Convincing her

Lucas finished what he was doing on his tablet before he went to take a shower and got dressed. After getting all his things, he finally left the bedroom and placed his briefcase and jacket on the sofa before making a beeline to the kitchen.

Lucas walked behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist. He then kissed the back of her neck and bare shoulder before resting his chin on her shoulder.

"You just walked past your breakfast," Jen said with a smile as she continued to cut her peeled fruit.

"Mmmh, I didn't think I would be eating actual food but I guess I am," Lucas joked and kissed her pink cheek.

"Stop that," Jen said while giggling and put down the knife in her hand and turned around to look at him. Lucas leaned over and kissed her smiling lips. Jen put her arms around his waist and kissed him back. Lucas nibbled on her soft lips before deepening the kiss. Jen was trying to not to actually hold his shirt with her hands since she had just held fruit and it got progressively harder to do so.

"Babe, let's go eat," Jen said between kisses. Lucas finally let her go once she finished her sentence and kissed her forehead.

Lucas picked up the plate of fruits behind her and brought it to the table. Jen quickly washed her hands and followed him to the dining table. She sat down next to him as she drank a glass of water and watched him eat.

"Aren't you going to eat?" Lucas asked when he saw that she was not having anything.

"I don't really have much of an appetite," Jen said and popped a grape in her mouth. Lucas furrowed his eyebrows and looked at her.

"Are you okay? Are you coming down with something?" Lucas asked, his voice filled with worry.

"No I'm fine," Jen said as she picked up a tangerine and looked at Lucas as if trying to reassure him that she could still eat.

"If this keeps up I'll take you to the hospital. Do you have any discomfort?" Lucas asked and even took the extra step of checking her temperature, which, as expected was normal.

"Mmmh, it's probably because I'm still a bit tired," Jen said and stopped picking at the fruit. She wanted to observe herself for a few days and go to the hospital if it kept up. She also thought she had a stomach bug.

She continued to watch Lucas eat and would occasionally eat a piece of fruit. She had actually prepared fruit because she was loosing her appetite as she continued to prepare breakfast. Her forehead was completely wrinkled as she fried the eggs.

This had started a couple of days ago but she didn't think much of it since she was alone. Now that Lucas kept pointing it out, she realized that something was not right.

Lucas ate quickly so he could get to work a bit earlier. If he got there late then he would end up leaving late and he wanted to come back home to finally have some quality time with his girl.

Jen looked as Lucas polished his plate clean and got up to take it to the kitchen.

"No, I'll do the dishes, you don't want to be late for work," Jen said and snatched it from him. Lucas looked at her walk to the kitchen and a smile appeared on his face.

He went to the living room and shrugged on his jacket before he picked up his briefcase. Jen watched this set of familiar movements that she had missed seeing and she couldn't help but feel happy.

"Come here," Lucas said to the dazed Jen and she hopped towards him. He held the back of her head and kissed her silly before he said goodbye and left for work. Jen's cheeks were still flushing when he left their place. Lucas had a big smile on his face as he walked out of the hotel and his driver couldn't help but smile back at Lucas. 

His boss always had a dark expression on his face every morning that eased out a lot throughout the day as long as no one is being stupid at work. Otherwise, his face would be dark all day. So seeing him like this was so new that even his mood became elevated.

Lucas smiled as he answered a few emails on his tablet and even didn't even feel like it was annoying to answer a few silly questions. This is what happens when you sleep with a beautiful woman in your arms and wake up next to a beautiful woman.

Also when that beautiful woman helps to make you breakfast and kisses you goodbye on your way to work, you can't help but feel happy. This was what he had been missing, he knew Jen could influence his mood a lot, but it was a happy surprise to find out that it was to this extent.

When Lucas got to work, everyone was staring at him like an alien had descended. They had never seen their boss smile so widely before, even though he smiled when he had last come with his girlfriend, he still glared at everyone else.

So seeing such a rare to see smile on such a handsome man so early on a Saturday morning, made everyone who was still disgruntled about working the weekend feel so much better about the day. 

Martin, as usual, continued to read Lucas his schedule even though he was feeling shocked internally. He had never seen such an agreeable side to his boss. If he had known earlier that he would change like this just because his girlfriend was back, he would have sent for her even earlier.