Page 26 of The Billionaire and His Driver
Ronny was surprised by her answer. Every woman he’d ever known would broach the subject and then inject herself intothe predicate. “I’m like you. With my life the way it is, I just haven’t found the time.”
“But it’s something you want?”
“Not particularly no.” Then he looked at her. “That bothers you?”
Brina smiled. “Why would it bother me? That’s your life.”
She never took the bait. He liked that. “True,” he said with a smile of his own.
Brina yawned and stretched. “What time is it, by the way?” she asked.
“Last I looked, and I recently looked, it was a few minutes shy of three a.m., so it should be a little after three.”
“Wow.That early?”
“Yup.”
She stared at him. “How do you feel, sir? You okay?”
Ronny could see the concern in her eyes, which touched him. “If you’re okay, I’m okay.”
Brina smiled. It was the sweetest thing ever. But she kept her composure. She knew she wasn’t in some billionaire’s league. She knew they weren’t about to live happily ever after, she didn’t care how great it could be. It wasn’t going to be, and she would never convince herself otherwise. He was just a good guy doing good things for her. And she appreciated it. “I want to properly thank you, sir, for rescuing me from that crazy man.”
“You know what you aren’t going to do?”
It was an odd question to Brina. “What, sir?”
“Call me sir while you’re lying in bed with me,” he said, and they both laughed. “Or any other time going forward,” he added. “I’m Ronny or Ronald. Either will do.”
“Not Warren?” Brina asked since it was his actual first name.
“Never Warren,” he said.
“You dislike the name that badly?”
“No, not at all,” said Ronny. “But Warren was my father’s name. I’m not my father. He was a great man.”
Brina considered him. “Aren’t you a great man too?”
He shook his head. “No. Not in the least. I’m a rich man. I’m a powerful man. But greatness is born out of how other people perceive you. My brother Sully, now he’s a great man. But me? On that score, I fail miserably.”
“You didn’t fail me,” said Brina. “And I thank you for that, sir. I mean Ronny.”
He smiled. “It’ll take some getting used to, but you’ll get used to it. And don’t worry about that guy that broke into your apartment. I have the chief of security at Bradshaw Tech on the case. He and his team will find him.”
“I’ll feel so much better when that happens for sure.”
“And you don’t think you’ve ever met him before?”
She was shaking her head. “Never. I’ve never seen that man before in my life.”
“Did he tell you what his intentions were?”
She shook her head again. “He didn’t tell me anything. He was trying to drug me. I know that.”
“He wanted you unconscious so that he could take you to another location. He didn’t expect you to put up such a fight or he would have probably been better prepared.”
“That’s what I was thinking too.”
