Billionaires 004
1600 Words
Diane entering the police station with a big step, she tried to talk to Asher but couldn’t see him around, Mr. Poitier explains the situation while Diane distributes meals and drinks to all of them.
“Asher’s in the interrogation room, it’s finally his turn.”
“I see.”
Then a hand of a woman pat lightly into Diane's shoulder. “Ms. Diane? I thought you were already leaving?”
Diane turns around to see the familiar faces, it’s Ms. Penny, their tour guide.
“Ms. Penny, you’re finally here.”
“Yes, Mrs. Poitier informs me about everything, she’s here with me right now.”
“Thankfully then, please accompany Mr. and Mrs. Poitier. I have to go somewhere right now.”
“Where do you think you’re going?”
Diane says goodbye to Mr. and Mrs. Poitier, and then rushing to go outside, Brandon already waiting, he’s leaning into an expensive car that Diane wasn’t aware of it before.
“I thought you might need a company.” Says Brandon, his beautiful eyes now looking at Diane, while his hand opens the door for her.
Diane smiles gratefully at him. “You are correct, thank you, Brandon.”
“No need to, this is for Asher, so of course I’ll be glad to help.”
Brandon enter the car, his hand firmly grip the steering wheel, Diane has to force herself to look into the window, not only the person beside her is a well mannered and well-dressed man, but he also has a fit and lean body, his gaze that will also make so many women swooning. A killer combination, she has to chant some words to repel his attractiveness; she said repeatedly in her head about how he’s still a 23-year-old man, and totally not attracted to her.
“Diane?”
Diane was severely occupied by her mind, she totally ignore Brandon’s question.
“Oh my God! Did I just ignore you?”
Brandon chuckling, for him, this is the first time in his life a woman ignores him completely, he likes it. “Yes, and it’s fine, you probably tired, so, where to?”
“Errr… to the hospital, I want it to talk with the pickpocket.”
“Okay, to the hospital, oh wait.”
Before Diane reacts to him, Brandon gets closer to her, his face just an inch away from Diane’s face, that piercing blue eyes of him, now look directly to her. Brandon then whispers to her.
“You forgot to put your seatbelt on.” He helps her put on her seatbelt, she can feel his warm breath engulfing her lips, which makes her quiver a bit, she wants it, that thin but sexy lips.
It takes every bone in her body not to get closer to Brandon, she then meekly say. “Thank you.”
Brandon goes back to sit in his driver's seat and properly put in his seatbelt, he smiles at Diane. “You’re welcome, so shall we.”
Diane just gives him a few nods, her mind completely blank, she’s out of words. Brandon on the other hand, just smirk a bit, a smirk that Diane can’t even see, he has something in his mind, and he will discuss this with Asher and Callum after all of this problem go away.
“Did you rent this car?” Ask Diane suddenly.
She hates the tension that builds up inside the car, she needs to make small talk, or else she might jump into his lap and just take him right there. That is a funny and tragic prospect at the same time, funny because she never thought she have this kind of desire towards men, nonetheless a younger man. Tragic? It will be, because Brandon still driving, what will happen if Diane jumps into his lap? A catastrophe for sure.
“This car? Hmm… You could say that.”
Diane looking at Brandon’s face did not really understand his cryptic answer, she tried to ask another question, and all of his answers is full of mystery just like his first answer.
“What is it with you and all of your cryptic answer?” She giggles, her face wincing at Brandon.
“You got me, I must apologize then.”
“For what?”
“I am not comfortable answering your question.” He glances apologetically at Diane.
She’s a bit disappointed. “Oh, I see.”
“No, not because I don’t trust you, but It is because, I… well, let’s just say, it is because I need to keep it a secret?”
Diane looking at Brandon, this time she wants to tease him. “What? The three of you are in some kind of boy band?”
Brandon got taken aback by her jokes, he laugh so hard, even though his eyes still focusing on roads ahead, he’s an excellent driver and a responsible one.
“Well, do you want us in a Boyband?”
“The three of you have the face for it, you could be a model at least. So, I guess, why not.”
He still chuckles, one of them actually an international model, Callum already strutting the runway since elementary, but he bet Diane isn’t a woman that is up to date in the high-fashion world.
“See, you’re smiling, so, I was right!”
“I will take my silent vow here, madam.”
Diane smiling widely at him, she likes this banter, at first, she thinks of Brandon as one of the unapproachable men from the three of them, but it wasn’t even the case, he’s the most heartwarming and considerate person.
“Oh, we are here.”
The car parking inside the hospital parking lot, together they enter the emergency room, trying to find the pickpocket boy, they ask the nurse in waiting and being informed that the boy already resting at the ward.
"Room 301, just enter the lift by the stairs." Says one of the nurses at Brandon, Diane will put a wager that none of those nurses even knows that she was here, besides Brandon.
Brandon says thank you and together they walk to the elevator, Diane mumbling. "Turns out I was totally invincible here."
Brandon just pretends to be not hearing the words, he used to it, one of his girlfriends even breaks up with him in the middle of a romantic dinner, just because the waitress who tends to their tables giving Brandon her number in the napkins.
Diane knocks on door number 301 and a voice of women told them to go inside and goes to see a skinny woman sit beside the young man who surprisingly has some major wounds in his face and even his arms.
"Oh my God, what happened to you?" Says Diane indeliberately.
"What happened here, because that friend of yours was beating my son, now looks at him!"
The fragile woman that turns out to be the mother of the teen, now looking so angry at Diane and Brandon.
"My apologies, mam, but your son was healthy when Asher, my friend bringing him back, there was not even a trace of bruises everywhere in his body."
"No, you're lying, and I will make sure, your friend will pay for this!" The woman then sends them away from the room.
Diane and Brandon, now looking at each other in disbelief, they go to the hospital canteen, Brandon bought some warm coffee from a vending machine, they sip their warm coffee can while thinking about the recent encounter.
"Are you really sure, he was fine before?" Ask Brandon.
"Yes, 100 percent! the woman is lying for sure, I saw him, the only one that had a minor wound was me, something is not right here."
"Yes, most definitely, I think..."
"Hey, Brandon, finally catch up with you, mom told me you are here with..." Callum smiling at Diane, a bit surprise to see her here as well. " Oh, it's you, never thought you will be here as well, Ms. Diane."
“Hey, Uhm…” Diane totally forgot his name.
“It’s Callum, remember? The gentleman that helps you with your bag?”
Diane apologetically smiles at him. “Of course, Callum, please just call me Diane.”
His face lit up the entire room with his smile, a smile that will surely make you think to jump into his face to kisses him until you’re out of breath or even makes you think that about all the goodness in the world, an innocent yet somehow dangerous smile.
“I thought you’re going to talk with the kid, what happened?” He asks Brandon while picking some coffee can.
“Let’s just say that we need to think of another solution for now.” Answer Brandon.
“Talking about the kid though, I heard from the nurses downstairs that he and his mother was a frequent visitor of the emergency room, just about a week ago, his mother has some bruises in her arms, and a swollen face makes me a bit of sympathy.”
“Really? That was odd.”
“Of course, not to mention his father never around, they always made some kind of lame excuses about how he was never there to attending his wife or kid.”
Brandon and Diane jumping at the same time. “That’s it!”
Diane’s eyes glimmering with hope, this time she is 100 percent sure she will be able to help Asher and the locals who got framed.
What exactly is the answer?
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