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CHAPTER 1Ana was running down the street from her apartment Haven Hills by the WSU Vancouver campus she was thinking about tonight after agreeing to go with her classmates to Paddy’s Bar in Portland for drinks to celebrate graduation. She had completed all her classes and submitted all her papers.She tried to focus on the drone of the sounds of her feet slapping the pavement and her breathing. She hated going out to public bars because guys were always trying to pick her up, buy her drinks and take her off to go fuck like the college boys do in school. She sighed to herself and figured that it was just for a night.When she got back to the apartment that she had for the next five days and already packed up for the movers to take it to her condo in Seattle. She navigated between stacks of boxes. She took off all her sweaty clothes and threw them in the washer. She went and took a shower.She was dressed and ready to go that night, she had called a cab to get her. She was in her tee shirt, jeans and tennis shoes with little makeup on and her hair down. She never dressed fancy around anyone while she had been in school, so as not to draw attention to herself. She grabbed her crossbody bag and left waiting outside for the cab.When the cab dropped her off outside the bar, she could see it was active with the college kids. Ana went inside and was looking around for her three classmates. She found them at a table and walked up.Her friend, Jeana, was there with Bruce and Calvin drinking from a pitcher of beer. She sat down. Jeana said while waving down the waitress, “What will you have, Ana?” She had perky blonde curly short hair with kind brown eyes. She looked like a pixie to Ana. With jeans and a blouse on.Ana asked the waitress standing there, “Do you have a Cabernet Sauvignon wine?” The girl nodded and went to get it.Bruce grinning said, “Shew! I can't believe it's over, finally. What are you going to do now, Jeana?” He was heavy set with brown hair, brown eyes and tall. He was in a Mariners jersey and jeans.Jeana said frowning, rolling her eyes and shrugged, “My dad in Tacoma has a pretty good job for me at our company.” The waitress brought Ana a glass of wine. Ana paid her with a good tip. The girl smiled at her and left.Bruce asked curiously, “What about you, Ana? Are you going to get a job yet?”Ana sipped her wine and said, “I'm moving to Seattle in five days and start job hunting there.”Bruce said, “I am going home to Spokane. I'll job hunt there. I sent out six resumes last night through email.”Calvin said smiling, “I got a bite at DHL in management at a starting salary for a team leader.” They all congratulated him. Calvin had black hair and blue eyes. He was in a muscle shirt and cargo pants. Calvin worked out a lot.Bruce smiled and said, "That's two of us out of four employed. Here's to ya.” They all toasted and smiled.As the evening went along, Ana bought a bunch of snacks like mushrooms, fries and cheddar bites for everyone to share. They got up to dance from time to time. Ana got up to go to the bathroom and stand in line. She was a little tipsy but not bad. She must have refused four glasses of wine that guys sent to the table. Jeana thought it was funny that they zeroed in on Ana. Ana went out on the big deck off the back of the bar near the alley.Christian Grey and his brother Elliot walked into the bar and were looking around. Elliot dragged him out of the hotel to go to the bar. They each ordered a bottle of beer and found no seats inside so they wandered out back towards the deck.Ana was standing on the deck in the warm breeze outside at 82° quietly sipping the glass of wine she got from the bartender. Suddenly, a man had his arms wrapped around her with his hand on her tit. Her glass dropped and shattered off the deck.He leaned in saying, “Hey, baby. You're loosening up a bit now aren't you?” She turned around so fast and kneed him in the balls. He hit the deck hard, groaning. His four friends who must have been watching came over and started shoving her saying she was in trouble now.Ana was suddenly feeling sluggish and not right. She was blinking and realized they had the bartender drugged her drink. She was walking away from them and they grabbed her and were pawing her body as she was trying to fight them as they were taking her off the deck stairs to the alley.The one guy said, “Let's take her away from here and fuck the shit out of her.”Ana was pushing them away and screamed at the top of her lungs, “You had him drug me, you bastards!!!” Christian and Elliot went up to her and the guys tried to leave with her.Christian said, “The lady said that she was drugged so get the fuck away from her!” The one guy swung at Christian and they all started fighting with Elliot and another guy joining in. Ana was dropped on the ground and was woosey sitting up. She couldn't do shit her arms were heavy and she couldn't sit up any more. She fell backwards passing out.The guys were all taken care of by the bouncer and the cops that came hauling them away to the cop cars while the EMTs examined Ana. Christian and Elliot said to the cops that she screamed that she was drugged by all five of them.Christian asked the EMT, “What happened to her?”The EMT said, “It looks like roofies. We're taking her to the hospital for testing and probably a stomach pumping.”Christian said, “I am going to meet you there.” He left and Elliot wanted to stay. Elliot thought during his time after they all left that the one bartender was acting weird.Christian had Taylor drive to the ER and he was trying to get information on Ana. Like a name or if she is going to be, ok. They wouldn't say. He went to an administrator and asked if she had kin. The administrator on duty told him that she had no emergency contacts or next of kin that they could locate. He pulled strings by offering a large donation to the hospital to get her name so he could try to find someone.After ten million dollars, he got her name, Anastasia Steele. He texted Welch to find her next of kin if he could. After an hour, Welch said that there was no next of kin, only a mother that was under a restraining order, charged with child abuse and neglect twenty years ago. He said the stepfather died five years ago who had custody of her as a child. Welch said what was peculiar is her basic background check was unable to be accessed easily. Christian told him to keep working on it. The cops showed up and were asking questions about Ana.Christian eavesdropped on them. The nurse said that she was having her stomach pumped out and probably wouldn't be communicative until tomorrow morning to afternoon. Christian left and went back to his hotel making plans to come back to the hospital in the morning. He couldn't understand why he was so concerned and was somehow being pulled towards her. He knew the woman was the most beautiful woman he ever laid eyes on, but he just couldn't stop thinking about her like an obsession.—-------------Ana was in the pitch dark. It was safe in the dark, hidden away from the world. Nobody can touch you there, being oblivious to anything. She was rising up out of the murky blackness and heard monitors beeping her heartbeat. The beep droned on as she floated up into a lighter level of consciousness.She moaned and her head moved side to side. Someone grabbed her hand. She thought it was one of her classmates. When she cracked her eyes open, she saw the most incredibly beautiful man she had ever seen in her life. He had gray eyes and reddish brown hair.She had a rasp in her voice and asked, “Who are you and why are you in my room?”He said flatly, “I am Christian and I saw you at the bar last night when those five guys were dragging you away as you screamed that they drugged you. I was with my brother and we and a few others stopped them and got the cops involved.”She said softly, "I am Ana. Those men must have got the bartender to drug me because I never took my eyes off my drink all night so it must only be that it happened when he made it.”Christian said seriously, “You will need to tell the police that when they come to get your statement. You should call the nurse because you're awake now.” Ana hit the nurses button. The nurse came in and went to get the doctor.The doctor walked in and told her that she would be able to leave the next morning because the Rophenol will have lost its effect but is still going to be in her system for up to five days. So she will have to take it easy. He said to eat what she could tolerate and drink lots of fluids to flush it out of her system.When the doctor left, Christian said, “Would like you to come to my place for dinner on Friday night. I would like to have a talk with you about offering a proposal to you.” It was the day after tomorrow.Ana asked curiously, “What about?”He smiled at her curiosity and said, “You'll just have to wait and find out.” He was going to offer her a contract and see if he could get her to be his sub, experienced or not. He believed he could train her, just not like how Elena trained him. He would not be that harsh to a beginner though. He hadn't had a contract in a few months but was sick of the ones Elena kept sending. He wanted to try something different this time.Ana liked his smile and said, “Ok, but I am moving to Seattle the following Monday. I'll meet you somewhere in Portland then. I can't have anyone over with stacks of boxes everywhere.”He asked, “Can you meet me at The Heathman at say five o'clock? I can fly you to Seattle in an hour by helicopter.”She said smiling, “I can do that. I'll sit in the lobby.” He nodded.He stood up and said, “I will see you then. If you need me for anything, call me.” He put his card in her hand. He turned and left. She thought to herself, ‘He acts one minute fine, another with authority and then like he has a stick up his butt and is aloof. He has an odd personality.’—---------------On Friday, Ana was dressed nicely in a designer navy blue silk midi fit and flare dress, ¾ sleeve, off the shoulder and a pair of Nine West pumps. She had her hair down and curled. It hung to her waist with her hair pinned back away from her face with a pretty blue crystal butterfly barrette. She wore smokey eyes and matte burgundy lipstick. Ana took her jacket and her purse. The cab picked her up out front of her apartment building and dropped her off at The Heathman Hotel lobby in Portland.She was sitting on a sofa in the lobby with her legs crossed flipping through an amenities menu. Christian approached her with Taylor.He said stoically, “Hello, Miss Steele. Come with me please?” She got up and he led her to the SUV in the parking garage. He walked with his hand on her lower back. She thought, ‘For a man I don't even know, he seems a bit familiar with me.’ Her alarms in her head were not going off about him yet, but she was still cautious.They drove to Helipad 1 in Portland. There was a helicopter waiting for them. Christian said, “This is not my own helicopter but it will do for now.” He took her to the front passenger seat and started strapping her in. Ana thought he was being quite forward.Ana said, “I can do it myself.”He brushed her hands away and said, “As I am the pilot it's my responsibility to make sure you're secure.” The security man, Taylor, was getting in the back.Ana glared at him and said, “You gonna strap him in too?” Christian smirked at her.He said, yanking the harness on her then handing the headset to her, “There's no escaping now.” She frowned. He walked to the pilot's seat strapped in, put on the headset and started the preflight checks. He talked to the tower and got clearance. They took off.After an hour and some beautiful scenery, the landed on top of Escala’s penthouse tower. Christian led Ana to the elevator with Taylor. They entered the penthouse and he took her jacket from her hanging it up in the vestibule closet by the main elevator. Ana marked where that was in her head.He asked her, “Dinner is ready now. Would you follow me?” He led her to a dining room and pushed in her chair.After they had a relatively quiet meal. He left and went to his office, returning with a paper and pen. Christian laid down the paper on the table with a pen. Ana picked it up, read it and said, signing it, “I would never talk to anyone about you anyway, no matter what.”She reached in her purse and pulled out a folded paper and handed it to him sliding the pen towards him. He was shocked that she countered him with her own NDA. He read it. It was almost identical to his own. He signed it and pushed it back to her.He said, “That was surprising.” She smirked.She looked him in the eyes and asked curiously, “Are you gonna try and have sex with me now?”Christian’s eyes went dark and he said deeply, “Two things about me: First, I don't make love while having sex. I fuck... hard.” He stressed the word ‘hard’. She thought that was a bit direct and crass.She raised an eyebrow up at him smirking and asked, “And the second?”He put his hand out and said firmly, “Come. Let me show you.” He led her up the stairs, down the hallway, stopped in front of a room and pulled out a key from his pocket.He said a bit nervously, “It's just inside this door.”She curiously asked, “What is it?”He said flatly, “My playroom.”She inquired, “You mean like a game room with an Xbox and stuff?”He said smirking but cautiously, “No, no game systems. It's important you know that you can leave at any time.”He repeated again cautiously, “I meant what I said, the helicopter is on standby, for whenever you wanna go.”She looked at him and asked, getting nervous and perturbed, “Why is saying that so important to you? What's in there? A dead body? Just open the damn door.” He inserted the key and opened the door, flicking the lights on.
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CHAPTER 2She put her hand over her mouth and said astonished, “Oh my God. Holy shit!” She walked into the room but refused to touch anything. She couldn't believe it was a fucking sex dungeon.She looked at the flogger with razor barbs on a rack hanging and another with metal studs with pointed heads. He said, “It's called a flogger.” She thought, ‘No shit, Sherlock. It's got fucking barbs on the tips. This has got to be a fucking joke, but he's looking so fucking serious it can't be. This is a goddamn room of pain and torture. Fucking canes, bullwhips a goddamn cabinet full of restraits. What the fuck am I still doing in here?!’He said, “Say something please.”She asked on guard, “Do women do this to you or do you do it to them?”He said, cautiously, “I do this to women. With women. Women who want me to.” He thought she looked like a frozen deer ready to bolt. She thought, ‘For the sake of an ever loving God, why? They must be women abused in their formative years or flat out kinky types use to that kind of weapon to be used on them.’She said, “You're a sadist?”He corrected, “I'm a dominant.”She asked, turning to look at him, “What is the difference to you and what does that mean to you?”He said directly, “It means I want you to willingly surrender yourself to me.” She knew he evaded answering both questions.She asked him, “Why would I ever want to do that?”He said seriously, “To please me.”She huffed, “Please you? How is that?”He said, “I have rules, if you follow them, I'll reward you. If you don't, I'll punish you.”She said looking around the room, “You'd punish me, you'd use these things on me?”He said, “Yes.”She asked him, “What would I even get out of this?”He said, “Me.”She said, “You?” He nodded and she was thinking that was arrogant.He said after a moment, “I need to get you out of this room. It's too hard to concentrate with you here.” He had an uncomfortable hard on from the moment she walked into the room. She walked straight out the door and down the hall he was following her after hitting the light switch and closing the door at a distance.He said coming up behind her touching her elbow and she stopped turning to look at him, “If we were to do this, this would be your room. You can decorate it however you like.” He flicked on the light switch.She looked inside and asked incredulously, “You want me to move in here with you?”He explained firmly, “Not full time, just Friday through to Sunday. We can negotiate the particulars.”She asked curiously, “So you would want me to sleep in here with you?”He said firmly, shaking his head, “No, I sleep downstairs. I told you I don't sleep with anyone. After a scene you, you will want your own room.” She turned and left the room to go downstairs. He followed behind her.She asked stoically, “What if I don't want anything to do with any of this?”He said flatly, “Then I understand completely.”She inquired, “But then there would not be any relationship at all, right?”He said, “This is the only sort of relationship I have with women.” She thought what a lonely, solitary, fucked up man he is.She asked, looking him directly in the eyes trying to get a read on him, “Why is that?”He said emotionlessly, “Because it's just the way I am.”She asked firmly back, “When you said negotiate, what did you mean by that?” She stopped back at the dinner table, took her wine glass filling it up and drank the whole thing, putting it back down empty.Christian said watching her knowing she was getting agitated, “I already have the contract prepared. It's fairly detailed. You would review it, and negotiate what you are and are not willing to try.”She asked curiously, “Let me see the contract. I am a fairly fast speed reader.” She just wanted to see what negotiating meant to him and his contract would say it all.He went into his office and brought her a packet in a brown envelope. She sat on the couch crossing her legs sitting back and pulled out the paperwork and started skimming through it and flipping pages. After a minute she got to the end, put it all back in the packet and tossed it on the coffee table as it slid across a bit. She stood up, went to the closet in the foyer and took out her jacket. She realized that he must not have any idea who she really was as of yet to offer material things. She figured that her background check must be harder to get at than normal.She slid on her jacket without a word. He walked up to her and said, “Why are you leaving?”She turned and said facetiously, while chuckling amused, “Oh, I'm sorry, but after reading that paperwork you call a contract, I decided that I'm done here with you. Your contract is crap, Mr Grey. If that contract is anything to go by, it's a temporary master/slave contract. It's not BDSM your practicing here and it doesn't have a fucking thing leaving room to negotiate other than allowing you to run roughshod over women within a list of expectations. It's a list of items they will let you do to them, a list of weapons to do it with and a list of nothing but rules so narrow to travel it begs for breaking on purpose. See, Mr Grey, the definition of the word negotiation, in its most basic form, is an exchange of dialogues involving two or maybe more parties who are striving to reach a consensus on their dilemma by give and take on all sides. You should know that already as a businessman. You give nothing and have left no room to give anything of yourself in return but sex, money, pain and whatever the fuck you do to your subs. It's all in exchange for materialism. Which in the basic form is still prostitution. A person can fuck a robot like that, though with no emotional attachment, makes it easy for a sadist to operate within those parameters. The rigid set of rules just begs for infraction. Besides, if you read the background check on me ahead of time, you would know that I don't need your money, clothes, cars or jewelry in exchange for sex like a whore. I have something that the women that agree to your sex games don't have, self worth, integrity, self esteem and the ability to kick your ass and hand it back to you, if needed. I can pay for my own cab ride back to Portland, Mr Grey.” He stood there looking at her not saying a word as the elevator doors opened up. He was in shock at her behavior. Nobody has ever talked to him like that, especially a woman.She stepped in and turned around saying, “Goodbye, Christian Grey. Whoever told you this was true BDSM, totally lied to you about what it truly is. I know because I have had friends that are in the lifestyle and the business, though I'm not. I'm sorry for you because you will be successful in business, yet remain alone and die alone with nobody to share it all with.” The doors closed.She went to the concierge area and ordered a cab to come take her one way back to Portland at 10 pm.—---------Three days later, Christian was sitting at his desk looking over Ana's background check he finally was able to get and was blown away at what he found out about her. He thought she was just a twenty five year old student graduating at WSU Vancouver. Boy, was he very very wrong.—-----------Name: Anastasia Rose SteeleBirthdate: 9-10-1985Social Security: 392-35-5346Phone number: 360-433-1526Address:
Haven Hills
Apt# 130
13914 NE Salmon Creek Ave, Vancouver, WA 98686Premier on Pine
1525 9th Ave. Suite #3505
Seattle, WA 98101230 Wyndham Valley Road, Montesano, Washington 98563Banks:
Chase Bank
Acct# 274965322 $9,136,234.67Huntington Bank
Acct#13429867459 $64,457,983.23Offshore Accounts:
Caye International Bank
San Pedro, Belize
Acct #564913442689 $287,670,511.44Education:
Montesano High School- 9-1997/6-1999 valedictorian at age 13.SAT Score: 1340
Harvard University
Massachusetts Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138
Double Bachelors(acquired at age 15 in 2001)
Major: Econometrics
GPA: 4.0
Major: Statistics
GPA: 4.0WSU(Foster) PACCAR Hall, 4273 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA 98195
Double Masters degrees (09-2006 to 05-2011)
Major: Business Analytics
Graduated: Summa Cum Laude
GPA: 4.2 -Masters
Major: Business Administration
Graduated: Summa Cum Laude
GPA: 4.0 -MastersCertifications: CPR, First-aid, Advanced Self Defense, Advanced Survivalist, Gun Range Master, Certified Intelligence Analyst Specialist (CIAS) (All certifications are current)Fluent Languages: English, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, French and GermanPrevious Employment:
Analytic Methodologist (2001-2006)
Central Intelligence Agency
1000 Colonial Farm Road, Langley, Fairfax County, VirginiaCurrent Employment:
Retired CIA -age 20
Full-time StudentFather: Frank Lambert,
b: 9-1-1960
d: 9-11-1985
m: 12-12-1984Mother: Carla Mae Wilks
b: 7-17-1965Stepfather: Raymond Steele(former Marine Raider- Colonel)
b: 7-31-1961
d: 11-15-2005
m: 6-12-1986
div: 7-14-1990Stepfather: Stephen Morton
b: 8-20-1963
m: 8-16-1990
div: 2-15-1991Stepfather: Robert Adams
b:4-5-1967
m: 4-6-1992
div: 1-17-1994Stepfather: Michael Johnson
b: 3-12-1963
m: 4-10-1995
div: 3-23-1998Stepfather: Charles Frankfort
b: 8-27-1969
m: 6-29-1999
div: 4-30-2001Stepfather: Carlson Whitmire
b: 10-5-1968
m: 7-5-2003
div: 4-19-2006Stepfather: Giffin Huffington
b: 1-30-1963
m: 5-6-2006 presentPolitical Associations: UnknownReligious Affiliations: UnknownSexual Orientation: UnknownCriminal Offenses: UnknownRelationships: UnknownDMV:
2005 Ford Escape SUV
License plate# RJS731
1971 Dodge Charger 426 HEMI
License plate# ARS910
2011 McLaren MP4-12C
License plate #BMX427Permits: CCW
Registered firearms: Kel-Tec P-11, Sig Sauer P226Special Note: (All CIA information is sealed other than what you see.)
—----------------------Christian's mouth was hanging open. He tried to unknowingly offer a retired ex-CIA operative genius multimillionaire to be a sub. He thought, ‘What the fuck was I thinking? This woman is like Mrs Smith from the movies. No wonder she was built like an incredible goddess, highly intuitive into my contract and beautiful beyond comparison. She really could kick my ass and hand it back to me. What the hell?’He was shocked at all her certificates and degrees. He was amazed at her four degrees that were all perfect for the business he was in. He thought, ‘She would qualify as an executive position in my company in acquisitions. I wonder if she has had any offers yet. Perhaps, I could get her to work for me and I could get to know her better. That might be an intro to finding out who she really is?’ It was driving him crazy because he just couldn't let it go. She was becoming an obsession in his mind. He wanted her badly and didn't know why because she was everything opposite to the women he was always after. He decided that he needed to talk to Flynn and find out why he was so driven towards this gorgeous woman, who is everything but what he had wanted before seeing her for the first time.
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CHAPTER 3Flynn told Christian the next day that he had to stop and reevaluate himself and the lifestyle. He said that the woman, Ana, was correct in her evaluation of his contract. Flynn said instead of Ana breaking it down like he had been trying to do, she had told him point blank what he was doing. Christian had tried to argue that she didn't understand. Flynn told him that if she could see it immediately as an Analytic Methodologist and himself a Clinical Psychologist, that Christian would need to come to terms that he was a sadist and enforcing master/slave contracts to women because that was exactly what Elena had done to him and taught him to do. Flynn said that until he realized that, he would never be able to stop the damage done to himself.Needless to say, Christian stormed out of his office and was very upset and angry all day. He didn't want to face that everything Elena had told him was a lie. In the back of his mind it was starting to grow slowly. He had emailed repeatedly over the next month to Ana's email he found trying to get her to respond to his job offers. Ana had completely ignored him with no response. His IT guy, Barney, had verified that it was received and viewed but deleted. It further angered Christian thinking she was just being rude.—-----------Six months later, in December, Ana was out shopping in the snow in downtown Pike’s Marketplace. She was in her faux expensive Arctic Wolf fur ¾ coat and going from shop to shop looking at the seasonal sales. Earlier she had bought a beautiful formal dress for the Christmas party she had been invited to after meeting a young woman at a gala she had gone to for a local hospital. It was in her home and her parents were throwing it. Ana had been friends with the woman for the last three months and was going to lunch, dinners and clubs to dance, on and off. She was convincing the woman to use her culinary skills she had from a school in Paris to turn into her own bakery business. She even said that she would invest to help her get on her feet, but the woman reluctantly said her brother would loan her the initial investment.That evening, Ana had gone all out and got her hair done and had her mani-pedi done at a local salon. She was stunning in a blood red velvet trimmed with lace formal dress that was form fitting. It shows off her beautiful figure being ruched, backless and slit up to mid thigh. Her long dark hair was piled in ringlet curls in a Grecian style with a gold metallic cord wound through it. She wore her gold and garnet jewelry set with a matching blood red fluffy collared fur coat with a cowl hood, Louboutin velvet pumps, and a matching velvet crossbody purse. Her makeup was done dramatically in a smokey eye and eyeliner with matte dark red lipstick.Ana pulled up to the mansion valet in her 2011 metallic sapphire black McLaren. They took her keys and helped her out of the car. She had her cowl hood up on her fur coat and was carrying two presents. She walked into the front door handing her invitation to the greeter in the residence entry hall. He directed her to the coat check.Christian was sitting bored at his mother's formal Christmas party with Elena sitting next to him babbling about renovations on her salons. Suddenly, Elena noticed a demure beautiful woman and said, “Who is that?”Christian looked over and saw the back of a slender curved goddess with a long neck, legs and perfect ass. Her dark hair was up and her back was completely exposed in creamy silky skin. The gorgeous creature was talking with his sister, Mia.Christian said deeply, “I have no idea, she is stunning.” The woman turned around being led by his sister to his mother.Grace said to Mia curiously, “Is this your friend you told me about, Mia?”Mia said proudly, “She sure is. Mom, this is Anastasia Steele. Ana, this is my mother, Dr Grace Trevelyan Grey.”Grace said smiling friendly, “I'm pleased to finally meet you. Mia said you're the young lady trying to help her get a business plan in order for a bakery and put her degree in culinary school to work. It's nice that you are encouraging Mia in such a positive way.”Ana blushed and said, “She has come over and baked with me at my condo showing me recipes and she is very talented. It would be no problem with proper advertising to get Mia up and successfully.” Mia hugged her friend. Grace instantly liked this young woman.Grace said happily, “With you around her I'm sure she will be.” Christian instantly knew who she was overhearing her name. He stood up and walked over to them. Elena was shocked at his reaction and got up following him.Grace saw him and said, “Christian, I would like you to meet Mia's friend who's helping her develop a business plan for a bakery. Anastasia Steele, this is my son, Christian Grey.”Ana looked at Christian in the eyes and said, “Mr Grey.” He reached out his hand to her. She took his hand to shake but he kissed it instead.Christian said smirking, “I had the pleasure of meeting Miss Steele about six months ago in Portland. At the time, she had just graduated from WSU with double masters degrees to add to her double bachelors degrees she already had. Nice to see you again, Anastasia.”Grace said surprised, “My goodness, you have four degrees, Miss Steele?”Ana frowned at Christian because he got all that off her background check, not that she told him and thought that rude. He didn't know her at all after the crap he pulled on her already. Ana said, “Yes, I do in Business Administration, Business Analytics, Econometrics, and Statistics. I haven't used all of the degrees yet but plan on it eventually. I have an inheritance and don't need to work but would like to.”Elena came up and heard all Ana said. She asked Grace intrusively, “Who is this girl, Grace?”Grace said resting her hand on Ana's red velvet long gloved forearm, “This is Mia's friend, Anastasia Steele. She is helping Mia get a business plan together and helping her launch a business.”Elena said snottily, “Mia doesn't need her when she has Christian to help her do all that.” Grace looked at Elena frowning.Grace said clipped, “Don't be rude, Elena. She is helping and encouraging Mia, her friend. It is a wonderful friend who can do that.”Elena knew she stepped in it a bit with Grace, so she said ingratiatingly, “I just meant that Christian has always been there to do that is all. No offense.” Elena flippantly said to Ana.Ana was irritated and said, “Mia excuse me. I need to go to the restroom, can you show me?” Ana had to get away from Christian and that older woman, Elena. She was getting pissed off.Mia said quickly, “Of course, follow me.” Mia took Ana's hand and led her through the crowd to a bathroom in the back of the house.Mia said quietly perturbed, “I can't stand that old cow.” Ana nodded and patted her arm, turned and went into the bathroom, closing the door and locking it. Mia went back to the front of the house.When Ana was done washing her hands, putting her gloves in her purse and checking her makeup, she unlocked the door and went to step out into the hall, but Christian was there and gently pushed her back in the bathroom and locked the door.Ana said flatly and frowning, “What do you want?”He said, slowly backing her up against the sink, “Why didn't you answer any of my emails I sent you?”Ana said flippantly, “Because I don't want to be in your control freak life being dominated by you. I know now how impossible it seems to avoid you now with Mia as my friend.”He said frowning, “I was only offering you a job at my company.”Ana asked, “Did you get my background check finally? The CIA makes it more difficult to get it, huh? I hope you know what a blunder you committed that night when I last saw you?”Christian said gruffly, “Yes, I know. This is about business not that. Why are you being so defensive?”Ana laughed at him and said, “I am not defensive, Mr Grey, you silly man, or I would leave right now if I thought you were a threat. I'm cautious of getting into any kind of relationship with you, even business. You are a control freak sadist with issues. I'm not willing to work for a man that I don't trust. You approached me randomly thinking I might be someone's sucker or easy mark that you can control and beat into submission in your red room of pain. You thought I was like other women who would just put up with that for your pretty face for things and money. You did it just because I was, supposedly, a poor naive college student. You found out that I am as far away from poor and naive, as that night proved, didn't ya? I have worked all my life and have been in control of my destiny. I have already given five years of my life to my country, educated myself, fed the poor, contributed to charities, and now trying to help your sister too. Tell me Mr Grey, what more do you want from me?” He saw the fire in her eyes making her so sexy and look right through him, his loins were burning for her. He couldn't stand it much longer, not touching her.He said spontaneously without thinking, “I want you, Anastasia. I want more… with you.” Ana stared at him in shock. He leaned in and quickly took possession of her lips.Ana said in a whisper breaking the kiss turning her head away from him, “You must be joking. You must know I will not tolerate you trying to Lord control over me or raise a hand to me? I'll spank your ass instead of you trying to spank mine. I'll never submit to you like you are used to getting from other women.”Christian said in a deep sexy voice running his fingers down her naked spine, “I’m not asking for you to do that now. How about you teach me how to share control with you?”Ana felt tingling going down her spine to between her thighs from his touch. She was wet instantly. Christian felt a tingling going up his arm from touching her skin. His hard on in his pants was becoming painful and like granite. He had her up against the sink with both hands by her hips. He leaned in and kissed her neck with his tongue licking her skin, then kissing below her jaw. Ana exhaled roughly. Christian had never done this before but was enjoying every second causing her body to react.Ana said a bit shaky grabbing him by the biceps, “You're not playing fair with me acting all different now. I… I need to get out of here and away from you.” She started breathing heavier.Christian said softly against her throat nuzzling her, “Don't run away, Anastasia, please stay? I need you, beautiful. I need you to show me how to trust someone for the first time?” He caressed her lips with his finger. They were both breathing heavily now looking in each other's eyes. Ana suddenly aggressively smashed her mouth into his losing control for a moment and kissed him so hard that it caught him by surprise because he was the aggressor normally. She passionately and vigorously attacked his mouth. He swore his toes curled in his shoes. Christian grabbed her hips and was pressing her body into his. He let go of his control for the first time since Elena and was losing himself in her kiss. He felt almost euphoric with his hands all over her body. Her scent, feel of her skin was so intoxicating and felt so perfect against his body and hands. Ana's hand slid up his arm and into his hair at his collar. She tugged his hair gently and he growled.Christian broke the kiss caressing her cheekbones and said, “Please come home with me after this. I promise to you that I will not hurt you ever. You're to lovely, but I might bite your lip a bit and fuck you until you scream.”Ana was in a dilemma with her body and mind reacting to his words. On one hand, she wanted him to satisfy the lust in her body and on the other hand, he was extremely sexually attractive to her on every level. He was so very handsome and sexy. But, she knew what he was, a sadist, but definitely didn't know why yet. Ana said, panting, “Only if you tell me why you are the way that you are first.” He was panting and she saw fear hint across his eyes.She brushed his lips barely with her own lips and whispered sensually, “Be brave for me, Christian. Take a chance that the universe is leading you to something even better. I won't leave or hurt you if you do. I promise to work with you as long as you work with me too.” He closed his eyes, inhaling deeply as she nuzzled and licked his ear.When his eyes opened he said, “I'll tell you tonight.” She nodded and kissed him softly. He loved it, responding back to her tongue movements languidly moving with his own. He had never been kissed like this, slow and easy, because he didn't kiss his subs only on the body, never the mouth. It was too personal. He never kissed anyone but Elena and that was many many years ago, but never like this. Ana was different. She was… sultry about it.Ana broke the kiss and grabbed some tissue paper from the box on the counter of the sink and started wiping off the lipstick on his mouth. Then she turned to the mirror, leaned in as her rubbed himself against her ass and cleaned up her own mouth. She applied her lipstick as he was up against her stoking the skin on her back focused watching his hand slowly move across her skin. Ana turned around and he took her hand went to unlock the door, taking her hand and leading her back through the house to the party. He felt drunk but didn't drink. It was her, it had to be.The people everywhere were all eating and drinking as the music played in the small room cleared for dancing. Christian asked, whispering in her ear, “Will you come dance with me?”Ana turned and said in his ear softly, “Ok, Christian.” He pulled her onto the dance floor and held her in his arms very intimately and close.Elena saw him holding that girl too closely and dancing with her. She taught him how to dance long ago. She was growing angry because it should be her he dances with. He was touching her intimately like a man driven by desire. He never looked at her that way even when he was younger and it pissed her off. She taught him about sex, about dancing, manners and about wines. He belonged to her because she created him. That girl should be down on her knees thanking her, but Elena just wanted her to go away from her Christian. She owned him.Grace was watching her son holding Ana to his chest. It was remarkable that he was touching her so tender and gently. She never in her life saw him act like this. It was shocking everyone because he never was like this to any girls he was ever around. Carrick just smiled watching them while standing next to Grace. He knew this girl must be the one.Mia smiled knowing Ana would be good for her brother. She was such a nice person and she bet that Ana could heal Christian.Elliot wandered in the room and was stopped to be amazed at what Christian was doing with the most beautiful woman ever in his arms. ‘That lucky bastard. I thought he was gay. Isn't that Mia's friend that sexy minx?’, he thought.Christian said in her ear softly, “I want to eat you. You smell so very good and delicious.”Ana said firmly then chuckled, “Behave yourself, Christian Grey. Everyone is staring at us.” He chuckled knowing he was affecting her. He open-mouth kissed her neck and shoulder. His family members gasped seeing him kiss her body so intimately. Elena almost went into a full meltdown wanting to break something.Ana said softly, “Let's go get a cool drink and talk.” He nodded and led her off the dance floor to where a bar was set up.
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CHAPTER 4They both got a drink and he took her to an obscure part of the house. It was a small salon with a fireplace. He turned on the gas fire logs, locked both sets of doors. He had her sit on the sofa next to him looking out the big picture window that was winter frosted. The snow was falling outside and the Christmas lights were reflecting.Christian leaned in and said in her ear, tickling it, “You dance very well.”Ana said leaning into him, “So do you. My father taught me how. He taught me many things. He died, that was when I retired from working for the government to take care of his arrangements and I went back to school after. I kinda lost myself in my academics to heal from losing the only person I ever loved and respected unconditionally.” Christian kissed her shoulder.Christian said, “I don't know what is happening to me right now at this moment but you are all I want to think about, touch and feel. I've never been like this around anyone. You just feel so very good.” He took her hand kissing the palm. He said, “I can't be touched, on my chest or back.” Ana turned her head and looked him in the eyes.She said softly caressing his chin, “I promise I'll never hurt you, as long as you never hurt me. If you want to be around me as my friend, you cannot do what you have been doing. The cycle of letting out your rage channeled through sex and causing pain to women must stop right now. There are healthier ways to deal with an outlet for stress, frustration and anxiety. I will help you, but if you go back to it, I will be gone forever. I can disappear anywhere in the world and be 100% untraceable while hating you for being so weak.” Christian looked down thinking about what she just said. If he wanted to punish during sex, it would be the last he ever would see her. He would be a weak failure and he didn't ever want to be a failure or be hated in anything, especially by someone like her.Christian said slowly feeling a deep determination, “I will work with my psychologist and you. I don't want you to leave.”She said softly brushing her thumb across his lips, “Christian, can you tell me now?”He said looking down, “Please, Anastasia, I can't, not inside my parent's house.” She nodded and decided to let it go for right now being it troubled him so much being near his family to tell her.Ana said running her fingers threw the hair on the back of his head, “Ok, when we get to your place.” He smiled, nodded and kissed her. He thought she was being so very understanding of how he felt and loved that.There was a pounding on the door to the room. Elena yelled, “Open the door, Christian!” More pounding. He broke the kiss and sighed loudly.Ana asked, “Who is that old woman? She is rude and strange?”Christian said, “She's also a friend of my mothers and I own sixty percent of her three salons.” More pounding.Elena says loudly, “I hear you in there! Open the door, Christian, now!”Ana looked into his eyes and said, “She's the one and your family doesn't know?”He asked nervously, “How did you figure it out?”Ana said caressing his face, “It's what I do. I problem solved, troubleshoot and calculate. Besides, I saw how she was looking at me and you.”He smiled and said looking in her eyes, “She's cruel and ruthless. Be careful.”Ana said seriously, “Go ahead and let's deal with her. She thinks she owns you, body and soul. I can handle her.” Christian nodded and got up going to the pounding door. He unlocked it and was not opening it all the way.He growled angrily, “What the hell do you want?”Elena put her hands on her hips and said in her Dom voice, “What the hell is wrong with you! You hung on, danced with and kissed that stupid girl. You know you can't do vanilla, you're too damaged for that kind of relationship. You'll just fuck it up and get her to run from you because you don't know how to love or be loved. She isn't even in the lifestyle. Leave that girl alone, she is not right for you and come with me now!.” He listened to her tone of voice being demanding and condescending towards him. It was truly pissing him off.Christian said in his Dom voice, “Shut the fuck up and leave me alone! It's none of your goddamn business what I do anymore, Elena! I can see whomever I want for however long I want. Get the fuck away from me and leave me the hell alone!” She shoved past him instead, pushing him back and stormed into the room marching up to Ana.Elena forcefully said waving her nail polished talons at Ana, “Leave Christian alone! You're not right for him. You could never satisfy his needs. You're not able to handle him. He beats little brown haired girls like you for breakfast.”Ana said smirking at her like she was curiously looking at a lunatic acting crazy, “You oughta know, you trained and brainwashed him to do it.”Elena stood there and looked at her with her mouth open. Elena said, stunned, “You know?”Ana chuckled and said, “Yes, he didn't even have to tell me. It was you who just has. I figured it out on my own because you are acting like an overly obsessed dominating control freak lover. You're tipping your hand and showing everything because you're losing control of yourself and him. It's really quite sad to watch you demean yourself this way. The family will catch on real soon, all because of your out of control behavior.” Elena stood there in complete shock.Elena finally came back recovering and snapped nastily, “You little bitch! You think your so fucking smart don't you? I have been best friends with Grace and Christian for years. So see, you're nothing compared to me.”Ana said stoically, “Thank you for the compliment. I'd never want to be so plastic and transparent as you. I bet that face, ass and tits are all plastic too. You must be a very insecure woman about your age, appearance and have an extremely narcissistic personality. You dress like a hooker with tight clothes too young for you. You should just go find some rich old man and sponge off of him until he dies. Then you can fight with his children about everything in the will. You seem the type greedy and arrogant.” Christian made a noise and stomped down the laugh caught in his throat.Elena shot a glared at him and said, “Are you just going to stand there and let this bitch talk to me like that? I saved your life! Do something about her!”Christian said glaring at Elena, “I’ve done more than enough for you over the years. I don't owe you anything anymore. You need to start standing on your own and stop trying to hold that over my head. I'm sick of you telling me what to do and how to live my life. If you don't cut the shit, Elena, you will be removed completely financially and all alone. No more bossing me around, giving out ultimatums and no more handouts from me. I'm fucking done! If you don't shut up, back out of this room and leave, you will be broke by Monday.”Elena looked at him in complete shock and said, “You wouldn't dare treat me like that after everything I have done to make you the man you are today. Successful, wealthy and in control. You owe me! I saved you fucking life!”Ana snapped getting sick of the lemon sucking hag, “You didn't do a goddamn thing for him but try to fuck up his whole life, old woman! He had the brains to do that and be successful. He was already born with it. You just latched on when seeing his potential, digging your nails in as deep as you could and rode the waves behind him trying to get as much profit as possible to benefit yourself. I bet your greed exceeded your need a very long time ago.” Elena was about to pop a blood vessel in her Botoxed veins. Elena couldn't understand how this girl wasn't affected by her at all.Elena said dark and threatening, “You better watch your back you bitch. I'll pay you back for this.”Ana moved up into her personal space, looked hard and directly into her brown angry eyes not blinking. She said deathly calm, “Are you threatening me? If you think you are, I know people that with one phone call can make you disappear off the face of the planet or find yourself in a ship’s hold waking up headed to Afghanistan. Don't you dare try to creep in on me or fuck with me old woman. You better listen to Christian and get the fuck out of here or lose everything. I know for a goddamn fact that you have no idea who your fucking with by threatening me. I know who and what you are: a broke down divorcee with master/slave issues, insecurities from age slipping away, a control freak and a hater for people you can't use, manipulate or abuse.” She moved an inch closer in Elena's face and continued, “Fuck with me old woman, come on, I fucking dare you to try! I'll drop a dime on your ass so fast, they will never find the body.” Elena's eyes got big wondering if she was just bullshitting her or not.Christian looked back and forth between them with a chill running down his spine at Ana's words, knowing they were true. Ana hit Elena blatantly right between the eyes with her comments. Elena flinched, clenched her fists and turned walking straight out of the room.Christian exhaled. He locked the door behind her and sat on the couch next to Ana. He said looking at her, “If she isn't afraid yet, she will be, I assume, unless she is stupid. I know she's not stupid.”Ana said stoically, “Yes, she will be frightened. I will get someone to keep her under surveillance. I will not let her fuck with me and maintain her current MO. She will need a good beat down because at this point she is still unconvinced and that's all she seems to understand. I have dealt with people in her mindset.”He looked at her in amazement and asked, “Wow, just what did you do for the CIA?”Ana smirked and looked at him flirtatiously, “If I tell you, handsome, I'd have to kill you. So you're just gonna have to live in the wonder and mystery of me.” She leaned over and captured his lips deeply kissing him and pulled his bottom lip with her teeth gently, letting it snapback. Christian was in a euphoric mood again caressing her hip with his thumb. Her hands were stroking his neck at the hairline, giving him goosebumps.Christian said softly, “You are the most desirable women I've ever met. What is the power you have that is affecting me so much?”Ana stroked her fingers across his lips while gazing into his dark gray soulful eyes and asked, “Does it hurt if you get touched on your chest and back, Christian?” He nodded, drowning in her blue passionate eyes. She licked his bottom lip as he opened his mouth gasping, taking her tongue in his mouth again. She was stroking his tongue with soft slowly languid strokes. His hands moved up her naked back pressing her body against his.There was a knock on the door and Elliot said, “Christian, come on, get your butt out here. Mom said they are opening their party presents.” Christian groaned.Ana broke the kiss and said in a whisper, “We better return to the party. I have to give your sister and your mother, as the hostess, their Christmas presents.”Christian said out loud to Elliot, “We'll meet you out there.” He took Ana's hand and they both left the room after he turned off the fireplace. She stopped at the bathroom to wipe off her lipstick from their mouths.Ana said smiling as she wiped his mouth, “I can see that dark lipstick is not something to wear around you. We can't seem to control kissing each other constantly. He chuckled and licked her neck making her giggle at him as she wiped off her mouth putting the lipstick on. He took her hand and led her back down the hall to the living room.As they entered the room, Elena was sitting next to Grace watching him and Ana keeping her face neutral. Elena’s eyes glared at the two of them. The room took turns giving their gifts out. The family didn't exchange family gifts until Christmas Day in the morning. But the guests all started giving out their gifts. Ana added her gifts to Grace's and Mia's pile.A girl with blonde hair, brown eyes and a long oval face was sitting next to Mia on the couch. Mia was looking at all the names on the labels of her gifts and snatched up the one that was a stack of the three gifts tied together with ribbons from Ana and looked up at her grinning from ear to ear.The girl sitting next to her asked, “Who's that one from?”Mia said smiling, “This is from my best friend Ana. She is the best person I know.”The girl sitting next to her said frowning, “I thought I was your best friend for years since first grade? You even wanted me to marry one of your brothers so we could be family eventually.”Mia turned, looked at her like her head was blown up and said incredulously, “Are you crazy, Lily? I never said such a thing or suggested it in all the years of knowing you. Ana is my best friend. I met her three months ago at a gala and we are planning out my business I'm going to create.” Lily was mad and upset.Lily asked angrily, “So that's why you haven't been around in the last few months. I kept calling and calling to go out to dinner, shopping and clubbing but you haven't been able to, now I know why.”Mia shrugged and said, “Sorry about that I have just been busy creating something worthwhile in my life that makes me happy with someone who inspires me. Creating a business takes up a lot of time and there's not as much time for doing meaningless nonsense.”
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CHAPTER 5Mia opened the box and found a Donna Karan fit and flare silk dress that was like a watercolor running in the rain dress in white fading to shades of purple streaks flowing down to the bottom of the hem, a box with a pair of custom made white pumps to match the dress with the watercolor purple at the toe and a beautiful set of gold amethyst and diamond earrings, pendant and bracelet. The gift had Mia completely stunned. Lily was eaten alive with jealousy at the expensive gifts and thought involved. Lily thought, ‘I bet she is trying to buy Mia's friendship with expensive gifts.’Grace saw what Mia had and asked, “Mia that dress, shoes and jewelry are stunning. Who gave you that?”Mia said with tears in her eyes sentimentally, “My best friend, Ana. We were out together a while back and I saw the exclusive designer dress but didn't buy it because it wasn't in my size. She knew I loved it, but it was a limited quantity. How she got the shoes made perfectly to match, I'll never know.” Mia stood up and sat the three packages by her mother, as Grace looked at them amazed, and walked up to Ana and embraced her.Mia said looking sentimentally, “I can't believe how very thoughtful you are. They are so very incredible.” Ana lifted her chin and kissed her cheek.Ana said softly, “You're worth it. I knew you would love it, sweet girl. I got the dress shipped from New York in your size and had a cobbler make the shoes. I found the amethyst set at Neiman Marcus. We will have to go out in style to show people what true beauty looks like when it warms up.” Mia blushed. Christian was floored at what a well thought out gift she got his sister. He realized that Ana was very fond of Mia.Mia said humbly, “Thank you so much. I want you to come for dinner with us tomorrow night and I can give you your gift then.” Ana hugged her affectionately.Ana said softly, “I would love to if it's alright with your parents.”Mia said seriously, “Of course it is. I would never let you be alone on Christmas without me.” Christian just then realized from Mia's comment, that Anastasia was all alone for the holidays from her background check. Ana smiled and hugged Mia sweetly.Grace had watched the girl's and reached out to get her gift from Ana. She opened the box and found a set of two delicate tea cups, saucers with spoons and a bag of floral mixed flower tea. The teacups were finely made with vines, leaves and flowers with such defined detail in soft pale greens and pastel purple and pinks. The cups and saucers were custom artisan handmade. Grace had never seen anything like it before and gasped. The spoons were stamped silver, not sterling, in the same floral natural patterns molded and etched on the spoon handles. Grace was amazed at the beautiful craftsman pieces. Carrick stepped over and looked at the pretty teacups and bag of tea.Ana walked up to Grace with Mia and Christian. Sitting next to her was Elena, both of them were looking at her cups and saucers. Ana said to her, “A friend of mine in Virginia made them by hand in his home’s studio. If you look closely at the details you can see the individual differences in each leaf and marking. He signed the bottom and placed his mark on them. Tiffany & Co are in contract negotiations with him to start limited edition production on his exclusive designs.” Grace looked at the bottom of each piece.Grace was stunned and asked, “My goodness that would make it a priceless original then before Tiffany. I may need to have my morning coffee with it so I know I used it for the right purpose first.”Ana smiled at her and said, “Yes, it would make it an original collectors piece. He is a very talented artisan. The floral tea is an exclusive natural blend imported from Istanbul, Turkey. I have some myself and it is a very nice floral fragrance blend for calming and relaxing.”Grace said mesmerized, “Thank you so much. This is an exquisite gift, Ana, and I will put it in my china cabinet to remain safe on display and use it only for special occasions.”Ana smiled at her and said, “I knew you would appreciate them. I got you two full sets in case something should ever happen to a piece.” Grace smiled at her and thought how very thoughtful and sweet she was.—------------As the party was winding down, Christian was saying goodbye to his family with Ana on his arm.Christian said to his parents as he leaned in and kissed his mother on the cheek, “Thank you, mother. Ana and I discussed it and I will be bringing her with me tomorrow night to dinner.” Grace's eyebrows shot up surprised because her son had been acting so completely out of character all night since Ana showed up at the party. She thought he might be gay but his constant touches and kisses on Ana proved he most definitely was not gay.Elena glared all night from the corner of the room, sending darts at Ana. Once she was caught and all Ana did was smile and wink at her from across the room, which completely infuriated her. Elena had had enough when she heard he was bringing her to Christmas dinner. Christian was helping her into her burgundy beautiful red fur coat. Elena walked up as Christian intimately kissed her neck making her giggle. She thought, ‘He is mine! I trained him! How dare he show such affection to that girl! I trained him to not need that kind of a relationship or affection. I taught him that he was too damaged to be touched. He is to beat the women he wants sex from. This behavior is sickening!’Elena said nastily to Christian, “You're going to be sorry when you find out that you can't get release any other way, but how I showed you. I'll be waiting for your apology tomorrow at Christmas dinner.” Elena walked by him and grabbed her coat.Christian said in an angry whisper, “You cause Ana or I any trouble tomorrow night and you're through. You hear me? Done.”Grace walked up to them at that moment, cutting off Elena's response and said, “Be safe going home to both of you.”Christian said, “We will, mother.” He had his hand on Ana's back and they went out the door together. He walks Ana over to her McLaren. Christian thought it was an incredible car. He opened the door as she got in. He leaned down and kissed her as she swung her legs in. Christian hit send on his phone and Ana's phone chimed as she put on her seatbelt.He said smiling, “I sent you the codes. Follow me, baby.” She looked up smiling at him. He closed the door as she started the engine. Christian got in the back of the black Audi Q7 SUV and he and Taylor pulled out of the circle drive with Ana following them.When they got to Escala underground parking, Christian jumped out of the SUV and opened her door for her. He kissed her and had his hand on her lower back as they walked to the elevator. Taylor and Sawyer went through to the service elevator together.—------------Once Taylor and Sawyer were on the service elevator and the door closed, Taylor said facing forward stoically, “I like this woman very much on paper. Have you read her background check yet?”Sawyer was facing forward and replied, “Not yet, why?”Taylor said, “She was raised by a Marine Raider Colonel and trained and certified ex CIA after five years of service starting at age fifteen. It's quite a read. She's twenty six and has worked for the CIA as a Analytic Methodologist at age fifteen to twenty years old. She already finished both bachelor degrees by age fifteen to get accepted. She is a genius prodigy with the same certifications as we do in weapons and defense.”Sawyer said with his eyebrows up, “I think I'll go read it right now. You think Grey can handle her with what he has been doing and the way he did all that shit to those other women?”Taylor chuckled and said, “I think that incredibly beautiful woman is going to retrain him. He can't seem to stop looking, kissing and touching her. Besides, she could break his ass in half if he got out of hand.” They both smiled and stepped off the elevator.—------------When Christian and Ana stepped into the elevator, he punched in the code and the doors closed. He pushed her up against the back wall and attacked her mouth aggressively kissing her in a wild torrent of sexual unrestraint being released. His hands were all over her and pulling up her leg to his hip.Ana said panting, “Slow down Christian. I'm here for you to explain to me. I didn't come to have sex with you tonight. I'm not even sure if you can even handle it and neither are you.” He really wanted her badly, but put her leg down because she was right. They were kissing all evening and he realized he had been getting a bit carried away and ahead of himself. She was right because he wasn't sure how to handle having normal sex. He really needed to talk to Flynn.When the elevator doors opened, he led her inside the penthouse, as Ana was trying to get her footing. He was leading her into the entry of his penthouse. He took her coat off with his and hung them up in the closet. He smiled and took her hand leading her to the living room area.Ana sat down on the sofa and Christian asked, “Would you like a glass of wine?” She smiled at him and said yes.He brought back two glasses of wine and a glass full of bourbon. He sat them on the coffee table and sat down next to her. He reached out and started caressing her jaw.Christian said nervously, “I'll start from the beginning and get this over with. Just please don't leave me after because of how fucked up I am.” Ana reached out and brushed her finger over his mouth staring at his lips.She said softly, “I'm right here… You can touch me to know, I'm not leaving you. But I am going home tonight at some point and you can pick me up for dinner tomorrow.” He kissed her softly, picked up his glass and took a swallow of bourbon. It burned all the way down his throat.He began, sighing and holding her hand, "I was born the son of a crack whore. She neglected me because of her addiction. Her pimp would abuse me by beating us both, making me watch him rape her and putting his lit cigarettes out on my back and chest. When I was four years old, my mother overdosed and died. I was left alone with her body for four days. I thought she was just sleeping for a long time, like when she was passed out before. I was hungry and all we had was a frozen bag of peas in the house to eat. I covered her up with my blanket and slept next to her. I remember the pimp coming in and screaming at me telling me I killed my own mother and slammed the door. The last thing I remember was the EMT people coming in and me screaming because I couldn't tolerate them touching me. I was taken to the hospital and that is where I met Dr Grace Trevelyan Grey. She was on the afternoon shift covering the ER. She treated me and didn't touch me like the others but fed me. A few months later I was adopted by her and my father Carrick Grey. They had a son previously adopted. Elliot is a few years older than me as you know. I had a lot of trouble adjusting to things. I hoarded food all the time and I wouldn't talk for two years.""One day, they brought home a baby girl about three months old, my sister Mia. They told me that she was my baby sister. That night I slept on the floor next to her crib watching over her and protecting her. The baby started to cry and I went to get my mother and said the name "Mia". My mother cried because she was so happy. I started talking after that." Christian looked over at Ana and she had tears falling down her cheeks as she was wiping them away. Christian reached over and wiped her cheeks off very gently with his thumbs and kissed her softly on the lips. Christian continued after another slug of bourbon.Christian continued, "I never felt like I deserved my family's love. That I wasn't worthy of them. By the time my teens hit I was going through puberty and was fighting a lot because the kids at school would try to touch me on purpose to piss me off. Sometimes, the touching would happen accidentally, causing me burning pain on my back and chest. I would automatically lash out. I desired girls but they could never touch me on my back and chest and it caused me angst and frustration. After a couple years, I was around fifteen. I started drinking and stealing booze from my father. I was kicked out of three schools for fighting and drinking and my parents were at their wits end.""One day, my mother sent me over to do yard work for Elena, her best friend and her husband, to remove rubble from their new addition and landscaping. I was working there in the heat and took off my shirt. Elena came out into the back yard wearing close to nothing in a see through robe with a glass of iced lemonade. At the time she was about thirty eight years old. I said some smart mouth comment to her and she slapped me across the face, then she kissed me." Anastasia felt sad that he was so isolated and vulnerable to be a target for that pedophile. His mother's so called friend who more than likely gleaned information off of her about how to manipulate him."The next day she took me in the house and sucked me off. She said if I wanted more, to keep coming back. One day, she took me down to her dungeon, let me fuck her and said I could gain control of myself through BDSM. She said if I was good and did as I was told and made my parents happy, I would get rewarded and get to fuck her. If I didn't do the right things I would get punished. When I was 18, I went to Harvard and I was told to not even look at a girl there. Elena would drop in unexpectedly to check up on me. I dropped out after my first year. My father was furious and wouldn't let me use my trust fund money to start my business, even with a complete business plan. Elena gave me $100,000 dollars to start up my business. I had been her submissive for six years at that time, until that moment I wanted her to train me to be a dominant at age twenty one. She was what they call a "switch", when you go from a dominant to a submissive. She told me that the only way I could have sex was by tying the women up so they couldn't touch me. She said that I was incapable of love because I was too damaged and would have to do everything her way.""Seven and a half years ago, six months after I was trained to be a dominant, my business had taken off and I gave her a million dollars in return for the startup capital. By that time, her husband had divorced her. He left her after finding out she was having sex with me and beat her up. I stayed friends with her and wanted to help her in return for helping me. She started finding me submissives that were vetted by her from the BDSM clubs. It was safer than trolling the clubs to find subs. My reputation was starting to build up, and I could put them under contract and an NDA easier than trying to get them myself. She said that she would do it for me because she knew what I liked or didn't like. A year later, she presented me with a business plan for a salon spa business, so I helped by investing 60% to get her on her feet. Later, she started expanding to three now here in Seattle. She had bought two BDSM clubs in New York a year since then. I'm not invested in them, only the salons in Seattle."Christian said, "I always made it clear in the beginning to any of the submissives I contracted that it was an arrangement, that it was not an emotional relationship with me. I wasn't allowing my emotions to be involved at all. It was only sex and a release. I… I only had women under contract with long dark hair and fair complexions.”Ana asked softly, "Why is that, Christian?"He hesitantly said, "Because my mother had dark long hair and a fair complexion." Ana knew he was channeling his anger from his mother's failure to care and protect him from the violence he had been subjected to in his pre development, he was manipulated by Elena to channel sex and his rage onto women that resemble his mother. She thought what a sick fucking bitch she was to use him like she did with fucking, beating, controlling and manipulating a child in his puberty needing compassion only.
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CHAPTER 6He exhaled big and took another big slug draining his glass. He was waiting for the other shoe to drop and for Ana to get up and leave. Ana was intuitive and knew that was what he expected her to do. She looked directly into his eyes.Ana said restrained, "She had you channel all your rage into sex and punishment, like your angst, frustration and when you feel out of control. I bet she even had you make up those contracts the way she would do it. Being attracted to women that look like your mother is one thing, but having you punish them to channel your rage, anger and disappointment of what you experienced as a child in a sexual way is another. Now you're channeling all your negative emotions into punishment you dole out from your everyday life and work too. You must understand that Elena unethically manipulated you emotionally and made you have to hide what she did to you from the world and your family. What reason would she have to make you scared of anyone finding out, Christian? Because she was a pedophile hiding what she did to you. That is how they operate or it would be above board. It has kept you from dealing with your issues and not realizing it was wrong because you have never let anyone in close enough tell you. Your shrink doesn't count. You should have researched what she was telling you and you would have discovered it was all bullshit. BDSM is not what she taught you. She taught you sadistic master/slave controlling behavior. Christian, your a sadist that gets off on tormenting someone to channel negative emotions like frustration and anger. It is wrong, and borders on psychopathology. That's not being in control of yourself can't you see that? You're acting out of control like that in an emotional outburst using what you call subs as outlets? That's why it is not real BDSM. It's not just about inflicting pain as a goal and getting off on it in order to have sex. If you couldn't be touched, bondage would have been enough. The rest was blatant manipulation of a child to be mold to be just like that old hag. She was grooming you to use you." Christian stood up and got another full glass of the bourbon. He was getting angry like in Flynn's office.Christian said, perturbed, “You don't understand.”Ana said back at him firmly, “No, it you who does understand and you who doesn't like your behavior questioned. Your pedophile friend fucked you over the minute she brought you the that glass of lemonade into the backyard and sucked you off the next day. If she would have kept her dirty hands to herself, after a couple years you would have matured a little. Perhaps, a nice understanding girl could have changed your whole life. You could have been married by now. That's what she has stolen from you!” Christian stood up and started pacing upset. He was angry and pulling on his hair.He snapped, “I know she's annoying and you can't stand her, but even though she crammed it down my throat, I did stop fighting and drinking.”Ana stood up, assertively facing him and said, “You're in denial and you cannot justify what she has done to you. A good kick in your ass would have done it and some regular discipline. My father could have straightened you out fast. She has tried to ruin your life and only focus on herself gaining her five businesses all because of your money. I would think, if you were a shrewd businessman, you would have an in-house audit done on her. I will bet you a million dollars right now that she has been stealing more money from you than you realize. I know it because you were conditioned to let her do any goddamn thing she wants while you turn a blind eye and never question her actions. Prove me wrong, Christian! That's why she is getting up in your face telling you what to do, when to do it and with whom because you were groomed to let her. She stole your joy and happiness. Tell me, Christian, when have you ever felt one moment of profound joy in your whole life? Your childhood was rough and sad as hell, but when have you truly ever been happy? Your money and company success doesn't count.” He was getting more agitated. He smashed his glass against the wall.He shouted roaring, “What the fuck do you want from me?!”Ana walked straight up to him, grabbed him by the lapels of his suit jacket and spun him around. She shouted with full authority, “Stop this shit, right now!” He jerked out of her hold and stepped back.He shouted at her, “Why are you pushing me?!”Ana shouted back, “Because I am not fucking afraid of you like you have most people acting around you walking on goddamn eggshells! You damn sure better learn what I call bullshit when I see it! You have played this fucked up game since you were a child! Are you not sick of it yet?! Don't you want your independence from being demanded and fucking controlled by that fucking woman! She used you for sex, used you as a fucking whipping post, then for your money, then your social connections?! Come on, Grey, wake the fuck up! You haven't been on your own since that bitch put her first hand on you!”Taylor was around the corner and had been listening to them shouting at each other. He heard Ana pull out both barrels calling him out on his bullshit. She was leveling him.Christian shouted out, “I am not a victim!!!” He was enraged then he said quieter, “I'm not a victim.”Ana said in a calmer voice, “Yes, you are.” He kept shaking his head looking at the floor and fell to the ground on his butt. She kicked off her heels and sat down next to him and pulled her knees up.He was weeping in silence, because big splotches of drops were splattering his suit pants. Ana said softly to him, “You were just a little boy who needed help. Nothing was your fault. You had bad people around you.”He said in a whisper, “I hate feeling vulnerable and not in control anymore.”She said softly, taking his hand in hers and interlacing their fingers, “Yeah, but you're not going to be all alone this time. I'll help you as you face it. Sometimes you just need someone to straighten your shit out, make you see what's going on and give you the support you never got before.”He looked up at her with wet lashes and wiping tear streaks off his face. She reached up and wiped his cheeks gently. He grabbed his handkerchief out of his pocket and wiped his eyes. He turned to her and wrapped his arms around her, hugging her to his chest. She had to think about where to put her hands on his arm and his waist. He buried his face in her neck and sighed.Taylor saw him calming down and retreated to the security office. To find an issue going on. Sawyer had just been watching, a black figure was sneaking into the Escala underground parking. He was watching the person moving between the vehicles in Christian's line of parked vehicles. The person ducked down in-between Christian's Spyder and Ana's McLaren. A few moments later, the person then snuck out back the same way they came. Ryan was on shift and was on his way down the service elevator to see what had been done because the person had left before he could get there. Ryan laid down on the pavement between the cars and Ana's had a GPS tracker magnet on the frame of her car and the brake line was cut leaking red fluid everywhere. Ryan took the magnetic device off with a rubber glove from his pocket. He went back up the elevator to the security office and told Taylor to report the vandalism of Miss Steele’s car. Taylor said, “l will go report it to them now. Make sure to get a couple thumb drives with the recording on them one for us and one for the police.” Taylor went out to the living room.Christian and Ana had got up and were sitting on the couch together. Taylor said, “Excuse me, sir. We had a vandal enter below ground parking and cut the brake lines on Miss Steele's car and have retrieved a GPS tracker magnet on her car also. We will dust it for fingerprints.”Ana looked at Christian and said, “Elena. She's the only one who knew I might be here with you.” Christian sighed and nodded.Christian said, “Taylor, make sure all codes are changed here and she has no access to GEH properties at all unless she has an appointment at headquarters. She is going to be at my parents on Christmas for dinner, double the guards to watch the cars and in the house. I don't know what she thinks she is doing but trying to harm Ana is her last mistake. She will be audited Monday and financially disconnected Tuesday.”Ana said, “I need to go home and make a call. I'll line up a tow truck on Monday to the garage. Can you take me home to Premiere on Pine at 9th and Pine St.?”Christian asked, “Are you dropping a dime, like you said you would do?”Ana smiled and said, “Why yes, Christian. She's going to learn what being scared is about probably when she goes home after dinner tomorrow night.” Christian nodded. Taylor thought, ‘I hope she scares that bitch to death.’Christian took Ana to the closet and helped her on with her coat. Ana said, “What time tomorrow?”He smiled and said, “Four thirty. My mother likes to socialize a bit before dinner.” He pulled her close and kissed her. Sawyer came with the keys to drive her home.Ana said smiling as the parted, “Goodnight, Christian.”He said softly, “Goodnight, baby.” Ana got on the elevator with Sawyer and smiled at him waving. The door closed.Christian stood there for a minute and thought as he walked to his bedroom to get ready for bed, ‘What a fucking rollercoaster of a night. God, she is the most beautiful woman ever. Elena is going to be a real pain in the ass tomorrow. Especially because we know she tried to kill Ana by sending whoever the fuck to cut her brake lines. I'm done. I want that audit done immediately with overtime. What a heavy conversation Ana and I had. I'm wrung out. I need to call Flynn Monday too. Ana was hard on me but I saw it and heard her. I'm going to be sorting this shit out for days. I can't wait to talk to Flynn as soon as possible.’—------------Sawyer walked Ana to the SUV. Once they were buckled in Sawyer said, “I read your background check. It was quite a read.” Ana smirked.She said, “What’s your name? What did you learn?”He said chuckling, “I’m Luke Sawyer. I learned that Elena is stupid as hell for pulling that shit tonight and fucking with you.” Ana nodded her head.Ana said looking out the window, “She thinks she is smarter than everyone else. I've profiled many like her, a full on narcissist. Christian is her weakness. She thinks she can get rid of me so simply and easily.” She sighed and said, “I will warn her this once because then after, if she comes at me again, I'll ‘lower the boom’ on her. She may need to disappear for good.”He asked curiously, “Just what did you do for the CIA? It had to be highly classified. I tried to find out more from people I know, but your files are all sealed with high clearance. No regular Analytic Methodologist would have sealed files.”She grinned at him in the mirror and said, “You silly man. I did a bit of this and that. Then a little something something. That's all I can say about it. I am proficient in M110 and MK24 sniper rifles, and almost all semi-automatic pistols. I am a trained black belt in Krav Maga, MCMAP (Marine Corps Martial Arts Program) and Close Combat Training. My stepfather trained me in all self-defense tactics starting at age five. I could break down and put back together a Sig Sauer P226 at six years old. It was my stepfather's side arm. I have it registered to me now. I keep my little Kel-Tec P-11 in my purse at all times or in my gun corset with an extra mag.”Sawyer said grinning, “Are you like Mrs.Smith?”Ana said laughing, “Hell no, more like Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. Angelina Jolie ain't got shit on me no matter the movie.” He started laughing as he pulled up to the front of the lobby.Sawyer said smiling, “Take care, Miss Steele. Have a good evening.”She smiled and said, “You too, Sawyer.” She turned and went into the lobby.That night Ana logged onto her home laptop and ran a background check on Elena with her specialized software. She made her call on a burner phone.She said, “Delmar, it's Steele, I need a favor….” She explained the situation, gave the details and paid for the services.Ana got ready for bed and went to sleep after going over everything in her mind tonight. She hoped she got through to Christian and Elena is going to get a double gift tomorrow night.
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CHAPTER 7The next day, Christian came by in his Spyder and picked up Ana in front of her building lobby. He helped her into his car. She was dressed in a long sleeve, dark navy blue velvet ruched off the shoulder midi dress. She had on her diamond sapphire jewelry with matching Gianvito Rossi 105 velvet navy pumps and a Kate Spade navy velvet crossbody bag. She wore her hair in a french braid with a velvet bow on the end and her Snow Lynx faux fur coat. Christian thought she looked very beautiful.When they arrived with both SUVs following them, Christian helped her out of the car and they went into the house. Christian proceeded to hang up both of their coats and got himself an eye full of just how very lovely she looks in dark blue. Grace came up to them smiling and said, “Merry Christmas. Go right into the living room everyone is there. You look beautiful Ana. I'm glad you could come.” Grace patted Ana's arm.Ana smiled and said kindly, "Thank you for inviting me.”Christian took her hand and led her to the bar and poured them both a Cabernet Sauvignon and walked with her into the living room. Elena was sitting in a comfortable chair filing her nails acting bored until she saw both of them.Elena put on a fake smile and said, “Hello Christian, darling.” He ignored her. Carrick and Mia got up and went over to the two of them. Mia said while hugging Ana, “I'm so glad you came.”Ana said softly to her, “I couldn't miss seeing you on Christmas.” Mia smiled and squeezed her arm.Carrick said smiling, “I’m Carrick, Mia, Elliot and Christian’s father. I didn't get a chance to meet you last night because I was so busy around here. Grace filled me in on things later. You're a most impressive young woman. Is it true you have four degrees?”Ana replied, “Yes sir, I started very early in college.”Carrick asked, “Do you mind if I ask what they are in?”Ana said seriously, “I got two bachelor's in Econometrics and the other in Statistics at Harvard. I got two masters degrees in Business Analytics and Business Administration at WSU.”Carrick asked curiously, “You're a very accomplished young woman. Where are you employed?”Ana said honestly, “Nowhere as of yet. I want to start using my degrees in the business world but haven't gotten around to it yet.”Carrick said to Christian, “Christian, she can come to work for you can't she? Your company could use someone with those types of degrees couldn't they?”Christian said, squeezing her waist a bit, “Yes, I've asked her already but she hasn't said anything in response yet.” She looked up smiling and nudged him. He smiled down at her.Ana said smiling coyly looking at Christian, “I said I'll think about it.” Christian smiled at her flirting with him. Carrick was happy to see his son interact with her like the young man that he is at twenty eight years old.Mia said seriously, “Ana, we should go over to your place one day this week and help me finish up the business plan for my bakery. We are so close to finalizing it. Then I can submit it to you, Christian.”Ana said thinking, “How about 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon?”Mia said smiling, “Cool, I can cook us dinner too for after.” Ana smiled at her and nodded. Elena listened and thought, ‘That Ana girl is making plans with Grace's spoiled party girl daughter. That bakery or whatever is doomed to fail with that feather brained child running it. Too bad the little bitch didn't drive her car separately here. I'd love to hear of her crashing somewhere so she will leave my Christian alone. That's what she gets for not listening to me. All that bullshit she was saying doesn't scare me. I'm the bigger and better bitch here anyway. She makes me sick with her sucking up to all of the Grey's.’Elena stood up and walked over to Christian and put her hand on his forearm. Christian flinched. Elena said simpering, “Christian, darling, can I have a word with you in private about a business matter?”Carrick took Ana's hand and said, “You should try my killer lemon martini. It's so much better than that frog water.” He led Ana over to the bar.Christian went to the back of the house in the utility room where the washer and dryer was. He turned around, closing the door and said, “What do you want, Elena?”Elena said, “I want you to leave that girl alone. Did you vanilla fuck her?”Christian spat, “That's none of you goddamn business.”Elena smugly said and coyly, “I didn't think you could. She's not like us. She will never satisfy you like I can.”Christian said, “Elena, shut the fuck up and leave me the hell alone. I'm tired of your meddling in my life. I know what you did last night, by the way.” Elena looked intensely at him. He continued, “You think your so much fucking smarter than everyone else, don't you, Elena? Ever heard of cameras? Yes, I saw the video after Anastasia left last night. Your little sub, Marty, the one with a slight limp, that made it obvious, was sent there by you. He cut her brakes and put that tracker on her car. You are so fucking ridiculously transparent. You're the only one who knew she would be there with me in the first place. Attempted Murder is so fucking becoming on you, Elena. I can truly say you stepped so far over the line that everything you get back is karma coming to bite you in your ass from now on.”Elena said, fishing for information, “What do you mean about karma, Christian? I had no idea about her car. What are you even talking about?”Christian said sinisterly, “I want you to live in fear, because when it all comes for you, you're going to know what fear is. It won't be me doing it either.”Elena narrowed her eyes and said, “What's that little bitch gonna do to me? She was just all threats and talk.”Christian chuckled and said, “Wait and see.” He turned around and left her there in the utility room pondering. He went back to find Ana giggling at something his dad said while drinking a lemon martini he made for her. Eventually, Elena came back into the room.Grace came to the door of the room and said, “Come on everyone, let's go sit down to have dinner.” Everyone got up and walked into the dining room.It was a beautiful laid out table of fine silver, crystal and porcelain dishes. Christian kissed Ana and had himself on one side of the table with Mia on Ana's other side. Elliot and Elena were on the other side and his parents on each end. The servers came out with a beautiful succulent ham with tons of brown sugar and honey crystallize glazed all over it slightly burnt from roasting in the oven. There were buttery marshmallow sweet potatoes, homemade cranberry sauce, caramelized roasted potatoes and carrots, ham gravy, buttery brussel sprouts with bacon and fresh baked rolls. It smelled wonderful.After dinner, Christian and Ana were sitting on the couch talking to each other. He was looking in her eyes intimately close and put a piece of hair behind her ear that escaped. He said softly, “So I was thinking that starting Monday it will be a regular work week. Why don't you come to work with me and shadow me for a day? I'm sure you'll find it interesting. We can go out to lunch in the afternoon. You can look at a few projects for acquisition that Roz and I are working on.”She said softly back, “Whose Roz?” They were totally oblivious that his whole family and Elena were watching them.He said caressing her lips, “She's my COO. You'd like her because she doesn't take shit from anyone. We do all the evaluations and breakdown the data to get it ready for negotiations.”Ana said interested, “I get the negotiating part. What do your Economic Analysts and Accounting Forensics people gonna do for fun at work if you're doing all this evaluating and cost breaking down they should be doing? You should only be concerned with data accuracy and negotiations. You're doing their job. Who's your CFO?” He leaned down and kissed her softly.He said, breaking the kiss distractedly, “We don't have one.”She said caressing his chin, “Not even an Executive Assistant?” He shook his head no.She whispered and caressed his cheek, “No wonder you're so busy and stressed from work, Christian.” He smiled at her concern.Elliot couldn't take it anymore and said, “Hey, Christian, come up for air bro. You dive into her too quickly and deeply you're gonna get the bends.” He couldn't believe Christian was losing himself in this woman so fast, even if she was a complete knockout. It was just so weird and out of character for his little brother.Christian looked over at Elliot and said, “Lelliot, believe me when I say that I have seen you with women and my behavior is tame and subtle compared to yours.”Mia started laughing and said, “Yeah, you big old butthead. You would be dragging her off to the bathroom or your room by now.”Grace said, “Mia, hush. Elliot leave your brother alone. Would everyone like to start opening presents?” They all said yes. Mia jumped up and grabbed a present and gave it to Ana. Ana smiled at her and started opening it, seeing various styles of five different designer sunglasses.Mia said, “I know you said you broke your Saint Laurent sunglasses. I thought it would be a choice to go with different outfits. I know it is not as big as your gift last night.” It was a set of different designer sunglasses: Valentino, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Dior.Ana smiled and hugged her putting on a pair. She said, “Thank you Mia. It's not about the price tag. It's about the thoughtfulness behind it. Besides, you are the one gift I focused on so much this year. I don't have many people to buy for, only a select few that are special.” Mia smiled back at her feeling better about it.After everyone opened their gifts, the one Christian had got from his mother and father was for three soaring flights. His brother gave him a season set of passes for four to the Mariners as long as he takes him with him. Mia gave him some crazy color ties. Ana thought, 'I don't think Christian would be caught dead in loud neon colors.’ Ana almost laughed and stifled herself at the look of horror on his face when he saw the neon green, pink and yellow ties in paisley and psychedelic patterns. Ana thought, ‘It was a joke….it had to be, right?’Elena got a bottle of her favorite expensive scotch and a pearl diamond bracelet. Ana noticed she was acting overly gracious. She could spot a phony from a mile away and Elena was an unkind and ungrateful bitch. Ana thought, ‘What did she expect to get a brand new car or diamonds and a fur coat? It ticks me off that Elena thinks so much of herself, “as a friend to the family” to get more than the family gives each other as parents and siblings.’ Ana was hating the evil creature by leaps and bounds the more she was near her watching the transparency going not perceived by them all.Ana helped Christian put all of his gifts together in the tie box. Christian muttered so nobody but Ana could hear, “I hope those ties don't give my tickets and certificates some strange STD just being in the box together.” Ana laughed and snorted at him. She gave him a fake shove in the shoulder. He started laughing. Christian leaned in and kissed her. Elena huffed from across the room loudly. Ana and Christian decided to ignore her all night because she was gonna get her Christmas gift later from both of them. Christian's audit this week and whatever Ana whipped up for tonight.Ana said, breaking the kiss, “You're so naughty.”He smiled slyly at her, winked and said, “I know.” She giggled. She put her box on top of his with her sunglasses. Grace was smiling as she went to the kitchen to make sure everything was put away and found Elliot with his head in the refrigerator.Elena came in and said, “Really, Grace, are you going to let Christian see that girl? She's such a homely little creature. She'll be after his money before you know it. You know how inexperienced he is with girls, someone has to reason with him to slow down.” Elliot stood up from being in the fridge pulling out the bread, ham and dijon mustard.He put it on the counter and couldn't resist joining the gossip club going on in the kitchen. He shrugged and said, “I don't know, he seems to be doing pretty darn well. He is charming the pants off of her. If he didn't know how to do it, then I'd say he's a natural at it. Now if it was me I would have had her by now somewhere on the property. You shouldn't say such mean things about Ana. She's as far from homely as you are from young Elena.” Elena gasped in shock that he would say something like that to her.Grace said condescendingly, “Now, Elliot, you hush.” Grace knew Elena deserved it for that remark about Ana.Christian walked into the kitchen and said, “Ana and I are getting ready to get our coats. Thanks for….” Elena slipped out of the kitchen and found Ana coming out of the bathroom towards the back of the house.Elena stepped in front of her to block her and said, “Christian said you are going to try to harm me in some way. You better watch yourself, you little bitch. You don't know who you're messing with.”Ana looked her in the eyes and said calmly, “No, you child molesting sick fucking selfish twisted narcissistic old hag, you have no idea what happens next. You'll be paying for that little stunt you pulled last night and it's gonna hurt like a mother fucker. You'll discover that you are not the know-it-all queen in power you think you are. Watch your six, bitch because the ride gets bumpy from now on.” Elena was shoved to the side of the hall so quickly that she couldn't respond. Ana walked to the kitchen and then the vestibule to join Christian as they got their coats.Grace was smiling and said, “You come back anytime you like Ana. It was nice having you over.”Ana shrugged on her coat Christian was putting on her and said smiling, “Thank you Grace, it was good food and I had a good time with your family.”Mia said to Ana while hugging her, “I'll see you Wednesday afternoon. Merry Christmas, Ana.”Ana said, “You bet, Mia. Merry Christmas to you also.” Ana liked Mia because of her manners and genuine friendly demeanor. It made her a rare find.
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CHAPTER 8Christian took Ana's hand and the boxes and they said good night. Christian took her to the SUV where Taylor and Sawyer were. Ryan and Reynolds were following them in to the other SUV. Elena watched from the window inside, frowning as they pulled out. She thought maybe Christian was going to pull his backing this week to upset her.Elena said goodbye to Grace and walked her bottle of scotch and her bracelet box to her house across the street kiddie corner from them. She walked up to her door and found the front door unlocked. She thought that was odd, but blew it off and went inside thinking she must have forgotten to lock it before she left. She locked the door and the house felt cold. She flipped a switch to turn on the lights and the whole house was dead. She made her way to her desk and grabbed a flashlight and turned it on. She started looking around. She called the electric company and reported that her house was without power. She wandered around her house and put a kettle on her stove of water to make hot tea. She used a tea bag and some sugar from the sugar bowl. She put a shot of scotch in it. She was sipping on her tea in her bedroom and sat her bracelet box on top of her big huge jewelry box on the dresser. She got undressed but put on heavier clothing than normal with her robe. She took her tea and flashlight to the living room.Her phone rang and it was her manager in New York. He handles the BDSM clubs for her. She answered the phone and said, “Yeah.”The man said, “I tried to call you earlier…”. She looked at her phone and it must have been on vibrate. “... Your clubs, both of them are burnt down to the ground, Elena. The firemen are in two locations fighting the fires. The one on 5th avenue was caused by faulty wiring and everyone was gotten out. The second one was caused by a cigarette. I told you to have a non-smoking policy.”Elena was in shock. She thought, ‘How could both of them burn to the ground at the same time but for two different reasons? I have to find my insurance papers in my safe.’ She said to her manager, “Frank, I'll get back to you. Find out everything you can from the police and fire department.”She hung up and went to her big safe under her desk on the floor. She knelt down and moved the rug and mat. She dialed the numbers and unlocked the handle. She opened it to find it completely empty. She just stared at the empty safe. It had a million cash, her important papers, her bank and password books and the majority of her jewelry collection.She backed away and ran into her closet in her bedroom and unlocked the safe in the back of her closet in the wall… it was empty. It had $500,000 cash, her two handguns, three aliases with passports, driver's licenses and birth certificates. She ran to her jewelry box on her dresser and flung the bracelet in the box to the floor. The entire jewelry box was empty.She ran downstairs to her dungeon and there was a piece of paper on the door with a steak knife from her kitchen embedded into the wood. The paper was made up with newspaper clipped words glued on it. It said…‘We Are Watching You. The Real Pain Starts Happening Right Now….’She opened the door with a combination lock on it. She peeked inside the door and found her safe open and drawers of her files pulled out, her BDSM photos, thumb drives and videos were all gone. Everything was gone. Her two clubs, three ID’s, important papers, jewelry, her club books, her sub business book, bank account books, password book, her BDSM insurance files, videos thumb drives, SD cards and photos. Even the ones with the underage boys. All gone.She ran upstairs and booted her laptop because it was running on battery power now. Her files and photos were still on her computer but some were missing. Christian’s files, the upper echelon of Seattle files and all of the government officials' files were gone from her computer, as well as her online books on her sub businesses in New York and Seattle. Elena stared out into the darkness of her house in sheer shock.She knew what this meant…. that fucking bitch, Ana, held her whole life hostage now and there is not a goddamn thing that she could do because she was at the Grey's house all evening with proof of witnesses. How the hell did she get it all? How could she get it all back from her? Even if she did, the bitch could make copies of everything by now. She needed to get Christian to help her, but for now she couldn't do anything at all. She needed a copy of those insurance papers right now and they wouldn't be open until Monday. Elena slammed down her tea and grabbed the scotch bottle and started drinking heavily.—--------------Christian asked while driving being subtle but anxious, “Has whatever was to befall her, already happened?”Ana was looking straight ahead after checking her text messages on her burner phone in her purse. She answered, “Why yes, Christian, it was all completed at least an hour before we left your parents house. She should be feeling the pain by now.”Christian chuckled, “You're not going to tell me what you have done?”Ana said smirking but looking ahead, “Oh I'm sure you'll be hearing all about it when she comes to ask you to help fix it all for her because she will tell you that you owe it to her. I personally haven't done a thing. I was at your parents house all evening. Just you wait and see. She will demand it to be your Christmas gift of assistance from you to her. Then she will threaten you when you say no. I will tell you this, she does not have proof of anything in her possession that has anything to do with BDSM activities of any kind, anymore pertaining to you. I'll be returning all of your information she had on you tomorrow intact, just so you know. You don't have to be afraid of retaliation on her part unless it's threatening to go public but then, I'll take care of that for you if it becomes an issue. I have her entire fate in my hands with a huge warning given.”Christian was quiet thinking, ‘Oh my God, Elena had all of my photos and videos as insurance in her possession. Now, Ana has removed them from her house. I wonder what else she removed from Elena's? Whatever she has done will hurt, I have no doubt about it. Ana warned her but she was right she is arrogant enough not to listen. I guess she will be calling me tomorrow to tell me all about it.’ *sigh*—-------------The next morning, Elena was suffering from a bad hangover when the electric company came banging on her door at 8:30am. Elena drug her ass out of bed to get the door with a pounding headache. She found out after they investigated that the main service box on the outside of her house was cut with line cutters. They had to completely rewire the feed going into it from the service line coming from the pole.After last night, Elena realized that she couldn't report the robbery because the three alise IDs, sub books, the BDSM files, videos and photos were all illegal if they investigated. As far as the cash and jewelry were concerned, she had the jewelry insured. She would need to report the theft and that would open an investigation. She didn't need the cops finding her dungeon and the things in her computer.Then it hit her like a sledgehammer upside her head….. ‘THEY HAVE THE REAL BOOKS TO THE SALONS! It showed me padding the books. If that little bitch shows them to Christian, he will know I have been taking lots of money on the side, millions.’ Elena ran to the bathroom and started gagging into the toilet dry heaving.—----------------It was Sunday the day after Christmas, Christian was going to return to work Monday with Ana shadowing him all day. He smiled thinking about that because he knew it would make his Monday more interesting. His phone rang. It was Elena.He answered, “Grey.”Elena said in a panic, “Christian, I was robbed last night. They took all my jewelry and personal papers and any cash I had. My two BDSM clubs were burned to the ground last night in New York. Everything is a mess. I need help.” Christian thought, ‘I wonder what else is missing that she has conveniently left out.’Christian said, rolling his eyes, “Get your insurance papers. Call the police. I can't do anything about it. You have to do it for yourself.”Elena complained, “They took all my papers including my clubs, salons and jewelry insurance papers.”Christian said huffing into the phone, “Go get copies from the insurers. I can't do anything about it, Elena.”Elena snapped, “You little fucking bitch did this to me. Stealing and arson. She's trying to ruin me.”Christian said, “That's ridiculous. She was with me all evening and you were there.”Elena said, “There was a knife in my dungeon door with a note. It said ‘‘We are watching you. The real pain starts happening right now.’ She has left that note to threaten me. She stole all my books, important papers, BDSM insurance files, cash, jewelry and destroyed my clubs. Christian help me!” Christian felt something deep down inside of him, a change that had happened in himself. He was angry at Elena for everything. It was like it all just clicked what Ana said in his head.Christian said, “No. It's time you take care of your own messes. You were warned and now you will see that you are not as powerful or influential as you thought you were.”Elena said, “Who do you think you're talking to? It's fucking Christmas and you owe me, Christian!”Christian said, “How do you figure I owe you. What, forever? I gave you ten times your hundred grand. I bought you a car. I backed your three salons. How do you think I owe you anything anymore?”Elena shouted, “I saved your fucking life! I taught you control and how to be a success! I was your friend.”Christian said nastily, “I was going to be successful in business no matter what. You taught me how to be beaten, have sex, beat the shit out of women to have sex and listen to all your fucking philosophies on life. All I needed to do was bondage nothing more, but you crammed violence into my head trying to make me into an evil bitch like you! Well, Elena, the gravy train is over and if you don't leave me the fuck alone, your gonna lose it all.”Elena said, “I can't believe you would talk to me like this. I was good to you.”He said chuckling, “After the bleeding, bruising and torture you did to me and then taught me to do to others, I've had enough of your kindness. It all stops now.”Elena snapped, “I'll tear your life apart if you do anything more to me. I am demanding that you help me.”Christian said emotionlessly, “Bullshit! I'll burn your life to the ground in ashes if you fucking dare.” He hung up. He decided tomorrow he would have her car repossessed being it is in his name and sold, filing the in-house audit and having his lawyers completely dissolve all ties to Elena.Christian thought, ‘Ana was right about everything. Elena begged, threatened and even mentioned Christmas to try to manipulate me to help her. Everything Ana said was just proven. Elena really thinks she owns me.’—-------------Elena sat in her house staring at the wall. She wondered, ‘Why is he suddenly acting this way? I drilled everything into him as a boy. He was content to be my sub and then be trained by me later. What changed in the last few days? I know he was slowing down on subs I got him, but ever since Christmas Eve at the party running into that girl after six months did something to him. That girl is unwinding my influence on him. She is destroying his need for me. How can she do that in less than twenty four hours? Who is that girl?’Elena picked up her phone and made a call, “Kevin, I need a favor. I need everything you can possibly dig up on an Anastasia Steele in Seattle. Get back to me quickly. My email is the same one. Bye.”Six hours later, Elena had the same background check Christian had gotten. She started reading and realized that she wasn't dealing with just some girl from college, not at all. Elena’s eyes got big when she saw previous employment, CIA-retired.
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CHAPTER 9Ana had received a call from her contact Delmar to meet at a little cafe on 14th Street. Ana drove there and walked into the cafe with her trench coat, hoodie, sunglasses, tennis shoes and jeans on. She ordered a latte and sat in the back corner booth.As she was slowly sipping her latte, a man with a baseball hat, a team jersey, jeans and a winter military khaki coat came in. He was carrying two large khaki duffle bags and a large black messenger bag on his shoulder as he walked in. He sat the bags down by her with her help in the booth. He walked over to the counter, got a coffee and took it back to the booth. Not a word was spoken between them.The man finally said, “That bitch was grotesque. We vetted the tapes, photos and files. We will be returning the damning evidence to her house by tomorrow or Tuesday. I'll contact you when it's done. She needs to be incarcerated for the multiple children she has violated.” Ana's stomach was turning.Ana asked, “How many vic's to think?”He said, “At least twelve minors so far. She has an active sub of age and a child in training. The books in the duffle bag is all you need to take her down completely. She was embezzling, exhortion, prostituting, racketeering, pedophilia and human trafficking. You deal with the financial business books and her password account book. The messenger bag is for your friend, the rest is jewelry, cash and important paperwork. Destroy the vile creature. Try to get the cash to the kids.” Ana nodded.Ana said, “Good job, Del. I'll take it from here.”Del said, “Anytime, Steele. It always feels good doing this kind of business together when we get to take out the trash. Here take this. It's scrubbed and has the sick shit on it to nail her with.” He handed her a thumb drive, finished his coffee, stood up and walked out of the cafe.After a little while, Ana stood up, put the messenger bag over her head across her body and picked up both duffle bags. They were super heavy. She walked out of the cafe to her car, put them in her trunk and got in the car driving to her condo at Premier on Pine.Once Ana had got everything up to her apartment, she put it in her study/exercise room she converted from a bedroom. Ana started going through everything in the duffle bags with rubber gloves on. She split the things apart and filled the one duffle bag with the cash and jewelry. She went through everything else. She put the business books to the side and went through the password account book. She ran everything through her software and rerouted all accounts of money except her personal and salon business accounts. It went into a scrambled system of transfers and deposits that settled into an offshore account in Zürich, Switzerland that would total $27,589,433.21 once it settled within the next twenty eight days. The money was completely untraceable after that. She stuffed the cash and jewelry under her bed, until she could liquidate the jewelry and deposit the cash into a new separate account.Ana boxed up the business books of the salons, the sub business and the BDSM clubs after going over them. After redressing, she called Christian to say that she was coming over. She took the messenger bag and the box with all of Elena's business books.When Ana arrived, Christian was waiting for her. Christian said as she walked off the elevator, “You were right, she did exactly as you said she would.” Ana smiled and nodded. They went and sat down on the couch with the fireplace burning.Ana took off the messenger bag and handed it to him saying, “This belongs to you. I would burn the whole thing, if I were you.” She sat down and took the lid off the box and pulled out a stack of the salon books. Christian sat next to her.Ana said, “These are her real books on the salons, Christian. Give them to your auditors. Look here, it repeats throughout and increases as time goes by.” She opened the books and pointed out places in various sections that were written out outrageously flagrant deductions to his account.Christian was looking over the figures and getting pissed. Elena had been doing multiple things. Selling cheap products as expensive ones, buying cases of cheap wine to give her spa guests while reporting it as expensive. She skimmed money on all the expensess into deficits.Ana said, pulling out another set of books on the BDSM clubs, “She has been using your loan money to pad her clubs too. The worst part is that she is running a prostitution business in New York out the backdoor of the clubs and in Seattle in her salons.” Ana showed him the books and the prostitution books on the side.Ana said, “These books show her charging wealthy clients $100,000 per sub and her charging the subs fees of $5,000 to procure them wealthy doms here in Seattle and New York.” Christian was flipping through the books.Ana said, “She has been embezzling, exhortioning, blackmailing, prostituting, racketeering, practicing pedophilia and human trafficking. You need to urgently get away and completely separate yourself from her now. I am giving you until Friday to sever all ties, Christian.” He felt like he was going to be sick.Christian whispered, hanging his head, “How many children?”Ana said, “Rough estimate, twelve so far not including you.” Christian hung shaking his head.He said softly, “She said I was the only one. I was a special case.”She said softly patting his thigh, “She blatantly lied and has been lying the entire time she has known you. Are you finally done with all of this and do you believe me?” He nodded his head yes.Christian asked, “Where do we go from here? I want her destroyed and away from my family.”Ana said, “You just get your business separated and away from her. You file embezzlement charges after and I will get her reported for the crimes she has committed through proper channels. She will never see the light of day.”He asked, “Will you show me how to have a real relationship?”Ana said smiling, “One step at a time, Christian. Let's clean up the house this week and get rid of the trash first.” He agreed. She kissed him goodbye.—-------------On Monday morning, Christian picked up Ana in front of her building lobby to go to work with him. She was wearing her black Versace sunglasses, a Donna Slayer's black mink faux fur long coat and her Louboutin Santigag 85 leather ankle boots with her black opaque winter hold up stockings. He couldn't see what she was wearing under her coat. She buckled in next to him in back of the SUV and they were off to GEH.Christian was looking her over in her black fur and sexy little ankle boots. Her hair was up in a chignon hairstyle and she had smokey eyes and dark matte burgundy lipstick. He said, “You know wearing that dark lipstick is very tempting to me to mess it up for you today.”Ana replied, turning her head and smirking, “That's why I brought lip gloss too.” He smiled and leaned over to kiss her.Ana said softly to him looking at his mouth, “Ah, you want to get a head start, huh?” He grinned and kissed her. When they pulled into the parking space at GEH underground parking. She took out a tissue from her purse and wiped his lips off and fixed her mouth and lipstick in her compact mirror. He got out and took her hand helping her out. Ana had her purse and laptop case on her shoulder. They walked to the elevator to the lobby.As they were walking across the lobby all of the people were whispering and watching them. Christian had his hand on her lower back as they approached the lobby desk. He said to the receptionist, “She needs a visitor pass.”Ana pulled out her driver's license and handed it to the girl with a smile. She filled out the paperwork and was handed a badge with a chain on it. He took her over to the private elevator and used his key. Taylor, Christian and Ana got inside. Christian stood behind her with his arm around her waist pulling her gently against his body. Taylor got off on the 15th floor.Christian leaned in and kissed her neck making her smile at his not so subtle gestures. He took her hand and they walked off the elevator together.He handed Andrea his coat and finished helping take off Ana's coat. He was surprised at the beautiful velvet mid length darker teal green bodycon dress that was long sleeves, a sweetheart neckline. Her jewelry was all onyx ovals in gold.He handed Ana's coat to Andrea saying, “This is Anastasia Steele, she will be shadowing me all day. I want two coffees, one with two creams and sugar on the side.”Andrea said, “Yes, Mr Grey.” She went to hand up their coats.Christian took Ana by the hand and led her into his office. He went and sat down at his desk logging in his laptop. Ana was standing at his full windowed wall next to him looking out over the city.She was amazed at the view from the 20th floor. Snow flurries were swirling around this high up making it hazy out. She watched the flakes dancing in front of her until a stronger wind would whisk them away.She turned and looked at the rest of his office with the low glass tables and the two chairs in front of his desk. It had a bar in the corner and a glass table on that side of the room. Ana walked up to a wall with a table against it and a large framed picture of little tiny paintings in it. The items were ordinary items like scissors, windows, telephone and typewriter. All arranged in three dozen pictures to form one. She was amazed at the diversity of the items yet stepped back and looked at it from a distance. It all seemed to fit together rather nicely.Ana walked over to another wall with a painting of two ships. It was foggy with two dark lonely ships from the eighteenth century sailing after dusk on a hazy sea just before the darkness closed in.Ana watched the desk when the door opened and a timid young woman brought in two cups of coffee and said as she sat them on his desk, “Is there anything else, M…Mr Grey?”He said brusquely, “Olivia, I want the Emerson Tech, Graves Industries and Blackwood Electronics files.”She said intimidated, “Y…Yes, sir.” The girl darted out the door like a scared rabbit. Ana smirked to herself and thought, ‘He is in his domain commanding respect from everyone here.’Ana sauntered over to the desk and was making up her coffee while tossing the empty packets in the trash can next to his desk. She stirred her coffee, started walking back up to the window wall looking out and casually sipped her mug.He was highly aware of Ana. He was watching her inspect everything in his office from his peripheral vision. He thought to himself, ‘She had a striking figure of musculature, tone and grace as she moved around the room. Her demeanor was of a person studying their environment. I know she had a silent but commanding presence. I like it because I can feel her whenever she is around me like an electrical pulse reaching out to me. I wonder if ever a woman was built so strong, intelligent and perfectly feminine as she is?’Christian asked, “Come look at this file on Harper Industries, Anastasia and tell me what you think of it for acquisition.” He got up from his chair and she sat down scooting forward. He began looking out of the wall window and glanced at his watch.After a few moments, she began typing on his calculator app on his laptop and clicking pages with his mouse. She brought up a word document and started typing very fast. He just stood there in silence and let her do her thing. He smiled listening to how very quickly she clickity-clacked on the keyboard.Ana was opening and importing pieces of the file into the document. Her mind was in its own little world. She went from creating one page to the next so fast. Her mind was completely focused on her task. After eleven minutes passed, she saved the document, named the document and sent it to the printer by his desk. She stood up, walked around the desk and took the five pages off the printer. She stapled them together and put it on his desk. She sat down in the chair across from him and resumed sipping her coffee. He was smirking at her and turned sitting back down at his desk and took the document without a word said the entire time.He began reading. She had completely done a complete breakdown analysis of the entire file. She first imported the graphics of the scales, pie charts and calculations showing in red the errors and in green the corrections. The last page was a complete analysis and recommendation.He was in complete shock at what a thorough and clear evaluation she did in twelve minutes. He looked up at her in awe. Christian said, “I clocked you at twelve minutes. You recommended that I get the eight errors corrected and a negotiation bid range for acquisition.”Ana said smiling, “I could have provided a report on why the corporation's stock was devalued and the indications of faulty investment or mismanagement also if I had access to all of the research background data.”Roz knocked and walked in the office. She said looking at a paper, “Christian did you see the discrepancy on Emerson Tech?”He said, “No but I got an analysis on Harper in twelve minutes flat.”Roz asked, “From where?” She looked up and saw an incredibly beautiful woman sitting drinking coffee with her legs crossed. She looked at Christian.He said smirking, handing the document Ana made to Roz, “This is Miss Anastasia Steele, she has two bachelor's and two master's. She looked at the Harper spreadsheet and in twelve minutes created and printed this analysis.”Roz sat down in the other chair and was reading the document. Christian asked Ana, “How fast do you type?”Ana giggled and said, “About 170 words a minute.” He smiled nodding.Roz, huffed. She said, “Eight errors? That's sloppy. I like the recorded pricing range. What are your degrees in?”Ana said seriously, “I have two bachelor's in Econometrics and one in Statistics. I have two masters in Business Analytics and Business Administration. All have 4.0 to 4.2 GPA.”Christian said smirking, “She graduated with her two bachelor's at fifteen years old. She got her two masters six months ago. We lost touch six months ago, but I just got back in touch with her at my mother's Christmas party this past weekend. She is shadowing me all day today.”Roz said seriously to Ana, “I hope you go down to HR and fill out an application with a resume?”Ana smiled and said, “Christian has already said he wants me to work here. I just didn't answer him yet. I think that is why he wanted me to come hangout with him at work today to convince me. I'll go to HR after lunch.”Roz said smiling, putting the document on Christian's desk, “Good. It's time for the department meeting.” Roz turned and walked out of the office. Christian stood up and buttoned his suit jacket. He held out his hand to Ana. She smiled and took his hand. They walked out of the office closing the door.
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CHAPTER 10Ana, Christian and Roz walked into the conference room one at a time. He grabbed an extra chair from the corner of the room and sat it next to his chair at the head of the table. Andrea walked in and sat in a chair by the wall to take the minutes. Ana paused letting Christian get settled and was standing looking around at everyone before she was going to sit down. A woman walked by her, literally pushing her out of the way to get to the chair. Ana was surprised at the audacity to touch her person. The woman sat right next to Christian and glared at Ana, throwing her nose in the air.Christian saw it all and said bluntly, “That's not your seat, Miss Laramie.”The woman looked surprised and simpered, “But I always sit next to you, Mr. Grey.”Christian said hard, “The seat is reserved. Find another, now!” The woman jumped and scurried away to another chair further away. Christian looked serious like a Dom at Ana and gave her the ‘Come here' finger sign. She smirked at him and walked up slowly to the chair, gracefully sat down and sexily crossed her legs getting comfortable. Everyone at the table was watching her and wondering who she was.Roz stood up and said, “Good morning, everyone. We have a visitor today, Miss Anastasia Steele, sitting in with Mr Grey. Let's get the meeting started with this week's agenda. Mr. Reed, Director of the Accounting Department. You're up.” She sat back down.Mr. Reed and every department after gave their reports and weekly schedules. Christian had Roz, Ana and Mr Thomas from the Auditing Department stayed on Christian's request. Christian said, when the door was closed, “Mr Thomas, I need you to expedite an audit on all three Esclava salons. I want us completely severed from the company before Friday. I am having the lawyers draw up the paperwork this morning when I get back to my office.”Roz asked, “Why?”Christian said, “We have to distance our company from Elena Lincoln before Friday when they legally serve complete separation papers to her. Something shady is coming and we have to move fast. I don't care what overtime or how many people you need to put on it. I want it done faster if possible. Do you understand?”Mr Thomas said firmly, “I understand, Mr Grey. I'll go to my desk and get right on it. If you'll excuse me, please.” Mr Thomas left the conference room and closed the door.Roz asked concerned, “Christian,what the hell is going on?”Christian said exhaling, “Elena has been doing so shady shit is all I can say and we don't want any part of her anymore. I don't want her bringing down my company with her.”Roz said disgustedly, “I never could stand that old bitch. She hovered around every time Gwen and I were in her spa. She always creeped my ass out. I don't know how your family could stand her.” Ana had just sat back listening to everything.Roz asked curiously, “Does Ana know all about all of this shady stuff?”Christian said, sighing, “She's the one who discovered it all.”Roz was surprised and looked at Ana, “How do you know Elena?”Ana shrugged and said, “The first time I laid eyes on her was Saturday night.”Roz laughed and said, “You figured her shit out in a weekend while everyone else has put up with her ass for years with no clue? Yes, you need to work for us. We could definitely use someone smart, shrewd and savvy working for us.”Christian said standing up buttoning his suit jacket, “Let's go. I have to talk to the lawyers.” They all stood up. They began walking to the door.Roz said to Ana, “Tell you what, if you get any negative vibes off anyone I can point out. You can find out if they are shady for me.” They turned down the hallway.Christian laughed and said, “That will cover half the managers in the building up to me.”Roz smirked and said, “Be quiet, you're the shadiest person in the building and we all know you.” They all three laughed, as they were going their separate ways.Christian asked for two coffees and got on his phone with his corporate lawyers. Ana was looking at another acquisition file while he was busy. Ana wrote up another report analysis on that company like she did before along with any errors.—--------------At noon time, Christian took Ana to the restaurant the Pink Door. Taylor drove them there. They were seated immediately.As they were eating, Christian asked, “Are you really going to go to HR today?”Ana said seriously, “I told Roz I would, didn't I? Besides, it's fun. You could hire me as an acquisition consultant. Then I will have access to your department's information and work the numbers better. I would work on your picks of buy, liquidate or dump. I can then give you a more in depth analysis on the cause of the company failure and weed out any liabilities once you resume ownership.” Christian was impressed because that would definitely drop risk percentages.He said firmly, “Then you will go with me to the meetings for negotiations, travel with me, come to all of the company and charity functions as my companion.” She smiled and cocked her head looking at him as she chewed her bite.Ana rolled her eyes and said, “Geez Christian.”He said, shrugging his shoulders, “What?”Ana said incredulously, “The consulting, sitting in on negotiations and possible travel is one thing. You want me to play the girlfriend in public at all events too?”He said wondering what's wrong with it, “Yeah, then you can beat up the women that try to touch me.” She started laughing at him and snorted. He started laughing now.Ana said, shaking her head in disbelief, “You're so messed up, Christian. I am not G.I. Joe Barbie with the kung fu grip there to defend your honor or something. You have bodyguards for that crap.”Christian said slyly, “That may be true, but you would look so sexy defending my person and teaching those women that I'm hands off.”Ana looked at him with her eyebrow up and said, “Your person?... Your person is incorrigible. Your person is going to ask me if I'm available for events as they happen, because I'm not your girlfriend, but perhaps your employee.”He shrugged and asked, “Do you want to be?”Ana asked, taken off guard, “Wanna be what?”He said seriously, “My girlfriend?”She said seriously looking him in the eyes, “Are you thinking you're ready for that yet? You haven't cut ties with Elena yet. Do you have a shrink because you haven't dealt with your issues yet?” Christian was looking disappointed.He said looking down, “I have a guy therapist.”Ana said seriously, “I tell you what, let's get through this crap this week that will go into next week. You see your shrink a couple times a week and when he thinks you're ready, you'll ask me again, ok?” He nodded and looked at her with a hopeful look in his eyes. She didn't want to say no.She said, “If an event comes up I'll go with you as your friend, will that do for now?” He nodded yes.—--------------When they returned from lunch, he walked with her through the lobby as everyone stared and stood by the elevator. Ana was taking off her fur coat and hanging it over her arm. Christian said in front of the elevator, smirking to her, “I'll see you soon.” He grabbed her quickly, kissed her deeply with tongue, as all these people were looking and gasping. Taylor had used his key to bring the executive elevator to the lobby.Christian broke the kiss and caressed her cheek. He smiled at a stunned Ana and said, “See you soon, baby.” He turned and went in the elevator and smiled at her as the door closed. Ana stood there blinking and turned to go down the hallway to HR. She thought, shaking her head and huffed, ‘What the hell was that about? He did that in front of all those people to mark me as his. Damn, dominants are always taking control somehow. Men!’Ana filled out her application and resume, then went back up to Christian's office. When she got to the desk, Olivia was there covering lunch for Andrea. Olivia stood up blocking Ana from going into Christian's office. She hautely said, “You need to wait over there. Mr Grey is in a conference.” She pointed to the waiting area.Ana was surprised at this girl's attitude that was all timid this morning Ana said, “I know. I've been shadowing him all morning.”Olivia said snottily, “So, you need to have a seat and wait until he's done.” Ana hung up her own coat and strutted to the chair in the waiting area and crossed her legs sitting comfortably with her arm up under her chin.Ana said to Olivia, “You know he's going to chew you up and spit you out for this, right?” Olivia stuck her chin in the air and ignored her.Ana said, shrugging, “Your funeral.” Ana relaxed and started flipping through magazines.Two handsome professional men in suits came up to the desk and the one with dark hair and blue eyes handed Olivia a piece of paper and said, “Can you have Andrea go over this?”Olivia gushed, “Oh yes, Mr Stevens.” She looked at the other man and said coyly, “Hello Mr Hyde.”Mr Stevens said, “Thanks.” Hyde ignored her and zeroed in on Ana sitting in the waiting area. He nudged Stevens to get his attention. Stevens looked and had a big grin on his face.Stevens walked over to Ana and said seductively, “Hello, beautiful. What's your name? I’m Matt Stevens.” He put his manicured hand out to her.Hyde sat down next to her. He leaned into her personal space and said, “My you are a pretty flower. I'm Jack Hyde.” Ana hated guys like these that thought they were God's gift to women.Ana looked at Hyde, looked at his mouth and wrinkled her nose, “Did you brush your teeth today? You have gunk stuck between them.” Hyde backed off and stopped smiling.She whispered to the Stevens guy with a friendly smile, “Sorry, I haven't had my sex change yet. I'm a male lesbian still.”Christian and a man came out of his office. Christian was surprised to see Ana sitting in the waiting area with a magazine and said, “Where have you been? We were waiting for you to come back to my office.” He looked at Stevens and Hyde by Ana and got jealous.Christian said with authority, “What the hell are you two doing sitting in my waiting area! Get back to work!” Both men left.Ana stood up and said looking at Olivia and, “The stuck up princess over there, said I had to wait out here until you were done. She even physically blocked me from entering your office.” Olivia was glaring at her.Christian said angrily, “Olivia, the next time you stop Anastasia from entering my office, you can pick up your last paycheck! Do you understand?!” Olivia cowered.Olivia said timidly, “Yes, Mr Grey.”Christian held out his hand and said, “Come, Anastasia.” Ana walked to him, taking her hand.He led her into the office, closed the door and said, “Stupid girl. I only hired her as a favor to Senator Blandino. Were those two morons hitting on you?”Ana sat down and said matter of factly, “Oh Christian, she's just like all those women in the lobby. They drool everytime you walk by. Those two were hitting on me. The one guy Hyde, I asked if he brushed his teeth because he had gunk stuck in them. I told Stevens that I hadn't had my sex change yet and am a male lesbian still.” She crossed her legs.Christian chuckled and asked, “You did?”Ana said seriously, “Yeah, I did. And what was that kiss in the lobby all about? You were marking your territory like a wolf peeing on every tree down there.”Christian laughed and said, “No only one tree.”Ana smirked and said, “I thought so. Damn dominant. So what's next on your agenda today?”Christian said smiling, “Mr Thomas said that he will have the audit results on Esclava Wednesday. Roz is at lunch and I want you to look at the other three files I have here on Emerson Tech, Graves Industries and Blackwood Electronics.”Ana said seriously, “I can do the reports on my laptop and send it to you by email to print them?”Christian said, walking over to the bigger table by the bar and laying the files down. Ana took her laptop to the table and sat down. She booted up and logged in. She started going through the files. They worked steadily through the afternoon.
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CHAPTER 11The next couple days went by and Christian got his in house audit results back on Wednesday. Over the last six years, Elena Lincoln, had been siphoning money from various ways and sources from him and her own businesses. The amount that was returned was $14,187,551.83 embezzled. The auditors said that there may be more depending on a field audit on the three locations he just set up and sent them out immediately to the properties. They were closing down her salons tomorrow morning.Christian sat there staring and was shocked at such an amount. She had been on the take from the very start and had taken approximately two and a half million a year. She had him so placated into believing she was only interested in his well-being all the while stealing eight figures out of his pocket. How did she blind him like this for so long?There was a knock on the door of his office and Ana walked in holding bags of food from Lola's Greek food. She closed the door, walked over to the glass table and set the bags of food down.She took off her coat and laid it over the chair. She was dressed in a espresso brown bodycon stretchy midi length, long sleeve, square neckline dress with a ruched drawstring to raise the hemline up the thigh on one side.She was saying cheerfully, “Christian, you wouldn't believe the traffic out there for lunchtime today. You'd think everyone would learn to pack a lunch every day downtown. The lady at the counter at Lola's was shouting orders, running around like a chicken with its head cut off flapping around and stressed out like a typical Greek mother. She had three other people on the counter too and she was the only one freaking out.” He walked up behind her silently, open mouth kissed her neck and put his arm around her waist hugging her. She turned in his arms sensing something, looked him in the eyes and stopped what she was doing.Ana looked at him with concern, put her hands on his shoulders and slid her hands on both sides of his face. She softly asked, “What's wrong, Christian? Talk to me.” He wrapped his arms around her tighter and hugged her to his body tightly against his chest.He said with his voice cracking, “I feel like such a fool.” She frowned and kissed him lightly on the lips. Ana led him to the one chair in front of his desk and sat him down. She pulled the other chair up right in front of the other and sat facing him. She held his hand and was caressing his cheek. He was getting emotional with water in his eyes and not knowing how to handle it. She was glad he wasn't dealing with it in a rage like before.Ana said softly, “Tell me what happened and what's on your mind, baby?” He slightly smiled at her calling him baby.He said softly, “She embezzled almost 14.2 million in six years, about two and a half a year from me from the very start. She had me so sucked into believing she was a trusted and benevolent friend. I was so convinced that there was no other way than what she told me all these years. Now, I feel so stupid.” Ana leaned in and kissed him softly.She said gently, “No, Christian. It's not your fault because that's what people like this do. They try to make you feel guilty about all the shit they did to you. She took your mother's trust and information and used it to gain your trust for manipulation purposes. She played on your teenage yearnings for physical contact and budding sexuality. Her methods were grooming and programming you into making you like her so you would be her perfectly cruel protégé. She knew you were going to be successful and brilliant with all the money and influence. She wanted to use you to feel like she was in control and better than everyone else. She wanted you to belong to her. She wanted you to need her so much that you would follow her every word or command without question. She is a narcissistic sociopathic pedophile with delusions of grandeur.”Christian said looking in her eyes as a tear rolled down his face, “But she never fooled you.” She wiped and kissed his tears.Ana said seriously, “I have been trained all my life by the best and most intelligent military hardass kicking profiler in the whole fucking Marine Corp. Of course I can spot a sociopath or psychopath quicker than most. Don't worry, Christian baby, I'm here now and we can keep them away or deal with those types. We will deal with her and make sure it hurts worse than anything she ever did to you.” He nodded and looked down. She was being so careful not to touch his chest and back. He kept his head down and took her hand putting it over his heart on his dress shirt. He had his eyes closed concentrating and wincing like he was doing a self body check for pain. He opened his eyes and looked up at her in shock. Ana scooted forward and captured his lips. She kissed him deeply with her other hand on the back of his neck rubbing her thumb on his cheek. He got lost in kissing her and picked her up putting her in his lap as she freely for the first time touched his body uninhibited.He said after breaking the kiss and with his head turned and eyes down, “I think I might be falling in love with you. I never felt this feeling before and I don't want you to go away.”She put her fingers on his chin while turning his head and stroked his lips while looking deep in his eyes. He was so openly vulnerable and innocent looking right now like a little boy. He was admitting that to her but waiting for her rejection. It was breaking her heart how precious his trust was to give to her after the situation broke the trust from Elena. He was just coming out from realizing it. But, for him to tell her that he was falling in love with her too after being shut down for years was a complete breakthrough with the trust he gave to her. Ana refused to ever hurt him. She couldn't.Ana said softly while looking at and caressing his lips, “Christian, baby, I'm not going anywhere without you. You're going through changes by leaps and bounds since the weekend. Give it some time to catch up and you will figure it all out. I and your shrink will help you. If you're trusting me, I know it is the most precious gift you will ever give me, baby. I would never betray that. If it's love you are feeling for me, you'll know for sure with a little time. I'm not going anywhere. I'll wait until you're sure.”He was so overwhelmed with such strange and deep feelings concerning her. She was being so gentle and kind, touching, kissing, calling him baby and being understanding with him. She was making him feel safe with her. She said she would stay and let him figure out everything he was feeling with no rejection. He needed Flynn immediately, but he wanted to be with her right now at this moment. She was comforting and making him feel better.Ana said smiling, “Let me warm up our food and we can talk and eat something.” She caressed his face and kissed him. He helped her stand up from off his lap. He smiled watching her taking their food to warm it up in the little kitchenette that Andrea and Olivia use.As Ana was coming out of the kitchenette and going back to Christian's office, Olivia stepped in front of her trying to be intimidating. Olivia said arrogantly, “You think you are special. He'll get sick of you quick enough and I'll still be here.”Ana looked her up and down with an eyebrow raised. She said indifferently, “Uh huh… Will you get out of the way now, so I can get him his food?” Andrea came off the elevator and saw Olivia up in Ana's face being a bitch.Andrea shouted angrily, “Olivia! What the hell is wrong with you?! Get the hell away from her and leave her alone! I'm done covering your mistakes and your stupid obsession with Mr Grey! You're fired!” Christian heard this outside his door.Olivia said snottily, “You can't do that! I'm the Senator’s daughter! Only Mr Grey can!” She stuck her nose in the air. Christian flung open the door with a bang. He was pissed off.Andrea snapped, “Bullshit! You have been the worst assistant PA and I want you to collect your things and go!”Christian said with authority, “You heard her! She fired you! Get the fuck out of my building! HR will contact you.” Olivia started grabbing everything, even stacks of files and putting them in her bag. Christian snatched her bags out of her hands and was going through them. He found ten files, the ones she just grabbed and passwords written down.Christian shouted, “Andrea, get Taylor, Now!” Andrea called Taylor.Olivia tried to make a run for it. Christian grabbed for her, but missed. Ana saw it coming way ahead of them. She was out of her shoes and food sat on the table in the waiting area already. Ana dove and tackled her face down with both arms caught behind her back. She was sitting on her butt as the nasty little prissy bitch swore like a sailor, spitting and biting. Olivia started screaming like a high pitched banshee ear piercing sound. Everyone was coming out to see what the hell was going on in the corridor.Ana slapped her hard in the mouth with one hand holding her arms like a vise. She would try screaming again and the slap in the mouth got even harder.Ana said calmly, “Listen skank, if you don't shut your goddamn mouth, I'll stuff my used panties in that nasty mouth of yours. Do it again, please bitch, I fucking dare you? It will be worth tearing them off from under my dress. You can fucking believe I will do it too.” Sawyer and Taylor came off the elevator. Olivia was in a rage, inhaled and blood curdle screamed not believing her. There was a sound of a tearing of fabric, then silence.As Ana stuffed them in her mouth avoiding getting bit, she yelled, “I fucking warned you, bitch!”Christian and Andrea stood there in complete shock with their mouths open. He looked around but started to chuckle when he saw Roz about to lose her shit. She did, falling to the floor laughing her ass off in her pantsuit and heels. She was hitting the ground with her palm. Several others around were cracking up, including Sawyer turning around with his hand on the wall. Taylor was grinning but maintained control.He said, walking over to Ana and putting cable ties on Olivia's wrists, “I'll take care of her… Ah… Can you… ah…”Ana started laughing and said, “Sure, no problem.” She got up and took her panties out of Olivia's mouth.Olivia started screaming, “I'm going to sue you for this! She put her panties in my mouth! It's unsanitary!” A loud sound of laughter was heard everywhere in the corridor. Poor Andrea was sitting in the waiting area with her head down laughing.Roz stood up and walked over to Ana and said trying hard not to laugh, “Can I have those? I wanna frame them. I never want to forget today. I'll always get a smile when I see those.” She cracks up again. Ana shrugged smirking and held it with two fingers by the beige satin elastic strap for the hip.Christian walked up and snatched her panties from her fingers putting them in his suit pocket and said, “No fucking way, Roz! Those are my girl’s panties. I'm framing them for my office.”Roz shrugged laughing and said, “Well someone needs to frame them. Their fucking priceless.” Roz waved her hand in the air and walked back into her office shaking her head.Christian took Ana by the elbow and ushered her into his office and closed the door. He pinned her up against the door with his pelvis against her and his cock hard as a rock. He said softly smirking, “You are the most outrageous woman I've ever known. I'm so fucking turned on by you right now. I want you so badly. That was the fucking funniest thing I've ever seen in my life.” Ana smirked.He wrapped his arms around her with his hand sliding over her ass and kissed her like he's never kissed anyone before with every ounce of desire he felt for her. She was getting turned on too, wrapping him freely in her arms. She broke the kiss panting hard. He was panting, kissing, open-mouth licking her throat and tops of her breasts. She was moaning and he was groaning. She was getting wet between her thighs. There was a knock on the door. He pulled Ana into the room to stand in front of him holding her hips to hide his bulge. She felt it the whole time and now it was by her butt.Christian said, “Come in!”
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CHAPTER 12Taylor and Sawyer came in and Taylor said, “The police have Olivia Blandino in custody. She is not mentioning her… gag because it was too embarrassing for her and her father if it goes public. She is being charged with corporate espionage, corporate theft and we will see what our lawyers say. I turned the evidence over to the police that she had in her bag.”Sawyer said seriously, “The three Esclava salons are shut down as of six am. The auditors and accountants will be on site then to seize everything. Good one, Ana.” He pressed his lips together tight trying not to smirk or look at her.Christian said seriously, “That's fine.” Taylor nodded and both men left, closing the door.Ana turned around and said, while stroking his chin, “I have to get going, Christian. I have an appointment at 3 o'clock with your sister at my condo. We're finishing her business plan and she is cooking me dinner.”He said softly, “But you didn't eat your lunch with me?” He wrapped her in his arms.She said caressing his lips, “I know, Olivia kinda screwed that up.”He asked her, “Will you have dinner with me tomorrow night at six?” She nodded and kissed him slowly and softly. He groaned.She broke the kiss and said, “I'll see you soon, baby.” He smiled and let her go.—---------------Ana and Mia were done with finishing her business plan and were cooking in the kitchen. They had the surround sound music system cranking out the MP3’s on Mia's phone. They danced and worked away laughing and having fun in the kitchen. Ana had a double oven and they were baking pastry and cookies with dinner. The place smelled delicious.Ana's phone started to ring, she turned down the music and went into a room furthest away because it was Delmar.Ana said, “Hey, Del, what's up?”Delmar said, “We put all of the incriminating materials back in her safes while she was at her salons. She's got a private investigator on you as a convert. We left audio bugs in her house as a precaution. She talks to herself out loud a lot when she's drinking. You have been labeled ‘The Little Bitch’ by her.”She chuckled and said, “Her field audit starts at 6am and all three salons will be shut down. I'm just waiting for the separation from the corporation. He's filing charges with the FTC after.”Delmar said, “So she is an embezzler too. Figures. I'll keep you posted. Me and the guys might stick around and watch with popcorn as they haul her ass away.”She said smiling, “Thanks, Del.”Delmar said, “Talk to ya soon, Steele.” Ana went back in the kitchen and started dancing, singing and laughing with Mia while they waited for the oven timers.Later on after Mia had gone home, Ana went over the day in her mind and melted when it came to that final goodbye Christian gave her when she left to go home. She knew how it was burning hot and was so sexy. She smiled and went to sleep with dreams of Christian on her mind.—------------That night, Christian stood in his shower going over the eventful day completely. He couldn't believe the embezzlement amount. It truly upset him and he thought, ‘Anastasia made it alright when I was confused. I was so glad she was there and said she would be there for me. I fucking hope Olivia Blandino goes to jail, if they fuck this up I'll sue everyone. I just couldn't believe what Anastasia did, stuffing her panties in her mouth to shut her up. What a wild outrageous thing to do, but she did warn her. I and Roz haven't laughed so hard at work in our lives. She so fucking unbelievably sexy as hell.’ He was stroking himself and came shouting her name. Christian went to sleep dreaming about Ana all night.—--------------Thursday morning, Ana got a call to come in and fill out her employment paperwork in HR at GEH. Ana wore a sexy long sleeve light plunging V neck dark hunters green midi bodycon bandage dress with Italian Casadei designer hunter green suede high heel booties. She wore her Alberta Ferretti double-breasted forest green wool-blend felt coat and a Saint Laurent Sunset medium leather shoulder bag in dark green crocodile. She went in early and signed her acceptance papers for the job position as an Executive Acquisitions Consultant. Ana was given her badge and executive elevator key. She went up to see Christian after.—-----------Christian was sitting in his office drinking coffee and going over the reports. The Esclava field audits began at 6am and were well on its way. He had armed guards at each site to ensure no disruption. He had gone to the office earlier than usual mostly due to anxiousness and he woke up this morning having a wet dream about Ana. He was thinking, ‘God that woman really gets me going. She is so fucking sexy I keep dreaming about her. I can't believe I woke up having a wet dream about her this morning. I haven't done that since I was thirteen years old, for God's sake. This woman is driving me crazy. My sister called last night and now excitedly, like she needs more excitement, wants an appointment Friday or Monday. She wants to present her business plan that Anastasia and her have completed. It will be interesting to see what they came up with together.’ Suddenly the door to his office slammed open.Elena was standing there in a rage. She slammed the door closed and yelled, “What's the meaning of this Christian! What the fuck are you up to?! How dare you bar me and my employees from my salons! All fucking three of them!”Christian stood up and buttoned his suit jacket and said in his Dom voice, “I am doing a field audit. It's in my right as a 60% shareholder. I haven't done one in over six years. I'd say it's over due.” He held his ground because he was sick of her completely now that he is aware of her backdoor stealing from him, but refused to tip his hand.Elena shouted, “I ought to rip your life apart for letting that little bitch run over me! I bet this was her goddamn idea! Your a damn Dom and you should rein her ass in!”—-----------Ana was outside the office door and Andrea said, “I hope he doesn't blame me for not being able to stop her.”Ana said kindly, patting Andrea's arm, “Don't worry, she shouldn't have got past the security and receptionist downstairs first. I'll take care of her.” Ana took off her coat and handed it to Andrea. She smiled, winked at Andrea and went into Christian's office, closing the door behind herself.Christian was shouting, “Rein in Anastasia Steele, are you fucking kidding?! I don't want to! She is the best thing to happen to me ever!” Elena heard the door open and close behind her.Elena sneered, “Speak of the fucking devil, and look it rears it's ugly fucking head! Just thinking you own the damn place walking in when you goddamn well feel like it?! Ever heard of knocking, little bitch?!”Ana smiled and said, “Have you? Good morning, Christian.” She walked straight up to Christian passing Elena, sat her purse on the desk and kissed him. She was rubbing both hands on his chest up to his neck cupping his face.He smiled, wrapping his arms around her waist, looking in her eyes and said, “Good morning, beautiful.”Elena rolled her eyes and said, “Please spare me. What the fuck?! Are you letting her touch you?! You never let me touch you on your chest and back!”Ana turned and looked at her and said, “Oh, you're still here? Yes, he lets me touch him anywhere I want to.” Ana looked in his eyes caressing his cheek and said, “He is such a brave and amazing man. He loves it too.”Elena said jealously, “I fucking created him! I made him who he is! He belongs to me!”Ana said, patting Christian's chest, “And I am helping him with his shrink. He trusts me because I'm healing his heart.”Elena spat nastily, “He doesn't have a heart! He's too damaged to love or become emotionally attached! He's known that for years!”Ana said condescendingly, “No Elena, he's not. Every human being can love or hate it's in our nature to discern the choice. You were lying your ass off trying to distance him from family, friends and relationships to try to isolate, control him and manipulate him to your wishes. Just stop the bullshit, woman."Elena shouted defensively, “You don't know a damn thing about me!” She stomped her feet.Ana waved her hand and said, “Please stop, it's embarrassing watching an old woman try to possess a young man who frankly just isn't interested. It's all been done before and you know that you're a sociopathic pedophile, right? You deliberately and consistently disregard the rights and feelings of others with an inflated narcissism. It's typical that you would try to stunt his need for contact because you are emotionally stunted yourself. You prey on people to try to emotionally control them.”Elena said rebuffing, “You don't know what you're talking about.”Ana said seriously, “I know you got my background check. They told me you did. I can completely profile anyone. I learned from the government's best profiler in the nation from five years old. There is nothing more vulnerable than a child starting puberty. Is there, Elena? You must have thought you hit the jackpot getting your targets with a troubled past. All Christian needed was a compassionate girl to not touch his chest and back. All you taught him was to channel his aggression into sex at the end of a whip.”Elena yelled indignantly, “I saved his life!”Ana said walking towards her slowly, “Discipline is not what you taught. You were torturing his body as you got off on it and kept drilling your ideas and philosophies into his vulnerable mind. Discipline is rules and teaching correct behavior. Not beating the shit out of somebody until you draw blood or bruises while you get to come, you stupid bitch!”Elena stood there looking at Ana stepping closer to her in an intimidating way. She shouted at Christian getting nervous but not showing it yet, “Are you going to let her treat and talk to me this way?!”Christian said straight faced, “You're not supposed to be here at all Elena. You have no appointment. You have no badge for reception. If you don't want to hear it then leave!”Elena said, acting astonished, “After all these years of friendship and all these years that you asked me for advice, you would turn your back on me when I need you the most?”Christian said angrily, “You have been given enough, Elena. Get the fuck out of my office!”Elena screamed, “No goddamn it, you fucking owe me!!!”Christian shouted pissed off, “What for the rest of my fucking lifetime, you must be truly a fucked up bitch?!! I don't goddamn well think so! You have been doing the backstroke through my money for six goddamn years! You got more than compensated for what?! Teaching me to fuck?! It's the only useful thing I ever got from you!”Elena said stunned at him calling her a bitch, “I taught you to fuck, about women's bodies, how to be a Dom, how to behave, about culture, wines and how to dance.”Christian growled furiously, “You were overpaid for the lessons in my money, blood and bruises!” Ana had just about enough of this shit show because it was upsetting Christian too much.Elena suddenly charged screaming at Ana, trying to hit her but gouged her with her nails raking and slicing down her left forearm. Ana stepped to the side, grabbed her by the back of the neck and slammed her whole body, face first, into the wall of Christian's office. It made a peachy makeup smudge mark. Elena slammed into the wall with her face and body. She landed on the ground, rolling over holding her face and glaring up at Ana. Christian eyes were huge with his mouth open as he had run from around the desk initially to stop Elena, but wasn't fast enough.Next thing, Ana grabbed Elena off the floor with both wrists locked behind her back dragging her to the door trying to keep her hold as Elena screamed. She flung the door open.Elena screamed, “What are you doing to me?! Get your goddamn hands off of me!”Ana shoved Elena towards the desk and said, “Andrea get the elevator!” Andrea ran to push the button.Ana whispered in Elena’s ear, “If you fucking come back, I have a loaded 9 mm in my purse with a conceal carry permit and license to kill. It might accidentally go off when you attack me again. I WILL make the video look like that. Stay the fuck away or I'll make sure you fade away never to be found. If I were you, I'd go home and live in fucking fear of what comes next. You've caused enough trouble for today.”Ana shoved her in the elevator stumbling into the wall in the back of the car. Ana bent down flinging her purse in that had dropped and said before the door closed, “Bitch, take the fucking day off!!!” The doors closed. Ana brushed her hands together ‘like taking out the trash’ and saw the damage on her forearm with blood dripping.
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CHAPTER 13She went back in Christian's office and said, “Baby, you need to get the company nurse up here. I think I need a lot of stitches.” Christian ran over to her and saw her forearm was sliced open deep. He panicked and shouted, “Andrea get the nurse and Taylor, quick!” He ran to his bathroom, turned on the water and Ana followed him. She was profusely bleeding. Ana put her forearm under the faucet and hissed with a little whine behind it.She said, squeezing her eyes shut, “That bitch must file them to sharp points to cut like this.”Christian said seriously, “She really does so she can scratch her subs to draw blood.”Ana said seriously, “I hope I at least broke her nose.” The nurse came into the office with Taylor followingThe nurse called out, “Mr Grey?!”He yelled, “In here!” The nurse came in and Christian stepped out. He started explaining to Taylor what happened and to get the CCTV recording of the incident and they will take Ana to the hospital after she gets checked out. Taylor went to security to get the recording and comeback.The nurse said frowning, “Miss Steele, you're going to need a lot of stitches. Let's bind your arm together and bandage it up. They will sterilize it well at the hospital. Make sure you tell them to do it. I'm sorry, it's going to hurt tremendously when they do.”Ana kissed the older woman on the cheek and said, “Thank you for helping me, Mrs Klein.” The older woman smiled big and patted her cheek affectionately. Christian was smiling at them thinking how Ana made the nurse feel validated and good about her job. The nurse said goodbye after wrapping her arm in gauze. Christian got their coats and Ana grabbed her purse and laptop with one arm. Christian helped her get her injured arm in her coat and took her laptop and purse from her. He buttoned her up and put her laptop top and purse on his shoulder.Ana said smiling, flirting and winking, “You look cute with that little green purse, sugar baby.”Christian laughed at her flirting and said, nudging her in her good arm, “Oh stop it.” She giggled at him.Christian said directly to Andrea, “Reschedule everything, Andrea. I won't be back today.”Roz came around the corner and asked, “What's been going on?”Christian said seriously, “Elena came and got past the reception desk downstairs and violently attacked Ana in my office. We are going to the hospital for stitches. I won't be back today.”Roz said seriously, “Ok, I'll deal with everything and let you know. Let me know too.” Roz smiled and patted Ana who smiled back. Taylor arrived and they all got on the elevator and left for the hospital.—----------When they got to the hospital, they took Ana to the back but Christian wouldn't leave her side.The nurse asked, “You need to go to the waiting room, sir”Christian said frustrated, “I've been her temporary guardian since last June because she has no family.”The nurse said firmly, “She is conscious and doesn't need a guardian right now.”The doctor came in and said gruffly, “Go to the waiting room, sir.” Ana turned to Christian and caressed his face.Ana kissed Christian and said, “It's ok, baby. Don't worry.” He frowned looking at the young good looking doctor warily and reluctantly went out to the waiting room looking back over his shoulder glaring.The doctor asked, looking at her wrapped arm, “Boyfriend?”Ana laughed and said, “Not quite yet but will be any day now.”The doctor nodded and said flirting, “I wouldn't have left anyone as beautiful as you alone back here.”Ana said laughing, “That's because you're a doctor and could weasel your way back here.” He laughed, cutting the gauze and unwrapping her arm.He saw the slices in her arm almost an inch to half inch deep and hissed. He asked, concerned, "What did this kind of damage to your arm?”Ana said seriously, “You mean who at GEH. An irate bitch with purposely filed sharp pointed nails, or should I say talons.”He said, “My brother works at GEH. Wow, it's like deep razorblade slashes. We need to get you sewed up. It doesn't look like any damage to the ligaments and tendons, just muscle and tissue. Can you flex your fingers for me?” Ana did, hissing. He said, “You're gonna need therapy to fully recover though.” Grace came in through the curtain of the room.She said concerned, “Ana, honey, what happened? Christian is a wreck out there worried.”Grace looked at her arm and asked, “Did you get sliced?”Ana said seriously looking in Grace's kind eyes and said, “Sorry, Grace, but your bitch of a bestie did this to me. She attacked me in Christian's office at GEH. She was mad because Christian decided to run a field audit on all three of her salons because he hasn't done one in over six years. She went crazy and attacked me saying I am the cause. I slammed her into a wall in return for this. I hope I broke her nose in payment.” Grace was confused.Grace said confounded, “She came in a little while ago, bleeding from the nose and lip, but said she fell and broke her nose.”Ana said, “She lied to you. She attacked me first and it's on video.”The doctor said apologetically, “Sorry, but this is going to hurt like hell.” Ana braced herself as he poured alcohol into the three furrowed slices three to four inches long in her forearm. Ana screamed and her eyes teared up. Grace cringed. She heard Christian shouting her name from the waiting room. Grace ran out to calm him down.The doctor said, “Next I'll deaden it with a couple shots.” He did a few injections and her forearm and her hand was going numb.Ana said frowning, “Too bad you couldn't do that before the alcohol bath.” When it was dead, he started stitching her up doing tiny stitches.Ana said watching, “Nice technique and small stitches.”The doctor asked curiously, “You have some medical training?”Ana said seriously, “My father was a Marine Raider Colonel and had me trained and certified by the time I was twelve in CPR, First Aid and Field Medical Triage under Master Survivalist certifications.”The doctor smiled and said, “Wow, you have a cool dad.”Ana said stoically, “Had. He died in a car accident five years ago when I was twenty. But, yes, he was an amazing genius. The government lost a helluva brilliant consultant.”The doctor said, “And you lost a helluva father.” She nodded as he glanced up.After she was all sewn up, and bandaged up, the doctor handed her papers and two prescriptions. He said, “You're going to need a prescription for therapy when you see your physician as soon as possible. That's a prescription for pain pills and antibiotics it will get you though until you can get in to see your doctor next week. In case things don't work out with your not yet boyfriend, my home phone number is on the back of this page.” He showed her. “Call anytime. I would definitely call you back.”Ana laughed and said, “Shame on you Dr Sneaky.”He laughed and said, ”It's Dr Ryan Stevens.”Ana said reluctantly, “Not Matt Stevens brother?”He said surprised, “Yeah, that's him.”She said smiling, “He hit on me the other day and I told him my sex change wasn't complete and I was still a male lesbian.” The doctor started laughing his ass off.He grinned and said, shaking his head, “Good one. I bet you shocked the hell out of him.”Ana said giggling, “He looked pretty bemused.”The doctor said smiling, “Have a good day, Anastasia Steele. Get well soon.” She smiled and nodded saying goodbye.When she got out in the waiting room Christian got up and came quickly to her. He said gently, hugging her to his chest, “Baby, was that you screaming?” She nodded and he started kissing her everywhere and holding her carefully.He said sympathetically, “I’m so sorry everyone is hurting you today. Let's get your drugs and get you home with me. You have to stay with me and let me take care of you, baby.” Ana gave him her paperwork and patted his chest to his mother's shock. He kissed his mother on the cheek and led Ana outside to the SUV.—----------Grace went back to the ER and was looking at Elena from a distance. Something was bugging her at the back of her mind. She couldn't figure out why Elena would just outright lie to her and have attacked Ana. She thought, ‘Something is going on with Elena to suddenly just blame her salons being checked in an audit after six years. It's not like Christian had bothered her yearly with one. What's the big deal to get violent about? Has Elena been doing something to Christian, like stealing or fudging the books? God I hope that's not the case.’—-----------When Christian got Ana to his penthouse he had her get dressed in his tshirt and a pair of his gym shorts. She was having trouble with the shorts and had him help her and tighten the drawstring on them for her. He took her to the kitchen to take her pills and eat lunch. He had her lay down on the couch with the TV clicker and a glass of juice. He went into his office and was on the phone and answering emails.After a while, he was caught up and sat his phone on vibrate on the coffee table. He climbed onto the couch behind Ana and folded her up in his arms. She never woke up and just slept away in his arms. He felt bad that Elena hurt her and that scream from the ER went right through his heart knowing she was in such terrible pain. His mother stopped him from going back there. Christian knew at that moment that everything inside of him had changed and he knew for sure that he was in love with her. He felt helpless and it was hurting him to hear her suffering. He knew he could never cause her pain like he did to his subs.He had to admit when Elena attacked her it made him jump to try to protect Ana. Ana not only slammed Elena's face and body into the wall, but pulled her off the floor restrained and threw her in the elevator when her arm was hurt. He had no idea she was hurt at all until she said something and he saw the blood. His strong girl has been busy at GEH the last two days with Olivia and now Elena when she was only supposed to be visiting. Christian started drifting off to sleep warm and comfortable.
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CHAPTER 14Elena got out of the hospital and went home with her nose in a splint. She got in her house and got comfortable dressed in her peignoir nightgown and ostrich feather fringed robe. She was pissed off looking at her face in the mirror of her bathroom. Her nose was splinted and her eyes were swelling and turning black. She went and took a pain pill with a ‘scotch on the rocks’. She started drinking heavily to kill the pain and humiliation she felt at being bested by that little bitch once again.During the night, while Elena was passed out, she never heard the sound of someone entering her house as she was passed out. The figure, all in black, did a few things, went to her computer, logged on, erased and disabled the security software on her computer before leaving. They locked the door as they exited.—----------The following morning, Ana woke up on the couch with Christian wrapped around her like a vine. He had his arms around her whole body and his legs intertwined with hers. He was fast asleep. The morning sun was peeking through the window shining on them. She shifted and scooted up and started kissing him to wake him up. His lips started responding and he intensified the kiss.He was in a dream at first then began to wake up. He had morning wood and was instantly turned on by her kissing him and waking up holding her body so close. Christian was moving against her body and started devouring her in his desire. Ana whispered softly breaking the kiss, “Christian wake up baby.”He said back softly, “I am wake, but I want you so very badly.”She said with her breath brushing his lips, “I know. I want you too, but not on the couch. I need to go to the bathroom.” She started giggling. He smiled and was disappointed but knew she was right. He wanted to do this right the first time. He unwound himself and helped her stand up.She looked down at him and smiled softly and said, “Let's do this after we cut ties today with Elena, baby. Then you will be free to call the FTC and I can contact the police. She will be in jail by tonight. Then I will show you how to be touched and made love to.” He smiled up at her. She turned and went to the bathroom.Christian got up and went to the bathroom and got in the shower. He dried off and got dressed in his suit. He went out to the kitchen and Ana was sitting at the kitchen bar having a cup of coffee talking to Gail. He sat down and Gail put a hot cup of coffee in front of him. He leaned over and kissed Ana as she caressed his face smiling at him.Christian said sipping his coffee, “Anastasia, make sure to have Sawyer pick up some of your clothes today, so you'll be comfortable here.”Ana said smiling, “I'll just have him take me to my place and I'll pack a bag.”Gail asked, “What would you both like for breakfast?”He said, “White egg omelet vegetable with toast.”Ana said smiling at Gail, “Scrambled eggs, bacon, toast and a banana, please.” Gail smiled, liking this girl who was respectful and got busy with their food.He said softly to Ana, “How does your arm feel today?”Ana said seriously, “It hurts but I expect it to. I will take a pain pill when I finally go to sleep tonight. I have to keep a clear head today. Once she is served and you're notified, let me know, so I can get the ball rolling too today.” He leaned in and kissed her as Gail sat his plate in front of him.Christian said, “I will notify you immediately, I promise, Anastasia. Keep Sawyer close.”She reached out and caressed his face, “I will and I'll be fine, baby.” He started eating and Gail had Ana's breakfast placed in front of her.—----------Elena groggily rolled out of bed hungover. She went to the bathroom and groaned looking at herself in the mirror. She slowly drug herself to the kitchen and started making a pot of coffee. She got a cup and spoon sitting it on the counter. She turned around to go to the pantry and that was when she saw it …A sign in newspaper words cut out on a string with a dead rat hanging in a noose below it on her stairway down to her dungeon. The sign read…“Pain is on its way today… I'd get dressed if I were you.”Elena snatched the sign and the rat tossed it into the garbage can beside her house at the side door. She ran up the stairs and threw on her clothes quickly. She didn't want to get caught in her bed clothes. She was nervous looking around her house and outside of the windows in complete paranoia. She grabbed a cup of coffee and sat on her couch wondering how they got in again. When there came a knock on the front door that made her jump.—---------Christian got into the office and left a message for Mr Thomas to call him when he got in the office, he left a message for his head corporate lawyer to contact him also. He was ready and was going to make damn sure everyone else was too.The phone rang and his lawyer said, “The papers are on their way with the server, Mr Grey. I will contact you once it has been officially served, sir.”Christian said, “Thank you, Richards.” They hung up. Christian now knew it was all a waiting game now.His phone rang and it was Mr Thomas, he said, “Mr Grey, I have your results that are completed.”Christian said, “Go ahead.”Mr Thomas said, “After the in house audit and the field audit combined,” *he cleared his throat*, “... we have a grand total of $21,412,331.45, sir. The corporate lawyers already have a record of this audit and said they prepared the paperwork for you on their end.”Christian said seriously, “Thank you for a timely and through job, Mr Thomas at completing this task. I'll have it documented in your file for your next performance review. Good day.” Christian hung up and notated Mr Thomas’ employee HR file in his laptop. He sat back with his finger crooked on his lower lip thinking.He thought, ‘She dipped seven million more out of my pocket. Twenty one and a half million dollars in six years. That over three million a fucking year. The hole gets deeper every time I turn around.’—----------Elena crept up to the door and asked through it, “Who is it?!”The man said, “Mr Rizzo from Devon Park Services.” She cracked open the door and saw a man standing there in a fresh pressed suit with an envelope in his hand. She opened the door wider. He handed her an envelope and she automatically took it.He said, “You have been served.” He turned and walked away to his car.Elena said, “What?! What's this about?!” He ignored her and got in his car putting on his sunglasses and drove off.Elena closed and locked the door. She sat down on the couch and opened the envelope. It was a complete separation of her business from Christian. He gifted the shares to her, removed all backing and called in all loans to the banks that she would be responsible for paying back. She was completely on her own. She smiled because she knew she made a great deal of money off of him to supply herself. Then she remembered the burglary and ran to her computer and logged in to her offshore account. She couldn't login no matter what she tried. She tried to change the password but when she called support they said there was no longer an account and that it had been transferred and closed by her. She argued and tried to talk to supervisors but it was gone.She got enraged and started breaking things. The insurance company on her two BDSM clubs said the company would not pay but 25% on the one club for allowing smoking on the premises when the contract clearly had told her that it would pay 100% if a non-smoking establishment. The faulty wiring fire in the one club was an inspection problem. She didn't have the club inspection done by a reputable company and they would not pay for her negligence. The clubs were at a loss and the one 25% check for $210,344.55 was in the mail. The loans totaled $6,144,920.34.Elena knew that her personal checking of $243,117.34, savings $2,321,556.90 and her business account of $432,899.07 were not enough to pay off the six million dollar loans. She wondered what the hell happened to her offshore account of twenty seven million dollars?Elena called Christian and called…. and called….—----------Christian got notified of the paperwork being served and called Ana to tell her. He got off the phone with her and then called the FTC to report the embezzlement and had his lawyers fax the paperwork to the FTC. He faxed back the filed and signed paperwork to them. Once that was all accomplished, he could concentrate on his own company. His phone rang and it was Elena, he blocked her number. He told Andrea that he was not taking calls from Elena Lincoln at all because she is no longer in the company. He also notified security and had them watching the lobby.—----------Ana got a call from Delmar telling her about last night's warning to Elena. Ana laughed thinking of the look on her face when she saw the dead rat. She thanked him for putting a smile on her face today.When Christian called telling her the papers were served, Ana got busy on her computer doing things one handed and one fingered. She set up Delmar to have one of his guys anonymously courier over a package envelope to the DA atKing County Courthouse516 Third Avenue, W400, Seattle, WA 98104She had everything wiped and the scrubbed thumb drive with a note inside saying…“This was anonymously discovered and submitted to you on the goings in the city of Seattle by salon and spa owner, Mrs Elena Lincoln, 9125 Lake Washington Blvd NE, Bellevue, WA 98004. She is practicing pedophilia on underage children (thumb drive included). A set of business books of prostitution racketeering and human trafficking (book included in her own handwriting). Please treat this vile person with extreme prejudice. When you watch the thumb drive, think of your own children.”Ana gave the package to Miguel, a good friend of hers and Delmar’s. He was a fifty two year old man from her elite group of many friends that were 100% trusted.She said handing him a rubber glove, “Hey Miguel, Gracias por hacer esto por mí y por todos los niños que tocó. Debería llevarla bajo la cárcel para no volver a ver la luz del día. (Thank you for doing this for me and all the children she touched. It should take her down under the jail to not see the light of day again.)”Miguel said, “De nada, hermanita. Otra escoria de las calles. Cuida a los niños después, pequeña.(Your welcome, little sister. Another scum off the streets. Take care of the children after, little one.)” She hugged him, smiling as he kissed her on the forehead and waved and he left on the elevator.Sawyer said, “Is that it?”Ana sighed and said, “At the moment. Let's eat lunch, Sawyer, before we head to my place.”He said smiling, “I could go for that.” Ana swept her arm out towards the kitchen and bowed, making him chuckle. They went into the kitchen and Ana put Sawyer to work with her making them lunch. Gail was with Reynolds at the store. They had fresh salads with lemon Dijon mustard vinaigrette dressing with olive oil, roasted red pepper, roasted tomato with pesto, chicken and mozzarella grilled panini sandwiches.Sawyer was chewing and chomping while moaning. When they finished eating, he said, “You were right, these sandwiches are good even if they take a little longer to make.”Ana said, “I wouldn't lead you wrong when it comes to food. I take food very seriously. I spent a month in a flea hole prison they threw women in Kabul, Afghanistan once. I damn near starved to death and came home with malnutrition, dehydration, skin infections and fucking dysentery, but I got the job done. I promised myself to eat healthy and well for the rest of my life after that.” Sawyer listened because he had served in Afghanistan too and knew of the type of prisons she spoke of. It was like out of a goddamn nightmare of hell what they did to those women in there.He said seriously, “I can understand that under those conditions and to survive is a miracle.”She looked at him and said, “No shit fucking brutal when you have to kill to eat. Twenty eight days of that was too much for me and I considered myself tough. Never fucking again, but I killed my target, saved my informants and completed my mission before that happened. One less big bad mother fucker in the world to eliminate in the human gene pool. The escape from there was pretty fucking bloody though. Took me a little bit of therapy to get over that mission. What saved me was my dad, he taught me how to compartmentalize my mind in extreme situations. I thought of a box in my mind of benign things I don't mind sharing and surrounding the rest in titanium. I would go there to the titanium box when necessary for my own mental protection.” Sawyer could respect someone surviving a place like that. He had buddies cracking under pressure of seeing the horrors in the bombings, murders, gore and killing over there. He had found a new respect for Ana. She had seen the same shit he had and survived it.He said, trying to change the subject, “If you make it. I will eat it, deal?” Sawyer stuck his hand out and she shook it.Ana said, nudging him, “I make killer Greek, Italian and Arabic dishes and more. I'll have to make you chicken or lamb shawarma sandwiches next time with real labneh (yogurt), fresh hummus and pickled lift (pink turnips), lemon, thyme and roasted creamed garlic. I wrap it in a real pita bread and toast it like a panini. Their food is amazing in the Mediterranean. It is a crossover in similarity of the region with some subtle cultural differences. I love the healthy freshness of it all over there and the olive oil. I met many wonderful people in that region that saved my life and I saved some of theirs.”Sawyer said, “I didn't realize you were active in the field.”Ana said seriously, “I was everywhere. I was a kid and could blend in unthreatening. I was proud of what I accomplished. They didn't want me to leave, but when daddy died, I had enough. I not only went on missions but did intelligence too. I better shut it now or I'll cross a line.” Sawyer nodded.She stood up and said, “Let's go to my place and I'll pack up my crap to bring it here. Christian cannot keep me here unless I get to go to work on Monday to start my new job as planned.”Sawyer chuckled and said, “God save him if he tried.” Ana laughed. They got ready and went to her apartment.They walked in and Ana stopped dead and took hold of Sawyer's arm. She pulled out her 9 mm and snapped in the mag. She put her finger to her lip for silence. Sawyer had his gun out too. She pointed one direction to him to go and he nodded. They went room by room until she got to her study. She opened the door and saw someone bent over going through her filing cabinet.Ana slammed open the door and said, “Raise both your hands or you're dead.” The person froze and stood up straight with their hands up. The person slowly turned around.Sawyer came up behind her and said, “The rest of the apartment is clear. I locked the door.” Ana nodded and walked further in the room.Ana said with authority, “Sawyer, check on the balcony for rappel ropes.” He nodded and left to look.He came back and said, “Yep, ballsy fucker coming in that way. You're gonna need a new sliding glass door that was cut.” Ana still had the guy in a kill shot between the eyes.She said smirking, “Don't worry, he had a lift up there to rappel down balconies on a grapple. Keep him in the kill shot, Sawyer. If he moves, kill him.”Ana went into the other room and called Delmar. She said, “Del, I have a home invasion here… He grappled from the roof of the tower… Yep, Christian's guy, Sawyer, has him in his sights at the moment… Hurry, if I have to get physical I'm winged with stitches… Ok, see you in five.” She hung up and called the concierge to allow Delmar up with his friends. Ana went back into the room.Ana said, putting the gun up in the kill shot and said, “It's going to be a party fellas. Just gonna wait for the decorations to come. Sawyer got any cable ties?” He said yes, started binding the guy behind the back and patted him down removing a knife and two guns. Ana took the guns and knife.Ana said, “Put him on his ass in the middle of the floor. Who sent you? I have nothing. I was cleaned out of any valuable information long ago. I haven't kept files of information with me since I left service. What the fuck could you possibly want in my shit that's of value?” The guy sat there just looking at her with his blue eyes and blonde hair.Ana said smirking, “Let's play a game. I ask you a question and you actually talk in response.” She got on the floor with the gun in her pants behind him. Sawyer had the gun on the guy. She grabbed his crotch and pressed on his pressure point by his femoral artery and squeezed. The guy screamed.Ana said in his ear, “Who sent you?” She squeezed and he screamed again.Ana said, “The next one is harder. Who. Sent. You?” She pinched down harder and the guy blood curdling screams again.Ana said, “One more time and then I do dick nerve damage. Who sent you?” The guy screamed like he was being murdered.Ana said, “This one will take you to the moon with dick damage. Who sent you?”The guy shouted in a Russian accent, “Mikal Denisovich. He wanted to know what information you might have on Nikolai Smirnov’s business dealings from back six years ago.”Ana said laughing, “You have been played or Mikal Denisovich has. I haven't seen Nikolai Smirnov in… seven years or more. He has had plenty of time to get into other shit I have no idea about.” There was a loud knocking at her door. Ana got up and opened it to Delmar and three other men. They came in and closed and locked the door. She showed him to her study.Ana said to Delmar, “Mikal Denisovich wanted to know what information I had on Nikolai Smirnov’s business dealings back six years ago. I told this guy I haven't laid eyes on Nikolai in over seven years.”Del said to Ana, have you been doing your pinching torture again to get him to talk?”She blushed and said, “Yeah. It works so well.”Del said, shaming her, “Yeah but you have destroyed so many dicks doing that.”Ana said, shrugging, “At least I get what I want in the end.” Del shook his head and the other three guys laughed.Delmar and his men collected everything the guy had from Ana's apartment and took it with him with the guy in tow.When they left, Sawyer asked, “Ana, if you're not active, why do you have a handler?”Ana shrugged. Sawyer knew he wasn't going to get an answer to that question. She called for a glass door to be replaced. Management said they had one in storage and would just come replace it quickly in a half hour.Ana started to round up stuff and pull out suitcases and dress bags to put it all in. Sawyer went to clear out her refrigerator of food. She promised him two dozen stuffed chocolate chocolate chip cookies. He tasted two cookies and started packing up stuff in reusable shopping bags she had happily. He even snuck a pastry she had in seal containers in her refrigerator. He decided to definitely never turn away food from her.—----------They went back to Christian's apartment with bags of stuff and Gail was standing in the living room with the big screen TV on the news. Sawyer had Reynolds go down with him to grab more stuff.Ana walked over to where Gail was standing watching. Gail said, “It's about damn time that horrible woman got hers.”The clip was cut to the end with Elena being pulled fighting an screaming from her house screaming, “That little fucking bitch did this to me!” She screamed it over and over again kicking and biting. They had to restrain her to get her in the vehicle. Gail kept flicking to each local station to see it again and again smiling the whole time.Ana said, “They moved on it quick. I didn't expect it this fast but glad they did.”Gail looked over at her and asked, “You did this?” Ana smirked and raised her eyebrows a few times at Gail. Gail started laughing and went back to watching the scene giggling. She said, staring at the TV, “Way to go, Ana.” Ana patted her shoulder and pulled her suitcase with the others to one place in the vestibule.When Sawyer and Reynolds got all of her stuff up, Gail and Ana started putting away the food and stuff. Sawyer had a brown bag walking to the security office. Reynolds asked, “Hey man, what's in the bag?”Sawyer said, “The best fucking chocolate chip cookie ever stuffed with chocolate inside.”Reynolds asked, “Hey, can I have one?”Sawyer said slyly, “What will ya give me for it?” The door closed.
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CHAPTER 15When Christian got home, he got off the elevator with the smell of food hitting him full force. He put his briefcase down and walked in to see off to the left in the kitchen area was Ana and Gail giggling and cooking together. There were mountains or cookie sheets piled with cookies, brownies, bread and pastries. Ana held up a spoon to Gail to taste and said, “Taste this roasted creamed garlic sauce. What do you think?”Gail tasted it and said after swallowing, “Oh my God, that is the best I ever tasted. The herbs with it are perfect. That's perfect for the steaks.” Ana smiled and put spoonfuls of it over the steaks in the skillet. She looked up smiling real big at Christian.Ana said, winking at him, “Hi, Christian. We have been busy making yummy stuff.”He smiled and said, “I can see that.” Christian walked over looking at all the different things on the counter in piles. He stole a cookie and took a bite. He groaned because it was still warm in the middle with melted chocolate.Ana said, shaking her finger at him, “You're gonna wreck your dinner, Christian. Get yourself away from all these goodies until after dinner.”Gail said with an eyebrow raised, “You better lock up some of this or those guys will be gobbling it all down during the night.”Christian said growling, “They better not.” He walked over to the cookie sheet of cookies and grabbed it like he was protecting it. Ana giggled looking at him.Ana said well you have the key to the lockable pantry, Gail, can't we box it up and stow it there? Can't help if the dogs are scratching, whining and sniffing at the locked door. Sawyer already has Reynolds and Baker dancing and doing backflips to do his bidding for my cookies I gave him this afternoon.”Christian said huffing and pouting, “Don’t go giving away any goodies. I want all your goodies.” She giggled and leaned in and kissed him, making him smile.Gail smiled and said, “That's what we will do, lock them in the pantry. I have the perfect lock tight containers too. You two go sit down, I'll take care of the rest.” Gail started plating up dinner for the both of them. Ana kissed Gail's cheek making her smile as she passed by her. Christian grabbed a bottle of wine, with the corkscrew and two glasses.He sat them down on the table and said to Ana, “What brought on this baking binge?”Ana said frowning, “I got a visitor in my apartment and was a bit stressed. I bake when I'm stressed and Gail just wanted to help me. Then we cooked dinner together.” He sat down and poured them both wine.Christian asked alarmed, “What happened? You had Sawyer with you, right?” Gail sat down both of their dinners on the table and smiled.Ana said, “Of course I had him with me. We both got the perp after searching the apartment. I turned him over to my friend I keep in contact with. They came and took him away. I was packing while waiting for management to replace my sliding glass door. The creep glass cut through both panes after repelling from the roof. Luckily they had one in storage.”Christian took a bite of his steak, rolled his eyes and groaned. Ana smiled at him. He said chewing, “How the hell did he get on the roof? This is the best fucking steak I ever had.”Ana was eating and said, “They dropped him off there I guess. It was a guy sent from a familiar person from my agency days. He wanted him to search my place for information on an old contract from seven years ago. He just wanted information about the last six years. So the joke was on him because I lost touch with the guy long before then. Dumbass. My friends hauled him away and his stuff. It was no big deal other than I would have killed the guy if he fucked with me. Lucky for him, his dick still works.” Christian cocked his head to the side looking at her.Ana giggled and said, “It's a torture technique I use that gets confessions from men. I may have had to ruin a few men in my time, because they wouldn't believe me. I usually get the confession before I have to go that far. I warn them when they are about to get the damage.“He said seriously, shaking his head, “You are scary sometimes.”She laughed and said, “Am not. Just through. I wasn't going to release him without a reason or explanation on what the hell he was doing, digging around in my apartment.”Christian said looking puzzled at her, “I can understand that part, but baby, you don't want to be known as a 'pecker wrecker’, do ya?” She started dying laughing. She had tears in her eyes. He started laughing at her.When Ana got it together, she said, “That's almost what the guys called me at the agency. They called me dickstroyer, the destroyer of dicks. I got the most confessions though.” Christian just chuckled and thought those poor men didn't believe her. The fools. Olivia didn't and got her panties in her mouth for it.After dinner, they took their wine to the couch. Ana turned on the news until Christian got to see Elena’s arrest.He said, taking a sip of wine, “I'm glad that shits over but the nightmare has just begun for her.”Ana stood up and straddled his lap. He leaned back smiling at her. She said, “It was long overdue by thirteen years as far as I'm concerned.” She kissed him in a slow sexy languid way stroking his tongue. He was enjoying her taking control of the kiss.She broke the kiss and said in a soft sensual voice, “Do you want to learn how to have a regular relationship that was denied you all your life?”Christian slowly nodded looking back at her. Ana said, “I can tell you that you are not damaged beyond everything that hag taught and told you. If you let me show you how to navigate all of these emotions you may not have experienced. I will never allow you to be with anyone else though, ever, if you're willing to be with me. My trust is fragile and I am very monogamous. Playful and experimental sex is fine and I will work with you on this. If you're going to do this and can't commit yourself to 100% only me you will never see me again. I will vanish. In order for this to work, you must completely stop letting Elena's crap she has stuffed in your head dictate your actions. It was all harmful and stopped you from having a normal life. In fact, do the opposite of everything she ever said.” He was searching her eyes knowing how serious she was about everything Elena told him.He whispered, “I am monogamous too. That's why I made the contract exclusive with my subs. After being caught by Elena's ex-husband when I was twenty one, I swore to never be involved with someone who is married or involved with someone else. It also protects me from any risk of sexually transmitted diseases. I haven't been with anyone in over three months. I tried a couple more subs since I last saw you, but they are not what I want anymore. I want to try something different as long as it's only with you.” She nodded her head and started kissing and licking his neck, making him groan and close his eyes.Ana said in her soft voice, “I am on the Depo Vera shot and not due for another shot in six weeks. I haven't been with anyone for six years because I was focused solely on academics. I'll never abuse your trust. We'll take it slow and easy, Christian. I won't touch your sensitive areas on your chest and back when you're naked, until you tell me I can. I refuse to cause you pain or stress.”Christian looked in her eyes and saw how she never broke eye contact. He could feel her sincerity. He thought, ‘She's giving me her trust. No sex in six years? Wow.’Ana was caressing his ears, face and neck because she knew he was not used to being touched by anyone freely. She stroked her hands slowly down his shoulders and arms and interlaced her fingers with his.She kissed each of his hands and said, “Let me show you sensual touch on your body, baby. You will never have to fear me. I'll stay with the rest of your body and avoid your no go areas until you say so. I know you have never let someone touch you like I will and it is so very brave of you to trust me this far.”Ana stood up, knelt down between his legs slipping off her shoes, brushed her hands down his hips and down his thighs to his ankles. She took off his shoes, socks and placed his bare feet on the carpeting. She set his socks and shoes to the side with hers. She reached up slowly, undid his pants and Christian got excited exhaling heavily. She pulled his dress pants down slowly having him move from side to side. She caressed his skin on his legs as she pulled them off and folded them with the belt on top to be sat to the side.Ana said softly touching the band on his boxers and pulling them down slowly, “The slow sensation of touch is much more sensual and stimulating than to rush through everything. Anticipation is the most erotic experience you will learn, besides it will help you to get used to being touched this way. It is much more satisfying, you'll see.” Her hands touched the side vee muscles indenting his hips. She thought, ‘He is so beautifully put together and handsome. I will show him how it is supposed to be.’Ana pulled off his boxers and put them on top of his pants. Now he was naked from the waist down on the couch. She trailed her hands up his legs from the tops of his feet wrapping around his legs moving up inside his inner thighs. Christian was panting, his cock was hard this whole time and he had pre cum on the tip. Her hands passed by and around his cock and balls. She traveled her hands to meet at the place above his cock on his lower belly. His hips flexed looking for contact.He closed his eyes and said panting, “You're driving me crazy, Ana. Please touch me, please?” She smiled sweetly up at him. She unzipped the back of her dress and stood up letting it slowly slide down her body as she stepped out of it. Christian had unbuttoned his shirt watching. He reached out and couldn't believe how incredibly perfect her body was. She didn't have a flaw on her skin in her black lace panties and her lacy bra. Ana reached up and pulled the tie from her hair sitting it all on the coffee table. She ran her fingers through her long dark hair.Christian was mesmerized because she was so very beautiful and sexy. She turned to look into his eyes again and ran her hands all over his legs again starting at the feet. She stood up and straddled him sitting back on his knees. She leaned in, kissing him softly to start and slowly increasing pressure. Her hands slid softly over his hips and took hold of his cock gently caressing it and his balls lightly massaging both. He sharply inhaled.She nuzzled his jaw and said, “I love how you're trusting me. I want to give you such pleasure, Christian.”His head went back resting on the back of the sofa and closed his eyes. He said begging, “Anastasia, please baby, don't stop. You are making me feel so much. It surprises me to not be in control and not afraid.”She licked his neck and nipped him, making him groan. She slipped off his lap and got on her knees and began licking his skin on his hips and nipping him here and there making him gasp quickly again. When she finally took him in her mouth he was consumed in the feel of her mouth being wet and so very warm. The feeling of her tongue moving over the head of his cock and underneath it had him moaning. She slowly increased friction and massaged his balls. He was gasping and moaning louder as she took him to the back of her throat repeatedly.He said panting, “Baby, I'm about to come. Oh God, yes! Yes!” He came exploding into her mouth as she swallowed it all. She cleaned him up and straddled his lap again.He opened his eyes finally after a few moments to look in her blue eyes and she said, “How do you feel, baby?”He smiled and said softly as he caressed her face, rubbing his thumb across her mouth, “Very relaxed.” He leaned forward and kissed her and he lifted her up and laid her down on her back underneath him on the couch. Their pelvises were touching as she wrapped her legs around him. He broke the kiss and had both her hands interlaced with his. He brought them up and held them in each side of her head.Christian whispered, “Thank you, baby. I want to return the favor and taste you now.” He started kissing, licking, nipping and sucking on her skin. She sighed and moaned. He removed her lacy black bra and licked his way down, taking one of her nipples in his mouth. Licked and tugged on them with his teeth making her hips rub up against his body underneath him. He loved her sounds of pleasure and the responsiveness of her body.He moved his way down her body, nipping and licking her stomach and abdomen. Her skin was so soft and smooth. His fingers went under the sides of her wet little black lacy panties and slid them down smelling her arousal.He saw her glistening pussy. He loved her soft scent that smelled of pure Anastasia. He touched the manicured little patch of hair on the front of her lips shaped like an ace of spades in her dark pubic hair. He smiled and looked up at her grinning as he touched it.Ana giggled laying back and said, “Every girl would get a heart. I decided I wanted to be different.” He chuckled and bent down and kissed it.Christian said softly, “Everything about you is different from any other woman. That's what attracts me to you so much.” He was running his fingers along the outside of her opening getting them wet and then moving inside to open her up. He leaned down and started kissing, licking, applying pressure and wetting his fingers with her juices. He began moving inside to stimulate her with his fingers pumping in and out while switching out with his tongue.Ana was moaning, panting and said, “Oh Christian… Oh yes, baby just like that…. That feels so good, baby.”He started becoming more aggressive in his cunlingius technique licking, sucking, nibbling and tugging on her labia. She started panting and her legs were trembling. She was fluttering inside about to come. He would back off and speed up delaying her orgasm. When he finally bit down on her clit, she cried out, “Christian!” Her back arched, she clutched the couch cushion with one hand and squeezed her fist. Her head turned from side to side as he stood up and watched her from between her legs falling apart. He thought she was perfectly beautiful as she panted heavily, breathing as his fingers moved over her pussy. She was flushed and pink, heavily panting.He whispered, “So very beautiful.” He laid down and kissed her inside of her thighs looking at her swollen lips. She watched as he crawled up her body kissing her with a look of deep desire in his eyes. He laid on top of her and was up on his elbows not breaking eye contact.Christian said in a soft sexy voice, “Anastasia, you look beautiful.” He pressed his mouth to hers and started kissing her. He lowered himself down on top of her pressing their naked chests together. He felt no pain at all which amazed him but kept kissing her. Her hands were in his hair.He slowly entered her as he was laying on her. His hands were moving everywhere across her skin. Once he was completely seated, he broke the kiss.Christian asked to make sure, “Does it feel ok?”Ana said, caressing his neck and smiling, “You're not a little man, baby.” He smiled and shook his head no. He started moving his hips. She started moaning softly and moving with him.Christian said, licking her neck, “I can't wait to learn everything about you. You're so very delicious.” He started moving quicker while kissing Ana. His tongue was moving with his hips he was devouring her mouth she had never been kissed like he was doing. It was so passionate, consuming and his movements expressed everything he was feeling for her. His hands were grasping, holding her body pressed to himself. She was surprised at him doing this being she had avoided his chest. He must be ok though if it doesn't hurt him. She let it go and just enjoyed moving with his body thrusting her hips with his and started squeezing and loosening as he thrusted speeding up. The sounds of slapping flesh, pumping, moaning, grasping of flesh in hands and panting was all that could be heard until they cried out in ecstasy as they came together and he collapsed into her. Ana caressed his skin from his waist down to his firm muscled buttocks.She whispered, catching her breath, “That felt so very good.” He got up on his elbows and started kissing her again.He said heavily breathing, “That was not good. I came so very hard. That was fucking fantastic! I never knew vanilla could feel so good. I was always so afraid of getting touched but you never touched me with your hands like you said you wouldn't do.”Ana softly caressed his face and said, “I promised you. You did so well trusting me.”He asked, “Will you come to bed… with me? I want to try to sleep with you and have you again.” Ana nodded yes. He pulled out of her and they took their clothes to the bedroom. Ana and Christian cleaned up in the bathroom together. He took her hand and led her to the bed. He had her get in on her side and he laid down next to her, spooning her and putting his arm around her. She was flush up against his chest with her back.She was comfortable and asked, “Does that feel comfortable, Christian?”He smiled and nuzzled her neck and said softly in her ear, “Wonderful, Anastasia.” He kissed her neck. They both fell asleep.
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CHAPTER 16In the morning Christian woke up and glanced at the clock. It was seven o'clock on a Saturday, New Year's Day. He just realized that he spent New Year's Eve bringing in the New Year fucking a goddess and had slept nightmare free for six hours.That's when he noticed Ana had turned in the night and had her hands on his chest. He started to rapidly breathe but calmed down when he realized there wasn't any pain at all from her touching his naked skin just like when he was clothed. After a little while he slid her one hand over to his back and ribs. She moved her hand, flexed her hand on his back while grasping him closer and then snuggling into his chest. No pain. He was astounded. For the first time in his life someone could freely touch him with or without clothes. He thought that he must really trust her for her to be able to do such a phenomenal thing. He just laid there comforted by her, reveling in her just holding him like that and the enormity of this change that was happening to him.Ana was just waking up, opened her eyes and then realized what she was doing. She squeaked and jerked her hands back in alarm pulling them up to her mouth. He was looking at her. She looked scared and she asked, “Oh Christian, baby, are you ok? Did I hurt you?” He loved that she was so concerned about him, but he couldn't stand that she felt so bad about it.He said softly, taking her hands as they trembled a bit and placed them on his chest with his hands over hers, “It's ok, Anastasia, for some reason it doesn't hurt. It shocked the hell out of me that it didn't hurt at all but actually felt warm and good.” She was surprised that he accepted her touch so quickly without clothing and started to smile.She wrapped her arms around him freely and hugged him while wrapping her leg over his hip rolling him on his back. She started kissing him slowly and sultry. When they broke the kiss she said, “Christian, you're so brave. I'm so very proud of you.” He had his arms wrapped around her.He hugged, squeezing her a bit and said, “Thank you, Anastasia.”Her words made him feel good to have conquered such an obstacle he had all his life and trusted only her. Christian knew by letting her in and feeling such emotions for her it had to be love he had been feeling from the start. How could he fall in love so quickly? Elena couldn't touch his chest and back, though she had tried a couple times and once during a scene she punished him by touching him and making him scream in pain. He told her if she ever tried to do that again, she would never see him again.Ana moved on top of him and sheathed him inside her. She was moving on top of him. She caressed his face and lips as she moved on top of him. Christian put his hands on her hips as he moved with her. He said, panting, “Happy New Year's Day, baby. You feel so damn good, baby. I haven't had a woman topping from the bottom on me in years.”She said smirking, “That's right, Happy New Year's Day, Christian. You said that you wanted to learn to share. You'll just have to get used to sharing that control. Besides, doesn't it feel good not having to do all the work all the time?”He thought, ‘Damn, she really does feel so damn good and looks like a beautiful wild haired sexual goddess. I'm so fucking fascinated with everything about her. I guess she is right. I did say I wanted to learn to share control with her in my parents bathroom. Oh shit!... Yeah…just like that baby.’ Ana was moving faster and it was getting more intense. She leaned down and kissed him.He rolled her over and said, “Let me take you from behind, baby?”She got on her hands and knees. He entered her from behind and started thrusting into her. He pulled her up, licking, kissing and biting her neck while she had her back arched. She had her chin in the air panting and moaning. His hands were all over her body. He was hooking his hips and his cock was rubbing her g spot. She went back down on all fours and he reached around her hip and was stimulating her clit for a while. He then pinched her clit as he was about to come himself and she cried out in a moan then called out, “Christian!” He slammed into her a few more times as she squeezed him like a fist before he came calling her name.Christian landed half on Ana. He had his arm over her stroking the other side of her body from breast hip. His mouth was licking her skin that was salty from sweating. Christian loved the taste of her. He couldn't believe she was here and he finally got to be with her. It was more than he fantasized about.He thought back, ‘For the entire six months I couldn't concentrate on the two subs I tried during the first three months after she left me standing there like an idiot. All I could see was her beautiful face in my mind and my random thoughts even during the day. It was like I was obsessed with her or something because she stayed lingering in my mind for the whole six damn months. Seeing her at the party made me gravitate to her immediately. Then I had to find a way to get her alone to find out why she wouldn't respond to my emails. I had to figure out what it is that had me so drawn to her like no other woman. I was like a moth to her flame. I had never been this out of control and drawn to a woman like this before. This beautiful creature was totally and completely different from any of them. The more I learned about her over this week, the more I never want her to leave me.’Christian said getting up, “Come on, baby, let's go take a shower and we'll get dressed.” He took her hand and walked into the bathroom holding her hand. He helped her cover her arm with the waterproof sleeve to keep it from getting wet. He pulled her in the shower with him and reached behind her to turn on the shower while licking her neck again making her laugh. They bathed each other, Christian had never had it done to himself before.Ana was thinking to herself as she soaped him up, ‘I was surprised at myself, because when he entered that bathroom at his parents to corner me and find out why I rejected his emails, I was prepared to get away from him. His kiss. There was something in that kiss that was almost electrical and his hand moving down my skin on my back tingled. It completely took over my body when I attacked his mouth aggressively kissing him. It didn't seem to bother him and he did ask me to teach him about sharing control. That crazy old bat and the way she acted that night and then hearing his story was heartbreaking. It made me decide that the hag was going down in some creative suffering way. Now that she has, it was satisfying because I had my fun with her before. He had been through enough and needed that horrible woman out of his life completely, because now he can heal. I will see to it. He was so sweet, gentle, loving and caring last night. I loved making him feel so good first. None of that rushed or in a hurry business, though it can be fun sometimes on the fly. Yes, I want him and I'll help him.’ She knelt down and washed his feet and legs and then his genitals and butt. He was completely clean now.He took the sponge and rinsed it out and soaped it up and started washing her body. He just enjoyed touching her soft beautiful skin. His hands smoothed over her skin.They walked out of the bedroom in comfortable clothes holding hands. They went to the kitchen and Gail had coffee ready for them as they sat down. Gail could tell that the two had completely bonded this morning coming out of the bedroom fresh from the shower. Christian had a different deeper look in the way he was looking at Ana.After breakfast, Christian went into his office to respond to his emails. Ana logged on to her laptop in the living room. Her appointment was scheduled to see her doctor on Monday about her arm at noon and was the first day of work.Christian had fun on Saturday with Ana dancing, playing billiards for sex, even though Ana lost a lot with her arm but got sexed up for it, watching movies and eating popcorn. His mother called wanting him to come to brunch on Sunday and bring Ana when he said she was his girlfriend now. He said she was directly starting to work with him on Monday as his Executive Acquisition Consultant. Grace was excited.—-----------------Sunday morning, Ana and Christian pulled up in his R8, he got out, he went around and helped her out of the car. Grace greeted them both at the door.Grace said smiling and excited, “I'm so glad you're both here. Come in. I'm going to check the roast. Go into the living room and get comfortable.” Grace backed up and then left to the kitchen.Christian took off Ana's arctic fox faux fur coat to hang it up for her. She was wearing a dark purple folded collar crystal embellished off-the-shoulder long sleeved ribbed sweater dress. She had a Kurt Geiger London Eagle Heart long gold chain belt that hung down her thigh. It went well with the Yves Saint Laurent dark purple pebbled leather small Kate bag with a gold chain and logo. Ana matched it with a pair of suede dark purple ankle boots that were pointed toe high heel with a dark purple real fur rabbit pompom at the outside ankle. She had her hair down and curled with her gold amethyst and diamond jewelry on.Mia saw Ana and got up, crossed the room and hugged her. Mia said nervously, “I have missed you, Ana. Are you going to be there when I show Christian my business plan at 3:30 pm Monday? It's just I'm nervous about it and you could help me if I get stuck.”Ana looked at Christian who smirked and said smiling at Mia, “I'll be there and not let you down or leave you hanging and wiggling like an innocent earthworm on a hook. It's not like he'll be just waiting for you to drop into his mouth like a hungry Christian Grey, the big fish in a pond of minnows.” Mia giggled. Ana tickled Christian in the ribs making him chuckle and jump. Everyone was shocked.Ana continued, “He likes chewing on minnows, but not family. I'll keep him from jumping out of the water at you, but you got to do the presentation yourself. You can do this Mia. You know what you want and we discussed that thoroughly at length. I have faith in you and I know you can do this yourself. Be that strong assertive talented woman I have seen come out. Straighten out your backbone, stand up, say what you want and answer the questions he'll ask is all. You are a strong woman. Just remember, I'm always proud of you, no matter what.”Mia wrapped her arms around Ana and said emotionally with tears in her eyes, “God, Ana, I love you. You are my best friend forever.” Ana kissed her head and smiled, patting her back. Everyone in the room was shocked at how Ana was so supportive of Mia and gave her courage to be assertive. Christian thought Ana was amazing to get his sister to grow up and be in charge of her life instead of drifting like she was. He figured she was good for everyone in his family.Christian said smiling, “Ana is my girlfriend now. I adore her and she can touch me.” Everyone gasped.Grace asked in shock, “Is that really true?” Christian nodded and took Ana's hand and put it on his heart. Everyone was amazed.Ana said looking in Christian's gray beautiful eyes, “He did it. It's all him that is so brave. I'm just so very proud of him.” She reached up and caressed his lips with her thumb. He leaned down and kissed her and took her in his arms hugging her.Grace said all teary eyed, “It's everything I wanted for you, my son. I'm proud of you too.” Christian kissed his mother on the cheek.The maid Gretchen came into the room and said, “Everything is ready.” They all filed out of the room to go to the dining room.Carrick said to Christian as they walked out of the room, “I'm happy for you son. She's a keeper.” Christian smiled and thanked his father.—----------------When they got back to the penthouse. Christian decided that he would do a bit of work on emails and showed Ana some of the transcripts of the meetings he had negotiated before. He wanted her to see his negotiation style.She said she was good with reading people in the room with her, like a cold reader would do through body language. Christian smiled and said that would bring in a lot of insight in a CEO’s behaviorisms he deals with. He thought Ana could see through them and what makes them tick like the inner workings of a watch. Perhaps, then she could explain them to him to see if he could find it useful for an advantage.Christian ate some of her baked goods from Friday evening. He took her to the bathroom after making a warm bath for them both. He washed and relaxed kissing her skin until she washed him and it got him so stimulated that he made love to her in the warm water. They got out and her took again and again in the bedroom. By the time he had vigorously fucked in every position she could do comfortably. They both were exhausted and content wrapped around each other as they fell asleep.
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CHAPTER 17Monday morning finally arrived, it was Ana's first day of work, doctor office visit and Mia's presentation day. Christian had woke her up early in the morning before the alarm went off with a vigorous round of sex then took her hand leading her to the shower for another round of shower sex.Ana got dressed to the nines for her first day at work. She wore a vee neck off the shoulder burgundy midi bodycon sweater knit dress. It showed off every contour of her body.Christian walked up behind her and looked at her over her shoulder in the mirror. His hands smoothly moved over her hips and he nuzzled her neck open mouth kissing her. Ana was leaning her head back and moaning. His hands moved up to her breasts as he lightly squeezed as her hands were on top of his. He said sensually in her ear, “I’m going to be thinking about that little thing you did to my big thing last night with your tongue and hand rubbing that magical spot behind my balls while at work. I want to fuck you on the elevator, on my desk and every piece of furniture in my office eventually, Anastasia. I'll even fuck you in the middle of my carpet and make dents in the floor underneath one day… or two or three.”Ana said moaning leaning her head into the side of his face over her shoulder in the mirror, “I'm going to have to bring fresh panties everyday in my purse if you do all that. You naughty horny man. We may never get any work done ever again.” He bit her ear and chuckled, letting her go.He said grinning at her, “You may be right.” He walked out of the oversized closet area. She smiled and shook her head at him and his new found freedom of sex and touching.Ana put on her Kurt Geiger London Eagle Heart long gold chain belt that hung down her thigh. She chose her gold garnet jewelry, a pair of Jimmy Choo Romy 85 suede burgundy high heels and a Ralph Lauren Stonegate velvet merlot crossbody bag. She did her hair, with Gail’s help, in a soft French braid down her back with a burgundy velvet bow.After breakfast, Christian helped Ana on with her Arctic Fox faux fur coat pulling her braid out for her as she wore her gold frame brown lens Dior sunglasses. He took her laptop bag kissing her on the lips. He had on his Tom Ford charcoal gray suit and double breasted black wool peacoat on. He led her down with Taylor and Sawyer to parking and helped her in the Q7.When they arrived, everyone stared as they walked through the lobby to the elevator talking and Ana giggled at something Christian said. They made a very handsome couple. The observers were whispering, “Who is that with him?”, “I thought he was gay?”, “Do you think it's his girlfriend?”, “If he was gay, I bet that sexy kitten could have turned him straight.”When they got up to the office, Andrea smiled at Ana and she took both of their coats. Andrea said to Christian, “I have uploaded you scheduled for today, Mr Grey.”He said professionally, “Thank you, Andrea. Two coffees, two cream and one sugar on the side.” He took Ana's hand and they went into his office.Christian immediately got on the phone and called Welch and Barney to get Ana completely outfitted with full clearance to all the financial departments, and acquisition systems and records. He said she needed a set the company executive hardware and to bring it to his office. He hung up.Ana asked curiously, “Christian, where am I going to work?”He smiled at her and said, “I'll get a desk moved in here with me. My office is big enough to bring you in here. Besides, I always love having you around me.” That's when she noticed a 5x7 inch gold frame on his desk with a pair of beige panties on his desk. She picked it up looking at it grinning.She cut her eyes at him and asked, trying not to laugh, “You…. You seriously framed my underwear? The ones from Olivia’s lament and warning?”He started laughing and said, “I made sure to have them ready to go Friday before you came in today. I like that name. I'll get a little plaque made and engraved say, ‘Olivia’s Lament’. It will make me laugh and remind me you're a follow through kinda woman.” She giggled and shook her head as Andrea came into the room with two coffees placing them on the desk.Ana walked up and started making her coffee and said to Andrea, “Thank you.” Andrea smiled at herAndrea looked at Christian and asked, “Mr Grey, I’m going to a job fair on Saturday for a couple hours to see if I can find some potential interviewees for the Assistant PA position.”Christian said seriously, “That's fine, put it under overtime as always. I hope you find someone with a sharp mind instead of a Christian Grey butt watcher.” Andrea giggled.Ana said frowning, “Hey. That's one of my job requirements, and taking you out on my arm now and then to show you off at corporate functions as arm candy.”Christian chuckled and muttered, “Candy on your arm, yeah right.”Ana said cheeky, “Don't worry, baby. I'll still beat up anyone even going near your butt.” He laughed out loud.Andrea never saw him interact like this with anyone. It was like he was becoming different. More… relaxed? She said in professional mode, “Your first meeting, the department heads is at 9am, sir. Mrs Bailey is in her office now too.” She turned and went back to the desk.—------------------Ana had sat through two meetings and was now driving to her doctor appointment. The traffic was a bear. She noticed a green sedan following her. She pulled into a parking spot in the parking structure and had her gun ready in her pocket of her coat. She grabbed her purse and locked her McLaren with the fob. She noticed where the car parked and went to the elevator. She watched as a young man about her age got on the lift with her.As they went up the elevator, he pulled a gun and pointed it at her and hit the stop button on the elevator. Ana already had her gun pointed at him next to her coat.The man said, “You have tried to destroy my domme. I will destroy you.”Ana said, looking at him, turned to face him so he could see her gun on him and said, “Elena Lincoln has molested twelve little children so far, she has stolen from her partner $21 million dollars and been promoting prostitution on both coasts. Tell me how I destroyed her? She destroyed herself and has told you a lie that it was me. I did not embezzle money, I did not hurt minor children and surely don't have prostitutes working for me.”The man was frowning and said, “My Mistress said you attacked her, broke into her house, burned down her businesses in New York, stole all her cash and jewelry.”Ana said to him, “I swear that I have never ever even been to her house and never even left the city to go to New York. I only met her for the first time a week ago at the Greys for a Christmas Eve party. I made friends with Christian and was already with Mia Grey and she has been mean and hateful to me ever since. After I left that first night, she had someone sent over to Christian's home to cut the brakes on my car and put a tracker on it. I was at the Christmas dinner the next day and she was there at the Greys with me all evening. I never left and she thinks I stole everything from her. The only thing I did was make friends with Christian in the week since. That's all. Until she attacked me in his office at GEH last week. She blamed and attacked me because he audited her for the first time after six years. That's why I'm going to the doctor today right here. I don't think you want to do this because you're just going to get in trouble for something you didn't even have happen to you. You know you're on a camera in this elevator. See up there?” She pointed to a small camera lens in the corner of the elevator.Ana said sincerely, “Honey, don't let her hurt you too like she did me, Christian and molested all those little kids. I had to get 36 stitches in my forearm from her sharp nails when she attacked me at GEH.” She pushed up her arm and showed him the bandage.Ana said softly, “Please go home, be safe from her and get rid of that gun so no children find it to hurt themselves. It's hers isn't it?” He nodded yes.Ana said gently, “You can give it to me and I can get rid of it so no kids find it. I worked for the CIA a while back and know how to dispose of it so nobody can get hurt. You know she did those crimes and terrible things to herself also to other people. You must feel it in your heart and mind. You're a good person, I can tell, and don't need to put yourself through the pain of guilt over doing something like this. It's such a harsh thing to live with the guilt of committing murder for someone else. You know she is in jail for doing cruel things, breaking the law and nothing else. I didn't do a thing to her.” The man put his head down in shame. Ana put out her hand slowly to him. He looked at her hand and sighed, putting the gun in her hand. Ana put the safety on and in the pocket of her coat with her other gun.And asked him kindly, “What's your name, honey?”He looked up at her in the eyes and said passively, “Marty.”Ana reached out and cupped his face with her hand and said, “Everything is going to be ok, Marty. I promise you, just stay away from her and find a nice woman that treats you like the good man that you are inside. That will not be someone who will hurt you and make you feel bad about yourself. You need a gentle woman because you have a gentle soul. I can tell. She will heal you.”David asked looking up at her, “Will you help me like you're doing for Christian Grey?”She smiled at him and he smiled back. Ana said, “I can only save one man at a time, but I can let you talk with my good friend. She can help you find yourself and that special girl you can call your own one day. Ok?”He smiled at her and nodded. Ana wrote down a phone number to a therapist she knew who could give him a referral. Ana gave him the piece of paper and said to him, “Marty, I want you to call my good friend Kelly. She knows everyone in Seattle. You tell her to call me because I will even pay them if you can't do it. You just promise to remember one thing for me and tell it to yourself every day in the mirror. You're a good person and always deserve to have good people around you. Do the opposite of anything Elena said because it is not true you are a good man. You just proved it to me by listening and trusting me.”He said sadly, “Goodbye Ana and I'm sorry. Christian Grey is lucky to have you as a friend. I hope I get lucky too.” Ana unstopped the elevator.When she went to step off, she turned and said, “I really wish you the best, Marty. I'll be thinking about you from time to time.” He smiled at her and nodded his head. The door closed. Ana went to the appointment and was late but they said they would fit her in.While she waited, she texted her psychotherapist friend Kelly and told her if a young man named Marty called her to let her know. She said that she would even help financially if needed to get the help he deserved. Her friend, Kelly, texted back that she would do just that and anything else she wanted. Her friend told her she was kind to help the man.Ana contacted Christian telling him she would be late coming back to GEH from the doctor and would explain why when she got there.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~When Ana got back and told Christian, Taylor and Sawyer, the shit hit the fan. Christian started pacing the carpet pulling in his hair frustrated. He was having a meltdown.Christian shouted at her, “How could you do that?! You could have been shot! Do you know he was the one she sent to cut your brake lines for Elena?! And you're going to pay for his therapy! What the fuck were you thinking, talking down someone sent to kill you! You just, willy-nilly decide to try to save them from himself?! Are you insane?! You had no idea what his intentions could be!!”Ana snapped back at him, getting angry as hell, “So tell me how does me helping him affect you?! He needed help too to get away from her. I sent him to the best psychotherapist in Seattle and a good friend of mine. You think I couldn't handle him?! I could have killed him and/or he could have killed me in such close quarters. That was the danger. I talked to him. He chose not to follow through! He gave me the gun she had him get from her house! He asked me for help! I am not going to leave someone like you, who was treated the same way by that horrible bitch alone to suffer! He needed me to help him! I told him I could only help one man at a time but had good friends that would see to it. He even told me when we left that he thought you were lucky to have someone like me helping you and hoped he would get lucky too.”Her voice went up in volume, “Don't you ever talk to me like I'm a goddamn fool again! You're being a selfish prick! Goddamn it, Christian, your not the only person in this fucked world that needs saving from that bitch! Are you not satisfied with my hands on approach to helping you, if not I can fucking leave at anytime! How dare you question my profiling experience!” Christian stood and stared at her with his mouth open. He was thinking about everything she just said and it scared the hell out of him.
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CHAPTER 18Taylor and Sawyer saw that as their cue to leave and let them talk. They left out of the door and closed it behind them.Ana still had her fur coat on and was standing looking out the wall window at the snow moving and the snowy weather front about to hit. She was trying to wind down from his yelling at her and she knew she lashed back at him hard in return. Christian was scared now and she knew that but was not backing down. She thought, ‘I tried to save myself from getting shot and helped the man to get help. I know I did nothing wrong but, he was trying to act all dominant and CEO on me for doing the right thing. He was scared because of me being put in front of a gun, but it was not the first time and may not be the last time a gun gets aimed at me. I know he isn't used to it and hates all of this gunplay. I get that. His feelings are so new and his protective side was coming out to chastise me like a fucking sub would put up with. He is going to have to learn to respect and trust me even in dangerous situations or this isn't going to work. My qualifications were good if not better than his own men watching over him and he is going to have to realize that.’He walked up behind her and said in a cracking voice, “Please don't leave me, Anastasia. Please. I don't think you're a fool or am questioning your experience as a profiler. I… I was scared of you being in an unprotected position of being killed again. I don't understand how you can forgive someone sent for the second time to kill you and then put yourself out there to help pay for their therapy?”Ana said flatly without turning around, “I am entitled to help anyone I deem worthy to save on my own dime. It's not your decision or money. It's not like I moved him into my apartment or something stupid like a bubble headed fool. I can take care of myself and had my gun point blank in the kill shot when he got on the elevator before he even pulled Elena's gun. With my training and reflexes, he would have had a 75% higher chance of death in statistics than me in that situation. I had the positioning trajectory already mapped out with the emanate death percentage already calculated as soon as he pulled the gun. I am trained in some things better than your security is and probably equal to the rest. If you're going to jump all over me and talk condescendingly to ridicule my decisions without asking me why I made that decision, we won't last very long. You're going to have to learn to trust me in these kinds of situations or we will never work.” He got upset and more agitated.He was running his hands through his hair frustrated and she could see him in the reflection of the window. Christian asked her, “Why did you make that decision to help him?”She said stoically, “Because Christian, he was just like you when I met you six months ago. Needing someone to show you a different way to live. I put both of you in touch with someone who both of you can trust not to hurt either of you. That's what Elena looked for, someone with low self-esteem, damaged trust issues, desperate for some kind of special attention or connection and going through pubescent sexual angst. That's the perfect victim for a pedophile. He was reaching out desperately to me because he lost his domme, his security blanket and it was a last ditch effort to get praise or acknowledgement from her. I blew up the fucking bubble in his mind of how was viewing her as the innocent victim. I made him see that logically she was the one stealing, molesting kids, running prostitutes. I then showed him my wound in my arm that she did and told him the truth about my thirty six stitches she did to harm me. He shifted emotionally. I felt it. When he handed me that gun, I got his trust and I wasn't going to throw it away or him away like trash. I sent him to the top psychologist in the state who is a good friend of mine. He will be safe if he goes to see her. That's why I did it. He deserves to be saved just as much as you did.”He was angry, conflicted and a bit jealous that she would help Marty. She explained herself and what happened step by step. Ana got someone else to treat him. He did feel special that she was “giving him the hands on approach” like she called it and that she told Marty she could only help one man at a time. It was himself. Christian knew she was better trained than his security and he overreacted saying things that flew out of his mouth without thinking.His head was down feeling bad about how he said all the things the wrong way and made her mad at him. He said sadly, “I'm sorry, Anastasia for overreacting like I did. Please don't hate me or leave me.”Christian reached out and touched the back of her coat. She turned around and held out her arms. He grabbed her and buried his face in her neck. Ana could feel his desperation rolling off of him. He was holding her tightly to himself. She had her arms wrapped around him rubbing his back and the back of his head.Christian said into her neck, “I love you so much. I don't ever want anything to happen to you. I don't think I could stand it.”She whispered in his ear, “You're going to have to trust me Christian.”He pulled back and began possessively kissing her to make sure she knew how much he needed her. Ana shrugged off her coat and purse dropping onto the floor. She was going to show him the only way he would understand that she wasn't leaving him. She broke the kiss, grabbed the door locking fob out of his little top desk drawer and locked the door. It was 1:45 pm.Ana said looking at him in the eyes, “You have Mia showing up at 3:30 pm for her business plan presentation. It's 1:45 pm, if you fuck me real fast and hard on your desk we can get cleaned up and back to work before she comes here. I did put another pair of panties in my purse.” He ran over to his desk and cleaned it off.Christian looked at her and she unclasped her belt and dropped it. She peeled her dress up, was standing there in her black lacy panties, black lace holster corset, thigh high black holdup stockings with lace at the top and her Jimmy Choo burgundy high heels. He grabbed her and ripped off her panties pocketing them. He pushed her back, lifted her up on his desk. Christian spread her legs looking down at her and her braid laying spread out on his desk as his hands were rubbing her thighs. He stopped and undid his pants.He said with dark dilated eyes while panting already from excitement, “I'm going to fuck you until your scream.”Christian entered her as she moaned from the fullness. He began to thrust into her and was pounding her hard with her legs spread so wide. She was squeezing and contracting around him. He loved fucking her and the muscle control she had.Christian leaned over her as she unbuttoned his shirt and rubbed his pec muscles while lightly pinching his nipples. He was groaning, moving his hips, slapping their skin and thrusting hard. He said huffing looking into her eyes, “Never leave me. I can't live without you touching me.”Ana started to cum and called out, “Yes! Oh Christian!” Christian pulled out of her and flipped her over taking her from behind pounding her as she just finished coming and was building up for another. He was hitting her g spot right on the money at the right angle. He reached around her massaging her clit, wet his finger in his mouth and put it in her rosebud. She was moaning and crying out as he was pounding her.Christian pinched her clit and she came screaming his name, “Oh God! Christian! Yes! Yes!” He came straining so hard calling her name and collapsed on top of her.He said panting with his face on its side in the middle of her back, “Don't ever go away.”She said breathlessly, “I won't, baby.” Christian smiled, turned his face and open-mouth kissed her skin.After a moment or two, he sat up and admired the sight of her with their cum dripping out of her pussy. He sat in his chair and started masturbating her with his finger with their mixed cum as she was bent over the desk. Ana began moaning and moving with his hand. He was smiling watching her fuck his fingers as his thumb masterbated her clit. Christian speed up.He said in a deep sexy voice, “You don't know what it does to me seeing my cum run out of you. I am just going to have to make you come one more time for me with our cum before I clean your pussy so heavily soaked in my come.” She was moaning, whimpering and mewling louder because she was so sensitive.He was sitting in his chair and said deeply, “I think my baby likes her pussy masterbated with my come. Tell me you want more, baby?”She said moaning, “Oh baby, more! Yes, just like that!” Christian sped up and reinserted his finger in her rosebud pumping in and out.Ana shouted while overstimulated, “Harder and faster, Christian! Oh God! Yes! Fuck me with your fingers! Ah! Ahhh!!!” She came so hard she squirted. He loved watching her do that. He had done that a few times before to subs but not his Anastasia. Her body was shaking and trembling and collapsed on his desk. Christian kissed her ass cheeks.He stood up and said, “Stay there, baby, I'll be right back.” He went to the bathroom, washed his hands, wet a cloth and cleaned himself. Christian rinsed it out, zipped up his pants and went back to his desk with the wet warm cloth. He started wiping her up as she moaned from being so sensitive right now squeezing out everything for him to catch. He saw that her come had hit his pant leg a little near the floor when she came that last time. It made him grin.When he was done cleaning her, he got up, rinsed the washcloth out and washed his hands again. Ana stood up and put her fresh panties on from her purse and put on her dress. Christian picked up her coat and purse off the floor feeling the weight of her coat and put his hand in, but felt the gun handle. He just sat both items on the chair. She picked up the chain belt and put it on. She looked at him and noticed his face changed to a frown when he was moving her coat and purse.Ana said looking at him, “Don't worry. I will make arrangements to dispose of it safely tonight. Del can come get it sometime this week. He'll probably run it for prints and serial numbers before.”He said with his hands in the air looking at her, “I didn't say anything, I swear. I know you want to get rid of it.” She took her gun out of the pocket and put it in her corset holder. She put Elena's gun in her purse with the safety on.—---------------Christian and Ana both went to conference room ‘A’ and found Mia all set up and ready to go. Ana was proud of her. Mia was wearing a Ralph Lauren black belted mockneck jersey midi dress and a pair of Louboutin black high heels. She looked very professional and all business.They both sat down and got comfortable at the conference table. There was a slide projector, and spread of paperwork and trays of food samples covered in plastic.Mia smiled at Ana and winked at her. She had set up to reserve the slide projector she got from Andrea last Friday for the presentation. She had slides made for her business.Mia asked looking at them, “Shall we begin?” Christian nodded completely blown away by Mia acting so professional and serious.She took two packets of papers in a resume transparent plastic presentation file folder with the bar down the spine holding it together. Her logo was printed out in color on the cover page.Mia hit the switch and dimmed the lights in the room. She clicked on the button fob and her business logo came up on the screen that she and Ana had designed together. It was in bright pink elegant script letters outlined in black on a white background. It was a scrawled chef's hat swirling into fancy cursive lettering with a cake outlined character at the end of the swirling lettering scrawl. It said “Chef Mia’s Secret Bakery”.The next slide showed the business statement was “Welcome to the best kept French secret in Seattle.”She said seriously, “This is my business statement pitch.”Mia clicked the fob with pictures of the other bakeries in the downtown area and said, “The other independent bakeries, unless they are in the wedding cake business, in the area don't have delivery service catering to the businesses district in the area. The only ones that do are all franchised. My bakery's products will be above their quality and you can trust after the first few bites they will become addicted. It's just getting their attention and getting them in the door that will be the first thing to do. My products will speak for themselves.” She hit the fob and a picture showed a glass storefront case in a bakery with doughnuts and cakes.She said confidently, “There are only a select three specialty bakeries in the downtown area and none of them are Paris culinary trained. From my research the only French bakery in the area is in Bellevue. As an independent bakery I will have the advantage, especially in delivering to morning meetings and luncheons once established. I will not have to charge top tier prices like the names of the elite hotels catering to the economic landscape or the four French caterers that are competing against one another. My product advertisement will attract more clientele from off the street and local businesses while leading to reputation inevitably. A better product at a better cost without the international chain of hotels relying on their name or the national franchise doughnut shops with a cheap product as a threat to push away competition.”Mia handed Christian the sample menu she had drawn up with pricing from the software she had printed out and another paper showing the cost breakdown on product costs per count to the ingredients cost for the products she would make daily and increase or decrease accordingly. She also had the prices of the equivalent products from the hotels, pricing of the four caterer's and the cheaper ones from the franchises. She had him turn the page to the details of providing her insights into the competitive landscape of Seattle, explaining how her pricing strategy would position her bakery within the broader market. Mia placed her trays in front of them with a tray of savory and a tray of sweet pastries. Ana and Christian both started nibbling. Ana has skipped lunch.She put up slides showing a sample flyer, business card, sample menu and a standard ad for the newspaper. It was to outline her marketing and sales strategy. She provided an in-depth overview of the key tactics to employ to reach potential customers and showcase her understanding of how to connect with the target market through various sales channels.Mia said, “I believe ads in the newspaper, and flyers for advertising on the street to start with a flyer delivery service to distribute to downtown businesses and cafes. I have listed the advertisement projection costs on page ten.”She hit the fob and showed four slides of buildings. She said, “I have four locations in mind for my bakery but hope I can retain one of the properties before they are sold. Elliot has already sent out his contractors to look at the property condition and cost estimate for renovations on page twelve in the packet.”Christian asked, “You already consulted with Elliot? That's quick moving, Mia. You have surprised me.” He took another bite reading the packet. She smiled to herself.Mia brought up slides showing her financial projections, flow charts to show sales, the number of customers ratio, expenses, and profit projections. She had potential income statements, and cash flow forecasts for at least three years in her packet.She said to them, “I know that these are projections with only acceptable milestones to accomplish first to be realistic. I estimate myself that if I can get the attention necessary the timeline could be shortened depending how fast I get on my feet. I consulted to seek advice from Ana of course, commercial real estate agents, Elliot's contractors, and consulted with experienced bakers to help guide my decision-making.”Christian said, “That's impressive. Do you have any overall cost estimates?”Mia said putting up another slide showing basic cost breakdown, “I estimated that it would cost any one walking off the street $500,000 bare minimum to get a basic business up and running, but that is without backing capital, employee salaries, owning the building and property or the delivery vehicle. I will be rolling the funds over back into the business I estimate for at least the next three years depending how well I can do. The bottom line I will ask for is a three million dollar investment so be completely safe. I will wait on my delivery vehicle to insure getting the business up and running first.”Christian was completely blown away at the time and investment effort she put into the presentation. She had provided him with enough information in the packet and explained in detail everything he needed to know. The pastry was outstanding of course, but her projections were quite realistic. She talked like she had taken a business class and that had him stumped.Christian asked curiously, “How did you put this all together and clearly understand it so well? It's like you took business classes on the side.”Mia said smirking glancing at Ana, “As you know, Ana helped me develop the plan from scratch and we had been working on it in our spare time over the last ten or eleven weeks. Ana was teaching and showing me how business works with outlines on what I needed to gather in my research in order to do more accurate projections by comparison. She showed me how to do a cost analysis that's on page twenty one.” Christian flipped to page twenty one. He was completely overwhelmed that his baby sister could pull this off in such a formal way, even when talking to him professionally. He never saw her so focused and trying so hard to impress him. He looked over at Ana and knew she had taught and given his little sister direction, focus and the tools for her to learn how to do that. He was grateful that Ana came into their lives, but changing his little sister was a miracle to him.Christian said to Mia, “Let me go over everything you have here and I'll get back to you before the end of the week, ok?” Mia nodded and started gathering up her things into a box she had.Christian said walking up to her, “Mia,” she turned to look at him. He continued, “I want you to know how very impressed and proud of what you have done and accomplished here today. I have never seen you so very focused and professional. You're amazing.”She put her box down, wrapped her arms around him and said, “You have no idea how much your respect for me means to me Christian. I love you for saying that to me.” He hugged her back. Ana smiled watching them.Ana said, “You can leave us the samples, Mia. I missed lunch going to the doctor’s office.” She began piling the pastry on the cellophane so she could have the empty trays back.Mia said giggling, “I think you're my number one fan, Ana.”Ana gathered it up, eating one and said, “Damn straight. I have always been proud of you since I've met you.” Mia grabbed her and hugged her.Ana said seriously, “Don't squish my goodies, Mia.” All three of them laughed.
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CHAPTER 19After two weeks, Christian, Roz and Ana were sitting in conference meeting with Lawrence G. Harper of Harper Industries. It was a solar panel manufacturing company.Mr Harper said, “After all the analysis was completed by my economic analysts they recommended that my company had potential asset recovery and gave an overall recommendation of $50 million dollars for sale.”Christian said, “You are a small to medium size company, Mr Harper. That recommendation is not realistic.” Ana sat back keeping her mouth shut letting them do the back and forth thing.Roz yawned and sipped her coffee. She looked steady straight into Ana's eyes as Christian started getting frustrated in talking. Roz told Ana before the meeting to show her stuff in this meeting. So once Roz allowed Christian to do his best to get the man to stop the inflation of his company value, Roz nodded to Ana.Ana said over talking Mr Harper, “Excuse me…. Excuse me…. Can we have a reality check here, Mr Harper? This line of topic has gone on long enough and you're talking Mr Grey in circles.”Mr Harper said gruffly with annoyance at her daring to over-talk him, “And just who are you, young woman?” Ana thought, ‘Your worst nightmare, asshole.’Christian said proudly, “This is my Executive Acquisitions Consult, Miss Anastasia Steele, Mr Harper.”Ana said with military sounding authority standing up military straight and smoothing her blue dress suit, “Mr Harper, the cost analysis and the risk assessment takes your $50 million, down to a more realistic price of $28 million. Whoever your economic analysts are they should be fired telling you that ridiculous estimate. So, can we cut the bullshit and get down to brass tacks here? You overextended your company by expanding your production line during an economic rise in the cost of silicon and silver that are detrimental in the manufacturing of solar panels. The lost revenue is not recoverable due to you buying materials at higher prices gouging your revenue. Due to the fact that your company in its increased production volume of panels, at much higher cost in market value and not being able to raise consumer interest by rebranding, has left you with a warehouse full of solar panels going nowhere. So, now that you're stuck with a warehouse full of overpriced solar panels that you can't sell to anybody you took a huge revenue hit. Nobody is interested in buying overpriced goods in overproduction, which is what got you here to this situation. Am I not correct?” She walked over to the coffee carafe and poured more coffee and put sugar and cream in her cup. She sipped it, then walked back to where she was sitting while still standing. Christian and Roz wonder how she was going to dive it home to get Harper to stop his lies.Mr Harper was frowning watching her move around the room with confidence and had his two monkey suited partners whispering in his ear. He was very unhappy with her telling him the “no holes barred” version of his screw up. He asked gruffly, “What would you recommend I do?”Ana leaned over with her hands on the table towards him and said, “First thing I would do, is go back to my company and fire the dodo business advisor. The one that needs to go to school and pay attention this time to the classes. This person you listened to and who sabotaged your business by telling you to invest in the output of the product. The person who should have said instead to look for cheaper ways of finding suppliers to lower the cost of input to create them in the first place. Mr Harper, that is taught in the first basic business class in college Business 101.”Mr Harper said growling, “Ok, so after I fire my brother-in-law, then what?” Ana thought, ‘Figures, nepotism is never a good idea in business, another Business 101 tip.’ Christian and Roz have their hands up to their faces trying not to laugh or smile. They were holding it together.She smiled at him and put her hands on the table leaned over and said frankly, “Do you want to get out from under this mess that has been created and save your peoples jobs and the company? Or do you want to sit there and tell us more made up cost assessments and takes of what you wish could have been? We have the capital to save your people and company from mismanagement. Are you ready to play ball honestly with us or do we need to walk away and watch you join the ranks of the bankrupt?” His eyes got big looking at her, as she flat lined his ass with her authority and the way she wielded it like a knife cutting through his bullshit. He knew that he was close to bankruptcy and she said it to his face pulling no punches, unlike his own people had been doing.She thought, ‘His people kept blowing smoke up his ass and not telling him the “strait of it” because he is a blowhard with a temper. She knew the type. She had to break through it to get his respect, telling him the truth of it.’Mr Harper’s monkeys were buzzing in his ears and he shoved them away because they were pissing him off. He knew this young woman wasn't blowing fluff up his ass. He said, clearing his throat, “Let's play ball. I wish to get out from under this and save people's jobs.” Christian was impressed as was Roz.Ana said smiling at him, “Good, because you came to the right company willing to work with you on this and make sure you walk away ok. I'll turn it back over to my CEO and COO.” She sat down and crossed her sexy legs looking over at Christian and Roz. Ana gives them “the head move to the right” as a sign to pick up where she left off.As they walked out the door of the conference room at the end of the meeting, Christian said, “I like how you stopped his spiel driving me crazy about how cost effective his company was and showed him the opposite.”Roz snorted while walking with them down the hallway and said, “I like how she took control of the windbag and smacked his ass for lying, then punched him in the head for being stupid.”Christian said chuckling, “That was pretty entertaining to watch a fathead deflate from being dumb enough to listen to his brother-in-law who didn't know jack shit.” He slipped his hand around Ana’s waist as they walked.Ana leaned into him slightly and said sighing, “Never a good idea to go into business with family. Whoever the guy is, he needed to quit partying and actually learn something in his college class. He gave some seriously shitty advice to his brother-in-law. Harper is a fool for not knowing it was bad ruining his business when it was the bare basics of business.”Christian said seriously, “I think this one will go fairly quickly now with you there, Anastasia. The next meeting the day after tomorrow is with Emerson Technologies, a Mr Garrison Blackwell from the great state of Illinois in Springfield. Computer motherboards.”Ana said, “I'll be ready. They are suffering from rebranding a few times and not attracting new customers but losing old customer bases as I recall.”Christian said, “Yep. That's the one, baby.”Roz turned to her office and said, “Here's mine. Talk to ya both later.” She went into her office.Christian and Ana went to theirs. He has rearranged his office to have her desk in one of the corners with the glass wall. Her desk faced the left side of his desk standing at the door. There was a printer stand, another tree and wastebasket and her very own door locking key fob in her desk drawer like his. They rearranged some of the artsy things in the room to make it more aesthetic. It was the all glass corner of his office and it had plenty of natural light. Ana liked it and she could see Christian in front of her.~~~~~~~~~~~~~A month had passed and Christian was taking her to a charity philanthropic fundraiser dinner and auction at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel for YouthCare. It is a charity dedicated to helping runaway and homeless youth in Seattle, offering services like shelter, counseling, and support for transitioning to independent living.She wore a Crystallini long sequin and velvet evening dress Zephyra CA46. It was a long bordeaux wine color evening dress made of velvet, sequins and satin with a mermaid skirt made of velvet with a built-in push-up cup support. There was only one long sleeve leaving her neck, shoulder and arm bare. She wore her Jimmy ChooIxia 95mm velvet pumps in a berry red that matched and a Versace Kleio quilted mini bag in a burgundy color. Her hair was done in a wide fishtail braid with a matching wide velvet bow at the bottom. Ana wore a filigree gold Garnet and diamond jewelry set that Christian bought her. She did her makeup in smokey eyes highlighted in a wine color and her dark burgundy lipstick. She wore her burgundy fluffy fur coat with the cowl hood she wore for Christmas Eve at the Grey's. She had her corset gun holster on as always.Christian was in his black Armani suit with his black double breasted peacoat. He had his hand on her lower back as they went down the elevator to get in the SUV with Taylor and Sawyer with Ryan and Reynolds following in the second SUVWhen they pulled up to the Fairmont Olympic Hotel, they were walking down the red carpet into the lobby as cameras were flashing and reporters were shouting. He had his arm around Ana with his hand on her hip. The reporters were shouting, “Mr Grey! Is that your girlfriend?!”, “Christian Grey! We thought you were gay?” and “Mr Grey! Over here! Is that your beard?!” Christian stopped, wrapped his arms around her and kissed Ana in a romantic kiss as they went wild snapping pictures exploding. She smiled, reached up and wiped his lips and hers of lipstick. He put his arm around her waist and continued on.Once they were inside, Ana said, “Was that to prove a point, baby?”He said growling, “Yes, to show them I mean business and you are mine.” She stopped, wiped off her mouth and pulled him down to her lips kissing him deeply as the cameras outside were snapping through the windows into the lobby.She broke the kiss and said, “There now I showed them your mine also. Bitches beware and bastards too.” He started chuckling. They walked to the stairs leading down to the event and stepped aside. She took out her compact mirror and reapplied her lipstick then put it away. They descended the stairs slowly. Ana noticed people turning to look and whispering or talking about them.She said softly for only him to hear, “Boy, people sure focus on you.”He replied softly, “They are looking at you. I've never been seen with a woman in public at events.”She quietly said smiling, “Oh goody, I'm the pretty betta fish in the fishbowl with the handsome hot shark on her arm.”He smirked, shaking his head replying, “Yeah, something like that. You got that pretty part conquered.”Ana said soft sultry, “Mmmm… I like conquering tough Dom CEO cookies like you. They taste so damn good pinned down on the bed.”He said growling low, “You naughty girl, you're gonna get it later for tempting me.” She giggled as the stepped to the bottom and went to the staff organizer escorted them to their table.They followed as they had everyone in the room eyes trained on them. Ana figured she was going to have to get used to being gawked at being he is a local celebrity being a bachelor billionaire. Christian pulled out her chair and pushed it in for her as she smiled up at him being such a gentleman.He sat down next to her and the most assertive older man at the table looking Ana up and down a bit lewdly said, “It's a pleasure to see you again, Mr Grey. Who is your incredibly lovely companion?” Christian knew him and out of the ten people at the table, there were four men and their wives or girlfriends. This man in particular was a renowned skirt chaser even in front of his wife it seemed.Christian replied flatly, “Eamon and Elaine Kavanagh, this is my beautiful girlfriend, Anastasia Steele. Anastasia, Eamon and Elaine Kavanagh of Kavanagh Media.”Eamon said leering at Ana, “My, my she is very pretty indeed. Our daughter, Katherine, is here tonight too, but has stepped away to the ladies room at the moment.”Right then a tall blonde girl with long curled hair in a bright red long dress that had a large panel cut out that wrapped around her from her mid left thigh across her hip and stomach on an angle to wrap around her right side to her right shoulder blade. It was cut so wide that it looked like she wasn't wearing underwear and you could see the bottom of her breasts just under the nude sheer see through mesh. It exposed way too much skin to be tasteful as far as Ana was concerned but that wasn't what bothered her. It was her mouth and attitude.Katherine Kavanagh sat down at the table by her father and said arrogantly, “I thought you said he would be alone tonight, father? Who is she anyway?”Eamon smiled at his daughter impassively and said, “This is Christian Grey and his lovely girlfriend, Anastasia Steele.”Katherine said in shock, “Girlfriend? He has never been seen with women before. I thought he was single?” She acted rudely like they both weren't sitting there.Christian didn't like this girl's attitude and replied, “Yes, well not anymore. Anastasia and I are exclusively together.”Katherine said perturbed, “Whatever. You were supposed to me gay anyway.”Ana said smirking, “No, he is most definitely not gay. He's just… discerning and refuses to date just anyone.”Katherine said snobbishly, “Then who are you anyway?”