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.

in the north-side neighborhood known for expensive

the elevator behind him. Jack lived in a single apartment on the top floor. She felt a little embarrassed before

as she knew, Jack had been

to this apartment felt wrong

After a moment of hesitation, Rachel finally followed him

in the shoe cabinet of the hallway, so he had to take a pair of his own. He put them on

put them on. But these slippers were several sizes too

a few steps, but finally she had to stop. She looked at Jack

laughing, and said, "The floor is

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

Jack lifted her up again. Without thinking, Rachel put her arms around his neck.

anything unusual. He walked to the sofa quickly and put her down. He asked,

too warm?

saw the decoration of his apartment clearly, including the

whole house was clean and very

kettle on the table was empty of

perfectly clean and had no signs of having been lived in. It was completely unlike her

to have dinner delivered here. Can

to leave. She looked around the

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

tentative. He felt rather tired,

was anything unusual

"Do you

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

the medicine cabinet. They opened the cabinet and

the thermometer was still

can put the medicine cabinet in the storage room.

a little innocent. "The cleaner takes care of all that. I

out the thermometer, washed it with water and gave it to him. She

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

seemed that he was trying to

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

face, Jack raised the thermometer to

"May

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

and said, "Don't say

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

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

a message to Austin with his cell phone and then

very prompt. He rang the bell

that Jack already had a fever. She was

He really