the hospital today that requires your attention. You can take the day to have a rest. Anyway, there is something

how to explain to Rachel

out of the director's office yesterday. He never expected that those words would

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

as the phone calls came one after the

"Are you okay, Rachel?"

that it

it was Lucas and now

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

when he

never expected that a beautiful woman like

phone tightly in her hand as she relaxed her other hand on her hip. Her belly had started to bulge as her baby grew within. An intense feeling of

education," Henry reminded her in a gentle tone

more she saw his face, the more disgusted she felt

he was so handsome from the very

widened in disbelief. "What are you talking about? Mind what you're

of a feather flock together. Jack has been your friend for a long time. I am starting to think that

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

tell me that you don't know what kind of

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

'What happened to him?

of danger?'

mind. Rachel took a step back and let herself

sat on the remote control of the TV and it

control that she sat on and was about to turn the TV off when her attention was suddenly

entertainment

various banquets in the recent past, our reporters were able to take some revealing pictures of the CEO last night. And this had a lot of people

felt to her

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

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

depressed that she didn't notice that her

intense ache that

leave of absence for her and why Lea

out about it. She had sat alone in the living room of the house and waited for him the whole night. She had even

that she was so pathetic