Rachel had been used to Jack's hugging her from behind, so she didn't mind it anymore.
"Why are you home so late?" she asked lightly.
He hesitated for a while before he answered, "Something came up at work, so I had to stay at the
company longer. I didn't notice that my phone ran out of battery. Sorry if I worried you."
He just met Celine to take back his phone, so he thought it wasn't necessary to let Rachel know about
it.
Rachel turned off the stove and filled the bowl with the dish she prepared. Then said, "Just make sure
that this won't happen again."
"I swear."
Jack glanced at the table. There were different dishes like vegetables, sweet and sour spare ribs, and
fish head with tofu. There was still another one that she had just finished cooking. They all looked good
and smelled delicious.
He couldn't help asking, "You cooked all these for me?"
Rachel turned her head to catch a glance at the table and said mischievously, "Of course not. These
are all mine."
All of a sudden, she felt a slight pain on her nape that made her shiver.
Jack was already behind her, gently biting her slender neck. He said, "If that's the case, I have no
choice but to eat the cook."
Her laughter reverberated in the whole kitchen.
She felt ticklish, so she dodged and pretended to scold him, "Stop it!"
Eric suddenly came in to be in time to witness such an affectionate scene. With a long face, he asked,
"What are you doing?"
He acted like a father who saw his daughter being intimate with a man.
Rachel's relationship with Jack seemed to be getting deeper and deeper.
Her face immediately flushed out of embarrassment. She quickly removed Jack's hands from her waist
and pretended to be calm. "Why are you here?"
"To see you, of course," Eric replied.
Jack glanced at him and said flatly, "It's okay with me if you come here to see Rachel. But next time,
call us ahead of time. What if she and I..."
But before he could finish his words, she pinched his arm.
"Don't speak nonsense in front of Eric. We better eat now." She glared at him,
not expecting that he would say those words in front of Eric.
Jack murmured, "Are you bullying me?"
"You have a problem with it?" she snapped.
"No problem at all. That's what I exactly want!"
Eric put on a disgusted expression, raised his hand, and said, "Will you please stop showing off your
affection in front of me? Can you at least consider that I am single?"
Rachel was shocked to hear what Eric had said. Did they really have a public display of affection?
To change the topic, she just said, "That's enough. Let's have dinner now."
Eric nodded but didn't move.
"Why are you still standing there? Sit down, grab your chopsticks, and start to dig in." In her mind, she
also agreed with Jack's idea. It would be better if Eric called first before coming over.
Because of his unannounced visit, she had forgotten to ask Jack about Holley during dinner. She just
remembered it now that they were already in bed.
Jack was reading a book beside her. She turned to him and asked directly, "Did something happen
between Holley and me?"
"Why do you ask?" Jack closed the book and put it on the bedside table. He then turned to face her.
"Nothing. I just feel a little weird.
Have you read the news about her? Someone came to ask me if I did it. Then I also received a
message from Holley telling me that I won."
The more Rachel thought about it, the stranger she felt. She took out her phone and showed the
message to Jack.
He took a deep breath. It seemed that he could no longer hide the truth.
"Do you really want to know?" he asked while returning the phone to her.
She nodded.
He held her in his arms and slowly told her what he knew,
including her injury in the neighboring province and the things that Vicky said to him afterward.
"I didn't know that so many things have happened. I wish I could remember them all."
If only she could remember everything, she didn't need to ask Jack or whoever about it.
Rachel tried to recall the first time she came to work after the accident. Holley looked so frightened
upon seeing her. Perhaps she was scared that she would expose what she had done.
Jack said, "They are not good memories, anyway. You don't have to remember everything clearly."
She smiled and said, "But they are parts of my memory. It just feels uncomfortable not to remember
something. By the way, did the news come from you?"
He nodded and admitted frankly, "I don't know Vicky or Holley. Although Vicky told me a lot of things, I
still need to make sure that she was telling the truth.
Also, I'm worried about your safety, so I hired someone to watch over you."
"No wonder I feel like someone has been following me recently. I thought I was only imagining things."
She didn't expect that Jack had been doing so much to protect her secretly.
She knew that once he loved someone deeply, he would always have his own ways to protect her and
take care of her.
She didn't expect that she would experience it one day.
Before, she never thought that he would love her this way.
Jack rubbed her forehead and said, "Yesterday, when Holley came to you, the man I hired overheard
everything and told me about it. Now I confirmed that what Vicky told me was true."
"Now I know why you came to pick me up so early yesterday."
"Yeah."
Jack kissed her gently.
Rachel was the woman he would spend the rest of his life with, so he wanted to make her feel loved
and protected.
He grabbed the quilt and covered her with it. Then he said, "I've given you so much information. Do you
mind doing something for me in return?"
The next morning, the sunshine peeped through the gaps in the curtains. Jack felt the heat of the sun,
so he frowned.
Rachel also opened her eyes slowly when she felt the heat. She gently removed his arm around her
waist and walked to the bathroom silently.
It was a beautiful morning.
The air seemed to be filled with happiness and sweetness.
Last night, Jack told her many things about Holley, so she now somehow understood what had
happened.
Although she still couldn't remember everything, things were slowly getting more distinct to her.
She went downstairs and made breakfast.
When they reached the hospital, Jack planted a kiss on her forehead before she got out of the car. He
waved to her before he started the car again and drove away.
She watched his car disappear before she entered the hospital.
Everyone in the hospital seemed to have forgotten about Holley, although it happened only yesterday.
It was only natural. After all, gossip regularly happened in the hospital. But after a few hours, people
got bored of talking about it.
The event of today became history the next day.
Since she had nothing to worry about, Rachel had to only focus on her job.
As a vice director, her responsibilities were way different from doing scientific researches.
All departments needed to submit their articles to be published in their monthly medical magazine, and
she was responsible for their department's article this month.
Sitting on her desk and typing on the keyboard was a predicament for her.
As a result, she was only able to type around three hundred words the whole day.
When she was about to take a break, a nurse came to her office hurriedly and said, "Rachel, a patient
just arrived in the emergency room. Can you go there and check?"
"What happened?" she asked while standing from her desk.
"The name of the patient is Gigi Yang. She is twenty-six years old and currently three months pregnant,
but she has chronic heart disease. She fainted in her office today, so she was rushed here in our
hospital," the nurse explained briefly while handing her the patient's medical record.
After working in the hospital for many years, Rachel had already heard some similar cases. However, it
was her first time to deal with it personally.
But as a doctor, she needed to do her job, so she rushed to the emergency room with the nurse. The
moment she arrived there, she heard the low sobs. It was a man crouching over Gigi Yang's bed and
holding her hand tightly. He said, "Honey, listen to me. Let's just give up the baby, okay? I can't afford to
lose you."
Gigi Yang didn't say anything. She just closed her eyes, turned away, and cried silently.
The nurse walked up to him and patted his shoulder softly. "Sir, the doctor is here. Please stay outside
first, so she can check your wife."
Rachel did all the necessary examinations and laboratory tests carefully. With the results in her hand,
she said unhappily, "Your heart is in a really bad condition now. If you choose to keep the baby, I'm
afraid that..."
Before she could finish her words, Gigi Yang grabbed her hand tightly and cried. She pleaded, "Doctor,
please, I don't want to lose my baby. It is a gift from God, so I can't just abandon it."
Her heart ached when she heard her words. But with the reality in front of her, she needed to be
sensible.
Rachel drew her hand back gently and walked out of the room. Before she left, she talked to the
husband who was approaching her. "With her current condition, your wife is not suitable to get
pregnant. If she insists on keeping the baby, we can't guarantee that she'll surpass the delivery.
She is only three months pregnant now, so you have to decide soon. If the baby gets bigger, it will be
more difficult for her heart to bear."
"I know that, but..." He rubbed his forehead as he was in a dilemma. "Doctor, is there no other way?"
Rachel shook her head and said, "I suggest that you try your best to persuade her. I've already asked a
nurse to arrange a room for her. Based on her current condition, I need to observe her for a few more
days."
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