Convincing her

Jen watched the two of them walk out of the hall before she looked at Lucas with a happy smile. They had just finished saying their farewell to a few guests so they had a short reprieve. Lucas smiled back at her knowingly as he too noticed that David had felt embarrassed when he realised that he had lipstick on his face. He hadn't seen the smudged lipstick until Jen had gestured for David to wipe it off. Since knew his character, he also knew that he definitely not the one that had been aggressive with whatever had happened between the two of them.

"Did you enjoy teasing him that much?" Lucas asked with a chuckle.

"He is lucky that we are at a party, otherwise I wouldn't have let him go so easily," Jen said trying to hide the mischievous look in her eyes. 

"We should also be going home soon, there were some things that you had promised to do for me. I'm waiting for my payout" Lucas said shamelessly and Jen could feel the heat in her cheeks.

"How can you say these things in public like this?" Jen asked as she still tried to control her expression making Lucas laugh in amusement before he draped his arm over her shoulder and pulled her closer to himself.

"Should we-" Lucas started saying but was cut off by his vibrating phone. He pulled it out of his pocket to check the caller id and he was tempted to just ignore the call. Jen noticed the frown on his face and curiously checked to see who was calling.

"Hurry and pick it up," Jen said when she saw the caller id. Lucas looked at her with a frown but still picked up the phone. The frown on Lucas' face became even deeper when he saw how brightly Jen's eyes were shining.

"Jason" Lucas said in a low voice.

"Lucas, I heard that you were hosting a party tonight, how could you not tell me?" Jason said and the frown on Lucas' face became even deeper than before.

"If you wanted to attend company parties don't you think you should have just inherited the position?" Lucas asked in annoyance effectively shutting Jason up.

"What do you want?" Lucas asked as he had noticed the prolonged silence.

"Is the party over yet?" Jason asked and Lucas could not help but fee; a sense of foreboding.

"Why?" Lucas asked sounding a bit cautious.

"I've been staying at the hotel these past few days and I'm bored so I just wanted to come and say hi to you and sister in law," Jason said playfully.

Lucas had started frowning but his expression smoothened out when he heard Jason called Jen sister-in-law. 

"The party is pretty much finished there is only a few people left," Lucas said as he observed his surroundings.

"I'll be there in ten minutes, don't go anywhere okay?" Jason said and cut the call. Lucas already felt stressed even before Jason came over.

"Is he going to be coming over?" Jen asked the moment the call ended.

Lucas gave her a complicated look before he nodded. He didn't know how he should take the fact that his girlfriend was a huge fan of his brother. It was even more unsettling as he knew how much they resembled each other. He watched as her face glowed with excitement and he found himself scowling for some reason.

"Do you like him that much?" Lucas asked with a small frown marring his face.

"You won't be able to understand the heart of a fan" Jen answered with her eyes still shining from excitement.

"Even after seeing how he normally is?" Lucas asked in disbelief.

"You won't understand the heart of a fan. I like him more because I've been able to see a side of him that his other fans have not seen" Jen explained patiently before turning away. She noticed that Lucas' expression did not look good at all.

Lucas was dumbfounded and ended up being even more confused even after Jen's attempt to explain why she still liked Jason even after seeing him act ridiculously repeatedly. He looked at his phone screen to check if there were any notifications but saw that there was nothing that needed his immediate attention.

As he put his phone back into his pocket he saw that Tyler was heading in their direction and he felt like he was about to get a headache. He was not sure whether Tyler would have really come but he had to admit that the man had a lot of self-control.

If he was in his shoes and saw Jen in someone else's arms he did not know what he would do. He thought he was very clear about his temperament before but he was no longer sure about it after meeting Jen.

He was only happy that Tyler did not go out of his way to make their meeting uncomfortable, nor did he try to make Jen feel uncomfortable. For that alone, Lucas had to acknowledge the man. Lucas gave him a polite smile as if to let him know that he had noticed him and unsurprisingly, the smile was not returned. Jen saw that Lucas was looking at one direction and she too turned to look at who it was he was smiling at and saw that it was Tyler.

She also gave a polite smile even though she was not expecting to be reciprocated. She knew of Tyler's personality. He was the type of person who never showed any soft feelings. He had to go around carrying a neutral expression because if he exposed his true feelings he would have been easily exploited by people when he was defending his inheritance a few years back.

Tyler stopped in front of the couple his expression completely calm as he stretched his hand to shake Lucas' hand. The two men shook each other's hands and Tyler smiled cordially at Lucas.

"It was a great event, thank you for inviting me," Tyler said with a smile.

"I'm glad you could make it," Lucas said and smiled back. Although the two men were smiling at each other, the whole atmosphere felt charged. Jen nervously looked at the two of them as she did not know what they were thinking. She knew both of them well but they had completely masked their expressions and she really could not tell what they were thinking about anymore.