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

in a single apartment on the top floor.

far as she knew, Jack had

to this apartment felt wrong

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

so he had to take a pair of his own. He put them on the floor, rubbed his nose,

But these slippers were

she had to stop.

from laughing, and said,

lowered her eyes and looked at her feet.

neck. Surprised

didn't feel anything unusual. He walked to the sofa quickly and

too warm? He didn't

room. Rachel finally saw the decoration of his apartment clearly, including the marbled floor

kitchen. The whole house was

table

of having been lived in. It

I'll arrange to have dinner delivered here. Can I

a hurry to leave.

not in

not..." His answer was a bit tentative. He felt rather tired, but

think there was anything unusual about

asked, "Do you have thermometer

pause, Jack said, "I suppose...

medicine cabinet.

the thermometer was still

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

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

with water and gave it

suddenly had a deep

he was trying to

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

on his face, Jack raised the

said, "May I use the

thing out of his mouth and replied, "But

around and said,

quiet. Rachel walked around the kitchen

he made a gesture to

Austin with his cell phone and

He rang the

Jack already had a fever. She was

innocently. He really didn't feel his