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smart boy Ramon, I knew you’d figure it out. You aren’t scared are you?”
    “Not of the old man,” Ramon laughed. “But this girl scares the piss out of me.”
    “No shit? Never thought I’d hear Ramon Sanchez afraid of some girl.” Gabe regretted saying it as soon as he did. In this context, he was not wrong. Ramon did not have a history of being socially or romantically intimidated by women. But in a broader sense, girls were often the subject of Ramon’s nightmares, for reasons that Gabe understood as well as anyone.
    But Ramon played it off.
    “I swear to God brother, she’s out to get me. She hates me like whoa.”
    “Yea?”
    “Today, she goes around all day pretending I don’t exist. Literally says not one word to me. When she’s talking to other people, she calls me names like I’m not sitting right there, and she does this thing where she puts on awful TV with the volume up way high. I don’t know how she takes it. But I swear man, she’s fucking with me.”
    “That doesn’t sound so bad.”
    “It gets worse. She goes out for a swim this morning in a tiny little bikini and makes a big fucking show of oiling herself up. I’m trying to ignore her as best as I can, and she comes over and asks me to get her back.”
    “Oof, ya man she’s playing you.”
    “It gets worse. I turn around a minute later to ask her a question and her bikini is sitting on her chair, and she’s in the pool just drifting along on her back with her tits hanging out.”
    “Oh brother you lucky sonofabitch, is she fine?”
    “I don’t want to think about it man. I thought I was going to die out there.”
    The two friends commiserate for a while longer before Ramon got around to giving Ramon his shopping list. They said goodbye, Gabe made plans to stop by in a couple of days. The drive from Miami was a couple of hours, but Gabe would be happy to make time to see his old friend.
    Lena was still in her room, and Ramon found himself with time to kill. It would be time for dinner soon, and he’d hoped that Lena would make herself available. He’d got a good sense of the compound and of the unique problems that it presented from a security standpoint, and he was ready to have the initial meeting with Lena about what needed to be done to ensure her safety.
     

Lena
                  It was true that Lena had a little crush on her new bodyguard. But he was gorgeous and she had not gotten laid in a long time, so it seemed to her to be expected. But, as she was always quick to point out to Tia and herself, Ramon’s positive qualities (his eyes, his muscles) did not match up to his negative ones (his spinelessness, his coldness, his apparent neanderthal tendencies).
    All of that being the case, Lena resolved to express her disinterest in Ramon by means of subjecting him to any torture that she could consider. Lena had never really had a knack for being mean directly. The force of her character came from her ability to be so delightful and charming that people tripped all over themselves to bend to her will. That was the basis of her plan to get under Ramon’s skin and to get him out of the house.
    She started by casually mentioning to her father how much Ramon creeped her out. When Zeus did not take appropriate notice to her comment, she added in passing that he’d made a crude solicitation to her. One that she had rebuked as a matter of decency of course.
    She then proceeded to let Ramon know personally just how disinterested she was in him, and that no matter how big his muscles or how brown his eyes, that he was just too much of a meathead croney to be of any interest to her.
    That was the hard part out of the way. All that Lena had to do next was to be herself. Ramon would be naturally drawn to her infinite charm and good nature while being simultaneously repelled by the simple conditions of his employment and her wishes. The conflict, Lena hoped, would either tear him apart or force him to one extreme of