My Darling, My Dearest novel Chapter 144

"Are you kidding me?" Eric widened his eyes in surprise. "He has a girlfriend. What does he want? That's sickening!"

'Girlfriend? Celine?'

It had been a long time since Rachel had thought about her. She could barely remember her appearance. Pausing, she realized that she hadn't told Eric about what had happened.

"They've already broken up."

Eric opened his mouth in disbelief. "What?

Was it voluntary?"

Rachel hesitated for a moment. She was unsure whether it had been mutual or whether Celine had been willing.

However, it was obvious that Jack wasn't the type to be forced to do anything. Even his own father couldn't force him.

Despite her uncertainty, she nodded her head. "Yes, it may have been voluntary."

"You're pretty sure huh?" Eric was anxious, as if a firecracker had exploded in front of him.

He didn't have a good impression on Jack.

After contemplating for a while, he looked at Rachel. She was no longer the aloof woman anymore.

Rachel stared at him, hesitantly waiting for a response.

Perhaps it wasn't Jack who had been bewitched. It was probably Rachel who was poisoned by him.

There was no way she would have fallen for Jack willingly. For the past years, she and Jack had been like strangers despite the fact they were a couple. But now, she seemed to have fallen for him.

Eric swallowed hard and asked her carefully, "Rachel, what exactly do you like about him?"

Rachel clenched her fists. Her ears began to flush red. She also wondered why she had a crush on Jack.

She didn't know what to say. Shyly, she gave him a weak smile, unable to answer.

She was flustered and happy when she saw him. When he was around, she felt at ease, as if nothing would happen to her.

Despite feeling this way, she didn't know how to phrase it. It was a variety of sensations mixed with one another.

She couldn't say much because she only began to think about it now. After a while, she answered, "I feel... at ease with him."

Stunned, Eric raised his eyebrows. At ease? What the hell this was?

Rachel pondered for a moment before positioning herself on the matter. "It's not that I want to be in a relationship with him now. I just want to ask you something. Do you think he's reliable?"

"Well..." Eric didn't really know what to respond with.

Unlike Rachel, he wasn't usually the one to analyze situations.

Rachel's mind was a mess. If she could have figured it out, she wouldn't have had to ask him the question. She felt so shameful.

She hadn't even had a serious relationship. She was embarrassed and clueless when it came to romance.

Was this even considered as a romance? Their relationship was so complicated and they were about to divorce.

He had also had an affair with another woman for years.

She was in such a confused state, Eric had to wave his hand to snap her out of it.

He had never seen her date someone before.

Even if she was only in her twenties, she acted like she was a middle-aged woman.

Although the others had thought of him a hero, he knew deep inside that he was not the type to risk himself for the sake of others. It had been an accident.

They hadn't expected that those people would be so cruel as to attack them with knives.

Eric was still a little bit righteous. When he had seen that the driver was in a bad situation, he had tried to negotiate with those guys.

That was why he was attacked as well.

Lea's face paled when she saw Eric. She glanced at the wound on his head, feeling his pain.

She wanted to touch it, but didn't dare to. She bit her lips and asked pitifully, "Do you feel better?"

Rachel sat on the edge of the bed, casting a cold glance at Eric, who was pretending to be weak.

It was definitely painful in the beginning, but now that he was in the recovery period, the wound was healing.

Eric was just excited because he was getting attention from the beautiful Lea.

He acted pitiful so that she would coddle him even more.

Rachel rolled her eyes. She could see through his tricks.

Eric raised his hand to touch the wound on his head. "It doesn't hurt."

As he stretched hand halfway, he retracted it, and winced. "Ouch. Okay it did feel a little painful."

Lea cooed to calm him down.

She treated him like her little brother.

"Eric, lower your head. I'll blow on your wound to make it feel better."