"Is that all?" Rachel asked with a tone of indifference after Jack finished speaking.
"Yes," he answered.
She smiled slightly at him and slowly pulled back her hand from him. This worried him. "You made me
look like an idiot today, Jack," she said wearily.
The partition in the middle of the car was activated. Thus, the driver never heard anything about what
they were talking about.
Jack was in a panic for a brief moment. He tried to hold Rachel's hand a few times more, but she
avoided his advances.
Rachel slightly turned her head towards him with a look of indifference. She then looked down at the
carpeted floor beneath her feet.
Jack's heart suddenly felt heavy and aching.
"Rachel," he said, almost whispering to her under his breath.
She never reacted to his words. She played with the embroidered patterns on her dress with her dainty
fingers. "I thought you had an accident. That's why I rushed to the police station right away to see if you
were okay. Then I suddenly felt like a fool when I found out the real reason why you were there in the
first place," she said in a soft tone of voice.
Jack shifted slightly in his seat. He felt anxious after he heard what Rachel had to say.
He didn't know what to say to her.
Earlier, he had a secret plan to reward his wife for being jealous. And yet, he suddenly felt like a fool
after he heard Rachel's words. Like a basin of cold water was splashed on his face early in the
morning.
Rachel turned her head slightly at Jack. "Do you think so?" she asked calmly in a soft voice that was
almost a whisper.
She then smiled at him mockingly.
Even if he was a smooth talker, Rachel's words and actions left him completely speechless at that
moment. He knew that there was no longer any need to explain anything.
The disappointment in her eyes was so obvious that she no longer needed to say it in words.
"Let's talk about it when we get home," Jack said in a gentle voice. He gently took her hand again in his
and then stared at her eyes lovingly. "Let's get home first, okay?"
Rachel said nothing but slightly nodded at him.
The events of that night made Rachel aware of something that she never expected before. The
emotions that she felt showed her a reality that she never realized existed.
She had fallen in love with him a lot deeper that she thought.
She felt so jealous when she found out that Jack stood up for Celine.
Her eyes were filled with embarrassment and awkwardness.
If they would talk about what happened that night, she knew that it would be mostly useless
explanation from both of them.
And Rachel had no need or desire to listen to those words. She already saw the truth of what really
happened with her own eyes.
On their way home, Jack observed her face out of the corner of his eye, and Rachel pretended not to
notice him at all.
She looked down at the floor as she pretended to be in deep thought, but in truth, she was not thinking
about anything at all. Her mind was a mess, and she couldn't figure out what she was thinking.
But now that she was by his side, she felt a little angry.
When they got home, Jack was unable to find an opportunity to talk to her. Back in the car, he was sure
that there would be many chances for them to talk when they got home.
However, as soon as they entered their house, Rachel went straight to the bedroom. When Jack was
about to follow her, she blocked him from entering the bedroom with her.
Jack was surprised by her actions. When he was about to say something to her, Rachel stopped him
immediately. "I have some work to finish. Please don't bother me right now."
Jack smiled awkwardly, and took a step back. "Well, I..."
But before he could finish what he was about to say, she slammed the door.
Jack stood outside the door stunned as he stared blankly at the closed door in front of him, not knowing
that to do next.
Before he could do anything, the door opened once more, and he was surprised that it did. But before
he could say anything, Rachel asked, "Where are my cellphone and purse?"
"I...uh... forgot to bring it back."
She pressed her lips hard against each other but said nothing. "Okay," she said after a moment and
then closed the door without warning once more.
Jack stood in front of the door with these thoughts in mind. After some time of staring blankly at the
door, he finally turned around and left.
Rachel stayed a long time at the door after she closed it. She never expected that he'd forget her purse
and cellphone. Was the situation about Celine so important that he didn't care about Rachel?
Rachel was in a very bad mood. She stared at her messy and dirty dress, and then slightly twisted her
lips. She then walked to her closet and brought out her pajamas. She then turned towards the
bathroom and took a warm shower.
In the meantime, Baron, who came to accuse Celine of cheating, got nothing at all when he got there.
When he saw Jack and Celine, they did not look in the least guilty or in a panic. This sight never gave
him the sense of satisfaction or achievement that he was looking for.
Because of this, he wanted to pin Jack, so that he would also experience the same feeling of being
humiliated.
He wanted Jack to watch as the woman that he once cherished the most was now in his arms.
But to his disappointment, he found that Jack's mood did not change at all, and this made him feel very
disappointed.
In truth, the main reason why Baron became interested in Celine was because she was Jack's woman
before.
He felt that it was such an exciting goal to be able to take away Jack's woman and humiliate him.
However, Jack was completely indifferent and uninterested in them both.
In the end, Jack even punched him in the face.
After Jack has left, Baron's emotions got the best of him and he could no longer hold it back. He
suddenly gripped his stomach with his hands and cried out mournfully, "He injured my internal organs! I
will sue him!" Celine got up and hurried to help him up,
but was pushed away. He sat himself up against the wall and said angrily, "What are you doing there
staring? Call an ambulance at once!"
The two policemen on the scene stared at each other, and looked puzzled. Celine gritted her teeth
secretly, but she forced a smile as she comforted Baron despite the humiliation. "Don't worry. I'll call
them right away."
Baron was hit really hard by Jack. He covered his stomach, lowered his head, gritted his teeth and
didn't say a word. His face was masked with a mournful look.
His mind immediately became busy in thinking of ways of how he could make Jack suffer.
But it wasn't an act of revenge but a disgrace for Baron himself.
After a short moment of thinking, Baron slowly raised his head and found that Celine stared at him with
concern in her eyes.
She crouched down near him as tears welled up in her eyes. "Baron, hold on. The ambulance is on its
way," she said in a soft voice.
However, regardless of Celine's visible concern for him, he still burst out in anger that he vented out on
her.
He laughed coldly and mocked Celine's concern for him. "Aren't you unhappy to see that I am not
beaten to death by Jack?"
Baron's words stunned Celine, and the tears that welled up in her eyes started to fall down her cheeks.
She stared at him in disbelief and shock. "You don't believe that I am really worried about you?"
The sight of her hurt expression touched Baron a little, but he pushed the feeling away and sneered at
her instead. "Do you really? Or were you taking advantage of my absence to hang out with your old
lover?"
When she heard these words, Celine laughed angrily even as tears continued to fall from her eyes.
Baron still didn't know who she had stabbed.
He probably came to the police station as soon as he heard the news that she was there with Jack.
He had been chasing her for almost two years. How could she not know of his nature?
She always knew how to manipulate this man. Even after she was driven out of Ninwell City, Baron still
went after her.
And he did that because he had never slept with her yet.
But the situation now was completely different from how it was then.
'Men are always the same. Once a man has slept with a woman, he doesn't care about her anymore,'
Celine thought to herself.
Her chest felt like bursting from the anger and disappointment that she felt for Baron. Her tears fell like
rain down her cheeks. "I never cheated on you," she said in a voice dripping with hatred.
"Oh, really?" Baron replied with a sneer on his lips. He pointed at the bruises on his face angrily. "Then
who gave me this?"
They never noticed that the two policemen had left them at some point. The policemen knew that
Baron was supposed to be the guest of the chief.
So they decided that it was proper to leave Baron and Celine to themselves.
Celine bit her lips because of the anger and the humiliation that she felt. After some time, she took a
deep breath and said in a voice that was mixed with sobs, "Do you even have any idea who I
stabbed?"
Baron was instantly stunned with Celine's words. "You stabbed someone?" he asked with his eyes
wide open and his mouth agape. "When did it happen?"
Celine was speechless with how Baron reacted to what she said.
It was exactly how she expected it. The man in front of her was clueless why she was even in the
police station in the first place. She wondered why he even bothered going there without knowing the
true story.
She covered half of her mouth and smiled coldly. She finally understood what was in Baron's mind this
whole time.
And because she now had a clear idea of what went on in Baron's mind, she knew how to play the
crowd to her advantage. She knew how to make him like her and how to make him feel pity for her.
She lowered her eyes with a deep breath. Her face looked as if she was greatly abused and was too
embarrassed to even talk about it.
"It was Ron. He asked me out."
"What does this have to do with Ron?" Baron asked immediately while looking confused.
It was Ron that Celine stabbed that caused her to be brought to the police station. But she told the
story in a bit exaggerated way to give herself an advantage over Baron.
Not only would the story make Baron angry, it would provide Celine with a certain advantage.
Baron loved dignity so much. But how would he be able to endure such a humiliation once he found out
that his own friend had assaulted his woman?
He never spoke as Celine told him the whole story. His face turned redder and gloomier with every
detail in the story that she revealed.
And his reactions to the story told her that he had made a decision.
But her story was not over yet. She kept going at him, spitting out her sad story of getting abused by
his own friend. "He took me outside where we were alone. Luckily, I happened to picked up something
sharp and stabbed him with it."
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