Location: Sinclairs’ Duplex.

After his long epic experience with Helen, Miles felt a great need to calm his muscles, so he soaked into the bathtub with a whole pack of ice cubes floating in it.

Inhaling a shallow breath, Miles enjoyed the cold chill seeping into his flesh and bones.

Staring at the white ceiling in a daze, his thoughts wandered.

’So far, everything seems to be going just fine. Hmm, that reminds me, I’m supposed to sneak into Kelvin’s house by using Miss Emily. Oh fuck, I forgot to get her contact.’

Realizing his schedule was ruined, Miles groaned and slipped his face beneath the surface of the tub.

’What am I going to do?’

30 Minutes later, just after changing, a knock sounded on the door.

Casually picking up the stress ball resting on his desk, he walked towards the door and opened it to reveal a stunned Josephine.

The atmosphere became oddly still as she stared at him while he stared at her.

"Wow." Josephine muttered absentmindedly, blushing right after and almost stuttered.

"Did you secretly go through a face surgery or something?" Josephine asked, trying to hide her blush, as she let out a harrumph.

Whilst, Miles merely smirked-

"It’s called growth spurt, Phine."

Josephine appeared stumped by his words, unconvinced and quickly waved her hand in disapproval, not wanting to hear more of it.

" Whatever, I came to tell you that mom isn’t back and it’s way past 7pm."

There was a heavy sense of worry laced in her tone, causing Miles to instantly grimace.

Hannah always came home in time, almost never having missed dinner before. Hearing that she was yet to be back made Miles realize something must have happened, if it wasn’t bad she would have given them a call at least.

"Did you try calling her?" Miles asked just to be sure.

"Hmm." Josephine replied with the shake of her head— " her phone is switched off."

" What about Deb and Cassie?"

"Oh, they just left and are headed to her workplace."

" Okay, give me a second."

Quickly turning away from the door towards his laptop, Josephine stepped inside, tagging behind without being invited.

Opening the PC, Miles quickly typed in a series of digits and logged into the family’s linked email cloud where every mail was connected.

Clicking on the members, he found Hannah’s mail and accessed her profile.

’Last online. Last active location.’

In a moment, Miles found what he was looking for and the image of a map quickly expanded on the screen, pinpointing Hannah’s last seen location to be a club-exclusive bar. Fortunately he knew the club and was also a member of it since it was a family thing.

"You’ve got to be kidding me."

"What?!"

A voice suddenly gasped behind his ears, Miles instinctively jolted,since he had been deeply focused on the screen, he didn’t know Josephine was hunched above his shoulder. He reacted like a killer would, but instead of grabbing her neck, he shifted in the last moment after realizing it was her and grabbed her boobs instead.

’Fuck! She isn’t wearing a bra, I can feel her nipple. She’s so soft.’

The room fell into strange silence as Miles kept his hand fixed on her boobs, his dark side making the best of him while Josephine’s face rapidly heated in goosebumps.

’How can his hand be so strong and soft?’

Stunned by the sensation of how firm his fingers actually dug into the plumpness of her breasts with mastered ease, Josephine was left dazed for a second but then realized he didn’t seem like he was going to take his hands off them and slapped his hand off.

"Pervert!" She blurted in a high pitched tone, embarrassed and shy.

Meanwhile, Miles let out a goofy smile after coming back to his senses.

"Damn." He cursed, staring at the palm that had felt it with a look of amazement. He shifted his gaze to Josephine and realized she was feigning a furious look while vividly showing she expected an explanation.

"I swear- it was a mistake. I got too focused on finding mom and didn’t know you were behind me..." he paused letting the silence stretch with an apologetic expression on his face.

"Hmm!" Josephine let out a cold harrumph and turned her head in the opposite way, pretending to be displeased. Whilst she just bought herself a moment to blush.

A few seconds later, she turned to face his attentive gaze, dazed by his looks she forgot herself for a moment, then proceeded to grit her teeth.

"You don’t sound honest one bit. Then why did you... why did you.." she struggled to say the exact words but soon gave up.

Miles smiled.

"... Because I didn’t expect it to be so soft."

"So soft?!" Josephine squealed, unable to believe what she heard and angrily stamped her feet.

" Just admit that was a perverted act already. I never knew you had this side of you Miles." She said in a big sister tone, inwardly trying to contain her wildly beating heart.

’...so soft.’ The word kept ringing in her mind several times.

Meanwhile, Miles already summoned the system’s holographic screen and saw her Infatuation Gauge rise to 91%.

’Nice acting Big sis.’

Miles sneered, having his fun.

"A pervert? What if I am? Aren’t you guys the ones always walking around with nipples bouncing and poking. If that isn’t perverted, what is it?"

Miles asked. Finally he could let something off his chest on the behalf of his predecessor.

Josephine rapidly heated to a tomato face, at a loss for words to reply, stumped her feet and let out a cold harrumph.

"See?"

Watching her boobs jiggle with just one action be added, causing Josephine to blush while pleading for the ground to swallow her.

’I still did it.’ She felt like crying when she realized, but fortunately Miles didn’t keep cooking her.

"I’ll go and check the bar. Stay at home in case we missed her on the way so you can call us to return.