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.

arrived uptown, in the north-side neighborhood known

the elevator behind him. Jack lived in a single apartment on the top floor.

Jack had been

to this apartment felt wrong

and opened it. After a moment of hesitation, Rachel finally followed him

He put them on the floor,

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

to stop. She

himself from laughing, and said, "The floor is

looked at her feet. She

up again. Without thinking, Rachel put her arms around his neck. Surprised by the warmth of his

to the sofa quickly and put her

body too warm?

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

them was the half-open kitchen. The whole house was clean and very well designed, without

the table was empty

of having

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

was not in a hurry to leave. She looked

said, "I'm not in a hurry, but are you sure this isn't inconvenient for

bit tentative. He felt

didn't think there was anything unusual about

you

a short pause, Jack

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

thermometer

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

care of all that. I spend

the thermometer, washed it with water and gave it to him. She said, "Put in

right away. He suddenly had a deep and

seemed that he was

her hand and

a smile on his face, Jack raised the thermometer

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

his mouth and replied, "But there's

turned around and said, "Don't

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

to speak, he made a gesture to her, but Rachel

Austin with his cell phone and then showed

He rang

that Jack already had a fever. She was surprised that

innocently. He really didn't feel his high