Rachel squatted down to help him take off his coat, and Jack almost lost control of himself.
But she found it hard for her to take off his coat. "Your coat won't come off!" she complained as she shifted her weight off her injured foot.
Even though Jack was in a state of half-asleep because of the effects of the wine that he had, her voice still reached his ears. It sounded to him like the soft voice of an angel.
The scent of Rachel almost overpowered what was left of Jack's self-control that hadn't been numbed by the alcohol yet. It took his entire strength of will in order to control himself, and this was made even more difficult because he had never had a sex life for many years.
When she was finally able to take off his coat, the scent of her body faded, and Jack felt relieved as if he had finally reached the end of a great battle.
He took a deep breath and immediately felt drowsy. A short while later, he fell asleep where he was.
Rachel took his coat and brought it to the basket out on the balcony.
His coat reeked with the smell of alcohol. Fortunately, there was no trace of any vomit; otherwise she'd have to definitely throw him out of bed.
But she remembered the story that Michael told her before. Jack had a bad case of sleepwalking whenever he got drunk so she decided to let him stay with her.
But she was not so stupid to sleep in the same bed with him. The last time she did, he pressed his body against hers.
She took out some extra quilts from the closet to make a comfortable makeshift bed on the bedroom floor.
If Michael found out that there was a woman who preferred to sleep on the floor than sleep with Jack in the same bed, he would laugh his head off.
Jack woke up early in the morning because of severe thirst. When he was about to get out of bed, he saw that Rachel slept on the floor. It stunned him rig
t able to understand immediately what was going on. She heard Lea shout out a curse at someone. Three more slapping sounds cracked out loudly from somewhere near her.
Everything happened so fast. First, someone poured a glass of iced water over Rachel's head and gave her a slap. Then Lea reacted quickly and gave that person three slaps instead.
The other customers in the coffee shop was stunned. They all stared at the three figures with incredulous eyes, not knowing what was happening.
Even Rachel was badly startled at the turn of events. Everything happened in the span of a few seconds. When she recovered from her initial shock, she saw a woman that Lea had slapped three times burst into tears in front of them.
And Rachel recognized the woman despite her disheveled look. It was none other than Celine.
The pain in her face felt clearer as she raised a hand to nurse her cheeks. She stared at Celine with a look of mixed emotions.
Everyone in the coffee shop stopped whatever it was that they were doing and watched the spectacle before them. The waiters looked at each other in wonder. They had no idea what was going on and none of them dared to step forward to mediate.
The scene of the three women fighting made it look like it was a lesbian love triangle to some of the bystanders who watched them.
And the two of them were very beautiful and this helped attract more people's attention to the drama that unfolded in the coffee shop.
Rachel was slapped by Celine out of the blue, and yet the one crying was Celine.
'What a bitch!' Rachel thought to herself. She took a piece of tissue and wiped her soaked face and hair. Lea stood in front of Rachel and kept her out of reach of Celine. She crossed her arms across her chest as her lips curled into a sneer and an eyebrow went up in ridicule. "Why are you crying? You started all this."