My Darling, My Dearest

"I'm a little tired."

Rachel massaged her temples while her eyes were closed. "Can we leave now? I still have to go to work tomorrow."

"Okay, I'll go and say goodbye to the host. Just sit here and wait for me."

Jack never took his eyes off Rachel since he saw her.

It turned out that Bill was the handsome man that the nurses were whispering about.

Jack felt bad and clenched his fists tightly.

He immediately noticed how he and Rachel were very close. He then wondered the truth behind the story that they had a special kind of relationship.

The thought of this almost drove Jack mad. He had to take in a series of deep breaths in order to calm himself down and suppress his anger.

At the same time, Celine watched Jack's strange behavior and she felt a sharp stinging pain in her heart.

She initially felt very happy to be able to attend the banquet that evening. After so many years, she felt like her efforts had finally been rewarded when Jack agreed to attend the banquet with her. But she never expected Rachel to be there as well.

Before she went there, she kept imagining that Jack would introduce her to everyone present and then announce that she was his girlfriend.

However, reality sometimes had a sick sense of humor.

Celine sneered and suppressed her displeasure. She smiled as she turned to Jack and said in a sweet voice, "Jack, I saw Mr. Lin over there. Do you want to go over to him and say hello?" There was no answer and no indication that her words were even heard.

But she refused to be ignored. So, she reached out her hand and touched the back of Jack's hand.

However, as soon as her fingertips touched the back of his hand, Jack quickly withdrew his hand as if he was touched by something extremely dirty and disgusting. A strong and undisguised look of disgust appeared on his face, while his eyes were still firmly locked on Rachel the whole time.

Rachel waited for a long time, but she never saw Bill come back. She looked around and found that he was engaged by someone and was chatting with him.

It seemed that their conversation would last for a while longer, Rachel thought.

She sent a text message to Bill right away. "I need to go. I will just take a cab."

Jack watched her every move. When he saw that she picked up her handbag and was about to leave, he stood up from his seat as well.

"What's wrong, Jack?"

'Finally! This annoying woman is about to leave!' Celine chuckled to herself.

"I need to do something," Jack said coldly without even looking at her.

"Are you leaving already? I'll go with you," Celine said as she stood up from her seat and hurried to follow him.

Jack paused and said in an expressionless voice, "There's something that I need to do. You can go home by taxi or ask Michael to take you home."

Jack then he left hurriedly without looking back.

Celine felt her body tremble in anger. She took a glass of champagne from a waiter's tray and drank everything in a single gulp.

Whatever tactic she used seemed to be useless. She then decided that she must think of a way to get rid of Rachel and make her disappear from Ninwell City.

Rachel never expected that there would be so many people who decided to leave the party early like her.

The long line of taxis near the entrance of the hotel was gone in the blink of an eye before she was able to get out of the front doors.

She stood in front to wait for the next cab. Unexpectedly, a black car stopped in front of her. The window at one side rolled down, and she saw Jack's face inside the car. "Get in the car!" "No, thanks,"

Rachel replied coldly as she stepped back.

Jack frowned, took a deep breath, and got out of the car. He grabbed Rachel's arm and pushed her into the car despite her struggles.

Rachel felt disgusted and immediately pushed Jack away. "Stop forcing me to do things against my will!"

"Don't tell me that Bill never forced you to do anything." Jack's words were filled with jealousy even though he tried his best to hide them.

The air inside the car was filled with the scent of women's perfume that disgusted Rachel. "It has nothing to do with Bill. If you keep up with this, I will scream!"

However, Jack ignored Rachel's threats and pushed her inside the car and then he got in. He told the driver to drive right away. He never noticed that Celine just got out of the hotel and stood at the entrance. She watched them with anger-filled eyes as the car drove away.

The evening was not very cold, but Celine could feel a bitter cold encase her heart in sheets of ice.

Her manicured nails sank deeply into her palms as she tightly balled her hands into fists. However, she never felt the pain at all nor did she notice it.

Beep! Beep!

The loud honking of a car's horn snapped Celine back to reality.

She turned towards the direction of the sound and saw Michael as he rolled down the window of his car. "Do you need a ride?" he asked Celine loudly as he pointed at the passenger seat of his car.

If Jack never asked him to give her a ride as a favor, there was no way that he would drive Celine back to her house.

Celine glanced at Michael, but ignored him. Her eyes quickly returned to the direction where Jack's car went as anger simmered inside her. She stood there as she thought that she came to the party in that car but it drove off without her. She felt so pathetic and ridiculous.

Michael quickly lost his patience when he saw her ignore him. "Are you getting in or not? I wouldn't think twice to leave you here!"

"Leave now. I don't care," Celine replied in an irritated sound of voice.

Her words completely annoyed Michael. "Suit yourself!" he sneered.

Michael ordered the driver to drive away. The car cleared the hotel's driveway as the image of Celine slowly faded from the rearview mirror. Michael took out his phone and sent a voice message to his friends' WeChat group. "Hey, buddies, the woman at the entrance doesn't like anyone's ride. Just pass her by and ignore her!"

Celine was a real pest in his eyes. She had been pestering Jack for the past three years.

She was being stubborn. She stood at the entrance as she sent several WeChat messages to Jack, but never received any reply.

Meanwhile, the atmosphere inside the car was a little cold.

The driver glanced at them from the rearview mirror and saw them sitting at each side of the car. They never said anything to each other.

The driver waited for them to tell him where to go, but they said nothing.

The car stopped at a red light and the driver made a bold move. "Mr. Fu, are you going home?" he asked.

"Yes!" Jack replied immediately in a low voice.

His phone suddenly vibrated. It was a reminder that told him that there were several WeChat messages that waited for him. But he was not in the mood to read any of them. So, he turned his phone off instead. "Please stop at the next intersection for me," Rachel said to the driver.

The driver was confused for a moment. He wasn't sure whether he should step on the gas or the brake pedal and the car slowly lost speed.

"Drive straight home quickly," Jack ordered in the same low voice.

Hearing this, the driver didn't dare delay. He immediately stepped on the gas and was soon at the front door of the villa.

Jack had been living alone in the house since Rachel left him and moved out.

He got out of the car and walked around to the other side. He then opened the door and pulled Rachel out of the car. He dragged her into the house and then slammed the door shut.

Rachel shook his hand off and tried to open the door, but he picked her up, brought her upstairs and into the bedroom. He then threw her on the bed.

Getting thrown on the bed didn't hurt, but it made her feel afraid.

Rachel struggled to sit up. "Get out of my way, Jack," she said in an uneasy tone of voice.

"Stay here tonight," Jack declared.

He just wanted to see her once more.

"No," Rachel refused flatly. When she noticed that he no longer blocked her way, she got out of bed immediately and ran out of the bedroom. As soon as she got out of the room, her phone rang. It was a call from Bill.

She thought that she could ask him to pick her up.

With this idea in mind, Rachel hurriedly pressed the answer key on her phone. "Where are you now, Bill?"

Her phone was suddenly snatched away by Jack. She doubted that she was even heard by Bill.

Before she could react, Jack quickly walked to the window and threw her phone out.

"What do you think you're doing?!" Rachel asked as she stared at him in disbelief. She wanted to go outside right away to find her phone. It wasn't a matter of her phone getting damaged, but she had too many documents and contact information that were saved on her phone. It would make her life too complicated if she lost all of that information.

Unfortunately, Jack interpreted the anxiety on her face as something that came from missing the call from Bill.

And this made him angry. He carried Rachel on his shoulder as she struggled to get free. He then threw her on the bed and pressed her down.

A few moments later, the bedroom was filled with nothing but love. It was during that moment when Jack was inside Rachel that he felt like he owned her once again. But when he saw her tearful eyes, he suddenly felt remorseful.

He caressed her cheek lovingly and kept apologizing to her over and over again. "Rachel, I'm sorry. I... I just couldn't control myself."

Rachel wiped her tears with the back of her hand, and pretended like she didn't care. "Stop talking nonsense." She felt confused for in her heart she felt both sad and satisfied.

She silently realized that she had never truly forgotten Jack. She had never truly gotten over him.

The two had been divorced for three years and yet they were lying on the same bed like they were lovers once more. Rachel stared at the ceiling with wide open eyes the entire evening. She listened to the increasingly heavy breathing beside her. She felt confused. Her mind was fragmented.

When the sky finally started to brighten, she gently took away his hand from her naked belly. She silently put on her clothes as she stood on tiptoe. She then exited the house that she never thought that she'd ever see again.

Her phone waited quietly on the moist lawn. It was covered in dew. She picked it up and silently placed it back into her bag with no thought to using it.

When Jack woke up, his eyes immediately scanned the empty room. He subconsciously dialed Rachel's phone number but received a notification that her phone was powered off.

He suddenly remembered that he threw her phone out of the window the evening before.

When Rachel made it back to her place, she saw Bill standing by the entrance of the building. His eyes were bloodshot and he looked like he didn't get much sleep. "Why are you here?" Rachel asked right

away.

Bill was startled to hear her voice. He didn't notice her approach. His eyes suddenly grew wide with surprise. He walked towards her to meet her halfway. "You didn't exactly speak when you answered my call last night. I was worried about you. Well, it's good to see that you're okay and back now." "Did you wait for me here all night?" Rachel was surprised and she was moved. She felt lucky that someone was that much concerned about her.

Bill scratched his hair and smiled like a kid. "Well, I took a nap in the car. Then I saw an old lady coming downstairs to play Tai Chi in the park. I was planning to ask her if she knew you and which building you lived in."

He grabbed Rachel's arm as soon as he finished speaking.

"So, what's up?" Rachel asked. She was startled by his sudden movement.

"Well, you just got back. Meaning you didn't come home last night. So, where did you go?" Bill asked with a frown.

'How would I explain everything to him?' Rachel wondered to herself.

After a brief silence, she decided to just make up an excuse. "There was an emergency at the hospital last night. I was called back to assist. My phone slipped and fell to the floor accidentally. And so now it is broken. That's why I wasn't able to call you back."

Author's note

Goose BBSS

Translator: Scarlett5555