Finding Mrs Billionaire

Chapter 3

Lincoln's POV

I was exiting the elevator to the ground floor and was heading for my car outside when Sam my head of security asked "Going out for lunch Mr Micelli?"

It wasn't natural for my employees seeing me leave work this early even if it was lunch break so I guess his question came as no surprise.

"Nope, just meeting up with Big M" I replied.

Big M was the name the employees called their former boss a.k.a my father after I was appointed as the new CEO of the company and took on the Mr Micelli title my father was once called.

Dave my driver was bringing the car around when my cell rang. I brought it out of my pocket and saw the caller ID, it was Rico.

"Hello, Rico?"

"Lincoln meet me at the Walmart closest to you, Oh and hurry up"

Before I could answer he'd already hang up.

That was odd. Was Rico in some sort of trouble? If he was, I wanted to know how serious it was and see what I could do to help.

"Where to Mr Micelli?" Dave broke me from my line of thought.

"The nearest Walmart please Dave" I replied.

My dad wasn't expecting me so I would just have to call or meet him later to bring him up to speed with the company's progress in Asia.
Besides I wasn't in the mood to meet up with him and talk business when SHE was still on my mind.

And if my employees picked up on my strange behaviour and the excessive smiles I've been giving everyone around the office, my parents will surely know something's up and will not stop until they find out what caused this change.

I don't get it, I'm still the same me !!!

We parked at Walmart just in time to see Rico barely carrying the loads of grocery bags to his car. I approached him and the first words he spoke were "Get in"

Rico may have retired from detective work but he was still acting like one.
If not that, he was acting like a man on the run, a spy perhaps.

The 30 second phone calls and now out of the blue asking me to go with me, Was he a target of some sort? Did he need my help for something?

I had thought he just wanted to find out why I'd left so many phone calls and that was it.

Without question I hopped in his car and we were off within seconds.
I guess I was just interested to find out the reason for his odd behavior and to be honest I needed something to desperately take HER off of my mind.

"Im sorry man, I've been really busy" Rico finally spoke.

"Yeah I can see that" I replied with a questioning look.

He must've picked up on it because he continued with his explanation "You see my cousin who is more of like a sister is coming over for dinner and this is our first family dinner since my dad's passing and my mum wanted it to be perfect but at the pace I'm going, I am sooo late and so in trouble"

I burst out into laughter and his faced turned into a state of confusion.

"Rico I thought you were hiding from the law or running from the mafia or something because of these strange meet ups at these random places and the quick phone calls" I said while wiping the tears forming in my eyes from excessive laughing.

We both laughed at the misunderstanding.

"Hey you don't know my mum and sister, they're worse than the mafia if I miss or come late to our family dinners" he joked.