If he couldn't convince her with words, then he would find another way to act on it. After all, if Jamie really ended up pregnant, she wouldn't just get rid of it, would she?

With that thought in mind, Ben started scheming. But before he could make much progress, Jamie announced she would be going on a business trip. That threw Ben into a sulk, his mood completely wrecked. Even at the office, he couldn't focus on anything. Seeing him so distracted, his assistant couldn't help but speak up. "Mr. Lucas, if you're not doing well, I can call Mrs. Lucas and ask her to come back early."

The assistant had long noticed that ever since Jamie stopped working as Ben's secretary and started focusing on her own career, Ben had been a complete mess-clearly missing her every day.

"She's away on a business trip. How are you going to call her back?" Ben sighed heavily, looking completely defeated.

"Then... what if I tell her you're sick?" the assistant suggested hesitantly.

It was a clever idea, but there was a problem. Ben was a grown man and the CEO of Lucas Corporation. If word got out that he faked an illness just to see his wife, wouldn't that be embarrassing? Not to mention, the Lucas family had plenty of other members around and he wasn't exactly alone.

That won't work,"

brain for another solution, but

alone. I'll think of something

matter how hard he thought,

the better. Nash, who had managed to win Nina back and talk her into having

Ben immediately called Nash and arranged a small gathering. Unfortunately, Caleb and Hunter couldn't make it as they were tied up with their own affairs. That left Nash and Quincy as the only ones who

fun. Well, well, Mr. Lucas, what could possibly have you so worked up? Isn't your life suppeinet to be

thriving in her career

out another long sigh. "Tell me, how do you get your wife to stay by your side? Nash, how did you convince Nina to have a second kid?" Nash couldn't help but laugh at Ben's troubled expression. "What's this? You're ready for

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