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

apartment on the top floor. She felt

as she knew, Jack had been living

this apartment felt wrong to

it. After a moment of hesitation,

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

matter." She took off her shoes and put them on. But these slippers were several

finally she had to stop.

and said, "The floor

her eyes and looked at her feet. She

neck. Surprised by the warmth of his body, she asked, "Why is

the sofa quickly and put her

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 and

kitchen. The whole house was

the table was empty of

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

have some work to finish. I'll arrange to have dinner delivered here. Can I drive you back later?" he

hurry to leave. She looked

in a hurry, but are you sure this

was a bit tentative. He felt rather tired, but

was anything

asked, "Do you have thermometer

Jack said,

around the room, they found the medicine cabinet. They opened the cabinet and found a set of medical

thermometer was still

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

takes care of all that. I spend

and sighed. She took out the thermometer, washed it with water and gave

had a

he was trying to hide

raised the thing in her hand and urged, "Please do it. You might

on his face, Jack raised the thermometer to

and said, "May I use the kitchen? We can make some

his mouth and replied, "But there's no food

around and

back in his mouth and stayed quiet. Rachel walked around the kitchen and

not to speak, he made a gesture to her, but Rachel didn't understand what he

message to Austin with his cell phone

very prompt. He rang the

that Jack already had a fever. She was surprised

her innocently. He really didn't feel