Stuck in you

"You are never my burden..." Bill's voice become very low. He picked up the note again and read it word by word. The blue veins on the back of his hand popped out in a shocking manner.

"I'm sorry."

A mixture of shame, guilt, and regret overwhelmed Rachel like a tide. "If it weren't for me, maybe such a thing wouldn't have happened."

After a long silence, Bill seemed to have calmed himself down. Without looking at her, he said, "This has nothing to do with you."

He threw the note on the floor and walked to the hospital entrance. Rachel bent down and picked it up. Andy's handwriting was strong and powerful. "Bill, I have reached retirement age, but I have been worried about you so I haven't mentioned it. Now, I can take this opportunity to retire. Take good care of yourself, and don't worry about me. I'm going to take advantage of the next two years to move around and go to places I have always wanted to go to. Maybe I can live a more free and unrestrained life than now.

You should pay more attention to your health. You can find a girlfriend. If you want me to come back early, you should get married as soon as possible. I will definitely come back for your wedding."

Andy had prepared this note in advance. It was not written only at that moment, but was instead burning a hole in his pocket all this time. It looked like he had no intention of getting examined and only found the appointment to be the perfect opportunity to leave.

How could he be so cruel, just leaving like that? What about Bill?

After putting the note back into her pocket, Rachel walked out of the hospital. Bill was waiting for her in the car, his face now back to its normal expression. He said lightly, "Rachel, get in the car. I'll drive you to work."

Rachel replied, "There's no need. I drove here by myself."

Seeing the worry and uneasiness in her eyes, Bill forced a smile and turned to comfort her, "I'm fine. Don't worry about me. I will keep looking for Andy."

"Okay."

Rachel nodded and told him to be careful on the road.

However, she didn't head toward the parking lot. Instead, she turned around and went back to the hospital. She knocked on the door of the monitoring room and politely asked, "Hello, my family has gone missing. Can you get the surveillance video for me?"

Although everything was planned by Andy, Rachel couldn't help but wonder⁠—if she hadn't persuaded Bill to let Andy go to the bathroom alone, would he have the opportunity to leave?

No matter how she looked at it, she had something to do with Andy's disappearance.

The security guard looked at her up and down and said, "I'm sorry, but if you want to check the CCTV footage, you have to get the instructions from the superiors. If everyone was like you, coming here demanding to see footage just like that, the hospital would be in a mess. This place is not a market."

so she didn't retort even if the man's tone

security guard's voice softened. "Miss, don't worry. Try to look around first. If you still can't find your family, go and ask

the security office, Rachel walked

entering and leaving the hospital, and Andy had been gone for some

footage to see if Andy really had left the hospital, and if so, through which door and which direction he went. With these clues, it should be much

know anyone in this hospital. It was

clear voice say,

and looked up at the man who spoke. His bronze skin and features looked familiar, but she

the same after all of these years! Have you forgotten who asked you that question

academics jogged Rachel's memory. Her eyes lit up,

The man held out his hand and said with a faint smile, "Jasper Zhang. There, I introduced myself to

a firm handshake and smiled up at him more brightly. She had

he disagreed with a point raised in her graduation thesis, so he questioned it during her presentation. Rachel was able to counter his argument and

did she know that she

plate hanging on Jasper Zhang's right chest. "Jasper, are you a doctor in

said Jasper Zhang, unknowingly puffing up his chest with a trace of pride.

"Not very good,"

the man. She opened her mouth a few times to speak. When her words

"Hey, Rachel, what's going

something. Since you are a director here, it should be easy for you to go to the security room to check CCTV footage, right?" Before Rachel could say

"Look, Rachel, you may be my junior in medical school, but you can't just ask me to help you look at our

Rachel snapped out of her thoughts. She was so anxious just now that she pulled

shook his head and said, "Oh,

still, as if

figure out what he was thinking, so she asked, "Can

Jasper Zhang looked very sexy, he was like an old man inside. He sighed and said, "Rachel, although I'm only your senior, I still have to tell you that you can't

any longer and interrupted him, "Jasper, if you want to help, please tell the security guard now. If you don't want to, I have to find another

Zhang also realized that he had talked too much just

went much more smoothly. In ten minutes, all