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.

twenty minutes later, they arrived uptown, in the

in a single apartment on the top floor.

far as she knew, Jack had

coming to this apartment felt wrong to

the door and opened it. After a moment of hesitation, Rachel finally

pair of his own. He

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

had to stop.

laughing, and said, "The floor is

looked at

again. Without thinking, Rachel put her arms around his neck.

walked to the sofa

too warm? He

pressed the light switch in the living room. Rachel finally saw the decoration of his apartment

them was the half-open kitchen. The whole house was

table was empty of

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

to have dinner delivered here. Can I drive you back later?"

hurry to leave. She looked

in a hurry, but are

bit tentative. He

think there was anything unusual about

you have

a short pause, Jack

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

the thermometer

the medicine cabinet in the storage room. How do you

a little innocent. "The cleaner takes care of all that. I spend most of my time in the

it with water and gave it to

take it right away. He suddenly had a

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

up her sleeves and said, "May I use the kitchen? We can make some

took the thing out of his mouth and replied, "But there's no

turned around and said, "Don't say

and stayed quiet. Rachel walked around the kitchen and sighed, "Sure enough, there is nothing to eat. What

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

his cell phone and then showed

was very prompt. He rang the bell

Jack already had a fever. She was surprised that he couldn't

innocently. He really didn't feel his high