The billionaire bargain
Chapter 1
Brandon
"You're late", Andy said when he saw me.
"Is that your way of saying hello?," I asked dryly.
Andy was my ex boyfriend and we were both going for the meeting against the Leonardo Della Rossi Blueprint and designs.
It took me two hours to arrive at the meeting because I'm broke and the bus came very late, but it seems Andy didn't give a f***ck by the look of his demeanor.
His eyes were filled with fury and he squeezed his fist into a punch at his sides.
" Leonardo Ferrari Della Rossi would not win this," he said.
To be frank it didn't matter what Andy or inhabitants of the city voted for, Della Rossi Towers had all the prowess and power it takes to establish yet another concrete blight on Hamilton.
I tried my best to tell Andy but he wouldn't listen, he never does.
So instead of being pessimistic I said,
"We are going to give it our best." My opinion won't matter, it never did to him. It was safe to play along.
"Your clothes looks worn out, you should have worn another one," he interrupted as if I hadn't say anything while scanning my body thoroughly.
I felt a mixture of embarrassment and irritation all at once, I shouldn't have come today, I was just concerned with the impending fact that I might be homeless very soon.
Yesterday my landlord had called and said he would throw I and my mom things out if we don't pay our overdue rent.
I have to find a way to come up with five hundred thousand dollars or I and my diabetic mom would be kicked out, this construction project was the last thing on my plate.
"I came straight from work, I don't have other clothes from this," I snapped.
"Okay," maybe he realized how hurt I was from his criticism because he didn't push further.
He turned around swiftly and made a good look of the growing crowd.
"Leonardo Della Rossi won't know what hit him after the media captures what is going to happen next," he said with a devilish smile spread across his face.
I was contemplating on what to tell him when I felt a sudden presence in the room.
The sound coming from the crowd which was blurry with murmurs instantly fell silent and I saw the city councilor Tage Hutch walk in along with the major.
But it wasn't them I was drawn to by my heartbeat but the gentleman walking by their side, wearing an Amiri suit that could buy my entire generation.
He exuded an aura of power and money with every single step he took.
I can remember vividly when he featured as one of the hottest single men in the city, no doubt everybody loved his Greek God aesthetic body.
Both men and women were falling for him. In his early twenties he moved to Paris where he constructed one of the world finest existing buildings while making tons of billions of dollars from it before coming back to Hamilton three years later.
Leonardo Ferrari Della Rossi the head architect and majority owner of De Rossi Blueprint and designs. The genius of the project I was set to counter, strode up to the front of the podium.
Andy who was standing next to me was knocked for a loop.
"Any idea he would be here?" he whispered to me.
I could feel an emotion in his voice and it was fear. Andy had planned how he would ridicule the idea of the towers project on camera without anyone questioning him.
"I guess the tables have been turned," I whispered back to Andy in a low voice.
I drifted my eyes from Andy and set them on the great Leonardo Ferrari Della Rossi, his blue icy eyes where set on me and his lips formed a devilish smirk.
From the way he looked at me, I suspected he must have overhead the conversation between I and Andy. I hope he didn't.
