My Darling, My Dearest novel Chapter 394

"Were your parents the cause of my parents' death?" Finally, Rachel had asked it. How she wished that Jack would say they weren't. She wanted to prove that her aunt was wrong. If he would say that his parents had nothing to do with her parents' death and that he knew nothing about it, she'd still accept him. However, he froze and dodged this time. His eyes couldn't deceive her. Although he didn't say it, she could tell that he knew everything. But why didn't he tell her? All of a sudden, his warm embrace felt disgusting, and his eyes that she trusted a lot looked so cold.

Rachel didn't want to stay with Jack any longer, so she broke free from his embrace. She loved him, and her heart ached when she heard him beg. But she couldn't afford to see his face anymore. Before her heart could soften, she must stay away from him immediately.

"We can't continue the wedding anymore," she said before she walked away.

"Please..." That was the last word she heard from him.

Jack had begged her. He swallowed his pride and almost knelt down in front of her, but she still disappeared in his life in the end. She didn't even say goodbye. He looked for her crazily. Even his friends were worried about him, so they supported him. He had asked all the people that Rachel knew, but he got nothing. Even Lea and Celia, who were her best friends, didn't know her whereabouts. It seemed that she was really determined to vanish in his life forever.

Rachel had actually gone to a city where no one knew her. She needed a place away from everyone for her to calm down and learn to forget all the memories related to Jack.

Jack was in a noisy bar. He wanted to benumb himself with noise and alcohol, so he could not think about Rachel and how powerless his begging was. He drowned himself in alcohol every night. If he still couldn't find Rachel, his life would probably be in danger. Michael and Marcus, who were really worried, stayed with him. They tried their best to convince him to stop drinking, but they failed. He even got worst. Now, he indulged himself in alcohol all day long.

Rachel was also having the worst days of her life. She was in a strange city, where there was only loneliness around her in the empty room. She could never feel Jack's warm embrace, and there would never be such a beautiful and homely place again.

She cried many times in her sleep and woke up in the middle of the night weeping, especially when she realized that she could only lean on the cold wall of her room, and not on his solid chest. Because of it, she started to hate evenings and sleeping.

Gradually, she became weak. But one day, she came to her senses. She couldn't continue living a life like this, so she cheered herself up. She walked downstairs and went to a restaurant across the street for breakfast.

Since she decided to run away, she shouldn't be depressed all along.

With a smile, she pointed at the steaming buns on the tray. "Five steamed buns, please."

"Okay." The owner's bright voice resounded among the noisy crowd. She was wearing a faded apron that had been washed for no one could tell how many times. She picked up the steamed buns with tongs, put them in a plate, and handed to Rachel. She then asked, "Is there anything else you want?"

Rachel looked around. There were many customers in the restaurant and almost all of them had ordered steamed buns with a bowl of soybean milk or rice noodles.

A bowl of meat soup and some rice noodles became an unexpected gourmet on the streets in winter.

She used to love eating this kind of food when she was a child. But since she started working, and there were no restaurants in the community where she lived that served breakfast, she hadn't had this kind of breakfast for a long time. She pointed at the small pot on the furnace and replied, "Please give me a bowl of rice noodles."

"Okay. Please look for a seat. I'll just serve your order on your table."

The owner quickly picked up a bowl and opened the lid of the pot. A gust of wind suddenly blew, and the air filled with the aroma of the meat soup.

The smell was supposed to make people crave for it. However, it strangely caused an inexplicably burst of disgust in Rachel's

stomach.

She put the steamed buns aside in a hurry, covered her mouth, and ran to the side of the road. After retching up several times, she finally felt much better.

The female restaurant owner was stunned for a while but eventually smiled.

"Are you okay, miss? I was actually like that when I was pregnant. I couldn't smell the soup as it made me feel sick."

"Pregnant?" Rachel asked absentmindedly.

"Yes. How many months are you pregnant? You must take care of yourself during your pregnancy."

Rachel was completely stunned. For a moment, her mind went blank. Since she had lost her appetite, she just paid the bill and hailed a taxi to rush to the hospital. The restaurant owner was left with a slightly puzzled expression. She couldn't understand why Rachel had suddenly lost her appetite and left with a complicated expression on her face.

"Young people nowadays..." The restaurant owner could only click her tongue and shook her head.

The restaurant was a little far from the hospital. Rachel did her best to calm down while in the taxi. Her period had always been irregular, so she didn't pay much attention to this thing. Moreover, she had been preoccupied with so many happenings recently. She had no time to worry about her body.

She had already prepared for the worst when she arrived at the hospital. As expected, she was pregnant.

When the result came out, the doctor congratulated her. "Congratulations! You are three months pregnant."

She couldn't deny the fact that she was happy. She was no longer alone. But thinking who the father of her child was, she somehow felt anxious. She was afraid that she might be unable to move on for a lifetime because of the child. This fact made her a little unhappy.

The doctor patiently gave Rachel some advice and instructions. She repeatedly reminded her to keep away from stress and always maintain a good mood during her pregnancy. It was as if she could sense that Rachel was in an unfavorable situation at the moment.

Although it was part of the doctor's job, her concern still moved Rachel.