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.

eyes disgusted Bill. Fortunately, for the next few minutes, Howard was too busy drinking tea to continue rambling

Bill fiddled with his cellphone. He looked at the time and realized

is he going to

to make his father leave when the latter suddenly asked, "Bill, do you have a

sip of tea, choked and coughed violently after hearing

instantly stood up and patted him on the back. "What's wrong? Why

his tea, but he was glad that he had somehow distracted

and he walked outside

table, coughing intermittently as he tried to

in this hospital

lounge, had actually heard the father and son's conversation, including the last part which had made Bill go into a

randomly picked a chair and sat down, but Andy had cautiously moved a chair close to the door and sat

had quietly eavesdropped

actions amused

Howard's question and Bill's

almost burst out

controlled himself and just beamed at Rachel with

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

immediately recalled what Andy had said the day

couldn't help thinking that he was an

until Howard left the ward to answer the phone that Andy opened the door and

Rachel followed him too.

he saw Andy coming

could grumble about it, Andy said,

how all old people are? Always nagging, matchmaking, and so on,' Bill thought

was about to respond, but when he saw Rachel behind Andy, he swallowed his words

didn't want to bother with a response. After his coughing fit, his

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

washroom was too clean; after all,

to the ward. He looked around

"Washroom," Andy replied indifferently.

seemed to be a little embarrassed as he said, "Andy, I have something to deal with back at

smiled slightly. "I have always been taking care of him.

froze for a second, but he quickly recovered

with a

listening to the whole conversation, really admired