Jen had successfully fallen asleep after being tossed around again. He hadn't even had the patience to wait for them to get to the bedroom. If she was not persistent, then everything would have ended on the stairs.

If they were in their own home, it wouldn't be a problem, but the issue is, any of their friends could have walked in at any time, which was something she did not want to imagine happening in this life.

What did she do wrong today? As Lucas said, she looked too good so he couldn't help himself. That was his excuse for the impromptu sex they had had. She didn't even know how to respond to that. Was it her fault she looked good?

As a woman, would she deliberately make herself look unattractive? Of course not. So she had to bear with it? Even though not for long, but it seemed like he wasn't done with her even when they were done.

If he had his way, they would have stayed in the bedroom until the next day. Unfortunately, halfway through his thrusting, they heard the others arrive from the noise outside.

Fortunately, they did not come to bother them. Otherwise, Lucas would have really been upset. After holding her for a while, he went to take a shower when she had fallen asleep. After getting dressed, he woke her up.

Jen who was in the middle of a dreamless sleep felt Lucas kiss her cheeks and then peck her lips while whispering something she was having a hard time to make out.

"Mmmh?" she responded, and Lucas chuckled. It was a very familiar response, as that was what he always did whenever she tried to wake him up in the past.

"Do you want to stay in bed like this all day?" He asked in a low voice right next to her ear. Hearing his question, Jen nodded in agreement. She wanted to stay in bed all day.

"I must join you then," Lucas said and lay down next to her on top of the covers. His thumb stroked her cheek, and he kissed her jaw and even started trailing kisses down her neck. Jen furrowed her eyebrows and squinted her eyes.

"Then we can go another round, right?" Lucas asked, and Jen's eyes snapped open. She looked like she was wide awake like she hadn't been asleep just a minute ago.

"I'm going to wash up," Jen said and slipped out of the covers. She had wanted to pull them to cover herself, but Lucas was lying on them as he smugly watched her struggle to pull them from under him.

Jen glared at him for a few seconds and boldly got out of bed. Anyway, what had he not seen yet? She comforted herself as she sauntered to the bathroom.

Lucas thought she would have asked him to get off the covers, but now he was painfully hard from watching her naked body walk to the bathroom. He had successfully sabotaged himself. With her butt swaying behind her, she closed the door to the bathroom shut, cutting off Lucas' view, and to add insult to injury, he even heard the bathroom door lock.

Lucas rubbed his face with his hand, a helpless expression appearing on it as he felt helpless on how to respond to this situation.

He put his hands behind his head and continued to lay down on the bed, trying to calm himself down before going downstairs to greet everyone. It was a feat that he accomplished after ten minutes, and he decisively left the bedroom before Jen got out of the bathroom. God knew if she would tease him again.

He strolled down the stairs of his own wing before getting to the main stairs, where everyone was much more audible than they were before.

Actually, if the bedroom windows were closed, they would not have heard them arrive, but the housekeeper had left the windows open to air the room and the two of them had been too busy with each other to think about closing the windows and turning on the air conditioning. He had only gotten to that when he was going to take a shower.

As he got closer to the foot of the stairs, he could finally make out what was going on. There was a stranger around that he did not know, but he figured that they were to organize the entire event, seeing how they were barking orders to the other people who were carrying boxes of things back and forth.

He walked to the glass doors and slid them open and went to the pool area where he was guessing everyone was at since the house was not filled with their normal noise. When he saw the pool from the distance, he smiled as his guess had been correct.

He had taken note that the things were being arranged in the garden, so if they were not here then they were probably on the roof.

As expected, James was holding a bottle of wine that he was sipping from directly, and only God knew when he had started drinking. Laura was standing by the pool while bickering with Jason about something he couldn't hear.

David seemed to have fallen asleep on one of the lounge chairs while Nancy was sitting next to Leanna. Ethan was nowhere to be seen, and Brian and Rachel had yet to arrive.

"The main guest has arrived!" Jason shouted when he spotted Lucas. Lucas rolled his eyes at his enthusiasm.

"Yes, I was the first one to arrive, ironically," Lucas said while looking miffed.

"But you only came out now. What were you doing? And where is my sister-in-law?" Jason asked as he put an arm on his shoulder.

"She was resting, she'll come down soon," Lucas answered, ignoring Jason's first question.

"Ah, okay," Jason responded, and from his tone of voice, it was clear that he was teasing his younger brother.

Lucas then went to greet everyone else before sitting to the lounge chair next to James'. James glanced at him and took off his sunglasses to look at him properly.

Lucas saw his older brother's eyes and knew that he was slightly tipsy. James blinked his pretty grey eyes as he tried to focus on Lucas, and Lucas laughed as he thought that it was a bit funny.

"When did you start drinking?" Lucas asked James.

"Hmmm, this morning? I told Jason to pick me up so we can come together, then he bailed. So we came with Laura's road manager," James said as he put his hand over his eyes.

"Oh? He did?" Lucas asked him.

"He said he had to do something," James said with a mocking laugh. The tiny dimples at the bottom corners of his lips making a rare appearance. Jason suddenly experienced an icy feeling at the back of his neck.

When he turned around, his eyes met his brother's. As the two pairs of grey eyes met, that ominous feeling became even worse. To reduce the evilness of whatever plot that James was cooking up while inebriated it was better to be around to defend himself.

So, he made the tough decision of joining his brothers. Lucas looked at his older brother, who had just appeared with an amused smile, and folded one of his legs to give him room to sit down.

"What are we talking about?" Jason asked with a sweet smile.

"How you refused to pick me up," James said answered honestly.

"I did not refuse to pick you up. I was out of town and only came back late in the morning, and I even had to go and see those people who are organizing everything in the garden. If I had to detour and pick you up on the way on top of everything, we would start late. If I picked you up before the meeting.." Jason did not have to finish the sentence.

It was okay if his brother was sober, but when he was drunk, he became even more black-bellied than usual. He would have intimidated the organizer to death.

"Tch, it doesn't matter. It still stands that you still refused to pick me up, or were you intending on letting me miss sending my brother off?" James asked as he sat up.

"You don't need to sit up, continue to relax," Jason said and pushed his brother down.

"I want to see you at the office on Monday," James said as he laid back down.

"I'm going back to work?" Jason asked, relief filling his voice.

"You will officially start your duties as director," James said, and Jason felt like his world was crumbling around him. He was one of the directors in the company, mainly responsible for the artists since he had such a wide range of experience.

But he just let everyone else handle the department because he was "busy" all the time. In more official terms, he was the director of Human Resources in the company.

"I'm an Artist James, come on," Jason whined.'

"It was going to be for three months, but now it's until Lucas returns," James added, and Jason felt like fireworks just exploded in his head. For a year? If he tries to negotiate, he was going to end up doing this for five years.

Maybe he should have picked James up and delayed his appointments. It was his own fault since he had told him the previous night that he was going to pick him up. He was never promising him anything ever again.

"Then we can all experience hardship," James added in a singsong voice. Lucas laughed loudly while Jason had a dark face.

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