Convincing her

After another two hours of mingling with people, it was finally time for Lucas to formally address the crowd and introduce the product that had brought everyone to the party that evening. David had gone to inform Lucas beforehand so that he wouldn't get surprised when someone called him forward to talk to everyone.

About ten minutes later a man wearing a black suit went toward the stage in the venue and called everyone's attention before he called for Lucas to go forward to make his speech.

Lucas walked forward unconsciously bringing Jen with him. Jen was too surprised to stop his actions, she knew that if he brought her up there with him it would be as good as saying that she was the future misses Lewis.

Everyone else was just as surprised as Jen was and they all looked at her curiously as she was being dragged forward by Lucas.

"Lucas" Jen called in a small voice so that other people wouldn't know that she was feeling unsettled. Unfortunately, Lucas did not hear her, even if he did he would have pretended that he hadn't.

Jen instantly felt very frustrated with the whole situation as she was trying to figure out what she should do she was being dragged closer to the stage.

Her unsure gaze suddenly turned firm and she put the clutch that she was holding under her arm before she proceeded to viciously pinch Lucas' arm.

Lucas who had almost zero pain tolerance was not able to ignore the pain, especially since it came so suddenly. It took him all he had not to shout. Fortunately, his attention was finally drawn back to Jen as he stopped in his tracks.

"Is something wrong?" Lucas asked as he looked at Jen. To everyone else, it looked like he had stopped to check on her but only Jen knew what the look in his eyes signified.

She knew that she would definitely be paying for her stunt later that night. Her face turned into an attractive shade of pink under his intense eyes.

"Can you let me go? You aren't thinking of dragging me up there with you right?" Jen asked as she bit her lip.

"What if I am?" Lucas asked and Jen's normally confident gaze faltered for a millisecond before it returned to normal, but how could Lucas miss the moment of clear unwillingness? He remembered how she had behaved earlier and realised that this was not a matter that could be forced upon her.

He felt that if he forced issues she might stop talking to him altogether so he smiled in understanding and kissed the side of her forehead as if to tell her that he won't let off the next time and walked up the stage by himself.

As he was climbing the stairs to the stage the audience applauded loudly being led by Jen who seemed to be clapping the loudest. When Lucas got up there and saw how Jen was cheering for him so energetically he couldn't help but smile at the sight.

There were quite a few people who had ever seen Lucas smile before and the most that they had seen him smile was when his girlfriend was involved. Now that he was standing on stage with a genuine smile on his face everyone felt stunned.

It was not the normal tilting of his lips that happened when he was greeting people but a full-blown grin that exposed the attractive dimples on his cheeks.

It was not a mystery as to why he smiled like that as he smiled while directly looking at Jen who was also smiling back at him brightly.

Everyone else felt like they were intruding in their moment and the hall gradually got quiet. Jen was very sensitive to her surroundings so it did not take long for her to realise that everyone was looking at the two of them.

The smile on her face suddenly disappeared making Lucas aware once more that he was smiling like a fool on stage. He cleared his throat and for the first time, Jen saw Lucas look embarrassed. She knew that he was embarrassed because his ears were slightly red.

She realised that he was not as thick-skinned as he liked to appear to be. She lightly laughed in amusement when realised this. Fortunately, no one heard her as Lucas had already started giving his speech.

Tyler was standing on one side of the hall. If he was in the centre he would stick out like a sore thumb as he was quite tall. Even though he was quite a distance away, he did not miss the moment that Jen and Lucas shared. It was quite obvious, anyone who did not notice this either was not looking at Lucas or had very low EQ.

He watched absentmindedly as Lucas gave his speech on stage and started contemplating on whether he should completely give up on Jen.

Even though the first two times he saw the couple together they were both trying to suck each others' faces off, it would be too unreasonable for him to assume that this was something that would not last, especially after he saw how Lucas looked at Jen not just at that moment on stage, but also when they were greeting each other.

It was so obvious that he treasured her wholeheartedly and he was not confident enough to say that he would be able to provide her with the same amount of love that she was currently receiving from Lucas. Especially after he saw the contrasting way she behaved when she was with him and how she behaved now that she was with Lucas.

He smiled self deprecatingly and he had unconsciously started the process of letting go of whatever feelings he still had with Jen.

Jen's whole focus was on Lucas who was addressing the crowd. Seeing him on that stage made her realise how charismatic he could be. She was also reminded of how handsome he was especially when he was talking so seriously about work-related things. She had gotten used to seeing him fool around with her or try to embarrass her.