Catch You!My Billionaire

Road

Half of the sun rises into the shady blue cloudless sky, Its beam clashes on the glass at the tallest building in the middle of the street. Glen Hopkins stands behind his gigantic glass walls. Down in the bustles of the city, sellers gather and build their stations. Glen notices a fat lady in a muddy apron pointing her index finger at the car after it passes by and left a trail of cloud smoke. “Stinky rich people! You might have money, but you don’t have morals”, her voice cracks when she shouts at the bottom of her lungs. Glen shakes his head and sneers, he found the woman’s gestures ridiculous. How come she can have the right to tell those words to the car owner if she is rude as well?

The event on the street dragged away from his attention from his main dilemma. Glen sits on the black cushioned office chair and leans his back. He stayed still in silence, in his office, but deep in his mind the events from the last week’s political campaign haunt him every day. The images of Halbert’s dead body soaked in its own blood are still vivid. Glen does sympathize with him, but what’s more important is his business. All of the money he invested gone in vain, the expansion of his enterprise in the city, falls on a threat of its existence. Because of the accident, he lost almost ten million dollars in a couple of months. It’s a disaster for him and his company. Others might think it’s not a big deal for someone whose net worth is the highest in the country, but Glen turned his night into days, in order to produce such an amount of money.

Glen won’t sit and wait to turn his situation upside down, he must find another way to mark his place in the city. He knew no politician can resist his offer of investing in their political campaign, aside from his money, almost all of the politicians he supported succeeded. A spark of epiphany crosses into his thoughts. Why not use more powerful politicians to support his business in the city? It might cause a power struggle between the local and nationwide politicians, but Glen didn’t care if he risks all of his cards for the sake of his company, besides all politicians are destined to compete with each other in desperation for control and power. Even if he doesn’t make a single move, the contest between them will still be inevitable.

Three loud knock bangs on the door, in the midst of quietness, “Who is it?”, Glen asked

“It’s me, Adrian!”, he shouted

Glen invited him to come in, but he raises one of his eyebrows when his brother walks in front of him, “Why do you have to be so loud?”,

“Because you didn’t answer my calls last night”, Adrian spoke with conviction

“You know I am keeping my phone away when I work”, Glen gets up from the chair. He picks up the papers on his desk and stares at it, but didn’t mind the content.

Adrian sneered, and shook his head, “I bet you already have a plan for the company here in the city”, he said

Glen smiles at him, “What does the board members say? I heard they were thrown into panic”

Adrian replied to his brother’s suggestion to change some of the board members even the staff because they are a waste of money. His brother nods and said “I would look into it”, afterwards,

Glen asks his brother if he has spare time for lunch, because he misses him, which made Adrian puzzled, yet Adrian agreed anyway.

The brothers have their lunch at one of the restaurants a couple of kilometers away, from the office of their company. Glen walks ahead of his brother after they parked their car outside, and walked towards the entrance. Adrian wasn’t pleased when he entered, at the doors of the place. Plain paintings hanged on the wall, beige tablecloths at the wooden table sets, and three servants. Did Glen lose his mind? Is he trying to be cheap to regain the money he lost?

“Uhhh..why are we here?”, Adrian asked

“It’s lunchtime, what do you think?”, Glen sighs at him

“Yeah, but why do you want to eat at this place?”,

Glen raises one of his eyebrows, he stares at him for a few seconds but smirks afterward, “Are rich people not allowed to eat in a normal restaurant?”,

“Of course not….eh...I know you always liked to flaunt your money”, Adrian scratches the back of his head

“Silly”, Glen chuckles, “If I were to choose, I would not waste any of my money for luxury”, he said

Adrian became more confused, his brother’s words were a riddle in his mind, therefore he didn’t respond.

Glen made the first move, he sense their discussion will go nowhere. He called for a server and asked for their reservation. The server lead them to their table until they sat down, later on, he took their orders and went right away to the kitchen.

“Is there anything you want to talk about?”, Adrian told him

“Do you still have any contact with Mia?”, Glen asked,

“Mia?.....Oh, the woman at the event?”,

Upon his brother’s reply, he thought he can get any help from him. Glen wanted Adrian to convince Mia to help build the company’s presence in the city. Mia’s father is a former vice mayor, but he is still influential amongst the politicians. One command from him and the dominant political party in the city will do his orders, but now Adrian broke the prospects to gain the support of Mia’s father.

Glen is confident he can find another way, to solve this issue. However, he was still disappointed with his brother.

“Why did you ask?” Adrian said,

“Well, I need his father’s help”

“Do you need his support?”,

“Of course!”, Glen shouted, which made the other people turn their heads towards him, “Is it hard? Why can’t you do it?”, he added in a loud voice.

“Don’t shout”, Adrian whispered to him, “I know I failed”, he exhales, “She doesn’t want to contact me after the event, but I promise I would help you”, he added

Glen puts his elbows, on the table, and moved his face closer to his brother, “I believe you won’t fail me”, he uttered.

Out of nowhere, the server interrupts their conversation. He brought their meals and

placed them on the table with care. “Enjoy your meal”, he said before he left the two of them.

The two brothers ate their meal, in silence, yet Glen couldn’t contain it any longer, so he apologize to Adrian and the two chatted in the restaurant for an hour.

At the beginning of the afternoon, Glen and Adrian drive to the center of the highway towards one of the outskirts in the city. They planned to visit their uncle instead to stay at the office since they will hear nothing other than the complaints on the company’s dilemmas. At first, their journey ran smooth, there are almost no cars around them and the scenery of green trees and tall grasses relaxes their eyes from a crowded smoke polluted middle of the city. Adrian tried to play pop music in the car, but Glen hindered him from doing so. Adrian wanted to kick his brother out of his own car, yet he know he can’t do such a thing. A combination of fear and love in his heart makes him Glen’s puppy, always ready to obey his every request.

When they were young Glen became his father figure after their dad died. Adrian was only thirteen at that time, and apart from his mother and brother they have no one. The business Glen inherited from his father which is the one he manages today was a step away from bankruptcy, still, Glen turned the situation upside down and even made cash flow in the company, therefore Adrian admired his brilliance. However, it puzzles him, why do they need to advance the business into this city? Their presence is seen around the country and even abroad, their company built different infrastructures from buildings to bridges and railways, why bother to extend the business here, if it will cost a lot of trouble?

Adrian couldn’t contain the questions in his head anymore so he asked his brother, “What if we don’t bring the business here in the city? It’s better to use our resources to expand abroad”, Glen didn’t utter a single word, instead, he kept his full attention unto the road, thus Adrian cleared his throat, and looked at his brother and this time Glen looked back.

“Is it because of the board members’ opinion?”, Glen asked his brother

“Yeah...but I think they are right, do we need to involve ourselves in the political struggles here?”,

The car passes on an intersection. Glen didn’t stop because there were no cars nor traffic lights around afterwards he answers his brother, but his eyes were on the rearview mirror.

“We have to be the first and number one construction company here”, Glen said. Adrian didn’t have any words to reply to his brother, Glen was right. However, his reasons still made Adrian confused.

Adrian then noticed his brother stare at the rearview, hence he looks in the mirror. A police car drives behind their back. Adrian turned his eyes around and there were no cars, other than them.

“Glen, look!”, he shouted,

“I know!”, Glen said back

“What are we gonna do?”, Adrian shakes his brother’s arm

Glen stopped the car and went out. He walked towards the parked police cruiser and two

women in a dark blue police uniform approaches him.

“Can I help you, ladies?”, Glen asked them with a smile,

“Ladies”, the woman in black bunned hair, sneers, “Let’s see later if you still will address us, ladies”

“Well, I am busy, what do you want?”, Glen said to her.

The other short-haired policewoman interfered and answers his question, “A witness said, a carnapper, stole the exact same car you are driving”,

“Didn’t you check the license plate?”, Glen told her,

“We chased the car right after we saw the footage in the CCTV camera in the establishment, the camera didn’t manage to capture the plate number,” she said

“What! No way!”, Glen uttered,

“I am sorry sir, but we have to, besides it is for confirmation we will not arrest you yet”, the woman in black bunned hair, told him.

“This is unbelievable you waste my time!”, Glen shouted,

“Sir, you have no choice”, the woman in a bun added.

The short-haired policewoman then drives his car, and glen sat beside the bunned policewoman in their police cruiser. Glen’s car drove first and the cruiser right after them.

Glen then notices the woman beside her is very pretty. Her perfect v-shaped, jawline, red luscious lips, and almond blue eyes, made him gaze at her.

“Why are you staring at me?”, she noticed him

“Nothing”, he smiles, and leaned his shoulder closer to her, “By the way, can I ask what's your name?”, Glen said,

The woman then laughed at her, “For what?”,

“I might need you someday”, Glen told her, which made the woman laugh harder

“I know what you are doing...I have a boyfriend”, she said

“So what? You can’t help men?”,

“Fine”, she sighs, “It was Olivia”, she said

“Nice to meet you Olivia”, Glen said

Olivia’s face turned serious within a second, she glances at him, and shakes her head, “I wanted to tell you, your trick won’t work on me, you will never escape this car”, she said.

Glen smirks at her, he told her if she knew who he was Olivia wouldn’t even bother to lay her fingers on him.

Olivia replied to him, “I don’t care, I fear no one”.

“Let’s see”, he said.

Her answer made Glen intrigued. A pretty face with a strong stomach is the type of woman he yearns for.