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.

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

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

Jack had been living with

apartment felt wrong

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

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

shoes and put them on. But these slippers were

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

himself from laughing, and

at her feet. She said,

his neck. Surprised by the warmth of his body, she asked, "Why is

to the sofa quickly

body too warm? He didn't feel

the decoration of his apartment clearly, including

kitchen. The whole house was clean and very well

on the table

room was perfectly clean and had no signs of having

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

not in a hurry to leave. She

she looked back at him and said, "I'm not in a

bit tentative. He felt rather tired, but he

there was anything

asked, "Do you

Jack said, "I suppose...

room, they found the medicine cabinet. They opened the cabinet and found a set

the thermometer

the cabinet and said, "You can put the medicine cabinet in the storage room. How

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

took out the thermometer, washed it with water and gave

right away. He suddenly had

seemed that he was trying

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

Jack raised the thermometer to his

"May I use the kitchen?

of his mouth and replied, "But there's

turned around and

walked around the kitchen and sighed, "Sure enough, there is nothing to

was ordered not to speak, he made a gesture

sent a message to Austin with his

was very prompt. He rang the

Jack already had a fever. She was surprised that he couldn't feel

innocently. He really didn't feel his