Stuck in you

"No, I like it," Rachel said.

A smile was at the corner of his mouth as Jack drove away. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw that she was smiling, too.

He couldn't help but ask, "What's making you so happy right now?"

Rachel typed a message and sent it to Lea quickly. When the screen showed that the message was successfully sent, she turned to Jack and said to him joyfully, "Mendes' father is coming back."

'Hmm, why would she be so happy about someone else's father coming back?' he wondered.

"Well, he has been away for so long. His return is long overdue," he said.

"Yes," Rachel said. "I hope the kid's parents can take responsibility for him this time. Don't leave him alone here."

Noticing that her mood had suddenly darkened, Jack tried to comfort her.

He said, "Maybe his parents have to do something and can't go back home."

Jack didn't know much about the complicated matter of Mendes' family, so she bit her tongue and replied simply, "Anyway, it's wrong to abandon a child."

Her parents died when she was a child. Her lonely childhood was one of the reasons why she was so eager to have a family of her own. She couldn't even understand how someone could just ignore his own child and stay away for such a long time.

After all, who could be more important to anyone than one's own family and child?

Before a man gets married and becomes a father, he doesn't behave as affectionately and gently as a woman does.

In Jack's view, either the man was simply unable to come back to his child, or he didn't want the child.

The latter possibility was the most likely one.

"If I had a child, I would never abandon him," he whispered.

Jack believed that that was a man's most basic responsibility. If you can't even take care of your own flesh and blood, what else can you be responsible for?

After saying that, he glanced at the woman beside him, who had suddenly turned to him and was staring at him. With his eyes looking straight ahead, he raised his eyebrows slightly and asked, "What's wrong?"

With an unreadable look on her face, she lowered her head and fiddled with her fingers. "Nothing."

After they had been driving for a while, Rachel noticed that they were not on the way to go to her place.

Ten minutes had passed, and the road outside Rachel's window was unfamiliar. She looked out of the window and asked, "Where are we going?"

"To my place,"

Jack answered.

Rachel still didn't know where Jack lived. She could see the road sign which indicated that he was heading towards the north side of the city and towards the seaside.

later, they arrived uptown, in the north-side

elevator behind him. Jack lived in a single apartment on the top floor. She felt a little embarrassed before

knew, Jack had been living

to this apartment felt

the door and opened it. After a moment of

hallway, so he had to take a pair of his own. He put them on the floor, rubbed his nose, and said to Rachel, "I don't have female slippers. If you don't mind, you

put them on. But these slippers were several sizes too big, and looked funny to her, as if children

take a few steps, but finally she had to stop. She looked at

and said, "The floor is

her eyes and looked at her feet. She said,

her up again. Without thinking, Rachel put her arms around his neck. Surprised by the warmth

the sofa quickly

his body too warm? He

around and pressed the light switch in the living room. Rachel finally saw the decoration of his apartment clearly, including the marbled floor

house was clean and very well designed, without any

table was empty of

was perfectly clean and had no signs of having been lived in. It was completely unlike

have dinner delivered here. Can I drive you back later?" he

hurry to

looked back at him and said, "I'm not in a

bit tentative. He felt rather tired, but he

didn't think there was

"Do you have thermometer

Jack said, "I

cabinet. They

the thermometer was still

the medicine cabinet in the storage room. How do you usually sort your

"The cleaner takes care of all that. I spend most of my time in the company and I seldom stay

with water and gave it to him. She said,

He suddenly had a deep and

seemed that he was

with him. She raised the thing in her hand and urged,

face, Jack raised the thermometer to his

around, rolled up her sleeves and said, "May I use the kitchen? We

the thing out of his mouth and replied, "But there's no food

turned around and said, "Don't

kitchen and sighed,

not to speak, he made a gesture to her, but Rachel

Austin with his cell phone

very prompt. He rang the

had a fever. She was surprised that he couldn't

her innocently. He really didn't feel his