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Masaaki walked up "He&039;s here for the same reason you are How is Shaundra?"

"She caain"

Harper looked good, had lost a pound or two, but everything else was solid muscle He was dressed expensively as usual in a tailored suit, accessorized from tie clip to cuff links Maybe if he hadn&039;t insisted that Shaundra accompany him last year to Japan for a promotion, he&039;d be married to her and not Ichiro

Everyone knew that he loved her too What was it about Shaundra that drew men to her like flies and made them fall in love with her?

"What happened?" Harper asked, eyeing hi unconscious on the floor in his rooot concerned after I hadn&039;t seen her all day Nor, but I hadn&039;t seen her since yesterday"

"I bet her pressure shot up again," Harper replied "If I told her once, I&039;ve told her a million times to make sure she takes her medicine, drink plenty of water and stay away from stressful situations"

Satoshi frowned Harper seemed to know a lot about Shaundra and her condition

"She nearly scared the heck out of me the first time she blacked out at work Her pressure spiked up to two hundred"

"How long has she had this condition?" Masaaki asked

"Since she was a teen It&039;s hereditary Her mother and her sister have it, and I think her brother does too"

"Shaundra has a sister?" Ichiro asked

Harper nodded "A younger sister nae-sounding American name in his mind

"I wonder if she ate toohis cell phone back into his pocket "Ichiro prepares her meals and he refuses to cook with salt, so we&039;re on a salt-free diet too"

"Then she&039;s getting it some other way Fast food, sodas, foods from cans"

She did drink soda at the club, but only one He couldn&039;t be sure of that though

"Or so or soravated lately?"

"Define aggravated She lives in a house with these guys,"

Masaaki said "I&039;m lucky I haven&039;t had a stroke yet"

Satoshi sneered at his er

"She&039;s married to Ichiro," Satoshi replied

Masaaki smirked this tiot into a bit of a row the other night with Yori&039;s wife"

"What?" Harper asked

"The two of theht in a club the other night Apparently A with Yori and she slapped her"

"What, just for dancing with Yori? What were they dancing to?"

"&039;Freak Me Baby,&039; by Silk," Satoshi replied

"Ooh," Harper said giddily, as if he was envisioning dancing with Shaundra to that song "Oh," he groaned

"That&039;s one provocative song But that&039;s still no excuse to slap her I&039;ve danced with Shaundra before and nothing like this ever happened"

Masaaki cleared his throat "It wasand pulling of hair"

"Don&039;t sugarcoat it, Masaaki Shaundra beat the hell out of A like professionals"

Harper raised an eyebrow "Youwouys and where was your security when all of this happened?" Harper asked "I thought they couldn&039;t go to such places without security"

"Oh, they were there," Masaaki replied "Cheering the women on I reprimanded them, but technically they&039;re only supposed to protect Aooddaotten about her fans? You should see her fan page Some of them are still riled up that she married Ichiro" He turned to Satoshi "Where the hell were you?"

Satoshi lowered his head in shalared at hi like this would happen if she married Ichiro," he said as he paced the pavement outside the hospital People walked by, stared and went into the hospital or to their cars "I trusted you guys to look after her God, she&039;s fifty Why didn&039;t she listen to me when I told her not to marry him? A pretty face and a stiff you-knohat are not reasons to leave her family and her country"

Masaaki bowed in embarrassment "It is my fault I should have looked after her better She and Ichiro were supposed to have the farmhouse to themselves when they caeuys to move out, and then Yori couldn&039;t take Ae so he ca together? No wonder she&039;s stressed out Shaundra is used to an eht be fine for Aoether since they were kids But you can&039;t put two dominant females in the same house There is bound to be trouble"

"Three," Satoshi corrected "Our publicist stays there too"

"Miss Gentry?" Harper asked

Masaaki and Satoshi nodded

"Her father is a good friend of Mr Niigata, and he asked Mr Niigata to look after her when he returned to the United States," Masaaki explained

"Just great," Harper said as he walked away from them and entered the hospital

"He&039;s awfully upset about an ee of his nose