Celine's tears flowed freely down her cheeks and they made her look miserable and pitiful.
Baron was not able to say anything. The entire time, he had thought that Celine accompanied Jack to
the police station.
Or that maybe they were both arrested while they were together.
And either one of these scenarios where unbearable for Baron. He never received any information
about why Jack and Celine were at the police station while he drove all the way there in his car.
But now that he knew the truth of what really happened. It was actually his buddy who had tried to
violate his woman.
Baron felt extremely ashamed of himself and how he acted earlier. He had even planned to have a
huge fight with Celine to boost up his damaged ego.
But after he heard the story of what really happened, he was too ashamed to admit his fault. The sight
of Celine looking so helpless and pathetic made him feel so sorry for her. He slowly reached out his
hands to her and pulled her close to him. "I'm so sorry, honey. I should not have been so mean to you
earlier."
Celine immediately lowered her head and closed her eyes to hide the disgust that she felt. She leaned
her head forward into his arms, accidentally hitting the area where he was punched.
Baron gasped in pain. She pretended not to hear him and immediately started to cry loudly.
Her loud crying made Baron feel so guilty. He gritted his teeth hard and endured all the pain.
He pretended to be a tender and good boyfriend to her as he gently comforted her. He apologized to
her gently.
His attitude changed so suddenly, and Celine took advantage of this by bending over to his shoulder
and sobbed.
Her eyes were filled with indifference. She knew his biggest weakness was his keen on face-saving.
And the knowledge gave Celine the advantage and ability to manipulate him.
In the meantime, Rachel took a shower and then changed into her pajamas afterwards. She sat on the
bed as she wiped her long hair with a soft towel.
When Jack could no longer wait anymore, he approached the bedroom door and knocked. It was just
when Rachel's hair was already half dry.
The sound of his knocking suddenly paralyzed Rachel, and for a moment, her hands seemed like they
were frozen in place. She turned her head slightly away from the door and ignored him. She then
continued to dry her hair.
Outside the room, Jack patiently waited for a response to his knocking. Even after a time of getting no
response, he still continued to knock on the door.
But Rachel never responded to the knocking. She continued with her own business and took out the
hair drier. She tried to convince herself that she was not supposed to feel anxious. That she should
remain calm.
The knocking on the bedroom door continued for a while and then stopped.
Rachel stopped when the knocking stopped. She strained her ears and listened carefully for any sound
that came from the door. She didn't know if Jack left or not.
After a few moments of listening, she heard no other sound that came from the door.
She hesitated for a while and then forced herself to smile bitterly. 'He doesn't even have the patience to
coax me,' she thought.
She convinced herself that she could easily remain calm. However, after she had finished, she was
eager to hear Jack knock again, but the knock never came.
She expected him to explain to her what really happened. On the way home, Jack looked like he
wanted to say something, and Rachel was able to see this right away. But when they got home, she
closed the door to the bedroom and left him outside.
She then wondered if he gave up that easily.
She felt depressed. Her mind was in such a mess from the events at the police station. She felt like
there was a lump stuck in her throat. She felt so wronged that she wanted to cry out.
Meanwhile, outside the bedroom, Jack sat on the sofa and turned to the bedroom door from time to
time. His injury had started to swell, and his handsome face was slightly deformed. The swelling made
him look a little funny.
But he never thought about applying medicine to his face, nor did he care about the discomfort and
embarrassment that he felt. He felt at a loss merely sitting on the sofa.
He did not dare to push the door open and had to sit quietly and patiently until Rachel calmed down
and came out of the bedroom herself. He planned to knock on the door once more at a later time.
And Jack was not a fool. He could easily figure out why she was upset with him.
It was because she was completely right. What he did was a bad decision.
He could have asked anyone to accompany Celine to the police station, but he felt softhearted at the
time. So, he decided to accompany her himself.
And during that time, he did forget that Rachel was still at the hospital. He knew that no matter how
hard he explained what happened, it was all useless.
She said that he made her look like an idiot.
When he finished thinking about the events that happened, he lowered his head and accidentally
rubbed his hand on his face. He suddenly gasped from the pain. He almost forgot that his face was
wounded.
Then he smiled bitterly to himself once more. He leaned back at the backrest of the sofa and stared up
at the chandelier on the ceiling with a blank expression on his face.
He waited patiently for her to calm down as he sat on the sofa.
He turned to the closed bedroom door, and suddenly felt unsure if Rachel would calm down soon or
not.
Based on what he remembered about her character, one possibility why she was angry with him was
because he failed to keep his promise to her. The other reason could be because she rushed to the
police station, very concerned about his safety only to find that he was there with Celine.
He considered all of the different possibilities, but he still didn't get the point.
He waited for her to come out.
The lawyer called from the police station and informed Jack that Celine had been bailed out. They had
to wait for the injured victim to wake up first and plan what had to be done next.
He moved his lips and wanted to say something, but nothing came out.
He swallowed heavily and punched the wall in irritation. "I see," he replied in an indifferent tone.
When Jack was about to end the call, the lawyer stopped him. He seemed to have something urgent to
say to Jack. "Mr. Fu, please wait a moment."
"Is there anything else?" Jack asked impatiently as he retracted his finger from the red button that
would end the call.
"Well, Miss Duan wants to talk to you."
He immediately refused without hesitation. "There's no need. You can handle everything yourself. If
there is nothing else, I will end the call."
The lawyer immediately felt a little embarrassed. "Okay, I understand."
"Thank you."
The lawyer turned around after the call was ended. He looked a little embarrassed when he turned to
the woman who expectantly looked forward to take the phone from him. He brought a balled fist to his
lips and coughed lightly. "Miss Duan, Mr. Fu has hung up the phone."
The pretty woman's face darkened instantly. Tears welled up in her beautiful eyes. Her delicate
appearance looked heartbreaking.
"Miss Duan, if there is nothing else, I will need to leave," the lawyer announced in a distant yet polite
tone.
In response, Celine bit her lower lip and looked up at him hesitantly. "Mr. Zhang, can you give me a lift?
The hotel that I'm staying in is not far from here."
Baron didn't want her to follow him when he was taken away in an ambulance.
Coincidentally, Celine wasn't planning to follow him either. After she did her act for a while, she got off
the ambulance without hesitation and then watched the ambulance drive away expressionlessly.
Unfortunately, just as she was about to roll her eyes with disdain for Baron, she suddenly remembered
that she didn't bring her purse with her. She raised her hand and subconsciously touched her body, but
the dress that she wore had no pocket.
She left her purse and belongings at the banquet. So, she was without a single penny. She didn't even
have her cell phone with her.
And when Celine was trying to figure out a way to get back to the hotel, the lawyer arrived at the police
station.
The lawyer was just about to leave after going through all the bail formalities for her.
And this was why she asked the lawyer if she could talk to Jack when the lawyer was about to call Jack
to report about the progress of the case.
The lawyer felt sorry for what had happened to her and agreed to drive her home.
Celine got in the lawyer's car so that she could get back to the hotel and rest, but her mind was
spinning and she felt dazed with everything that has happened.
She secretly glanced at the lawyer next to her. She wondered if she had seen the lawyer before when
she was still with Jack.
She wanted to know more about Jack during the time that they'd been separated, but she realized that
it would not be possible to know more from the lawyer that she was with.
They were just not familiar with each other. If he was another lawyer who she had known, she could
talk to him about Jack.
Unfortunately, she was not familiar with this lawyer. It was common for lawyers to be sensitive to even
the smallest details. It would be terrible if the lawyer noticed something odd about her true intention and
then found something wrong with her.
She had nothing now and she was definitely back at square one. If she wanted to start from the
beginning, she had to be cautious all the time.
It had been almost half an hour since Jack ended the call with the lawyer and yet he noticed nothing
new from Rachel or the bedroom door.
He thought that it really didn't matter. So, he continued to wait patiently.
And all that time, there was a voice screaming in his heart.
The voice made him wonder whether Rachel would be able to calm herself down.
The more Jack thought about the voice's argument, the louder it grew with each passing minute. And
Jack did his best to ignore the doubt that the voice in his heart represented.
He greatly relied on what he understood and knew about Rachel. And from what he knew about her,
she was supposed to forgive him for what he did.
Unfortunately, he had never seen Rachel mad at him before. So, considering this, he really had no idea
yet how she behaved when she was mad.
For based on what he knew about Rachel, she has always been a good girl with an incredible temper.
It was that or she was simply used to the situations that would normally make regular people angry.
And he had seen a lot of different people in his work, but even with his experience with people, he
found it very difficult to determine what Rachel was thinking. He was never sure how important he truly
was in her heart or how much she cared about him.
Thus, by the same thought, he had no way to gauge how angry she was at him.
And there was one thing where Jack was really off in his prediction.
The clock ticked away the time and another ten minutes had passed by.
There was complete silence coming from the bedroom. Jack was able to hear some movement inside
before but the sound gradually faded, and now, there was total silence. He stood up from the sofa in
the living room and went up to the bedroom to knock at the door once more.
There was still no response from the bedroom.
For some reason, he suddenly felt nervous. He felt like a schoolboy who did something embarrassing
in front of his crush. And he had no idea how to deal with that situation.
Additionally, he knew that he couldn't just force himself into the room, and then beg for her forgiveness.
But he also didn't want to wait outside the room for nothing.
He thought that if Rachel still wouldn't open the door,
he would find another way to get into the room.
He felt sure that she would forgive him sooner or later.
He thought for a while and decided to wait at the living room once more.
An hour had passed, but Rachel never came out of the bedroom nor was there any sound coming from
inside the bedroom.
His heart started to beat fast. He went to the bedroom door once more and tried to open the doorknob.
He was surprised when he found that it wasn't even locked.
He paused for a while, and then decided to completely turn the doorknob and open the door. He
wondered if she left the door unlocked and was waiting for him to enter the room all this time, and he
didn't even realized it.
He opened the door wide and was greeted by complete darkness from inside the room.
It was so dark that he couldn't even see his own hand in front of him.
He suddenly panicked and quickly walked forward even in complete darkness. He took a few steps
forward and then stood very still.
He calmed himself down and then turned on the light inside the bedroom.
The soft bedroom light filled every corner of the room when he turned it on. He was shocked with what
he saw. His eyes immediately scanned the entire room. It was empty.
He took two steps forward and it was then that complete panic filled his entire being. "Rachel!" he
shouted out in the middle of the bedroom.
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