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.

screen of her phone, she felt a wave of

on the

you now?"

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

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

it. She frowned and there was a

for it." "It's nothing. I just want you to slow

if she worked late at night on an overtime, she could still go to work the next

day to have a rest. Anyway, there is something

idea how to explain to Rachel why he

to Rachel when he came out of the director's office

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

morning made her feel so busy as the phone calls came one after the

"Are you okay, Rachel?"

be okay?" Rachel thought that it was odd that

was Lucas and now it was

have to do that. You can cry to me if you feel like you need to. Jack is such a bastard. Don't

when he

woman like Lea could

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

reminded

him. The more she saw his face, the more disgusted she felt because of what she found out that

did she ever thought that he was so handsome

are you talking about?

been your friend for a long time. I am starting

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

that you don't know

of Lea's words as her heart was suddenly filled with an intense feeling of worry. Was it because

'What happened to him?

kind of danger?' she wondered

situations flooded her mind. Rachel took a step back and let

of the TV and it was turned

reached for the remote control that she sat on and was about to turn the TV off when her attention was suddenly drawn to the news that was currently playing on

was the entertainment news broadcast

wife at 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 talking. What is really going

to her like a cold iron hand had gripped her heart

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

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

notice that

ache that gripped her

leave of absence for her and why Lea called her just to curse Jack for what he

all people, was the last one who found out about it. She

felt that she was so