My Darling, My Dearest

Chapter 413 Let The News Be Published On Purpose

From that day on, Jack and Rachel didn't say a word to each other even though they were living under the same roof.

Every morning, Jack was already out the door when Rachel went downstairs. In the evening, he was never home by the time she retired for the night.

How could she know anything about the banquet last night?

However, in the eyes of outsiders, she and Jack were still a couple.

Rachel knew that they also talked about Jack being a playboy, usually in relation with herself.

She looked down at her belly. 'It's only for the next five months, ' she told herself. Afterwards, she would have nothing to do with him anymore. She didn't have to bear the fingers pointed her way during that time.

It would be better to come up with a plausible explanation to block the nasty gossip.

After a long moment of silence, Rachel folded up the newspaper and returned it to Celia. "These reporters like to throw around groundless accusations, or else no one will actually read these newspapers. When you go back, if someone asks you again, you can explain this to them. Thank you."

Celia was the most suitable person for this. She nodded and said solemnly, "Okay, Rachel, don't worry."

After seeing Celia off, Rachel picked up her teacup and took a sip. Her phone on the table rang, and she heard Jonathan's deep voice from the other end. "Rachel, where were you last night?"

It was obvious that the man was dying to ask about the newspaper article, but in a roundabout way. Rachel smiled faintly and said directly, "Do you want to ask about the news regarding Jack?"

"Yes." Jonathan paused when the issue was directly addressed by Rachel herself. "Don't be angry —I'll deal with that brat myself. He knows full well that something like this would bring shame to the Fu family."

Rachel adjusted her sitting position. "I'm not angry. I asked that girl to attend the party with Jack last night."

Rachel repeated to Jonathan what she had said earlier to Celia and finally managed to comfort him. After hanging up the phone, she suddenly felt exhaustion drop in her heart.

Meanwhile, Austin pushed the door open from the outside, glanced at the pile of documents on the table, and asked, "Mr. Fu, have these documents been dealt with?"

Jack put down his phone and rubbed the furrow between his eyebrows. "Not yet. I'll deal with them tomorrow."

"I understand." Austin nodded, but inside, he was really confused. Jack usually took no more than half an hour to deal with documents of this sort.

However, things didn't work out that way today. The documents were placed on Jack's desk as soon as Austin came in that morning. The day was almost over, but Jack had yet to look at any of them.

This departure from habit irked Austin's curiosity. "Mr. Fu, are you okay? Do you feel unwell?"

"I'm fine, Austin." Jack leaned back, crossed his hands in front of him, and closed his eyes slightly.

Jack evidently did not intend to say anything more, so Austin nodded slightly and turned around to leave. Suddenly, Jack's voice came from behind him. "Austin, if you saw your girlfriend with another

man, would you call her out on it? Ask her?"

After a moment of stunned silence, Austin carefully answered, "No, I wouldn't."

Jack suddenly opened his eyes and said shrewdly, "Tell me the truth!"

Hearing this, Austin blurted out the truth. "Yes, I would. If I saw her with another man, I would definitely call to ask what was going on; otherwise, I probably would go crazy wondering."

He noticed that Jack's face suddenly darkened at his words. A hand flew to his mouth in embarrassment, and he added hastily, "Mr. Fu, maybe Rachel was just busy. She probably hasn't seen the news, so she didn't..." Austin's voice faded off as he saw Jack's frown deepen.

"All right." Jack tried to straighten out that frown by pressing between his eyebrows. His face was a picture of gloom.

Last night, he specifically took Scarlett to attend the party and deliberately let the reporters take pictures of the two of them and publish them in the newspapers. He wanted to rile up Rachel to see if she was as cold and indifferent to his affairs as she seemed.

He spent all day doing nothing, just holding his cell phone and waiting for her call. The entire day had passed, but his phone didn't move.

With a subtle change of expression in his eyes, Austin wondered if he had said something he shouldn't have. He was still busy with his work, so he left the office quietly without waiting for Jack's answer.

Looking at the closed office door, Austin breathed a sigh of relief. Jack frowned, and a myriad of thoughts crowded his mind. He dialed Rachel's number multiple times, but he immediately dropped the call before it even rang. Finally, he locked the phone again and threw it aside. Suddenly, he received a message from her. "I have something to tell you. Come home early."

That short message brought a sudden warmth to his heart. He chuckled, a trace of smile in the corners of his eyes banishing the frown on his eyebrows.

Now that Rachel was in the administrative department of the hospital, the work schedule was much more stable. As soon as the clock struck the day's end, she turned off the computer and got off work. When she arrived home, she didn't expect Jack to be already there, sitting on the sofa waiting for her. She looked up and said lightly, "I didn't expect you to come back so early."

"I happen to have nothing to do in the company today." Jack walked up to her and tried to take the bag from her, but Rachel brushed his hand away. "I can do it myself. I don't need your help, " she said.

Jack then patted the space on the sofa beside him twice and grinned, "Then sit here."

"No, thanks."

Sitting in the armchair across him, Rachel placed her bag on the tea table and said expressionlessly, "Jack, I just want to ask you: can I leave now?"

Jack frowned and asked, "Where are you going?"

She looked up at him with a hint of coldness in her eyes. "Since you already have a new girlfriend now, it's time for me to retreat without disturbing you."

'She is really jealous!' he thought.

Jack shifted, a sense of complacency reigning in his heart. "Are you jealous?"

Rachel turned to look at him and said coldly, "Should I be jealous? Our relationship has been finished a long time ago. The only reason why I'm staying here is because you are keeping me hostage using my own child."

In a weary voice, she continued, "You have a new girlfriend now, and yet you're still forcing me to stay with you. Do you think this is amusing?"

Jack's expression changed slightly, and anger burned in his eyes at the thought of Rachel wanting to leave him.

He smiled coldly. "Yes, I find all of this amusing.

Rachel turned her eyes away, as if trying to avoid looking at him. Instead, she looked at the carpet beneath her feet and said, "In that case, I'll stay only until the baby is born. Before that happens, I don't give a damn about who you date. All that I ask is for you to make a statement that we have already separated beforehand so that I don't have to explain anything when people ask me."

'Make a statement?

How could she be so eager to get rid of me?' Jack narrowed his eyes, his dark eyes seemingly bottomless and unfathomable. "Well, aren't we still together?"

With a faint smile on her face, Rachel said sarcastically, "Okay, if that's what you like..."

Rachel didn't expect him to agree with her request, but she still had to make everything clear to him. Now that his unwilling expression became evident, she didn't want to say anything to him anymore. She stood up and went upstairs to her bedroom on the second floor.

Following close behind, Jack wanted to say something but ultimately said nothing. He watched her close the door without a glance behind her.

He was hoping that Rachel wouldn't pursue that particular topic. He was afraid that he wouldn't be able to restrain himself from saying something unpleasant, which would shake up their tenuous relationship again. But then, he wanted to know what was on her mind. She seemed hell-bent to prove to him that she had no lingering feelings for him.

Well, at least she still felt uncomfortable and tried to question him when she saw him with another girl. That had to count as a small success, right?

These contradictions made him feel annoyed and upset.

On her end, Scarlett was lounging on a sofa during a gathering of her clique of young ladies when she heard the news. She thoroughly enjoyed the attention and the curiosity in their eyes.

She cleared her throat and said, "Don't hold back. Just ask me what you want to know,"

she said in a condescending manner.

The young women also heard the news, and they couldn't contain their curiosity. One of them asked first, "Scarlett, what method did you use? How did you manage to hook up with Jack Fu?"

Scarlett knocked on the glass table with a spoon. "What are you talking about? I'm not hooking up with him, I'm dating him. He's my boyfriend."

Their faces showed varying degrees of disbelief. The woman said, "If that were true, then could you call him and ask him to join us? Let us check him out for you."

"He is too busy." Scarlett's demeanor changed slightly, and her attitude suddenly became evasive. However, these minute changes were not lost on her companions, so one of them asked coquettishly, "You are his girlfriend. He will come once you call him."

Author's note

Goose BBSS

Translator: Scarlett5555Content © copyrighted by NôvelDrama.Org.