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.

minutes later, they arrived uptown, in the north-side

a single apartment on the top

Jack had been living

this apartment felt wrong

walked to the door and opened it. After a moment of hesitation, Rachel finally followed him

of his own. He put them on the floor, rubbed his nose, and said to Rachel, "I don't have female slippers.

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

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

from laughing, and

looked at her feet.

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

anything unusual. He walked to the sofa quickly and put her down. He asked, "What's

his body too warm?

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

house was clean and very well

on the table

no signs of having been lived in. It was completely unlike

arrange to have dinner delivered here.

to leave.

at him and said, "I'm not in a hurry, but are you sure this isn't

tentative. He felt rather tired,

think there was anything unusual

"Do you have thermometer

a short pause, Jack said, "I suppose... I

they found the medicine cabinet.

thermometer was

can put the medicine cabinet in the storage room. How do you usually sort

all that. I spend most of my time in the

and sighed. She took out the thermometer, washed it with water and

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

seemed that he was

thing in her hand and

Jack raised the thermometer to his

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

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

around and said,

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

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

his cell phone and then

very prompt. He rang the bell in

Jack already had a fever. She

innocently. He