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 for

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

Jack had been living with

this apartment

After a moment

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

doesn't matter." She took off her shoes and put them on. But these slippers were several sizes too big, and looked

to stop. She looked at Jack

himself from laughing, and said,

her eyes and looked at her feet. She

his neck. Surprised by the warmth of his

to the sofa quickly

his body too warm? He

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

whole house was clean and very well designed,

table was empty of

room was perfectly clean and had no signs of having been lived in. It was

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

a hurry to leave.

she looked back at him and said, "I'm not in a hurry, but

tentative. He felt rather tired,

was anything unusual

you have

short pause, Jack said,

the medicine cabinet. They opened the cabinet

the thermometer

put the medicine

of all that. I spend most

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

right away. He suddenly had a deep and heavy look

he was trying

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

Jack raised the thermometer to his

sleeves and said, "May I use

took the thing out of his mouth and replied, "But there's

and said, "Don't

walked around the kitchen and sighed, "Sure enough, there is

to speak, he made a gesture to

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

very prompt. He rang the bell in twenty

thermometer and found that Jack already had a fever. She was surprised that he couldn't feel

looked at her innocently. He really didn't feel his high