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

lived in a single apartment on

far as she knew, Jack

this apartment felt wrong

door and opened it. After a moment of hesitation, Rachel finally followed

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

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

few steps, but finally she had to stop. She looked at Jack helplessly. "I can walk barefoot,"

stopped himself from laughing, and said, "The floor

her eyes and looked at her feet.

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

walked to the sofa quickly and put her down. He

body too warm?

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

whole house was clean and very well designed, without

the table

no signs of having been lived in.

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

a hurry to leave. She

him and said, "I'm not in a hurry, but are you sure this isn't

not..." His answer was a bit tentative. He felt rather tired, but he didn't

think there was

"Do you have thermometer

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

medicine cabinet. They opened

thermometer was

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

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

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

had a deep and heavy

that he was trying to hide

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

smile on his face, Jack raised the thermometer to

rolled up her sleeves and said, "May I use

thing out of his mouth and replied,

turned around and said,

and stayed quiet. Rachel walked around the kitchen and sighed, "Sure enough, there is nothing to eat. What

made a gesture to her, but Rachel didn't

with his cell phone and

very prompt. He rang

had a fever.

at her innocently. He really didn't feel his