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.

the display screen of her phone, she felt a

on the phone as she dried

are you now?" Lucas

felt that there was something odd with Lucas' call that early

you've been working too hard lately. So, I decided to request a day's off

there was a feeling of apprehension in her heart that she just couldn't explain. She felt that

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

at night on an overtime, she could still go to work the next day. It

to have a rest. Anyway, there is something that I need

Rachel why

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

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

as the

"Are you okay, Rachel?"

be okay?" Rachel thought that it was odd

Lucas and

you don't have to do that. You can cry to me if you

pulled Lea's arm when he heard her

a beautiful woman like Lea could

in her hand as she relaxed her other hand on her hip. Her belly had started to bulge as her baby grew within. An intense feeling of anger made her curse under

about fetal education," Henry reminded

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

ever thought that he was

"What are you talking

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

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

me that you don't know what kind of person I

the rest 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

'What happened to him?

kind of danger?' she wondered to

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

remote control of the TV

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

the entertainment news broadcast

of MK Group has showed off his love for his 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

to 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

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

Then there was a picture of him with his head close to her as he whispered something to her ear. Each picture shown

so depressed that she didn't notice

intense ache

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

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

she was so