Convincing her

"Have you arrived?" Alex asked the moment she picked up her phone. She had been communicating with Lucas' assistant on the collaboration they were going to have with his hotel and was waiting to see the proposal that was prepared.

"Yes, I'm still outside," Michael said as he was shrugging on his coat. He picked up his briefcase and locked the car and walked towards the restaurant.

"Okay, just come in, I'm coming down to get you," Alex said as she stood up from her desk. Her office was on the second floor of their main restaurant, however, if they are able to seal the deal with L. L Hotels then she was sure that they might actually have to move to a proper office building since there will be an increase of staff that will work in the office.

As Alex was coming down the stairs, she happened to hear the restaurant door open and a young dark-haired man walked in. She knew who it was almost immediately since Jen had described Michael to her before.

She had to stop herself from whistling from the pleasant surprise. When she had heard he was the same age as Jake she expected someone who would look like Jake, she did not expect Michael to look the way he did at all.

It was inevitable that his aura would change, especially after hanging around Lucas and David for so long. He became very aware that he looked very shabby in comparison to the two men and after some nagging and help from David he had cleaned himself up well.

Alex walked towards him with her usual business smile on her face and greeted him. Michael being Michael did not have such a thing called a business smile, so he responded to her with his serious expression.

Alex was not phased at all and instead led him up the stairs to her office. If it was a short meeting, they would have probably occupied one of the private rooms, but she knew that they were probably going to take a few hours so it was better to leave the room open so they wouldn't lose money.

"Cancel all my appointments for the rest of the day," Alex said to her secretary, who was sitting outside her office.

"Yes ma'am," the secretary answered after standing up and curiously looked at Michael who was walking behind Alex. 

Michael had expected that Alex would look similar to Jen, but he was surprised to see that they barely had any resemblance. He found it very intriguing. If she did not approach him first, he wouldn't have thought that she was Jen's sister.

"Please sit down," Alex said as she pointed at the couch.

"Thank you," Michael said politely as he took off his coat before sitting down. It was freezing outside, but it was warmer inside the building, so continuing to wear it was pointless.

"Would you like anything to drink?" Alex asked as she put on her glasses and picked up one of the notebooks on her desk and went to sit on the couch next to Michael's.

"Tea would be nice," Michael said as he took his laptop and some files from his briefcase. Alex pressed the button on the phone that connected her to her secretary and ordered two cups of tea before getting serious. She saw that Michael was not all about pleasantries, so she decided that she wouldn't bother with them either. And just like that, the two of them were soon immersed in work.

*

After breakfast, Jen had forcefully done the dishes despite Lucas' protests and she was curled up on the couch catching up on the recent series that Jason was "forced" to do. She had been so startled from the moment he appeared on the screen that she was dazed for a few seconds and was almost immediately immersed in the plot.

Lucas was on a call, so when he came to the living room and saw how immersed Jen was in whatever she was watching.

"What are you so focused on?" Lucas asked her as he sat next to her and pulled her against him.

"Did you start acting without telling me?" Jen asked while still in a daze. Lucas was confused with her statement up until he saw Jason on screen. He could not stop himself from frowning after what he saw.

"He changed his hair," Lucas stated flatly. He was not impressed at all! 

"Right?! Tsk tsk, I would have thought it was you if it was not for his eyes," Jen said as she turned around to look at him. When she saw him frown so seriously, she couldn't help but kiss his chin jokingly.

"Why are you frowning so hard? It's not like he could have taken this role with his silver hair, right?" Jen asked as she pointedly looked at the screen at Jason, who had just undertaken an undercover mission. Lucas stayed quiet because he had nothing to say. Just because what she said made sense didn't mean he was happy about it.

"Whatever," Lucas said and rested his chin on her head while tightening the hold he had on her waist. Jen helplessly laughed but continued watching the action-packed series.

"He lost a lot of weight for this role," Lucas commented with a frown, and Jen smiled at that. She knew that even though both Lucas and James ganged up on Jason when they were together, they all cared for each other a lot. She couldn't imagine how serious everyone would have been if Jason did not exist in their family. She developed goosebumps just from the thought of it, and just like that her determination to support Jason as a fan grew even more, with Lucas' knowledge.

"Mmh, he should be done with filming this," Jen replied and Lucas absentmindedly nodded. He had gotten over Jason's black hair on screen and was now immersed in the series. He hadn't paid much attention to Jason's works before, he obviously could not watch his brother say those cheesy lines on screen from the romantic themed dramas he had done before, but he did not mind this genre.

After two episodes, Lucas remembered that there was something that he had wanted to ask Jen so he pressed pause so that she would focus her attention on him.

"What is it?" Jen asked when the screen froze.

"We are going to leave on the 28th, right?" Lucas asked as he slightly shifted his body so that he was more comfortable.

"Yes, why?" Jen asked.

"There's somewhere I want us to go on the 26th, don't make any plans from then till the day we leave," Lucas said. It wasn't like she had any plans after Christmas anyway, so Jen nodded in assent.

"Where are we going to go?" Jen asked curiously.

"That will be a surprise," Lucas said and kissed the side of her face. 

"You aren't going to take me racing again, right?" Jen asked seriously.

"Nothing of the sort," Lucas said with a laugh before landing a kiss on her lips.

"Let's keep watching," Lucas said, as if he did not want her to pursue the matter. Jen looked at him suspiciously but didn't push the matter.

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