"Are you going to take something upstairs?", Audrey asked as she was about to open the door, " No no, just leave everything. Maybe I can even bring more!", Lucas teased.
"You wish!", Audrey said, trying to hide the evident smile on her face. " Goodnight babe!", Lucas said , helping her with her seatbelt.
"Good night!", Audrey replied, trying so hard to avoid eye contact. She wasn't exactly sure, but making eye contact with him always seemed like he was going to devour her or something.
" Wait for me!", Lucas said before he went over to open the door for Audrey. "Good night babe!", he said again, caging Audrey between his veined arms.
" Good night!", Audrey said, her palms tracing the bulging veins on his arms. "I'll call you!", Lucas said, mesmerized by the beautiful view before his eyes.
" Okay then, I'll…", Audrey was unable to finish her sentence before Lucas's supple lips crashed on hers.
Under the street lights, in the front passenger seat of one of Lucas's many cars, the two shared a hot, searing kiss as the cold wind accompanied their entanglement.
A passionate kiss where they tasted the last bits of the cuisine they had for dinner, a bite from Lucas followed by Audrey's moan resulted in the sync of both their tongues.
Lucas released her addictive lips as he assumed she was out of breath, but that didn't stop him from pecking her lips, even while she giggled at his antics.
They caught their breath as his forehead rested on hers, "I'll call you!", Lucas said, his hands finding its way to her small waist.
" Okay!", Audrey said, sucking her lower lip. "Come on!", Lucas urged. He helped her out of the car before wrapping her in a really tight hug.
" I'll call you!", he whispered into her ear again before kissing her cheek. "Up you go!", Lucas continued as he urged Audrey to go up to her apartment.
" I…", Lucas suddenly stopped from confessing his genuine feelings as he wasn't sure if was the right time yet.
"Bye!!", Audrey squealed, stopping after a few steps to bid Lucas goodbye. Since Lucas was already too far, he just waved passionately before watching Audrey head to the elevator.
Prisca who had been earlier informed by Audrey that she and Lucas were going to spend the whole day together called almost immediately after Audrey entered her apartment.
Audrey locked her door before she picked the call, "how do you know the right time to call?", Audrey said through the phone.
" Girl, you know I was restless the whole time, in just had to call at some point!", Prisca replied, "Well…", Audrey told Prisca how they spent their day, even the visit to the hospital which has unplanned.
"That was exactly what I was talking about!", Prisca said, " What's that!", Prisca slapped her forehead with her palms in disbelief. "You know, when I told you that some women are going to try funny things!".
" Yeah, you said that!", "so do you actually love him?", Prisca asked, throwing Audrey under the bus. Audrey knew she loved him, but she wasn't exactly sure of her feelings, she also knew she couldn't lie to Prisca, she was just too good to detect her lie.
" Okay, do you still want to be in the relationship with him"?, Prisca asked after she noticed the silence from the other end. "yeah, I do!", Audrey admitted.
" Then you have to stake your claim girl!", "stake my claim, how do I do that?", Audrey asked confused. Again, Prisca slapped her forehead with her palms out of disbelief.
" That means that you should indeed keep him. You have to work things out when both of you have a problem and you have to trust him!", Prisca clarified, Audrey grabbing the point instantly.
"Ohh, that's what you meant?", " yeah, that was what I meant!", Prisca clarified before she went ahead to talk about the events of her day.
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At the Walton's Mansion, Lucas drove to the front door before he passed the keys to one of his security detail to take the car to his garage.
"Welcome sir!", A maid who was passing by stopped to greet before she went on with her job, but she was called back by Lucas.
" Where's Martin?", "he's in his room sir!", " Ohh, tell him I'm waiting for him in my study at my wing!", Lucas said before he headed to his wing.
He was too tired to head to the main living room as he was sure his sister would want juicy details from him, so he left for his personal wing.
He arrived at his study, a smile evident on his face as he reminisced his weekend, he was able to spend lots of time with Audrey.
He sat on his swivel chair, putting on his laptop to see the amount of work he could do before Martin arrived. He was able to read a few emails before Martin walked in unannounced.
"Do you have it?!", Lucas asked getting straight to business, " you know by now, you should be asking me questions like, how was your day, or have you had dinner? I'm starting to feel you don't care about me!", the ever so playful Martin replied before he took the seat in front of Lucas.
"Fine, how was your day?!", Lucas asked sarcastically, "well I'm fine and guess what?", Martin asked, indulging Lucas in the conversation.
" What, what did you find out!?", Lucas asked, tapping on the sleep option on his laptop and then bending the monitor a little bit, but not completely.
"You have to promise to not act irrationally!!", Martin said before he got into details. " Fine, I promise!!", Lucas said, oblivious to the dirt that Martin had dug up.
"Well, the poisoning was intentional, it was bought by someone you least expect and the target was you. So I dug deep, because I didn't expect the person behind it to take such a bold step. The scare that mom had, the car that almost hit…!".
Lucas wondered why Martin was mentioning incidents that had happened.
" What, what about them!?", Lucas asked, "Well, they all lead back to one person, and you wouldn't believe the things he had gotten to to get help from other people!".
" Who the hell is the person!?!, Lucas asked already frustrated, "Liam Santos!", Martin said.