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.

in the north-side neighborhood known for expensive

apartment on the top floor.

far as she knew, Jack had been

coming to this apartment

to the door and opened it. After

didn't find any slippers suitable for Rachel in the shoe cabinet of the hallway, so he had to take a pair of his own. He put them on the floor,

But these slippers were several sizes too big, and looked funny to her, as if

to stop.

from laughing, and

lowered her eyes and looked at her feet. She said, "Okay, then...

arms around his neck. Surprised by the warmth of his body, she asked, "Why is your body so

He walked to the sofa quickly and put her down. He

body too warm? He didn't

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 clean

kettle on the table

having been lived in. It was completely

work to finish. I'll arrange to have dinner delivered

a hurry to leave. She looked

said, "I'm not in a hurry, but are you sure this isn't inconvenient for

answer was a bit tentative. He felt

was anything unusual

"Do you

Jack said, "I suppose... I

looked around the room, they found the medicine cabinet. They opened the

thermometer was still

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

care of all that. I

of what to say to that, and sighed. She took out the thermometer, washed it with

didn't take it right away. He suddenly had a

was trying to hide

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

his face, Jack raised the thermometer to his

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

He took the thing out of his mouth and replied, "But there's

around and said, "Don't say

and stayed quiet. Rachel walked around the kitchen and sighed, "Sure

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

Austin with his cell phone

was very prompt. He rang the bell in

thermometer and found that Jack already had a fever. She was surprised that he couldn't feel

innocently. He