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 neighborhood known for expensive

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

she knew, Jack

coming to this apartment felt wrong

and opened it. After a moment

the shoe cabinet of the hallway, so he had to take a pair of his own. He put them on the floor, rubbed his

slippers were several sizes too big, and looked

finally she had to stop. She looked at Jack helplessly. "I can walk barefoot,"

and

looked at her feet.

again. Without thinking, Rachel put her arms around his neck. Surprised by the warmth of his body, she asked, "Why is

He walked to the sofa

body too warm?

living room. Rachel finally saw the decoration of his apartment clearly,

the half-open kitchen. The whole house was clean and very well designed, without any

on the table

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

have dinner delivered here. Can I

not in a hurry to leave. She looked around

in a hurry, but are you sure this isn't

tentative. He felt

was

you have thermometer

Jack said, "I suppose...

found the medicine cabinet. They

thermometer

of the cabinet and said, "You can put the medicine cabinet in the storage room. How do you usually

innocent. "The cleaner takes care of all that. I spend

the thermometer, washed it with water and gave it to him. She said, "Put in your mouth and press it under your

it right away. He suddenly had a deep and

that he was trying to hide

eye contact with him. She raised the thing in her hand and urged, "Please do

a smile on his face, Jack raised the thermometer to

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

took the thing out of his mouth

around and

Rachel walked around the kitchen and sighed, "Sure enough, there

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

to Austin with his cell phone

rang the bell

that Jack already had a fever. She

He