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.

twenty minutes later, they arrived uptown, in the

in a single apartment

far as she knew, Jack had been living

this apartment felt wrong to

After a moment of hesitation, Rachel finally followed

take a pair of his own. He put them on the floor, rubbed his nose, and said to Rachel, "I don't

matter." She took off her shoes and put them on. But these slippers were several sizes too big, and looked funny to

she had to stop. She looked at Jack helplessly. "I can

from laughing, and said, "The

at her feet.

her up again. Without thinking, Rachel put her arms around his neck. Surprised by the warmth of his body, she asked, "Why

unusual. He walked to the

his body too warm?

the light switch in the living room. Rachel finally saw the decoration

half-open kitchen. The whole house was clean and

kettle on the table

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

dinner delivered here. Can I drive you back later?"

hurry to leave. She looked around the apartment

in

it's not..." His answer was a bit tentative. He felt

there was anything

asked, "Do you

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

around the room, they found the medicine cabinet.

the thermometer

the cabinet and said, "You can put the

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

She took out the thermometer, washed it with water and

suddenly had a deep and

that he was trying to

with him. She raised the thing in her

face, Jack raised the

sleeves and said, "May I use the kitchen? We can make some

of his

around and said, "Don't

kitchen and sighed, "Sure enough, there

speak, he made a gesture to her, but Rachel didn't understand what

Austin with his cell phone and then

He rang the bell

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

looked at her innocently. He