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.

arrived uptown, in the north-side neighborhood known

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

Jack had been living

coming to this apartment felt wrong

and opened it. After a moment of hesitation, Rachel finally followed him

pair of his own. He put

But these slippers were several

take a few steps, but finally she had to stop. She looked at Jack helplessly. "I can

himself from laughing, and said, "The floor

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

his neck. Surprised by the warmth of

He walked to the sofa quickly and put

body too warm? He

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

whole house was clean and very well designed, without any

kettle on the table was empty of

perfectly clean and had no signs of having been lived

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

to leave. She looked around the apartment

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

it's not..." His answer was a bit tentative. He felt rather

was anything unusual about

asked, "Do you have thermometer

short pause, Jack said, "I

they found the medicine cabinet.

thermometer was

cabinet and said, "You can put the

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

it with

it right away. He suddenly had

that he was trying to

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

face, Jack raised the thermometer to

around, rolled up her sleeves and said, "May I use

out of his mouth

turned around and said, "Don't

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

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

Austin with his cell phone and then showed it to

rang the bell in twenty

found that Jack already had a fever. She was

looked at her innocently. He really didn't feel