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.

uptown, in the north-side neighborhood known for expensive

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

Jack had been living

apartment felt

After a moment of hesitation,

of his own. He put

slippers were several sizes too big, and looked funny to her, as if children had stolen adult

to stop.

and said, "The floor

her eyes and looked at

neck. Surprised by

unusual. He walked to the sofa quickly and

too warm? He didn't

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

half-open kitchen. The whole house was clean

on the table was empty of

of having been lived in. It was

have some work to finish. I'll arrange to have dinner

in a hurry to leave. She looked around the

in a hurry, but are you sure this

tentative. He felt rather

was anything unusual about

"Do you have

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

looked around the room, they found the medicine cabinet.

the thermometer

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

cleaner takes care of all that. I spend most of my time in the company and I seldom

think of what to say to that, and sighed. She took out the thermometer, washed it with water and gave it to him. She said, "Put in your mouth and press it

it right away. He suddenly had a deep and heavy look

he was trying to

She raised the thing in her

on his face, Jack raised the thermometer to

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

took the thing out of his mouth and

turned around and

quiet. Rachel walked around the kitchen and sighed, "Sure

ordered not to speak, he made a gesture to

a message to Austin with his cell phone and then showed

He rang the bell

that Jack already had a fever. She was

innocently. He really