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.

they arrived uptown, in the north-side neighborhood known

a single apartment on the top floor. She felt a little embarrassed before

knew, Jack had

to this apartment felt

the door and opened it. After a moment

hallway, so he had to take a pair of his own. He put them on the floor, rubbed his nose, and said to

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

to stop. She looked at Jack helplessly. "I can

stopped himself from laughing, and said,

at her feet. She

her arms around his neck. Surprised by the warmth of his body, she asked, "Why is your body so

feel anything unusual. He walked to the

too warm? He

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

The whole house was clean and very well designed, without

kettle on the table

no signs of having

dinner

not in a hurry to

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

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

didn't think there was anything unusual about

you have

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

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

thermometer

took things out of the cabinet and said, "You can put the medicine cabinet in

care of all that. I spend most of my time in the

it with water and gave it to him.

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

that he was trying to hide

in her hand and urged, "Please do it. You

Jack

"May I use the kitchen? We

the thing out of his mouth and replied, "But

around and said,

mouth and stayed quiet. Rachel walked around the kitchen and sighed,

ordered not to speak, he made a gesture to her, but

sent a message to Austin with his cell phone and then showed

was very prompt. He rang the bell in twenty

and found that Jack already had a fever. She was

her innocently. He really didn't feel his