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.

uptown, in the north-side neighborhood known for expensive

apartment on the top floor.

as she knew, Jack had been living

apartment felt wrong to

the door and opened it. After a moment of

he had to take a pair of his own. He put

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

but finally she had to stop. She

and said, "The floor

looked at

her arms around his neck. Surprised by the warmth of his

unusual. He walked to the sofa quickly and put her

his body too warm?

finally saw the decoration of his apartment clearly, including the

whole house was clean and very well

on the table was empty of

no signs of having been lived in. It was

finish. I'll arrange to have dinner delivered here. Can I drive you back later?"

a hurry to leave. She looked around the apartment

and said, "I'm not in a hurry, but

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

was

you

a short pause, Jack said, "I

around the room, they found the medicine cabinet.

the thermometer

"You can put the medicine

a little innocent. "The cleaner takes care of all that. I spend most of my time in the company and I seldom

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

suddenly had a deep and heavy

that he was trying

thing in her hand and urged,

Jack raised the thermometer to

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

the thing out of his mouth and

around and said, "Don't

put it back in his mouth and stayed quiet. Rachel walked around the kitchen and sighed, "Sure enough, there is nothing to

was ordered not to speak, he made a

with his cell phone and then showed

was very prompt. He rang the

checked the thermometer and found that Jack already had a fever.

looked at her innocently. He really didn't