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 north-side neighborhood known for expensive

entered the elevator behind him. Jack lived in a single apartment on

as she knew, Jack had been living

to this apartment

After a moment of hesitation, Rachel

find any slippers suitable for Rachel in the shoe cabinet of the hallway, so he had to take a pair of his own. He put them on the floor, rubbed his nose, and said to Rachel, "I don't have female slippers. If you don't mind, you can use

them on. But these slippers were several sizes too big, and looked funny to her, as if children had

tried to take a few steps, but finally she had to

stopped himself from laughing, and said, "The floor is

her eyes and looked at her feet. She

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

didn't feel anything unusual. He walked to the

too warm? He didn't

light switch in the living room. Rachel finally saw the decoration of his apartment

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

table was

had no signs of having

arrange to have dinner delivered here. Can I drive

in a hurry to leave. She looked around

not in a hurry, but are you sure this isn't

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

there was

"Do you have

pause, Jack said, "I suppose...

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

the thermometer

can put the medicine cabinet in the

I spend most

say to that, and sighed. She took out the thermometer, washed it with water and gave it

He suddenly had a deep and heavy

he was trying to hide

in her

smile on his face, Jack raised the thermometer to

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

out of his mouth and

around and said,

kitchen and sighed, "Sure enough, there

ordered not to speak, he made a gesture

with his cell phone and then showed it

very prompt. He rang the bell in twenty

and found that Jack already had a fever. She

her innocently. He really didn't feel his high