Stuck in you

Howard was a talkative person, especially when it came to his two sons. He didn't have a good relationship with either of them, so he would talk at length to diffuse the awkward atmosphere.

One of his sons was Bill, the child he had with his ex-wife. Bill had been taken abroad at a young age by her, so Howard hadn't had much contact with him. However, she had brought him up well, so even though Howard rarely talked to him, Bill had grown up to be an obedient son.

On the other hand, his current wife's son, Mark, whom he treated like his own son, treated him like an enemy.

No matter how well Howard treated Mark, the letter always kept a distance from him.

In spite of this, he was still partial to his stepson.

Although he did pity Bill sometimes, he had already grown up well past the age of needing someone to rely on.

So, Howard wasn't too worried about Bill and had decided to just let nature take its course.

But he also felt that he should take this opportunity to show his affection to Bill, which he had seldom done.

After all, they had barely even spent any time together.

Howard felt like he could mend their relationship by doing that, but in fact, he was just doing it to comfort himself.

There was no gratitude in Bill's mind for his father's sudden affection to him. On the contrary, he felt very uncomfortable.

However, he had been taught from a young age to respect elders, so he carefully concealed the impatience that he felt and didn't let it show on his face.

This was the very reason that he had tried to signal Andy to divert Howard's attention to Rachel. However, Andy had misunderstood him and took her outside instead, leaving him all alone with his father.

His father was still rambling to him non-stop.

Bill really didn't want to hear all these unnecessary words from his father, but he had no choice.

'Well, if I'm forced to listen to this bullshit, I might as well make myself comfortable first,' he thought.

With a wave of his hand, he invited his father to sit down with him.

Howard sat down on a nearby chair. It was only then that he realized that Rachel and Andy had left the room.

After hesitating for a while, he continued his conversation with Bill without asking where Rachel and Andy had gone.

For Bill, his father's show of affection was too much to bear. After a short while, he stood up to make some tea.

He dawdled next to the teapot for a while before slowly walking over with two cups of hot tea. Howard took one of the cups from his son and gave him a pleased look.

few minutes, Howard was too

the time and realized

he going to leave?' he wondered

to make his father leave when the latter

tea, choked and coughed violently

and patted him on the back. "What's

hadn't meant to choke on his tea, but he was glad that he had somehow distracted his father from that nonsensical

rang, and he walked outside to

coughing intermittently as

in this hospital

father and son's conversation, including the last part

just randomly picked a chair and sat down, but Andy had

the door, he had quietly eavesdropped on the conversation between Howard and

cute actions amused Rachel to no

Howard's

almost burst out into

the end, he had controlled himself and just beamed

he pointed to the ward and shook his head as if to make fun

recalled what Andy had said the

he was an unusual old

that Andy opened the door and walked in with

Rachel followed him too.

coughing when he saw Andy coming

Andy was laughing at, but before he could grumble about it, Andy said, "I guess he's

are? Always nagging, matchmaking,

he saw Rachel

After his coughing fit, his handsome face turned completely red on top of the red spots

he stood up. "I'm going to wash my

thinking that maybe the washroom was too clean; after all, Bill always went there to

Howard returned to the ward. He looked

"Washroom," Andy replied indifferently.

phone in his hand. He seemed to be a little embarrassed as he said, "Andy, I have something to deal with back at home. I have to go

been taking care of him. You

look on Howard's face froze for a second, but

with

who was listening to the whole conversation, really admired the way the old man