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.

later, they arrived uptown, in the north-side neighborhood known for expensive

apartment on the top floor. She felt a little

she knew, Jack

apartment felt wrong to

to the door and opened it. After a

of his own. He put them on the floor, rubbed his nose, and said to Rachel,

put them on. But these slippers were several sizes too big, and looked

had to stop. She looked at

stopped himself from laughing, and said, "The

her eyes and looked at her feet. She said,

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

he didn't feel anything unusual. He walked to the sofa quickly and put her down. He

too warm? He

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

the half-open kitchen. The whole house was clean and

table

perfectly clean and had no signs of having been

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

not in a hurry to leave. She looked around the

in a hurry, but are

His answer was a bit tentative. He felt rather

think there was anything unusual

"Do you have thermometer

Jack said, "I suppose... I

the medicine cabinet. They opened the cabinet and found a set of medical

thermometer was still

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

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

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

it right away. He suddenly had a deep and

that he was trying

him. She raised the thing in her hand and urged, "Please

a smile on his face, Jack raised the

up her sleeves and said, "May

thing out of his mouth and replied,

turned around and said, "Don't

the kitchen and

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

with his cell phone and then showed

very prompt. He rang the bell

had a fever. She was surprised

innocently. He really didn't feel his high