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

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

Jack had been living

apartment felt wrong

walked to the door and opened it. After a moment of hesitation,

his own. He put them on the floor,

were several

but finally she had to stop. She looked at Jack helplessly.

from laughing, and said, "The floor

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

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

the sofa quickly

body too warm?

in the living room. Rachel finally saw the

The whole house was clean and

table was

clean and had no signs of having been lived

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

was not in a hurry to

back at him and said, "I'm not in a

answer was a bit tentative. He felt rather tired, but he didn't care

was anything unusual about

"Do you have thermometer

pause, Jack said,

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

the thermometer was

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

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

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

didn't take it right away. He suddenly had a deep and heavy look in his

was trying to

her hand and

face, Jack raised the thermometer

sleeves and said, "May I use

course." He took the thing out of his mouth and replied, "But there's no food

turned around and

stayed quiet. Rachel walked around the kitchen and sighed, "Sure enough, there is nothing

he was ordered not to speak, he made a gesture

with his cell phone and then showed it

rang the

already had a fever. She was surprised that he couldn't feel

He