Flames spread across her cheeks like wildfire and burned in her eyes at his insult. Swatting his hand away in fury, Olivia took a step backwards and shook her head. "You know perfectly well that's not true! You had to cheat to win that competition! We would have won. And if your partner wasn't sleeping with the judges, we would have beaten you plenty of times since!<br/><br/>"No. Absolutely not. How could you even suggest this!?" she demanded of Pyotr. "You<em>know</em>what he's like! What happened? Did his own coach and partner drop him?" Olivia was quite purposefully looking past Max as if he were not even there. "You're being completely unreasonable."<br/><br/>"Olivia!" Pyotr snapped, his patience obviously wearing thin now. "This is enough. You two are going to move past things, or not move at all. You will sit here until you can be civil." The older man shut the door and leaned against it with his arms crossed.<br/><br/>Olivia stared at him in disbelief for a full minute before sitting down on the floor with a grumpy huff. Without a word, she started eating her lunch again, completely ignoring Max.<br/><br/>"Shoes on now."<br/><br/>Olivia continued to eat her lunch.<br/><br/>"Shoes. Now!" the man repeated.<br/><br/>With an irritated growl, she slammed her sandwich down and grabbed her shoes, ramming her feet into her soft-soled heels while mumbling under her breath about not lowering herself to his level.<br/><br/>Finally, she stood up and glared at Max, paying attention to him for the first time since he had walked in. "So? What happened to your coach and partner? Did they get too good to keep you around? Or did you finally get tired of being Bella's little lap dog?"<br/><br/>"Olivia! Enough! Now, Paso Doble. Max, show me. Lead her. Olivia, follow. Is<em>test</em>," he added in response to Olivia's glare, his Russian accent coming out more strongly with his rising ire.<br/><br/>With an angry huff, Olivia raised her arms and turned her head as far to the left as possible as she got into the traditional starting position.