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

the

you now?" Lucas

Why? What's wrong?" Rachel felt that there was something odd with Lucas' call that early in the

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

there was a feeling of apprehension in her

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 down a little bit and

go to work the next day. It was normal for doctors to

that requires your attention. You can take the day to have a

Rachel why he suddenly

to Rachel when he came out of the director's office yesterday. He never expected that

stared at her phone long after 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

made her feel so busy as the phone calls

"Are you okay, Rachel?"

okay?" Rachel thought that it was odd that they

and now

to me if you feel like you need to. Jack is such

Lea's arm when he

like Lea could have such a

belly had started to bulge as her baby grew within. An intense feeling of anger

education," Henry reminded her in a gentle tone

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

thought that he was so handsome from

"What are

friend for a long time. I

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

know what kind of person I am,

of Lea's words as her heart was suddenly filled with an intense feeling of worry. Was it because of Jack that Lucas filed a one-day leave on her

'What happened to him?

some kind of

her mind. Rachel took a step back and let herself fall to

accidentally sat on the remote control of the

on and was about to turn the TV off when her attention

the entertainment news broadcast

past, our reporters were

the breaking news made Rachel's heart skip a beat. It felt to her like a cold iron hand had gripped her heart tightly that it made her heart

Jack and Celine were clearly visible. Although the image was not very clear, Rachel could easily recognize

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 her that

so depressed that she didn't notice that her tears

felt an intense ache that gripped her

absence for her and why Lea

in the world knew about it, and she, of all people, was the last one who found out about it. She had sat alone

was so pathetic for what she