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“You hired me to train you, and I can’t train you if you are sleeping. I said be ready at eight, and you weren’t.”
“What time is it?” Kai grumbled again, trudging out of his bedroom wearing board shorts hanging around his hips and nothing else as he ran a hair through his matted hair.
“Past eight,” Jun said, trying to regain her composure. Jun turned and trotted down the stairs. In a daze, Kai followed.
Kai looked at the bar and the trash can nearby, filled with full bottles of Scotch and vodka.
“Hey, what are these doing here?” he asked, bending down to inspect the bottles.
“I threw them away.”
“You can’t throw them away. This is a $200 bottle of Scotch!” Kai pulled it out by the neck and put it back on the counter. He looked flabbergasted. Good. He needed a wake-up call.
“No alcohol,” she said.
“What are you talking about?”
“That’s my first rule. You said I made the rules.”
“Yeah, but...”
“Drink this.”
Jun handed Kai a clear plastic container with a screw top she’d pulled from her bag. It was filled with a thick green liquid. He peered at it suspiciously.
“What is it?”
“Kale smoothie. We’re going to get your body chemistry right. Start working out all of the acids you’ve been putting in it. Like wine.” Frowning, she picked up the bottle and dumped it in the recycling bin beside his stainless-steel refrigerator.
Kai lifted the lid and sniffed it and winced. “I prefer Kona coffee.”
“Coffee is not as good for you!” Jun insisted.
“It smells healthy.” He wrinkled his nose.
“It is. Drink it.” Jun took the contract she’d signed from her back pocket. “I make the rules, remember?”
“About everything I eat?”
“About everything.”
Kai sipped at the drink and then made a face. “It even tastes healthy. Blech.”
“Drink it all, and then we’ll talk about the other rules.”
Kai sipped at the drink some more. “Why do I have the feeling that drinking this is the best rule on that list?” His dark eyes studied her and she couldn’t help smirking a little. It was true. The kale-and-green-apple drink—one of her favorites—was probably the least painful thing she was going to ask him to do today.
“You hired me to get you into shape for the surf competition and that’s what I’m going to do.” Jun put up a whiteboard on an easel on his white marble countertop. She uncapped her marker and began writing.
Kai took another sip of dark green smoothie and his face puckered. “I think this is making my hangover worse.”
“No drinking,” Jun said, her marker making squeaking sounds as she went. “That’s the first rule.”
Kai sighed, as if he’d expected it. “Okay,” he said.
“Two—no junk food. That means no processed foods. We go all fresh.”
Kai eyed the kale smoothie with distrust. “As long as we get some meat in there, I’m okay with that.”
“Protein is an important part of building muscle,” Jun agreed. As if she’d cut meat out of his diet. She wasn’t so far out there in her alternative-medicine approach that she thought a vegan diet would work for a pro surfer. “But you’ll eat healthy protein.” Jun furiously scribbled on the whiteboard. “And last but not least...” Jun took in a breath as she wrote, in all caps, “no sex.”
Kai gagged and nearly spit out kale smoothie on his kitchen floor. “Excuse me?” He glared at her as if she’d just insulted his mother. Jun wondered if she’d gone too far, but she knew he had to do it. He had to get his mind right, and chasing hot women in bikinis wasn’t helping.
“You are depleting your Chi every time you hook up with one of those tourists. Every time you...” Jun cleared her throat as her cheeks grew hot. None of this had seemed nearly so...embarrassing...in her alternative-medicine classes. There her professor and the other students talked about bodies and bodily functions clinically. Yet with Kai, shirtless, his dark eyes boring into hers, she suddenly realized talking about what he did with his body was not clinical. Not in the least bit.
