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

lived in a single apartment on the top floor. She

as she knew, Jack had been living with

this apartment felt wrong to

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

so he had to take a pair of his own. He put them

were several sizes too big, and looked funny to her, as if children had stolen adult

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

himself from laughing, and said, "The floor is

looked at her feet. She said,

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

anything unusual. He walked to the sofa quickly

his body too warm? He didn't feel

room. Rachel finally saw the decoration of his apartment clearly, including the marbled floor and the hanging lamp on the

was the half-open kitchen. The whole house was clean and very well designed,

kettle on the table was empty of

having been lived in. It was completely

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

to leave. She looked around the

"I'm not in

was a bit tentative. He felt rather tired, but he didn't care about

didn't think there was anything unusual about

asked, "Do you have thermometer

short pause, Jack said, "I

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

the thermometer

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

that. I

the thermometer, washed it with water

right away. He suddenly had

was trying to

raised the thing in her hand and urged, "Please do

a smile on his face, Jack raised

said, "May I use

out of his mouth and

turned around and said, "Don't say

kitchen and sighed, "Sure enough, there is nothing to eat. What will we

made a gesture to her, but Rachel didn't

with his

was very prompt. He rang the

already had

her innocently. He