My Darling, My Dearest novel Chapter 298

Jack nodded back. No matter what happened, it had nothing to do with him anymore.

He had already done so much for the sake of their previous relationship.

But they should accept that it would be better if they ended their friendship.

He took a piece of tissue to wipe his hands with. "Rest well. I need to go back now. Call me if anything happens."

He turned around and was about to leave, but Celine reached out and grabbed his suit. She held on to it tightly as she stared straight into his eyes. "Don't go," she said in a coarse voice.

Beads of tears started to flow down from her eyes and down to her pillow.

He hesitated for a while as he looked at her. At length, he finally took her hand and placed it back in the quilt. "The nurses are just outside. Call them if you need anything," he said in a calm tone of voice.

"I feel scared when you're not here.

But if you really have to leave, can I go with you? I don't want to be left here all alone." Celine gritted her teeth and forced herself to sit up. The intravenous needle connected to her arm was moved at an irregular angle and her blood started to flow into the tubing.

Jack felt that he had no choice but to pull up a chair and sit down next to her bed. "Go to sleep.

I will not leave," he said.

'Rachel must be asleep already,' he thought to himself.

The two never noticed that just outside the ward, a man proudly put away his mobile phone and left the hospital with a brief smile on his lips and a spring in his steps.

He had had a stomach problem and gone to the hospital to have himself treated.

He never expected to see Jack with Celine in his arms as he hurried to get in.

At Rachel's apartment

It was already late but she remained sitting on the sofa. She barely moved from her initial position when she first sat on the sofa earlier that evening.

It made her feel colder and colder the longer she sat there. Her body started trembling gently like she was dropped into an ice cooler.

She called Jack's phone, but he was not within the service area. She thought to call Austin, but she remembered that she had deleted all of his call logs, and she never saved his contact information.

Rachel sat on the sofa like a statue. She stayed there, unmoving, until a bright ray of sunshine started to push its way through the window and to her eyes.

It made her feel like her spirits were uplifted.

Rachel sighed deeply, as the disappointment slowly took a firm grip at her heart. She brought herself up from the sofa and was about to prepare for work.

She dragged herself to the bathroom, and decided to just wash her face. When she got out of the bathroom, she suddenly heard her mobile phone vibrating against the table.

'Did he finally call?' she thought to herself.

When all she saw was the name "Lucas" across the display screen of her phone, she felt a wave of disappointment wash all over her.

"Hi, Lucas," Rachel greeted on the phone as she dried her hair.

"Where are you now?" Lucas asked.

"Still at home. Why? What's wrong?" Rachel felt that there was something odd with Lucas' call that early in the morning. "Is there something wrong with Iris?" "It's nothing, Rachel. I noticed that you've been working too hard lately. So, I decided to request a day's off for you today. Enjoy your well-deserved rest at home!"

But instead of feeling happy for the thoughtful gesture that Lucas did for her, she felt uneasy about it. She frowned and there was a feeling of apprehension in her heart that she just couldn't explain. She felt that something bad was about to happen.

"Why did you request for a leave in my behalf? There's really no need for it." "It's nothing. I just want you to slow down a little bit and take some rest," Lucas explained.

Normally, even if she worked late at night on an overtime, she could still go to work the next day. It was normal for doctors to have odd hours of work.

"There's nothing important in the hospital today that requires your attention. You can take the day to have a rest. Anyway, there is something that I need to take care of. Talk to you later. Bye!"

He had no idea how to explain to Rachel why he suddenly decided to do what he did.

He could still remember clearly the words that he said to Rachel when he came out of the director's office yesterday. He never expected that those words would prove to be wrong that soon. Rachel stared at her phone long after they ended the call. She planned to call him back to ask more about the matter, but Lea's call interrupted that call and she had to answer it first.

The morning made her feel so busy as the phone calls came one after the other.

"Are you okay, Rachel?"

"Why would I not be okay?" Rachel thought that it was odd that they all acted strange that day.

First it was Lucas and now it was Lea.

"Don't push yourself too hard, Rachel. You know you don't have to do that. You can cry to me if you feel like you need to. Jack is such a bastard. Don't let me see him again!"

Henry pulled Lea's arm when he heard her words.

He never expected that a beautiful woman like Lea could have such a bad temper.

Lea held the phone tightly in her hand as she relaxed her other hand on her hip. Her belly had started to bulge as her baby grew within. An intense feeling of anger made her curse under her breath.

"Don't forget about fetal education," Henry reminded her in a gentle tone of voice.

"Stop bothering me!" Lea glared back at him. The more she saw his face, the more disgusted she felt because of what she found out that morning.

Why did she ever thought that he was so handsome from the very start?

Henry's eyes widened in disbelief. "What are you talking about? Mind what you're saying!"