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 neighborhood

behind him. Jack lived in a single apartment on the top floor. She felt

far as she knew, Jack

coming to this apartment

After a moment of hesitation, Rachel

the hallway, so he had to take a pair of his own. He put them on the floor,

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

tried to take a few steps, but finally she had to stop. She looked at Jack helplessly. "I can

laughing, and

her eyes and looked at her feet. She said, "Okay,

arms around his neck. Surprised by the warmth of his body,

he didn't feel anything unusual. He walked to the sofa quickly and put her

warm?

room. Rachel finally saw the decoration of his apartment clearly, including the

half-open kitchen. The whole house was clean and very well designed, without any

kettle on the table was empty of

and had no signs of having been lived in. It

I'll arrange to have dinner delivered here. Can I drive

a hurry to leave.

him and said, "I'm not in a

He felt rather tired, but he

was anything unusual about

you have

Jack said, "I

room, they found the medicine cabinet.

thermometer was

put the medicine cabinet in the storage room. How do

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

sighed. She took out the thermometer, washed it with water and gave it to him. She said, "Put in your mouth and

right away. He suddenly had a deep and heavy look in

that he was

eye contact with him. She raised the thing in her hand

Jack raised the thermometer to

and said, "May I use the kitchen? We

took the thing out of his

around and

it back in his mouth and stayed quiet. Rachel walked around the kitchen and sighed,

speak, he made a gesture

Austin with his

very prompt. He rang the bell in

the thermometer and found that Jack already had a fever. She was surprised that

her innocently. He really didn't feel his