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.

in the north-side neighborhood

him. Jack lived in a single apartment on the

she knew, Jack had been living with

coming to this apartment felt

to the door and opened it. After

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

took off her shoes and put them on. But these slippers were several sizes too big, and looked funny to her, as

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

stopped himself from laughing, and said, "The floor is

eyes and looked at her feet. She

arms around his neck. Surprised by the warmth

to the

his body too warm? He didn't

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

was clean and very well

on the table was

having been lived in. It was

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

in a hurry to leave.

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

He felt rather tired, but

think there was

you have

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

found the medicine cabinet. They opened the cabinet and found

the thermometer was

can put the medicine cabinet in the storage room.

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

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

away. He suddenly had a deep and

was

the thing in her hand and urged,

his face, Jack

sleeves and said, "May I use the

his

around and said, "Don't say

around the kitchen and sighed, "Sure enough,

a gesture to her, but Rachel didn't

a message to Austin with his cell phone and

was very prompt. He rang the bell in twenty

that Jack already had a fever. She was surprised

He really didn't feel