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working too. He had taken them to Hawaii to relax, but clearly he, just as she was doing, had been working more than relaxing. The guy made her mother as nervous as she was and they hurried back to the home he had rented out while they were on the island.
     
    After they got home she hadn’t wanted to go back out. She was so afraid she would run into the guy again. Her father had been angry. He had put a hold on his business meetings and pretty much shadowed her to make sure if this guy did show up at the rink again that he could find him, catch him, and put a world of hurt on him. He hadn’t shown up, but the picture of her changing in the locker room had. She was wearing her tights and was pulling her top up past her bra line in the picture. Because she was underage the tabloid got in trouble for running the pictures, but they never caught the guy who took them. What had upset her most was knowing that guy that she had seen had watched her undress. He put out one picture, but that didn’t mean that he didn’t have more. She knew he had seen her without her clothes, and probably taken the pictures just the same. For a long time she couldn’t change in the locker rooms in comfort. She was afraid somebody would be in there just waiting to take pictures of her private moment.
     
    Her father hired Demetri then. Whenever she went anywhere Demetri went with her. Out of the state or out of the country didn’t stop her bodyguard from being by her side. When she was at home he wasn’t really needed but her father kept him on anyway. He put him up in the apartment over the garage because Keiko already had the one over the rink. The apartments were large and fully equipped with all the latest and greatest technologies. When she was practicing Demetri would check the grounds to make sure everything was secure. He would do a walkthrough of the rink and then he would go back up to his apartment where he would spend the day until his second rotation. Her father had told him it wasn’t necessary, but he had said that he was being paid still and while there were no threats on site he wanted to at least walk the grounds to be sure of it. When she was at competition and in areas where he was not allowed then she relied on Keiko to be her guard. The locker-room and other backstage areas were completely forbidden to any outside personnel and that included him. He wasn’t happy, but he had found a way to work around it. And of course when her father had his parties Demetri always had the time off so he had a tendency to disappear. She wondered what he did during those times, but he would never say. She had asked him once or twice and he would always say, “mind your own business, kid.” She would remind him that she wasn’t a kid and he would remind her that she looked like one. Now he was gone. It was so unfair. Keiko had left her when she stopped competing because she wanted to train the next Olympian, but losing Demetri the way she had hurt her more. He had died trying to save her. If it weren’t for her he would still be alive.
     
    Now that she was strapped to a chair she didn’t even stand a chance of finding a way out. Maybe her first reaction had been too impulsive, but she saw a window of opportunity and she had to take it; she had to try. Now what was she going to do? She was stuck. She was being held hostage, a prisoner, and she wasn’t going to be able to go anywhere while she was bound to the chair. Then it occurred to her. They would have to let her up for a bathroom break at some point and then she would have a chance. Unless they weren’t planning on affording her that luxury and they expected her to just go where she sat. She wouldn’t put it past them.
     
    Did they want money? Her father would pay, but somehow she didn’t think that was it at all. There was no way they could leave her alive. They had worn masks when they were at the television station which meant they didn’t want their face seen, but they