"Are you kidding me?" Eric widened his eyes in surprise. "He has a girlfriend. What does he want?
That's sickening!"
'Girlfriend? Celine?'
It had been a long time since Rachel had thought about her. She could barely remember her
appearance. Pausing, she realized that she hadn't told Eric about what had happened.
"They've already broken up."
Eric opened his mouth in disbelief. "What?
Was it voluntary?"
Rachel hesitated for a moment. She was unsure whether it had been mutual or whether Celine had
been willing.
However, it was obvious that Jack wasn't the type to be forced to do anything. Even his own father
couldn't force him.
Despite her uncertainty, she nodded her head. "Yes, it may have been voluntary."
"You're pretty sure huh?" Eric was anxious, as if a firecracker had exploded in front of him.
He didn't have a good impression on Jack.
After contemplating for a while, he looked at Rachel. She was no longer the aloof woman anymore.
Rachel stared at him, hesitantly waiting for a response.
Perhaps it wasn't Jack who had been bewitched. It was probably Rachel who was poisoned by him.
There was no way she would have fallen for Jack willingly. For the past years, she and Jack had been
like strangers despite the fact they were a couple. But now, she seemed to have fallen for him.
Eric swallowed hard and asked her carefully, "Rachel, what exactly do you like about him?"
Rachel clenched her fists. Her ears began to flush red. She also wondered why she had a crush on
Jack.
She didn't know what to say. Shyly, she gave him a weak smile, unable to answer.
She was flustered and happy when she saw him. When he was around, she felt at ease, as if nothing
would happen to her.
Despite feeling this way, she didn't know how to phrase it. It was a variety of sensations mixed with one
another.
She couldn't say much because she only began to think about it now. After a while, she answered, "I
feel... at ease with him."
Stunned, Eric raised his eyebrows. At ease? What the hell this was?
Rachel pondered for a moment before positioning herself on the matter. "It's not that I want to be in a
relationship with him now. I just want to ask you something. Do you think he's reliable?"
"Well..." Eric didn't really know what to respond with.
Unlike Rachel, he wasn't usually the one to analyze situations.
Rachel's mind was a mess. If she could have figured it out, she wouldn't have had to ask him the
question. She felt so shameful.
She hadn't even had a serious relationship. She was embarrassed and clueless when it came to
romance.
Was this even considered as a romance? Their relationship was so complicated and they were about
to divorce.
He had also had an affair with another woman for years.
She was in such a confused state, Eric had to wave his hand to snap her out of it.
He had never seen her date someone before.
Even if she was only in her twenties, she acted like she was a middle-aged woman.
He rolled his eyes and came up with a good idea. "Rachel, how about this? Let's see how he behaves
these days."
Rachel was confused. What did he mean by that?
"The last two days, I haven't seen any difference in his behavior. I might as well take advantage of my
hospitalization so that you can think more about this. That way, I can also see how much he's
changed."
In actuality it seemed that Eric wanted to torture Jack a little bit. Rachel snapped impatiently, "You're
still recovering. Don't stir up trouble."
She had to figure her feelings out by herself. The most important thing was her heart.
She wanted to talk to Lea about this, but she was busy. She had to train in the field for ten days. She
would be back within the next two days.
Her company had signed up for military and management training for her, it had been very rushed.
Because it was so rigorous, they confiscated her phone and any mode of contact with the outside
world. For the past ten days, she was off the grid.
Lea had left in such a hurry that Rachel didn't have time to tell her about Eric. When Lea came back,
she called Rachel and asked her to have dinner together. But Rachel told her that she needed to take
care of Eric.
Lea was shocked. "What's wrong with him?"
Rachel then told Lea about Eric's heroism.
Without wasting another second, Lea immediately went to Rachel's house. Ever since he had left the
hospital, Eric had been staying in Rachel's house.
Eric was still in the recovery period. Fortunately, he was still young and strong, so his body was able to
recover much quicker.
He had gotten a wound on his waist, arm, and head. The most inconvenient out of the three was the
wound on his waist. Because of it, he needed another person to help him move around.
The wound that affected his appearance was the one on his head. Fortunately, the injury was not too
deep. Otherwise he could have been paralyzed or dead.
Whenever Eric touched the wound on his head, he felt terrified.
Although the others had thought of him a hero, he knew deep inside that he was not the type to risk
himself for the sake of others. It had been an accident.
They hadn't expected that those people would be so cruel as to attack them with knives.
Eric was still a little bit righteous. When he had seen that the driver was in a bad situation, he had tried
to negotiate with those guys.
That was why he was attacked as well.
Lea's face paled when she saw Eric. She glanced at the wound on his head, feeling his pain.
She wanted to touch it, but didn't dare to. She bit her lips and asked pitifully, "Do you feel better?"
Rachel sat on the edge of the bed, casting a cold glance at Eric, who was pretending to be weak.
It was definitely painful in the beginning, but now that he was in the recovery period, the wound was
healing.
Eric was just excited because he was getting attention from the beautiful Lea.
He acted pitiful so that she would coddle him even more.
Rachel rolled her eyes. She could see through his tricks.
Eric raised his hand to touch the wound on his head. "It doesn't hurt."
As he stretched hand halfway, he retracted it, and winced. "Ouch. Okay it did feel a little painful."
Lea cooed to calm him down.
She treated him like her little brother.
"Eric, lower your head. I'll blow on your wound to make it feel better."
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