Marriage Of Convenience: A BWWM Billionaire Love Story Read Free

us to take you home?” the second impudent man said.
    Leila peered down
through the arms of the man carrying her and saw her bike laying
forlorn and injured by the sidewalk. She made a small sound of
distress.
    “ I’ll
pay for repairs of course,” the man carrying her said quickly,
seemingly afraid that she’d burst into tears or descend into
some other form of feminine display of emotion.
    Leila said nothing,
just allowed herself to be placed in the back seat. She was beginning
to feel pain along her arm and at her right ankle so maybe the men
were right and she was injured. She didn’t see how taking a
ride from the two strangers who hit her was wise though. They were
very insistent however, so she decided to go with it but dug into her
pocket and extracted her phone. It seemed to have suffered no ill
effects in the accident so she took a picture of her erstwhile
rescuers and sent it to Sheila with a text telling her that if she
didn’t hear from her in two hours she was to take the photos to
the police.
    “ Feel
better now?” man number two asked after watching her send the
text in amusement. She shot him a glare and ignored his remark,
looking down instead to inspect herself. There was a hole in the knee
of her black pants and her arm was definitely gashed if not actively
bleeding at the moment. Her foot looked fine but it was too early to
tell if the pain indicated a sprain or a break. She hoped it was
neither, please God, she had a fundraiser to arrange by the day after
tomorrow.
    “ I’m
Jonathon Leary,” the man sitting beside her with the smug smile
said.
    “ Leila
Masters,” she replied automatically not looking at him.
    “ That’s
my driver Mathews, he’s the one who hit you and he’s very
sorry,” Jonathon said.
    Leila glanced up and
then back down to her arm. Was it possible to get through this
journey without talking? She could feel the Jonathon dude’s
eyes on her and she squirmed uncomfortably. How to ask him to stop
staring without causing offense and/or showing fear?
    “ We
don’t bite you know?” he said further startling her.
    “ I’m
sure you don’t,” she replied with a fake smile.
    Mathews turned around
to look at her, “Where can we take you?”
    Leila gave them
directions to her house and Mathews nodded and turned around to start
the vehicle. He’d deposited her bike in the trunk as promised
and now he drew smoothly into the traffic. Jonathon sighed
theatrically, prompting Leila to look over at him. He gave her a wry
glance.
    “ I
was really hoping to get some coffee at Starbucks,” he said
regretfully.
    Leila almost smiled,
“Well I didn’t exactly stop you.”
    “ Indeed,”
Jonathon agreed. “But we can’t exactly throw you under
our vehicle and then ask you to please wait while we get our coffee
fix of the day now can we?”
    Leila shrugged, “I
don’t know. Can you?”
    Jonathon laughed,
looking at her with renewed interest.
    “ So
are you like, a professional biker?” he asked.
    “ No.
I’m a lawyer,” Leila said looking him warningly in the
eye. Jonathon shuddered theatrically.
    “ Oh
oh, are we in trouble or what?” he said waving his hands as if
he was afraid.
    “ Well,
I’d watch out if I were you and be on my best behavior,”
Leila said tongue in cheek.
    Jonathon laughed again,
“I definitely like you.”
    “ Lucky
me,” Leila replied wryly.
    “ Oh
you have no idea,” Jonathon said, his eyes full of mystery and
speculation.
    Leila frowned at him
but he just stared impassively back. And then he smiled.
    That was when Leila
knew she was in trouble.

Chapter 2
    They drew up on the
street outside Leila’s apartment block and Jonathon turned to
her. “Well, here we are. What floor do you live on?”
    Leila looked at him
frowning as if puzzled, “I fail to see how that is any of your
business,” she said.
    Jonathon laughed again.
“I just wondered if you might need help getting there. If for
example, your apartment building has no lift and