Stuck in you

Washing dishes was such a simple task that there was no reason for Jack to be wasting so much time on it. Curious to see what he was doing, Rachel stood up and walked toward the kitchen, taking light steps.

She stopped at the door and quietly looked inside. Jack was standing next to the sink, still scrubbing the dishes with detergent.

There were only a few dishes to be washed, but he was treating them as if they were antique treasures, scrubbing them carefully with his slender and beautiful fingers.

This tall man dressed in a shirt and a pair of suit pants was a striking contrast to the warm light of the kitchen.

However, there was something strangely peaceful and soothing about the look of concentration on his face as he washed the dishes. All of a sudden, an image of him wearing an apron popped into Rachel's mind.

She continued to linger at the door and watch Jack as he washed off the detergent, and then rinsed the dishes once more with water.

At this, she frowned. She had always known that he was meticulous, but at this moment, she couldn't help but find him fussy. Were her dishes that dirty? It was not as if they were in a fast food restaurant.

What was more, Jack didn't stop there. After he washed thedishes, he turned and fumbled around the kitchen until he found the automatic disinfection cabinet in the middle of the cupboard.

He squatted in front of it and thought for a while. Then, he reached out and tried pressing several buttons on the disinfection cabinet. After that, as if having made a decision, he nodded and placed the washed dishes inside.

Rachel was completely stunned at this scene.

Since she had grown up in Jack's house, her habits were also more or less prudent, like his.

And yet, it seemed that they had their differences. Having seen enough, Rachel tiptoed back to the living room and sat down on the sofa.

"I put the dishes into the disinfection cabinet and sterilized them," he announced as he left the kitchen and sat opposite her.

"Okay," Rachel said, pretending as if she didn't already know. After a while, she couldn't help but add, "I've already had my dishes regularly disinfected."

"So?"

Jack raised his eyebrows in confusion. "I disinfected the dishes just the day before yesterday.

After that, I was the only one who used them, so they wouldn't be..." '...dirty.'

She didn't say the last word, but Jack more or less grasped what was going on in her head.

"I didn't mean to be rude or insulting. It's just a habit of mine," Jack explained.

Even when he had dinner with Celine, he required his housemaid to disinfect the dishes every single time they were used, not just on a regular basis like Rachel did.

hygiene could be described as his personal preference, or even a

offense, and then prepared a cup of scented tea and pushed it in front of him. "I'm used to drinking

with it." Then, after a pause, he added, "I

true that they had always been at loggerheads, but at

tea to hide her uneasiness. "Um...you said you

mutual cooperation was still a little hard for Rachel to accept, but since Jack was being unusually polite to her, she was following

for her bedroom, which seemed to

with soft carpet. Light poured on the transparent glass tea table, which reflected a little

head to one

through with

up at him with surprise on

will be if you cooperate

between the two of them was diplomatic; both of them knew that they were walking a thin line as they had to maintain civility while trying

and took another sip of tea with a faint smile in her eyes.

had come up with had taken him the whole afternoon to consider. He didn't know why he had such cowardly thoughts in the first place. For the first time in his life, he needed to rely on a

embarrassed to even ask Rachel for her help. However, he could

father comes here, we should pretend to be a good couple in front of

didn't

up easily. Even though we've signed the divorce agreement, we still need to figure out whether it can be realized at this time next year. Besides, I want to solve this matter

agreement only confused Rachel even more. 'Why bother with the agreement when we've already signed it?' she wondered.

she said reluctantly, "Jack...you don't have to do that.

had already been in this marriage for about five years, so she didn't mind waiting one more year

fact, she couldn't understand why Jack was so concerned about the matter. It was only then

you in a hurry to marry Celine?" she

forehead. "How many times do I have to tell you? The divorce has nothing to

first time you've told me this,"

then he apologized in a softer tone, "I'm sorry, you're right. I told Michael several

give Rachel

that in the beginning, he had planned to

fact, he wanted to get a divorce because

would believe him. In their

failed to stop him from dating other women, he would feel trapped on

continued to be silent, Jack continued, "Anyway, the only thing we need to do is to get

she was stepping into a huge