After a long week of tutorials MJ finds herself finding it very difficult to get out of bed to head to work she wasn't feeling the best physically was even considering calling in for an appointment. She pulls herself out of bed and wraps herself in her lacy kimono. Emily sat at the island and sip her tea. 

"You know that the purpose of something like that is to keep you warm.... Yours has holes in it." 

"It's called lace, Em." 

"It's stupid."

"You were always practical." Mj mutters as she grabs coffee. 

"Heading to work?" 

She puts her drink down, "Eventually." 

"How is the new boss?" 

"He is... Intense... Very cold." 

"Shocker." 

"Yeah well he has a  lot of pressure. He has a twin who is literally up his ass waiting for him to fuck up again..." MJ's phone rings she picks it up, "Hello?" 

"Where the hell are you?" 

Her eyes widen, "Mr. Wyatt." 

"Get the fuck here. NOW!" He hangs up immediately. 

"He sounds pleasant." Emily says as she sips her coffee. 

MJ rolls her eyes and gets dressed as is immediately out the door. She power walks into the building walking past the receptionist desk. 

"Good morning Ms. Pre-" 

"Not. Now." Mj says abruptly speed walking past the receptionist desk.  

The receptionist have a smirk on her face. "May the trial begin..." She murmurs. 

MJ makes her way up the elevator. She runs up to his office disheveled. Mr. Wyatt had papers sprawled out everywhere. His neck tie was loosened and his sleeves pushed up. 

"Have you been here all night?" She asks. 

He ignores her, "The meeting is in an hour. Have you looked over the files From last week?"     

"I have." 

"Good you will share the new numbers from this week." MJ places her bags on an empty chair and picks up the fallen stack of papers on the floor.  

"Mr. Wyatt..." 

"Then i'll share about future plans."

"Mr. Wyatt...." She repeats. 

He looks up at her, "What?" 

MJ can't stand him running himself to the ground like this. 

"When was the last time you ate? Slept? or even taken a shower?" 

"I can't worry about that until this meeting is over." He says shaking his head flipping through more papers. 

She grabs the papers out of his hands. "Sir."  He sighs heavily, "You can't go into a meeting looking like this. You need a clear head and food in your stomach." She sniffs, "And you also kinda smell." 

"Are you telling me I stink?" He says annoyed. 

"Im telling you to get your self ready as if you have a meeting in an hour." He sighs heavily and leans back into his chair. 

"What's really got you on edge? You usually do fine with meeting like this. You were okay last week." 

He rubs his temples forcefully, "Aren't you suppose to be getting me food and clothes?" 

She sighs heavily, "And soap...." Mr. Wyatt looks at her with eyes that could kill, she clears her throat. " Yes sir."      

After getting him a nice shirt and some well needed soap, MJ makes her way to the cafe. 

"Welcome to Starbucks what can I get for you today?" 

"I would like one black coffee with two creams and two sugars and a Vanilla Latte." Mj ordered. 

"Ms. Prescott." She turns to find Jacob behind. "Hey." 

She smiles, "Hey." 

"I heard the boss was able to secure another negotiation with HIRA..." 

She nods, "Yeah. Im just getting him his coffee..." 

"And it seems like more than that..." Referring to the shirt and bar of soap. 

"Yeah well. You know the boss... Never stops working." She grabs the coffee. "I should be on my way." 

"Yeah..." Jacob says as he watches her leave. 

She gets back to his office and hands him the things, "Here you go. You have 15 minutes before the meeting." 

He grabs the belongings and brings them to his personal bathroom. 

She starts straightening up the messy office for him. She lifted up one of the papers on his desks. She looked at this confused, "No.... this isn't right...." She looks up at the bathroom as the sound of running water echoed in the office. 

She grabs the phone and dials, "Hey can I have the captain of team A come to Mr. Wyatt's office." 

Jacob walks up to Mr. Wyatt's office, "Hello?" He looks around and hears the water running and only Mj in the office. "Whats going on?" 

Mj walks up to him and hands him the paper she found, "Read this." 

He looks over the papers and looks up at MJ and then back that paper, "This isn't right." 

"Thats what I said. These weren't the number I collected last week. They are all way over." 

"If HIRA find out that we falsifying number of production-"

"They will never work with us and after what happened with the leak this would for sure end the negotiations." MJ concludes. 

"Does Mr. Wyatt know?" She shakes her head. 

"I just noticed it as he was in there. I called you to confirm my suspicions." 

Mr. Wyatt comes back from the bathroom and stops as he sees Jacob and MJ talking. 

"I know you aren't having a conversation as we are about to head into negotiations." 

"I found something you need to see." MJ says as he takes the papers from Jacob's hands and walks them over to Mr. Wyatt.

"It's the paper for the negotiations..." Mr. Wyatt reads. 

"They are wrong. Completely wrong. These numbers are tripled from the original ones i received from team A last week. Mr. Ferris confirmed my suspicions."

"These are indeed not the reports I sent to Ms. Prescott." 

"If what you're saying is true. Then we can't have negotiations... Not now." 

Mj steps up, "Let me tell them you can't make it. We can postpone negotiations for another day." 

"Absolutely not." He says as he tightens his collar. "We will go in there and tell them the truth." 

"It can make you look bad. Are you sure?" MJ asks nervously. 

He walks out of the office, "You guys coming or not?" He calls out. 

MJ looks at Jacob, "This is crazy.." She follows him into the meeting. 

"Good Afternoon gentleman." Mr. Wyatt says to the men who are already seated talking to Damien. 

The consultant stands up and shakes Mr. Wyatt's hand, "Damien was telling me how serious you take our partnership and after talking to your father we thought it would be best to really sit down with both brothers to see how we can come to an agreement that would benefit both of us." 

Mr. Wyatt firmly shakes his hand, "Absolutely and it's because of that I want to discuss with you something that has transpired." We all make our seats Jacob uncomfortably sits at the table. 

"Whats going on?" asks the consultant.

"We need to pause negotiations." Mr. Wyatt start, "We want to make sure that you have everything before you to make the best decision  for your company. We shouldn't rush into anything." 

Damien sits up, " Surely we can do it now? Or do you not have the numbers brother?" 

Mj clears her throat, " Surely you are not insisting that our company cuts corners to reach the goal? Mr. Wyatt soley wants to make sure that everything is set up to create the perfect package for our guests." 

Damien locks eyes with Mj. Is he trying to intimidate her? It won't happen today. She stares back without hesitation. Realizing MJ is not backing down, he chuckles, "Of course we don't want to rush blindly and overlook something." 

The consultant ponders, "Alright... I'll give you a month. I want to see everything. Your numbers, projected growth, supply chains.... Everything. The CEO and the COO will be working on other matters so negotiations will happen at head quarters in Japan. The decision will be made then." 

"Sounds good. Until then." Mr Wyatt says as he shakes the hand of the consultant. HIRA leaves and shakes hands with Damien as well. Leaving the four of us in the room. 

"Father will not be pleased." Damien chimes.

"I don't  think father will have a problem with me making sure everything is in order. We can't make another mistake with them." Mr Wyatt says as he scratches his head. 

"And you-" Damien says looking at mj. "Remember who is in charge..." He continues to stare Her down. Mj continues to not waver, With out breaking eye contact says, "You don't want to piss me off." 

MJ steps closer to him still not breaking eye contact,"My job is to be Mr Wyatt's assistant. That means to help him in anyway I can and I felt like your statement was to throw him under the bus..." 

"Ms. Prescott, thats enough." Mr Wyatt says. "We will go back to my office and discuss next steps." MJ and Jacob nod, "I'll meet you both in there." Both Mj and Jacob leave. 

"Damn that woman pisses me off." Damien mutters. "Who is she? I mean really." 

"Just someone father hired. But she is right. You attempted to throw me under the bus. I just never thought she would say it out loud." 

"Why do you say that?" 

"I know you fucked up with the numbers. If my assistant didn't catch it... Im sure you would have been there to pick up the pieces of my failure." 

Damien smirks, "I would never do that to my brother." 

  Mr Wyatt slams the table, "DON'T FUCK WITH ME! We haven't been brothers since mother died."

Damien grabs his bag, "You will fuck up, Seth. You always do." He begins to walk out, "Better keep a close eye on your assistant, Ms Prescott. Keep her on a short leash or she is going to get bit." He walks out of the room leaving Mr Wyatt in a room by himself. 

Wyatt sighs heavily and rubs his face and walks out of the meeting room back into the office. He finds Jacob and MJ sitting and talking. 

He clears his voice both get up, "Thanks for your assistance Mr. Ferris. I will be meeting with you privately on what the team needs to get done for the end of the month."

 Jacob nods, "Sounds good. We will talk soon then." He walks out the room. 

Wyatt crosses his arms and looks at me, "You saved me. I won't forget it." 

MJ chuckles nervously, "It's my job." 

"However..." He pauses and glances at MJ, " It would be best to not to antagonize my brother."

"Are you saying that I was in the wrong?' 

"....No..." 

"Then-"

"I'm not saying you did do anything wrong, but he is a higher level than you and you need to respect him." 

These damn alpha rules Mj thought to himself. "Even when he doesn't respect you?"

Mr Wyatt clenches his jaw, "You clearly have something to say... say it." Knowing Wyatt is getting antsy, Mj can tell she is pushing him. 

"I just don't think he has your best interest." 

"I know he doesn't." 

"Then why do you let him do this..." 

He pauses for a moment, "Don't piss him off... this isn't your battle to fight."

Anger started to fill MJ, "So you are going let him walk all over you!?" 

Mr Wyatt almost giving a low growl, "Watch your tone." 

 MJ bites her lip and clenches her fists together, "Yes... Sir." She says annoyed. 

Mr Wyatt walks up to her, "I appreciate you helping me but getting into an argument with my brother is not worth your job."

"He is... just wrong. You worked so hard and you should be faulted for his meddling." She admits as she looks up at him. He was amused by her. 

"You don't think I can handle it?" He says with a smirk on his face. He intentionally said in a way that doesn't make him sound angry but just curious. 

"Why should you if you don't have to?" She says. He doesn't break eye contact with her. She doesn't waver.

 He smirks and breaks eye contact with her as he turns back to his desk,  "Go take a break. Im going to need you to work late with me tonight." 

"How late are we talking?" She asks. 

"Till 9pm. Leave now come back at 5pm. I'll treat us to dinner." He says as he begins looking at files again. 

"Are you sure you don't need anything?" 

"If i do, i'll ask reception in the mean time." 

"Yes sir." She says with a smile on her face and walks on out as Jacob walks back into his office. 

"Mr. Ferris have a seat."

 Jacob sits in front of him, "Some meeting that was." 

"Indeed it was." 

"Ms. Prescott was also something." 

He pauses and looks up from his files, "You are not here to talk about Ms. Prescott." 

"You are right... But do you think she has a good chance of staying?" 

He sighs heavily, "Not many Alphas can stand up to my brother or want to,  but it's soon to tell. She shows promise though... Let's get on with why you are here. This is what I need team A to do for me."