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.

arrived uptown, in the north-side neighborhood known for

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

she knew, Jack had been living with

to this apartment felt

to the door and opened it. After a moment of hesitation, Rachel

his own. He put them on the floor, rubbed his nose, and said to Rachel, "I don't have female slippers. If you

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

take a few steps, but finally she had to stop. She looked

from laughing, and said,

and looked at

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

feel anything unusual. He walked to the sofa quickly

too warm? He

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

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

kettle on the table

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

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

not in a hurry to leave. She looked

"I'm not in a hurry, but are you sure this isn't inconvenient for

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

think there was anything unusual

you have

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

they found the medicine cabinet. They opened the cabinet

the thermometer was

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

"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 said, "Put in your

didn't take it right away. He suddenly had a deep and heavy

he was trying to hide

She raised the thing in her hand

his face, Jack raised the thermometer to

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

his mouth and

turned around and said, "Don't

Rachel walked around the kitchen and sighed, "Sure enough, there is

ordered not to speak, he made a gesture

Austin with his cell phone and then showed it

very prompt. He rang the bell in

thermometer and found that Jack already had a

innocently. He