Page 33 of The Billionaire and His Driver
“That’s none of your business.”
“But heightened security at my personal residence isyourbusiness?”
“Yes.”
Ronny frowned again. The nerve he had! “When did what happens at my home become your business?”
“Because you and everybody else in this family involves me in your affairs. I don’t involve any of you in mine. That’s why! Now answer my question. Is it true?”
Ronny gave up. There was no arguing with Sully because his reasoning was always flawed. Although he was right about one thing: they all did lean on Sully too much. They all did go to him with their problems. “Yes, it’s true,” he said.
Brina could tell Sully was upset to hear it, which suggested to her that he really cared about his brother.
“Are you in danger?” Sully asked.
Ronny shook his head. “No.”
“Then why the extra security if there’s no threat?”
Ronny didn’t look at Brina, but a distressed look appeared on his face. “My driver may be in danger.”
“Your driver? Why would that matter to you? Get another driver.” Then Sully realized who he meant. He looked at Brina. “Her? She’s the one in danger?”
Ronny hated to admit it. “Yes.”
Sully looked from Ronny to Brina. “What kind of danger?” he asked her.
Brina’s heart began to pound. There was something about the way Ronny’s brother looked at her that made her feel as if she was in the principal’s office. As if she was beneath him. But she steeled herself and answered. “A man broke into my apartment last night and attempted to kidnap me.”
“Kidnap you? For what reason?”
She shook her head. “I don’t know.”
Sully looked at Ronny.
“I have Reynolds looking into it now.”
Then Sully, who seemed very troubled by this news, looked at Brina again. “Do you know this man that broke into your place?”
“No sir.”
Sully continued to look at her doubtfully. “Are you sure?”
“Yes sir. I never saw that man before in my life.”
“So you’ve never been around any bad guys before in your life? Is that what you’re telling me?”
“No sir.”
“So you’ve been around bad people before?”
“Only when I was in prison,” Brina said.
Sully’s hard blue eyes stretched beyond the largeness they already were. “Prison? You’ve been toprison?”
Ronny was staring at Brina too. But for a far different reason than Sully’s stare. To Ronny, the fact that she would tell the truth to a man that even a blind person could see would not look kindly on anybody’s failings, said a lot about the kind of woman she was. She was never ashamed to tell the truth no matter what people thought of that truth. That impressed him.
But Sully was more alarmed than impressed. “What were you in prison for?” he asked her.
