Chapter 367: Punishment. (1/2)

While Laura was joking around with the date that Jason had brought, she felt a presence behind her. The girl was one of the actresses that were signed at their company, so it wasn't too strange for Jason to ask her to accompany him.

”I'm going to go find Jason,” she said suddenly and before Laura could say anything back, she had already run away. Laura turned around and smiled when she saw James, but when she wanted to say a few words, she finally noticed the woman standing next to him. They looked almost identical to each other that it was a bit uncanny.

”Oh? Is this your sister?” Laura asked, and Hellen laughed happily when she heard her question. James sighed in his heart but didn't say anything to refute her.

”I'm Hellen, his mother,” Hellen said as she stretched her hand forward. Laura thought that they were going to shake hands, but Hellen just held her hands as she switched sides from James to Laura.

”Oh, I'm Laura,” Laura answered, but said nothing about her relationship with James as she felt that it wasn't her place to do so.

”She's my girlfriend,” James informed his mother. James was not too surprised about his mother's enthusiasm; he knew that she had been more worried about him finding someone than she was for his celebrity young brother.

”It finally happened,” Hellen said, and almost teared up. Laura had heard from Jen that James had taken after his mother, but she had never thought that it would have been to this extent.

Although his features were more masculine compared to Hellen's, everything pretty much looked the same apart from his eye colour. Whereas he had grey eyes, his mother had beautiful hazel eyes which made her look charming.

”Hmm?” Laura questioned in confusion.

”It's nothing, don't worry about it,” James said when he saw that she wanted to ask about what she was talking about. It's not that James had never dated before; he had never told his mother whenever he was, so he suspected that she probably thought he had always been single.

”Oh,” Laura responded, it's not like she could pry out too much information on their first meeting, so she was just focused on leaving a good impression.

Hellen was already thinking about how she was going to ditch James and steal Laura away when her husband arrived. She automatically went to stand next to him just so that things don't become awkward.

”Father, this is my girlfriend, Laura. Laura, this is my father,” James introduced.

”It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Lewis,” Laura said as she shook the handsome middle-aged man. She realised that James had hogged on his mother's features and left his brothers with nothing.

”Pleasure,” Noah responded and pulled away when it was appropriate.

After some small talk, Noah managed to get his wife away from Laura so they could go meet their old friends. Laura stood next to James as she watched the couple leave before sighing.

”It would have been impossible for you to not be good looking regardless of who you took after,” Laura commented and hugged his arm.

”Mmmh,” James agreed, making Laura let out a soft chuckle. It felt a bit weird meeting his parents while being hyperaware of the marks he left on her body, especially since she was wearing a dress that left her back open and was forced to let her hair down to hide the hickeys.

She remembered what happened the previous night. Even if she did not want to remember, it would be weirder if she forgot. After he forced her into the shower after the night out with her friends, she found James on his phone in a robe after she got out. Even though she had still been drunk, she was a bit more rational than she had been before.

”You hired strippers,” James stated, as it was a fact. It showed that he wasn't being suspicious, but rather he knew exactly what she had been up to.

”I wanted it to be more fun,” Laura said as she busily tied up her hair while trying to balance herself so she didn't become a stumbling mess.

”Why?” James asked her. He didn't understand why she would hire that kind of service.

”Because I was curious? But also, I wanted to know how it'll be like seeing a man who didn't have inhibitions Infront of me,” Laura answered honestly.

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”Didn't have inhibitions?” James asked as he looked at the woman who had turned to look at him with her green eyes.

”Yes,” Laura answered honestly.

”So, I'm inhibited?” James asked as he pushed his wet hair back.

”Very much so,” Laura confirmed and went to sit next to him on the love seat in their room.

”Can you loosen up a bit?” she asked, and James scoffed at her question.

”You don't know what you are asking for,” James and stood up to go dry his hair.

”But I do,” Laura shouted towards him, but the only response she received was the sound of the hairdryer. She sighed and got up from the couch and went to the bed, picking up her phone along the way. She browsed her social media as she waited for James to finish what he was doing. They were going to have this conversation. He can't avoid it today.