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 disappointment

Rachel greeted on the phone as she dried her

you now?"

felt that there was something odd with Lucas' call

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

uneasy about it. She frowned and there

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 take some

night on an overtime, she could still go to work the next day. It was normal for doctors to have odd hours of

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

no idea how to explain to Rachel why he

of the director's office yesterday. He never expected

him back to ask more about the matter, but Lea's call interrupted that call

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

"Are you okay, Rachel?"

would I not be okay?" Rachel thought that it was odd that they

and now it was

have to do that. You can cry to me if

when

a beautiful woman like

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

Henry reminded her in a

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

she ever thought that he

in disbelief. "What are you talking about? Mind

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

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

you don't know what kind

no longer hear the rest of Lea's words as her heart was suddenly filled with an intense feeling of worry.

'What happened to him?

of danger?' she wondered to

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

the remote control of the TV and

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

the entertainment

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

Rachel's heart skip a beat. It felt to her like a cold iron hand

of Jack and Celine were clearly visible.

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

she didn't notice that her tears had

felt an intense ache that

her and why

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 whole night. She had even

she was so pathetic