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.

was the name "Lucas" across the display screen of her phone, she felt a

Rachel greeted on the phone as she

are you now?" Lucas

with Lucas' call that early in

hard lately. So, I decided

of feeling happy for the 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 just couldn't explain.

"It's nothing.

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 that I need to

had no idea how to explain to Rachel why he suddenly

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

to ask more about the matter, but Lea's call interrupted that call and she had to answer

her feel so busy as

"Are you okay, Rachel?"

it was odd

and now it was

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

arm when he heard

expected that a beautiful woman like Lea could have such a

had started to bulge as

about fetal education," Henry reminded her in a gentle tone of

bothering me!" Lea glared back at him. The more she saw his face, the more disgusted she felt because

thought that he

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

for a long time. I am starting to think that you're not so different

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

don't know what kind

was suddenly filled with an intense feeling of worry. Was it because of Jack that Lucas

'What happened to him?

kind of

mind. Rachel took a step back and let herself fall to the sofa. The TV

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 drawn to the news that was currently

the entertainment

were able to take some revealing pictures of the CEO last night. And this had a lot of people talking. What is

It felt to her like a cold iron hand had gripped her heart tightly that it made

on the video were blurred, but the faces of Jack and Celine were clearly visible. Although the image was not very clear,

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 felt more intense than the

that she didn't notice that her tears had already started

intense ache that

understood why Lucas filed a leave of absence for her and why

who found out about it. She had sat alone in the living room of the house and

she was so pathetic