My Darling, My Dearest novel Chapter 472

"About what?" Jack finally raised his head, but his voice was so calm it didn't even waver for a second.

Rachel lowered her eyes and smiled bitterly. "What do you think?"

As soon as she said those words, Jack looked away and lowered his head again. He held out his chopsticks to pick on the vegetables on his plate, but he didn't respond any further.

Rachel felt like her chest was stuffed with a big mass of cotton, it was suffocating. After a moment of silence, she asked, "Where have you been these past two days?"

It turned out that asking this question was not as difficult as she thought. That question had been weighing down on her mind for several days and now she was finally relieved.

Jack closed his eyes for a while. When he opened them again, his clear eyes gradually became a little stormy. They carried too much unspoken emotions. He reached out to hold Rachel's hand tightly. "Your aunt passed away."

'My aunt passed away?'

Looking straight at into his eyes for a while, Rachel suddenly grinned and laughed. "Jack, are you kidding me? I just had a video chat with Eric and the two of them were laughing happily. How could she pass away all of a sudden?"

She looked up, withdrew her hand, and pressed it on her forehead. She kept denying what she heard. "No, my aunt is very healthy. How could she suddenly die?"

"Rachel, calm down." Jack looked at her with worry and licked his lips. "That night, your aunt and Eric drank too much at home. She fell down the stairs by accident and hit her head against the railing. She died on the spot."

"No, that's impossible." The realization came in her mind like an explosion. Rachel's limbs slowly stiffened at a speed visible to the naked eye. She kept shaking her head in denial. "She just hit the railing? How come she wasn't rescued? Jack, you must be kidding me, right?"

She frantically searched for something in his suit jacket. She muttered, "Jack, where's your phone? Give me your phone. Today is April Fools' Day, right? You're lying to me, aren't you?"

Seeing that Jack was just looking at her without uttering a single word, Rachel finally couldn't control her emotions. She grabbed his arm tightly and roared, "Jack, say something! Why aren't you saying anything? Tell me that you're lying!"

Her gloomy eyes instantly glistened and her tears welled up like she had stored them with water for a long time.

Rachel sniffed and tried her best to hold back her tears. Her pretense of being strong just made Jack more distressed.

His thumb gently caressed her cheek, and he felt like there was a lump in his throat. He choked, "Rachel, if you want to cry, just cry on my shoulder."

"No, I won't cry." Rachel kept saying in defiance while shaking her head and biting her lips.

Despite that, her tears kept spilling out and the more they spilled, the more she couldn't stop.

Although her aunt was like a cloud in the sky which couldn't be stopped and caught, she still wandered and spent some time with Rachel.

Still, she was the only elder member of her

family in the world.

Her parents died when she was a child. Only this aunt could make her feel like she wasn't alone in this world. But now, even her aunt had left her.

And it all happened so suddenly.

She finally broke down and leaned on Jack's shoulder. She cried so hard, so desperately, and her tears poured out of her eyes like a broken dam. Even he felt an immense sorrow in an

instant.

After crying for a long time, Rachel's eyes were red and swollen. Her tears seemed to have dried up when she asked in a hoarse voice, "What about my cousin? How is he now?"

She was so grief-stricken with her aunt's passing so she couldn't even begin to think what Eric was going through.

As soon as she thought of him, Rachel felt a lump in her throat, and tears flashed in her eyes again. Jack quickly reached out to wipe her tears and said in a deep voice, "He's still in the hospital. He held your aunt to try and save her, but they fell down the stairs together."

"What happened to him? Is it serious?"