Jen was finally able to free herself after hitting Lucas' chest a few times. Her brown eyes were dilated when she was finally released and she was breathing heavily.

"Shouldn't you have some restraint?" Jen asked with a frown trying to mask the fact that she did not hate that she was kissed by him.

"Would you rather I restrain myself?" Lucas asked with his hands still holding on to her waist. Jen chose not to say anything because she felt that she would probably end up regretting it whether she said yes or no.

"I'm just glad that there's no one here," Jen said as she looked around to see if there were any witnesses.

"Would it be a problem if we were seen?" Lucas asked.

"No, but you don't know who will be walking around here," Jen said as she looked around while biting her lip nervously.

"Mmh, it doesn't matter, let's go inside now," Lucas said and grabbed her hand so they would go through the large floor to ceiling doors together.

"Wait," Jen said pulled Lucas back.

"What is it?" Lucas asked.

"You have lipstick," Jen said and lifted her hand to wipe off the lipstick that had been left on his lips. She caught herself before she licked her thumb and instead opened the clutch that held her things and took out a small pack of wet towels. She took out one of them and cleaned up the lipstick smudges on his face.

Lucas obediently stayed still as Jen helped him wipe off the lipstick he had on his face. Once she was done she took out her phone to check how her own makeup looked. Fortunately, the lipstick was just slightly smudged so she quickly fixed it up after wiping off the smudged areas.

"Are you ready now?" Lucas asked and received a dirty look in response.

"Mmh, let's go," Jen said after she made sure that her lipstick looked good and put all her things back into her clutch.

The two of them walked towards the doors and the person outside the doors twisted the handle prompting the people inside to open the doors. Lucas pulled Jen closer to him and wrapped his arm around her waist possessively.

The loud volume in the hall suddenly dropped as all eyes were fixated on the couple that had just entered.

Jen reflexive smiled and in contrast, Lucas' expression was stoic. David and Michael moved closer to the couple as the two blended into the crowd. As expected, Lucas was stopped a lot of times before the two of them were finally able to stand in front of Michael and David.

Tyler was tempted to go back to his room, especially after what he had just witnessed. He was not some weird peeper but it seemed that the G.o.ds had it out for him, especially when it came to Jen and Lucas.

He had gotten out of the elevator and was innocently making his way to the venue when he saw the two of them kissing at the middle of the corridor. He had thought he would be angry but he was annoyed instead. 

It seemed that he had reluctantly accepted that the two of them were together but was not very receptive of them kissing each other in the middle of the corridor so rather than interrupt them he decided to wait for them to finish what they were doing. 

However, as the seconds ticked by, the annoyance he was feeling started morphing into anger and jealousy.

He watched as the couple bantered with each other and also how Jen was carefully cleaning up Lucas' face. He had a strange feeling in his heart as he watched the two of them together.

It was like watching someone else garner more satisfaction while playing with his toy that he did. He held himself back from actually interfering with the two.

He didn't know how Jen would respond especially since they hadn't even talked for more than a year. Even he knew that if he interfered he would be presumptuous as he would not have anything to say afterwards.

He calmly watched as Lucas and Jen got ready and finally went into the hall that the venue was being held. For the first time, he wished Naya was around and not for physical purposes. 

He couldn't help but think that it would have been great if Naya was around to attend the party as his date, not only for her connections but also for his own ego. He was sincerely reconsidering going into the party.

First, he found it quite surprising that no one had noticed his presence as he was not exactly hiding since he was standing in the middle of the corridor.

After witnessing all that and having to see the two of them continue to interact in a similar fas.h.i.+on for the rest of the night really tempted him to just leave and go out for a drink.