Why?

Thirteen

Raquel POV

Sergio led me into the serving room first when we walked threw the doors everyone abruptly stopped what they were doing. I looked up at Sergio's face, it was hard and cold, this must be his "boss face".

"If I could have everyone's attention please," Sergio said loudly to the room, once everyone was looking at us he continued. "There are going to be some changes around here starting tonight. This is, Raquel, she's going to be helping me run things around here from now on. If there is a problem you're to report it to her immediately, she is your boss and will be treated with respect. Yes she is my girlfriend but that doesn't mean you are to treat her like she is beneath you, if you do then its automatic termination are we clear on that?" A round of yes sir's was heard before he continued again. "Great that's all for tonight, thank you." Sergio grabbed my hand and we walked out of the service area and into the kitchen where he gave them the same speech.

When we were done and getting ready to leave one of the head chefs stopped us.

"Excuse me sir, madam, may I have a moment of your time please?" He was very polite, older, kind of reminded me of my grandfather the way he talked.

"Absolutely Aro, what did you need?" Sergio asked him as we walked out of the kitchen to have a little more privacy.

"I'm having some trouble with one of the line cooks, normally I wouldn't bother you with something like this but I think he has great potential as a chef. I have him scheduled to come in at certain times but it doesn't seem to matter to him, he comes in when he likes and leaves when he wants too weather he was scheduled or not. I know that he is having some financial difficulties right now and with the economy the way it is I would hate to fire him, I was wondering if you could talk to him. I've tried but I get the feeling that he's not going to believe me, maybe if you talked to him he would shape up and if not then I'm afraid I'll have to let him go."

"I'll see what I can do for you Aro, let me talk to the guy and see what happens. Give him one week after I talk to him tonight and if he doesn't shape up or he falls back into the old habit then get rid of him, you're the Executive Chef. I know that you wouldn't come to me if you didn't see the potential in the guy and had tried everything you could first."

"Thank you sir, I'm not sure if it will do any good but maybe with you being the boss he'll take things more seriously now."

"What is this guy's name?" I asked I had no idea who they were talking about so I wanted to know.

"His name is Lee; he's about 25 years old and a good kid I also know that he goes to collage still so I work around that schedule. But his tardiness isn't because of collage, there has to be something else going on." Aro explained to me.

"Let me call him back to the office in a while, I'm going to finish up with the rounds first and then talk to him." Aro nodded his head and headed back into the kitchen.

We continued on threw the rest of the club with Sergio's speech nobody else came up to us, they all just said a quiet hi and went about their work. We were on our way back to the kitchen when Andres stopped us.

"Hey I was looking for the both of you, Char, just called and said that she was going to be stopping over soon. She found some information on Martinez's phone that she wanted to talk to us all about."

"OK we'll meet in the conference room upstairs then, we have something we need to take care of first. What time did Char, say she was going to be here?"

"She said in about 45 minutes or so, I think she was going to check on Peter, first and see if he was ready and then they were going to come over here together."