Her Asian Billionaire’s Perfect Match

Chapter 2

“You will never believe the new client we just got!” Simoniel rushed inside her office in excitement, her slightly plump attractive face lighting up.

“The President of the United States?” Leonie asked teasingly.

“Not quite but almost,” she said plopping down on the chair in front of the desk. The interview had been aired two days in a row and they had been getting an influx of clients since then. She had gone to dinner at Simoniel’s house where she had spent a relaxing evening with little Danny. Enjoying her friend’s delicious fried chicken and potato salad.

“Ever heard of the Masaki’s?” she asked smugly.

“Who hasn’t?” Leonie said her heartbeat quickening in excitement in spite of herself.

“The mother is coming in to see us with the intention of acquiring our services.” Simoniel said triumphantly. “I told you the interview was a great idea!”

“What does a woman like that wants with a service like ours?” Leonie wondered out loud.

“There you go again looking a gift Masaki in the mouth,” Simoniel said with a shake of her head. “She is coming in this afternoon so play nice and try and pretend that you are all about love.”

*****

“Mother please tell me you are joking!” John held the phone between his shoulder and face as he signed the documents his secretary had just handed him quickly. He had just come out of a meeting when his cell phone rang and he had realized that it was his mother.

“I am afraid I cannot tell you that darling, I am actually on my way there now.” His mother told him cheerfully.

“Why didn’t you tell me this when we were having breakfast this morning?” he asked her in a pained voice.

“Because I knew you would have tried to stop me.” She told him honestly. “I am doing this John and nothing you come up with is going to make me change my mind.” She added firmly.

“In that case, I am meeting you there.” He hung up before she could protest. “Linda please get me everything you can on the matchmaking company by the name of: ‘Love in the Prime’ and cancel my two o’clock meeting.”

“Yes sir,” Linda said smoothly, her facial expression never indicating what she was thinking.

*****

He got there shortly after his mother because he saw her just as she entered the building. He had asked his driver to take him there so he could read the dossier on the company. He noticed that it had been owned by the mother before the daughter took it over some time ago and it has been doing surprisingly well. Yet still, he was not about to let his mother be taken for her money, whenever people heard the Masaki name, they saw dollar signs and he had not gotten to be this successful by being careless.

“Stick around Bob, I don’t think I will be very long,” he instructed the driver.

“Yes sir,” Bob said with a respectful nod as he opened the door for him and closed it behind him.

“Mr. Masaki!” an attractive woman a little on the plump side greeted him in the lobby. The interior was pleasant and cheerfully decorated with what looked like a receptionist sitting behind a large curved counter with several phones displayed. “Your mother never said you were with her.”

“I am not,” he told her briefly, his piercing dark eyes meeting hers levelly. “Where is she?”

“She is in my- Leonie’s office,” Simoniel was a little flustered. First the mother and now the son, this day was getting too rich for her blood. “I will let her know you are out here.” She disappeared quickly before John could say anything and he was left there cooling his heels while she was gone.

Simoniel knocked discreetly on the door before turning the knob to go in. “I am sorry to interrupt,” she apologized. “But your son is outside in the lobby and he wants to see you.” She looked at the beautiful woman in a silk pants suit that must have cost an arm and a leg.

“And you left him there?” she asked in amusement, her cultured voice very soothing. “My son is not used to be kept waiting.” She stood up in one fluid movement. “I’ll be back shortly my dear.” She told Leonie.

“What’s he doing here?” Leonie asked her in an undertone as soon as the woman had left.

“I have no idea,” Simoniel said with a shrug. “I nearly passed out when I saw him but Lee he is one gorgeous piece of Japanese hunk.”

“I hope he did not catch you drooling,” Leonie told her dryly.

They both looked towards the door as it opened and Simoniel’s eyes widened as both mother and son came inside the office.

“If you will excuse me,” she said and hurriedly made her departure, closing the door behind her.

“Leonie this is my son John and I know this is highly unusual but he insists on sitting in on our conversation. He is very suspicious and protective so I am asking you to bear with him,” the woman smiled at her kindly.

She stood up and stretched her hand for him to take and was aware of him sizing her up, his dark eyes going over her face.

“I have no problem with that.” She said pulling her hand away from his and sitting down, indicating for him to take a seat.

“You took over the company from your mother and made it more successful than when she had it.” He made the comment before she could say anything else and she looked at him in surprise. “Do you believe in love Ms. Williams?” he asked her coolly.

Her eyes met his and she had the feeling that he was staring into her soul and finding the real her that she had kept hidden for so long.

“Do you?” she countered equally coolly, not bothering to answer his question.

“John, really!” his mother said quickly, breaking through the strange tension that had suddenly appeared between both of them. “This is about me not you and if you alienate Leonie before she finds someone suitable for me then this will all have been for nothing.”

“You do not need to go through this channel mother,” he protested, his eyes leaving Leonie’s to focus on her. “There are other ways of finding someone who is compatible.”
“Like the traditional way?” Leonie’s comment brought his gaze back to her. “We are very thorough here Mr. Masaki and we weed out the undesirables and get rid of the awkwardness of a first meeting. Generally people in their prime are shy and uncertain when it comes to finding romance and love the second time around. They are shy when it comes to certain aspects of their physical appearances and with this approach they get to know each other on paper before actually meeting each other first.”

“You sound like a P.R. firm Ms. Williams,” his tone was condescending and it got her back up. “I just wonder if you believe all of what you just told me.”

“John-“ his mother started to say but Leonie held up her hand to stop her.