Chapter 2: Long journey to meet the billionaire.

Sandra had finally gotten out of the house, away from her wayward sister, who was now playing games with her father. Her thoughts were now fixed on her picnic with the tycoon. Times, the billionaire’s chauffeur, unlocked the Rolls Royce’s back door. As a result, Sandra entered without reluctance, but Times remained outside, as if he intended to communicate with her via the window. He was supposed to inquire about Sandra’s wellbeing.

“Did you make it out of your father’s house?” Times asked Sandra a question as she leaned over the car window, attempting to grab her iPhone 14 Pro Max from her purse. He immediately proceeded to the front door and attempted to unlock it while waiting for Sandra’s response. He eventually got into the car and started it. As a result, Sandra raised her head, as if considering the issue made by Times.

“I left a message for her to prepare for my arrival. We’re going to have a fight.” Sandra responded and then glanced herself in the phone mirror, expecting Times to focus on driving the car, but he seemed willing to extend the discussion with Sandra. He subsequently ignited the car and drove away from the billionaire’s crush’s house. Sandra’s departure from her home was seen on the Melon Security Agency’s surveillance cameras. The chief of the security guards, Ham, calls his boss, Joel, Sandra’s father, to inform him of his daughter’s departure.

“We saw your daughter go into the Rolls Royce. She is now traveling east of Melon’s central metropolis. Is it something you’re aware of?” While sitting in the observation office, he reported every movement of the car carrying Sandra.

As a result, Joel responded while still sitting next to Lear playing the video game, “Yes, thank you for letting me know.” Ham hung up the phone and returned to his work of monitoring the city via surveillance cameras. Sandra was the center of attention as Times chauffeured her in a billionaire’s automobile. The conversation between the tycoon’s crush, Sandra, and her driver, Times, was going well.

“I’d love to be a part of your family. Your father is a gentleman. Your sister is naughty.” Times remarked with a smile while driving. His phone began to ring. His boss, Mark, demanded to know where he and Sandra were.

“He’s right here with me, sir, and we’ll be there in a minute.” He answered the phone, but Mark hung up when he noticed Sandra was on her way to him. The interview he was conducting had now come to an end. The billionaire was now conversing with his head guard, Donta, on the balcony, while the journalist, Niska was conversing with her husband, Dwayne, one of Mark, the Tycoon’s top guards. Sandra, on the other hand, was irritated by the billionaire’s behavior because she anticipated him to phone her and inquire about her whereabouts.

“Why isn’t Mark calling to find out about my whereabouts?” Sandra questioned about her evening out with Mark, having seen anything peculiar. The road appeared to be congested, with traffic cops stationed throughout. This frightened the driver even more. Sandra chose to play video games on her phone to pass the time as they were still far from the hotel where the tycoon was staying.

“Disaster has arrived. What are they doing on this road at night?” When he noticed traffic cops carrying out a stop and search on the road, Times screamed. The traffic cops focused their attention on Rolls Royce the drove towards them. Sandra stopped playing video games because she was afraid of getting into trouble if the cops stopped and searched her car. One of the traffic cops did, in fact, point at the automobile and force it to stop on the opposite side of the road. Sandra and Times were both terrified.

“Something is not right about my trip.” Sandra stated her concerns as the cop pulled them over. He opened the window to speak with the traffic cop who had stopped him.

“We are patrolling these streets, sir. You’re already aware that you shouldn’t drink and drive.” The officer said this while glancing out the window at Times. Times had been drinking with other guards before being ordered to come and take Sandra. As a result, there would be no way for him to avoid the incarceration that he knew was coming.

“How about you?” Times questioned, his face set on the traffic cop. Sandra became aware of Times’ attitude toward the traffic cop as a result of his question.

“We want to see if you drank any kind of alcohol before getting on the road. I’d like you to come out.” A law enforcement officer responded. The test started the moment Times stepped out of the car.

“Oh, my God. Don’t tell me the billionaire’s driver is inebriated.” Sandra spoke her thoughts out after seeing the cop find Times positive in his alcohol test. When she observed the traffic officer summoning the other officers, she realized her driver was about to be arrested. She considered doing something to set Times free.

“Please excuse me, sir. We’re on our way to a business meeting. We must bargain. At this point, I won’t be able to drive myself to the meeting.” Sandra requested that the traffic officer free Times from the manacle that had him bound.

“There will be no bargaining, lady. Joel’s eldest child. We arrested your driver for driving under the influence.” The cop calmed Sandra as the other cops arrived to bring Times to prison cells.

“Who is going to drive me to the meeting if you take him?” Sandra wailed as she prayed for Times’ freedom. The traffic officer was harsh. Sandra was already out of the car, pleading with the cops to let Times go, but she was unsuccessful.

“Get into your car and call your father to come pick you up and drive you to the meeting.” Sandra was terrified, so the police ordered her to get inside the car. She got into her car and called Mark. The traffic cops just arrested Times, and Sandra had been detained inside the Rolls Royce. She didn’t even know how to drive properly because she had never used her license in public. Her father was not informed of the incident that occurred to his daughter at this time. Instead of contacting her father, she dialed the number of the billionaire who had invited her.

“You sent an inebriated driver to pick me up. I’m locked in your car now that he’s been detained. Come and get me.” She was sobbing on the phone with the business magnate. Mark appeared unmoved by what he was informed about his driver, whom he had instructed to take his crush.

“I’ll send another driver to take you to the hotel where I’m resting.” Mark reacted to Sandra’s fears before continuing his discussion with Donta, his chief guard.

“You keep sending me drunk drivers as if I weren’t special.” Why don’t you come and pick me up by yourself?” Sandra retaliated by yelling back at Mark.

“I’m at the meeting, and I’m also drunk,” he explained as he hung up the phone.

“I’m going home because I think I’m being duped by a billionaire.” Sandra said, not realizing Mark had stopped chatting and was talking with his head guard. The tycoon was the most guarded, with eight guards escorting him everywhere he went.

At this point, his wife, Gwen was alone at home. Sandra finally discovered that the call had been dropped when she checked the time. She became enraged to the point where she considered every night out with the billionaire as a waste of time when she could have been in bed.

“This womanizer had dropped his call,” she said as she got into the driver’s seat. Her new idea was to drive the tycoon’s Rolls Royce back home. Even though Ham, the security person in charge of surveillance observed her, he did not notify her father, Joel, as he did when she departed her residence. She attempted to start the car because she was the only one who had the key.

“The power is now in my hands.” she said as she tried to start the car, intending to return home. She made a U-turn as soon as she attempted to return home. The car came to an abrupt halt and locked itself. That was another tease that wounded her much more than the previous one.

“Damn! Automobiles in the modern world. What is the current impediment? Am I not allowed to return home?” She yelled and hammered on the door as she tried to get out of the car. It was closed. As soon as she saw it, she understood she was trapped in the automobile. She called her father’s phone number.

“My driver has been arrested. I tried to go home, but the car locked up with me inside.” When she spoke to her father, Joel, she sobbed.

“Hello, I’m coming to see you.” As he stepped up from the couch he was seated on while playing a video game with his daughter, Lear, Joel made a remark. His younger daughter observed that her older sister had not arrived at her destination. She began to feel resentment toward her.

“My sister had the worst night ever, and she should be ashamed of herself.” While seeing her father put on his jacket, she remarked on this.

“You were the first to contribute to this mess.” He admonished his daughter and raced to his garage, leaving Lear alone in her grief. While her father was away, she reflected on her mother. Her mother, Anne entered the gaming room and discovered her daughter sobbing, as if she had called her. She was aware that something awful had happened to her daughter. She sat next to her, comforting her while she complained.

“What have I done now, Father?” She cried out in her mother’s alms. Her father had already departed for the garage. She kept complaining to her mother.

“My father holds me accountable for my sister’s transgressions.” She sobbed in her mother’s arms incessantly, as if she was blameless in all her actions. Her mother was aware of her and how they frequently fought with her elder sister. She discovered a method to console her after kissing her hair.

“They forgot you were a baby, Mom says, and she adores you, my lovely princess.” Anne cradled her cheeky child in her arms.

“I really want to sleep with you.” Lear said this while wiping away tears and looking at her mother.

“My baby, put on your sleep pajamas and come sleep in your mother’s bed. Mom will breastfeed you until your sister’s problems are forgotten.” She informed her daughter, Lear, who came out laughing. They both rose up and turned to face one other.

“I’m kidding, mama. If I sleep with you, where will Dad sleep? You know how scared he is. That is why she requires your presence on a daily basis.” While wrapping her arms around her mother’s waist, Lear said this. They exited the gaming room with the intention of going to their bedroom. Anne was still carrying her purse. Sandra’s night out with the tycoon went unnoticed by her mother.

“I’m in love with you, Lear.” As she proceeded from the gaming room to her bedroom, Anne reassured her child. She didn’t enter the room, but she did let her mother in. She kissed her on the cheek and murmured, “Goodnight, mother.” She then went to her bedroom shower and took a bath. The time was eight o’clock at night. As a result, it was still early in the city’s life.

The second driver dispatched by Mark, the billionaire, had arrived to the location where Sandra was stuck with the car at this point. Sandra’s father, Joel, was still on his way. Sandra noticed a man attempting to open the door of a Rolls Royce.

“Can you tell me who you are? What are you doing opening my car?” Sandra shrieked as Gilda, the driver Mark had assigned to pick her up, opened the car door.

“This is the driver I sent to pick you up.” Throughout the phone call, Mark reassured Sandra. Gilda was already in the car, waiting for Sandra to come out of the driver’s seat so he could drive her to the billionaire’s hotel.

“Take the steering wheel.” As she returned to the rear seat, she said this. Gilda drove until they arrived at the billionaire’s hotel.

“I see you’ve gotten away from where you were. Is everything all right, my child?” Joel asked Sandra where she was confined as he drove near the place.

“Mark’s driver arrived and drove us to the place where we would eat for dinner. Sorry for making you look like a fool, Dad.” As she entered the hotel, escorted by four of Mark’s security, she apologized to her father.

“You are my child, I say. My main concern is your safety, I say. I’m going home.” Joel drove back home to soothe his daughter.

“Thank you very much, Dad. You’re my best friend.” she said as she walked into Mark’s hotel room. Joel returned home to find his daughter missing from the gaming room where he had left her.

“Are you sound asleep, my baby?” He knocked and questioned about her whereabouts in her bedroom.

“Daddy! You’ve come back. Where has my sister gone?” Lear screamed as she opened the door to see her father. She appeared to still be bathing.

“She had finally met her partner. Good night, my child.” He said goodbye to his daughter, leaving her bare body staring at him. Joel entered his bedroom and slept beside his wife. Lear had finished his shower and retired to bed.