I open my door slowly with my gun drawn and I quickly hide it. Its Jenny the maid, dressed in workout clothes. Fuck, I quickly put my gun in the back of my yoga pants and cover it up with my shirt.

I then fake just waking up rubbing my eyes and say with a yawn "What the hell, Jen? It's 6am."

She looks so shy and says as she blushes "Oh is it too early for you? I saw you running yesterday and I was just wondering if you… wanted to work out? Because I want to be more athletic like you… I know you have to work at 8 so I figured…"

I put a hand up for her to stop rambling and say "its okay, I usually wake up earlier but I guess because I was tired from all the commotion yesterday. Let me get changed, why don't you meet me in the lobby?"

She smiles as she gets bouncy "Really?! Omg thank you!"

I look at her and say "You better be ready, because I won't take it easy on you." I then wave a hand over my body and continue "This comes from hard work and always working out! You have to be willing to fight for it? Are you willing to fight for it?!"

She says "Yes! I'll meet you down stairs!" with that she rushes out my door. As it shuts, I hide my gun and get changed into new workout clothes and put my hair in a bun. I then grab my cc, id, a bottle of water and my timer watch.

With that I lock my door and head down for the lobby, I see Jen waiting for me. I smile, she is going to need this water its 615 now, and I plan on having her worn out by 715.

I walk to her and say "So how fast can you run a mile or do you want to start on stairs?"

She looks at me wide eyes "Umm I can run a mile in 14 minutes?"

I then huff and say "That is horrible! I do a mile in 7 minutes. That is going to change, how often do you work out? Do you smoke?"

She looks at me and gives a sad face "I haven't worked out in a long time…. But I do not smoke!"

I smile at pat her shoulder "its okay! We are going to change this; you are going to start working out 3 times a week to begin with! Now let's go run that mile. After we stretch"

As I usher her out the door and we run the mile, I have to push but she gets a mile just under 14 minutes. I smile as she stops out of breath and says "That's a good start, you were under 14 minutes and I can work with that! Now let's go do some stairs."

I grab her hand as we walk to a place that's 5 minutes from the Tres spades. It's about 100 stairs, I say as she looks at me like I am crazy. "You are going to run up the stairs then run back down. I am going to see how long it takes you. Do you understand?"

She wipes the sweat off her forehead, I give her the bottle of water and she takes 4 sips and then hands it back to me. She then starts walking up the stairs as I start the time. Oh hell no, this isn't going to work. She has made it to about 50 and I catch up to her no problem. I say "Come on! We need to be faster than this!"

As I help push her up the stairs we get to the top, she is out of breath. I say "Take 10 seconds then we are going down these steps!"

After the 10 seconds, we start going down the steps this time faster. By the time we get to the bottom, her shirt is stained with sweat and her forehead is covered in sweat. I smile as I hand her the water bottle. "Good job, for the first day! It's only been 45 minutes but I feel like that is enough for today."

We start walking back to the hotel, we are small talking and I walk in its 655 now. No one hardly in the lobby, I smile and say
"I'll see you later okay? I got shower and change, then head to work! I had a blast. We will set up a routine okay?"

She looks sad for a second then says "Oh-okay… Yeah, I'll just go change and see you at work. Thanks Hara!"

She walks away I feel that something is not right. She looked so sad, I can think on that right now. I have to focus on getting ready for work.

I get up to my room, shower then blow dry my hair to straighten the curls into a wavy curl then put it in a high ponytail, then change in to high waist black skirt that's semi tight that goes to my knees and has a slit in the back, I tucked in blue button down and threw over nice fitted black blazer. I then put on a pair of my black pumps.

After I put light make up on and get a cup of coffee, its 7:45. I figure I might as well go early. I put all the papers, keys and everything I need in cute black bag. Then start walking to the elevator.

As I walk out to the lobby, I can feel that something is not right. I see Eisuke and the rest of the guys as well as the guest that are in the lobby now.

As I look to where they are, I see Jenny with a man that seems to be about 6'0 with blonde hair that is holding her wrist and yelling at her. Oh hell no, I walk to the desk, and put my purse down and I grab my name tag. The guys have finally realized I am there while I'm about to walk over.

I hear Jenny say as she crying "Please stop, we can talk about this later. Please just go, this is my job!"

I start walking over as he grabs her by the chin, what the fuck? Why is no one helping her? As I get to them I pull Jenny behind me as the man raised his hand to smack her, I had his hand in my hand and say with a smile as I drop it to his person "I wouldn't try that again if I were you."

Jenny then says "Hara, don't he—"

I silenced her as he scrunched his nose at me and takes a step closer to me trying to intimidate me in his Russian accent "Who do you think you are? You tall American bitch! I can do what I want; do you know who I am?"

I laugh as I find this comical "No, I do not know who you are, nor do I care. My name is Zahara, but you can call me whatever you like, but you keep your hands off of her."

He then cusses in Russian thinking I wouldn't understand. I then say In Russian firmly "I don't care who you are, but you stay away from her. You have caused her enough pain and maybe her job. Leave while you still have some of you dignities attached."

He then tries to look at Jenny, who is hidden behind me. Then looks me in the eyes says in Japanese "I will leave but I will be back for what is mine. You will pay the price for her."

He then looks over my body with his greedy eyes, I then say as I take a step closer and say with a smile "Well that will not be happening but have a great day and don't let the door hit you on the way out."

He then smirks at me which pisses me off even more, then whispers in Russian to me "Until we meet again, my love"

I smile at him then laugh "Which hopefully is never and I will never be your love, so good bye."

He then walks out the doors and I stand there looking for a second thinking about what I just did. I am so fucked it's not even funny. As I stand there looking at the door, I feel Jenny crying on my back, I turn around then I bend down "He won't hurt you, anymore okay? You have me as your friend? And friends have friend's backs? Okay?"

She smiles though I know it's forced, and says "Yes, but Zahara he's part-"

I put a finger to her mouth "I don't care if he is the head of the CIA or is the head of high ranking crime organization, we will get through this. Go clean yourself up and get ready for work."

She sniffs and gives me a watery smile "Thank you, I don't know who else I can lean on, I don't have many friends here. So thank you."

I smile as she walks off to the employee room.

As I stand and straighten my skirt, I walk to the front desk with everyone staring at me; people are shocked how I defused that and how he just walked away? I know it won't be the last time I see him but who the fuck cares? He will never touch her again. She is the only friend I have ever really made and she reminds me of a little sister.

Then I say after I clock in at 8:00 on the dot as I got to the computer I then say to the manager "I'm clocked in and ready to work. Ready when you are, Mr. K"

Eisuke then walks over to me and hands me a pager and key to the penthouse says with a smile on his face "You will be great here, you handled that great. I hope to see more of that. Why don't I show you up to our penthouse so we can discuss something's with you?"

For some reason the smile on his face freaks me out, and I can tell by the looks on others people's faces that it is not normal. I smile and as I grab the pager and key "Lead the way, Mr. Ichinomiya."

He smirks and starts walking towards the elevator, I follow him as the rest of the guys follow us in the elevator. I'm not sure what I just got myself into but I can't wait to see what happens.

To be continued