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.

they arrived uptown, in the north-side neighborhood

single apartment on the top floor. She felt

far as she knew, Jack had been living

to this apartment felt wrong

After a moment of

hallway, so he had to take a pair of his own. He put them on the floor, rubbed his nose, and said to Rachel, "I don't have female slippers. If you don't

She took off her shoes and put them on. But these slippers were several sizes too big, and looked

to stop. She looked at Jack helplessly. "I can walk

laughing, and said, "The

looked at her feet. She

his neck. Surprised by the warmth of his body, she

he didn't feel anything unusual. He walked to the sofa quickly and put her down. He asked, "What's

his body too warm? He didn't feel

finally saw the decoration of his apartment clearly,

The whole house was clean and very

the table was

and had no signs of having been

some work to finish. I'll arrange to have dinner delivered here. Can I drive you back

was not in a hurry to leave. She looked around

"I'm not in a hurry, but are you sure this

bit tentative. He felt rather tired, but he

was anything unusual about

"Do you have

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

cabinet. They opened the cabinet and found a set of medical

the thermometer was

out of the cabinet and said, "You can put the medicine cabinet in the storage room. How do you usually sort your

I spend most of my time in the company and I seldom stay

thermometer, washed it with water and gave

away. He suddenly had a deep

seemed that he was trying to

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

a smile on his face, Jack raised the thermometer to

and said, "May I use the kitchen? We

He took the thing out of his mouth and replied, "But there's no

and said, "Don't say

stayed quiet. Rachel walked around the kitchen and sighed, "Sure enough, there is nothing to eat. What will we

speak, he made a gesture to her, but Rachel didn't

a message to Austin with his cell phone

very prompt. He rang

already had a

at her innocently. He