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.

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

apartment on

she knew, Jack

to this apartment felt wrong to

opened it. After a moment of hesitation, Rachel finally

to take a pair of his own. He put them on

slippers were

to take a few steps, but finally she had to

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

and looked at her feet. She said, "Okay, then...

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

walked to the sofa quickly

warm?

turned around and pressed the light switch in the living room. Rachel finally saw the decoration of his apartment clearly, including the marbled

was

on the table was empty of

had no signs of having

to finish. I'll arrange to have dinner delivered here. Can I drive you back

in a hurry to leave. She looked around the

not in a hurry,

it's not..." His answer was a bit tentative. He felt rather tired, but he didn't care

think there was anything unusual about

asked, "Do you have

short pause, Jack said,

the medicine cabinet. They opened the

thermometer was still

the cabinet and said, "You can put the medicine cabinet in the storage room. How do

cleaner takes care of all that. I spend most of my time in

it with water and gave

it right away. He suddenly had a deep and

seemed that he was trying to hide

him. She raised the thing in her

face, Jack raised the thermometer

and said, "May I

of his mouth and replied,

and said, "Don't say

put it back in his mouth and stayed quiet. Rachel walked around the kitchen

he made a gesture to her, but

a message to Austin with his

rang the bell

the thermometer and found that Jack already had a fever. She was surprised that he

innocently. He really didn't feel his