The Billionaire and His Driver

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE

When Brina made it outside, she saw Ronny leaned against his Mercedes with Tex standing beside him. Tex was talking, but Ronny, as usual, seemed to be buried in his own thoughts. She wasn’t sure if he would wait on her, given how angry he seemed, but she was pleased that he did.

Ronny watched her as she made her way out of the restaurant and walked over to his car.

“Hey,” Brina said cordially, although she could tell he was still pissed. “I thought you’d be gone.”

“When I tell you to do something,” Ronny said, “it is my expectation that you will do it.”

“If I want to do it, I will. If I don’t wanna do it, I won’t.”

Ronny frowned. “Who do you think you’re talking to? You don’t talk to me with that tone!”

Brina scrunched up her face. “What tone ?” Then she realized Ronny was sounding just like all those other men she’d been with in all those other dead-end relationships. Was this one headed that way too before it barely got off the ground? “You know what,” she said, pulling out her phone, “you don’t have to wait any longer. I’ll find my own way home.” And she began walking away.

Tex looked at Ronny. How he reacted would tell Tex all he needed to know about just how serious the boss was about that girl. Would he get in the car and leave her to fend for herself the way he did every other woman that tried to stand up to him, or would he chase her down?

Tex stared at him hard. Ronny remained leaned against his car, shaking his leg, and staring at Brina with venom in his eyes as she made her way in brisk steps down that sidewalk. But he wasn’t moving. Any second, Tex was certain, he was going to decide to hell with it, get behind the wheel of his car, and speed away.

But that didn’t happen.

When Ronny, instead, ran after Brina, Tex could hardly believe it. He had never, in a decade of working for the man, seen the boss chase after any female ever. But for him to chase behind Brina, the least-connected among all the women he’d ever had, said everything to Tex. It was the real deal. For the boss to behave that way? It had to be.

When Ronny hurried up to Brina, he took her by the arm and turned her around. He was embarrassed to have to run her down and was ready to make it clear to her who wore the pants in their relationship. But when he saw those sweet, sincere, sultry eyes again, he melted. He could not disrespect this woman. He could not manhandle her. She wasn’t just anybody he was having a ridiculous spat with. She was his lady.

And his entire demeanor eased. “I apologize for my brutishness, Sabrina,” he said as he placed his hands around her waist. They were eyeball to eyeball. “I just received some disturbing news from Reynolds McNabb, and I didn’t quite know how to process it.”

When Brina heard the name of Ronny’s security chief, her interest rose too. “Disturbing news about what?”

Ronny hesitated as he stared deep into her eyes. “You,” he said. “It’s about you.”

Brina’s heart dropped. She wanted to ask him what exactly it was about her. But she couldn’t pull herself to ask it. She’d become so accustomed to being falsely accused of things she’d never even dream of doing and could never get anybody to believe her, anyway, was why she held her peace. She was tired of explaining. Whoever was accusing her this time was going to have to do all the explaining. She was done.

“I told Mac I’d head over there now. I want you to come with me,” Ronny said.

Brina didn’t want to face anymore firing squads, but she nodded her head. She wanted to at least know what the lie was this time. “Okay,” she said.

But when they turned to head back to the car, they saw Sully standing at the exit doors. He saw Ronny chase after Brina. He was staring both of them down with a look of sheer amazement on his face.