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 for

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

Jack had been living

this apartment felt wrong to

After a moment of hesitation, Rachel finally followed

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, rubbed his nose, and said to Rachel, "I don't have

shoes and put them on. But these slippers were several sizes too big, and looked

a few steps, but finally she had to

himself from laughing, and said, "The floor is

at her feet. She said, "Okay,

arms around his neck. Surprised

feel anything unusual. He walked to the sofa quickly and

his body too warm? He

the decoration of his apartment clearly, including the marbled floor and the hanging

was clean and very well designed, without any vulgar

kettle on the table was empty of

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

finish. I'll arrange to have dinner delivered here. Can I drive you back

a hurry to

said, "I'm not in a hurry, but are you sure

His answer was a bit tentative. He felt rather tired, but he

there was

"Do you

short pause, Jack said, "I

the medicine cabinet. They opened the cabinet and found a set of medical

thermometer

cabinet and said, "You can put the medicine

care of all that. I

washed it with water and gave it to him. She said, "Put in

take it right away. He suddenly had a

that he was trying

her hand and urged, "Please do it.

face, Jack raised the

said, "May I use the kitchen?

his mouth and

around and said, "Don't say

he put it back in his mouth and stayed quiet. Rachel walked around the kitchen and sighed, "Sure enough, there is nothing to eat. What will we have

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

sent a message to Austin with his cell phone

rang the bell in twenty

the thermometer and found that Jack already had a fever. She was

at her innocently. He really didn't feel his high