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.

minutes later, they arrived uptown, in the north-side

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

knew, Jack had been living with

apartment

opened it. After a moment of hesitation, Rachel

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,

were several sizes

to stop. She looked at Jack helplessly. "I can walk barefoot," she

himself from laughing, and said,

lowered her eyes and looked at her feet. She

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

He walked to the sofa quickly and put her down. He asked, "What's

body too warm? He didn't feel

turned around and pressed the light switch in the living room. Rachel finally saw the

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

on the table was

and had no signs of having been lived in. It was completely unlike her own

to have dinner delivered here. Can I drive

hurry to

him and said, "I'm not in

was a bit tentative. He felt rather tired, but he

there was anything unusual about

you have thermometer

Jack said,

the medicine cabinet. They opened the cabinet

thermometer was still

things out of the cabinet and said, "You can put the medicine cabinet in the storage room. How do you usually sort

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

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

away. He suddenly had a deep and heavy look in

he was

raised the thing in her hand and urged, "Please do it.

face, Jack

her sleeves and said, "May I use the

of his mouth and replied, "But there's no food

around and said,

quiet. Rachel walked around the kitchen and sighed, "Sure enough, there is nothing to eat. What will we have for

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

to Austin with his cell phone

very prompt. He rang the

thermometer and found that Jack already had a fever. She was surprised that he couldn't

He really didn't