The billionaire bargain

Chapter1

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 a meeting about the Leonardo Della Rossi Blueprint and designs.

It took me two hours to arrive at the meeting because I was broke, and the bus came very late, but it seemed 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 the 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 did.

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 look worn out, you should have worn another one," he interrupted, as if I hadn't said 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 about the impending fact that I might be homeless very soon.

Yesterday, my homeowner called and said he would throw I and my mom's things out if we don't pay our overdue rent.

I had 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 clothes other than those," I snapped.

"Okay," maybe he realized how hurt I was by his criticism because he didn't push further.

He turned around swiftly and took a good look at 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 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 mayor.

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 was 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's finest existing buildings while making tons of billions of dollars from it before coming back to Hamilton three years later.

Leonardo Ferrari Della Rossi is 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 away from Andy and set them on the great Leonardo Ferrari Della Rossi. His dark gray eyes were set on me and his lips formed a devilish smirk.

From the way he looked at me, I suspected he must have overheard

the conversation between I and Andy. I hope he didn't.