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

the phone as she dried

are you now?"

Rachel felt that there was something odd with Lucas' call that early in the morning. "Is there something

So, I decided to request a day's off

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

behalf? There's really no need for it." "It's

still go to work the next day. It was normal for doctors to have odd hours of

to have

no idea how to explain to Rachel why he suddenly decided to

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

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

made her feel so busy as the phone

"Are you okay, Rachel?"

not be okay?" Rachel thought that it was

and now it

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

when he

beautiful woman like Lea could have such a bad

her hand as she relaxed her other hand on her hip. Her belly had started to bulge as her baby grew within. An

about fetal education," Henry reminded her in a gentle

his face, the more disgusted she felt because of what she found out that

that he was so handsome from the very

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

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

how hard it

know what kind of person

heart was suddenly filled with an intense feeling of worry. Was

'What happened to him?

of

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

the remote control of

turn the TV off when her attention was

the entertainment

for 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 like a cold iron hand had gripped her heart

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

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

felt so depressed that she didn't notice that her tears

intense ache that gripped her

then understood why Lucas filed a leave of absence for her and why Lea called her just to curse Jack for what

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

she was so pathetic for what she