Chapter 458
Misunderstandings Between Us
But Jack insisted, "No, how will I know about your condition if I don''te in?"
The corners of Rachel''s mouth twitched. She pointed her fingers to the piece of paper that was
stuck on the wall. "Can''t you see? This clearly says men aren''t allowed to enter!"
"Okay then," he said and let out a defeated sigh. But before he went to sit down, he looked at
Rachel and pleaded, "If anything happens, call me immediately, okay?"
Without giving him an answer, she shut the door.
She shook her head in annoyance once she was in.
Sitting alone in the chair, Jack checked the time on his watch from time to time. His eyes were glued
to the door. Seeing it was still tightly closed, his began to panic. ''It has been twenty minutes since
she went in. Why hasn''t shee out yet?'' he wondered. Thinking something horrible had
happened, he started pacing back and forth.
The man who sat beside him happily went to his wife. Embracing her, he said, "How did it get over
so fast? It only took you five minutes!" Listening to their conversation, Jack''s worry intensified. ''How
come it took her only five minutes? Why has Rachel been inside for twenty minutes?''
The more Jack thought about it, the more anxious he became. He couldn''t wait any longer. Walking
towards the consulting room, he was about to twist the doorknob. On seeing this, a nurse quickly
rushed towards him. "Sir, you have to sit aside and wait. The pregnant woman is in the examination
room. You can''t go in."
"I know. That woman inside is my wife. She has been in there for a long time and hasn''te out
yet. Can you let me in so that I can see what is happening?" Jack was going crazy with worry.
Seeing the depth of his concern, the nurse calmly exined, "The examination time will be different
for different patients. Some people need to be examined for more than half an hour. Please sit down
and wait. If something is wrong, the doctor will inform you."
"But—" Just when Jack was getting ready to protest, the door of the outpatient room opened.
Rachel and the doctor came out. They looked at Jack in confusion.
Rachel was the first to react. "Why are you standing here?" she demanded.
"Nothing," he said, looking like a deer caught in the headlights. But soon, he recovered from the
awkwardness and stepped forward. Grabbing her hands, he asked worriedly, "How did it go? Is
everything okay?"
"Everything is fine," Rachel said while withdrawing her hands. She felt embarrassed.
The doctor next to him was used to seeing such scenes. He chuckled, looked at Jack and said, "It
has been seven months. Finally, you are here with your wife. I am guessing I won''t have to make
another copy of the examination report today, right?"
Lost in his concern for Rachel, hepletely forgot about this. He was too embarrassed to say
anything so he simply shook his head.
Hearing this, Rachel was puzzled. She looked up at him in confusion and asked, "What examination
report are you talking about? What copy?"
Jack held her waist and said softly, "Let''s go home first. We''ll talk about itter."
On their way, Rachel kept on asking what the doctor was talking about. But Jack replied her with
silence. When they finally entered the house, she frowned and said, "Now that we''re home, don''t
keep me in suspense. Can you just tell me what happened?"
Jack motioned for her to sit down on the sofa and said, "Wait a minute." Then he went to the second
floor. When he came down, he was holding a square iron box in his hand. He passed it to Rachel.
Taking the box, she began to examine to contents inside. Her eyes were full of surprise, and her
heart began to thud against her chest. It contained the results of her every antenatal examination
and the B Ultrasound tests. The sheets were neatly ced. With her trembling lips, she asked,
"What''s going on?"
"Every time you went to the hospital for the prenatal checkups, I followed you there. Knowing you
wouldn''t like it, I didn''t show up in front of you. But after you left, I asked the doctor to pass me a
copy of your results." As he spoke, there was a bitter smile on his lips. He hated going behind her
back like a thief and doing it.
When she heard this, her expression softened. She had been oblivious to everything that
happened.
All this time, she had thought Jack didn''t care about her. But it turned out he was observing her
every move. He loved the baby in her belly as much as she did.
All of a sudden, Rachel felt warmth for him in her heart. She looked down at her tightly twisted
hands and said, "But during those days you were with Scarlett..." Unable to finish the sentence, she
trailed off.
Jack, noticing the difort, exined, "Rachel, nothing happened between me and her. I was
with her just to make you jealous."
"Make me jealous?" Rachel asked, unable to understand what he meant.
Ashamed, Jack nodded his head. He once again went upstairs and fetched a document. Spreading
it before her, he went on, "This is the agreement I signed with Scarlett. All I did was use her to make
you jealous. You were ignoring me and I wanted to do something that would catch your attention."
Jack had never thought he would reveal this to Rachel.
Looking at the signature on the document, Rachel realized this wasn''t a joke. He had indeed gone
through the trouble of ying this ludicrous drama to gain her attention. Chuckling, she said, "Jack,
how can you be so childish?"
"Yes, I am indeed childish," he admitted.
Suddenly, his face turned serious. "The worst part is I lost youpletely due to my childish
behavior."
He looked at her with his deep and passionate eyes, and Rachel felt heat pass through her body.
Jack smiled bitterly and continued, "When I had a car ident andy in the hospital, I was waiting
for you toe and see me. But nothing of that sort happened. You didn''t bother toe. Later,
when I managed to stand up, the first thing I did wase to see you. I got the shock of my life
when I saw you and Jimmy sitting in the dining room, talking andughing. I was so angry that I lost
my mind and made things worse. Rachel, will you forgive me now?"
When he waited for her answer, he was so nervous that he even forgot to breathe.
Jack felt like someone was suffocating him. But he didn''t care. He would rather die than hear a
negative answer from her. Looking down, he saw her frowning. It seemed like she was deep in
thoughts.
Jack asked, "Rachel, will you please say something?"
It took Rachel a while toe back to her senses. Tilting her head, she asked, "I came to the
hospital after you had a car ident. How can you say I didn''t care?"
"You had been there?" Jack asked as his eyes brightened with joy. But then he frowned because he
had no recollection of it. "Perhaps they forgot to tell me," he said.
He guessed that Scarlett and Tracy had deliberately hidden the truth from him.
Rachel could also guess what had happened. But since it was all over, she knew there was no point
in clearing things.
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She nodded and said, "When I came to visit, you were sleeping. That''s why you didn''t know."
"Okay." With a sigh, Jack reached out and gently hugged her. "I didn''t know my silliness would
create so many misunderstandings between us. If I had known about it, I swear I would have done
everything I could in order to avoid it."
Rachel never thought life would put her in such a situation.
Their happy rtionship had beplicated in a blink of an eye.
But now, she couldn''t help but wonder if theirck ofmunication had caused this. ''If we both
had a healthy face-to-face conversation, could this have been avoided?''
After a moment of silence, Jack said in a gentle voice, "Rachel, let''s start over, shall we?"
This was a question he had been dying to ask. "I don''t know," she murmured.
Indeed, she had no idea what to do about this.
Even though she was moved by this revtion, she couldn''t give him an affirmative answer. There
were so many doubts in her mind.
If the two of them didn''t bring serious change, the same ending would be waiting for them. She
couldn''t go through it again.
Rachel gently pushed him away and said, "Jack, let''s talk about it some other time."
"Okay." Jack nodded, thinking that at least she hadn''t refused him. This meant he still stood a
chance. After the sincere conversation between them, the rtionship between Jack and Rachel
seemed to have changed.
He still cared about her a great deal and wasn''t afraid of showing it. Rachel, who used to refuse his
help earlier, resisted less and less. Gradually, she was embracing the love he was pouring on her.
On fine day, Rachel nned to have azy day at home. She decided to spend all her time
watching TV, reading books and sleeping. But as soon as she got out of bed, she received a call
from Lea who seemed to be in a horrible mood. "Rachel,e shopping with me. I''m bored to
death staying at home alone."
"How could you be alone? Where is Rita?" While answering the phone, Rachel stretched out her
hand to get the soy sauce from the kitchen cupboard.
But another hand gently grabbed hers. Jack was always by her side, ready to help her. Seeing this,
Rachel pointed to the table in the hall andmanded him silently.
Lea sighed and said, "My father took her away."
"Then why don''t you join them? It will be fun." Seeing that Jack was pouring a lot of soy sauce into
the te, Rachel made a gesture asking him to stop. But he didn''t understand what she was trying
to say so he continued to add more. She couldn''t but shout, "Jack, I just want to eat dumplings. You
have poured so much soy sauce. Are you nning to murder me?"
On the other end of the phone, Lea heard her words. Anxiously, she asked, "Rachel, what''s going
on? I''ll pick you up right now. You have toe with me and exin the truth."
Hearing what Lea had said, Rachel let out a frustrated sigh. Perhaps she wasn''t destined to have a
peaceful day.
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