Her hands shook as she read the letter delivered to her by a stone-face Luke Sawyer. She knew something was wrong the moment she opened her hotel door but nothing could have prepared her for this heart wrenching letter. How could he do this to her? Especially now? She felt the warm tears flowing down her freshly made up face and the stares of her bridesmaids, mother and would be mother-in- law. She knew they were awaiting the explanation behind her tears, most likely believing that she had received a love letter from her beau. She could not find the words to say differently.

Kate, her best friend for as long as she could remember was the first to approach her. She simply had to look her best friend in the eye and her friend understand. She had been stood up. Her groom abandoned her. Kate pulled the tear soaked paper from her hand and turned to their audience. She put one arm around Anastasia Steele's shaking shoulders before reading in a surprisingly clear voice given the situation.

"Dear Anastasia,

I hope that one day you can forgive me but I cannot go through with this. I am sorry to admit that I am no longer in love with you. I fear that I never truly loved you. I thank you for the past year that we spent together but I cannot go on lying to myself, or you anymore. Please forgive me and know that I did not mean to hurt you.

Christian."

There was a uniformed gasp among the women in the room. Ana was now on her knees crying, her sobs so heart-breaking, no one knew how to react. Mia, Christian Grey's sister was the first to react. She pushed passed Kate and got on her knees beside Ana. She pulled the sobbing, broken girl into her arms and allowed her to cry into her shoulder. The others were quick to follow. Carla and Grace, Ana and Christian's mother hugged the weeping girl while Kate stood by with tears streaming down her face. Seeing her friend so broken made her feel helpless. She didn't notice that Ana's CPO enter the room but even Luke had tears in his eyes upon watching his charge.

"I will fucking kill the bastard" said Kate to Luke who was trying in vain to pull himself together. Luke simply nodded. He had come to love Ana like a sister, as difficult as she was to protect, she deserved more than his boss ever gave her.

Grace, who parted from the women, looked upon them, pity shining in her eyes as she looked on at the sweet girl who she had come to love like a daughter.

"My dear boy may have made one of the biggest mistakes of his life," she mumbled to herself. "Did I really raise him to be so stupid?"

Mia, having heard her, replied, "He is fucking stupid. How can he give up a catch like Ana?"

Carla was beyond livid at this development. She looked on at the people in the room and said in a brisk tone, "We were never good enough. You're boy just didn't have the guts to tell my daughter that until now. He just took what he could from her and gave nothing back. Look at her now. He broke her."

Ana, having heard all what was being said pulled herself together long enough to prevent an argument. "D-D-Don't b-blame C-C-Chris…..h-him. He n-n-never l-l-ov….L-loved me. I pushed the relationship," Said Ana in a shaking voice.

Everyone in the room was poised to protest but she had already jerked to her feet and pushed past them. She was out the room before they had time to notice, a vision of white running down the hotel hallway. Luke was ready to give chase, but Kate held him back. She knew her best friend better than anybody and she knew that Ana wanted to be alone at this moment in time.

The wedding was cancelled in no time. Christian already set the ball rolling on that. Taylor could not look his boss in the eye fearing he would lose his job if he reacted how he truly felt over the events that unfolded. Ray, Ana's father had to be removed from the premises, having already threatened Christian. Both Carrick and Elliot, Christian's father and brother left him after her told him. They too were also angry at his actions. They were now part of the search party in trying to locate Ana.

Ana knew that she was being looked for but she didn't care. Everything about Seattle reminded her of the only man she ever loved. A man who never loved her. She always knew deep in her heart that he was too good for her, but he always assured her that she was wrong. She realised that he wasn't the only good liar. She lied to herself. She convinced herself that she was good enough for Christian Grey.

It took her 23 years to find love and a few moments to have her heart shattered. She quickly returned to the apartment she shared with Kate, grateful that not all of her stuff had not been moved to Escala just yet. Quickly grabbing her passport and other documents, she packed a small suitcase, stripped out of her wedding dress and changed into a jeans and t-shirt. She left a note for Kate requesting to be left alone but promising to report to them as soon as she possible. She then turned her back on her home.

Without a moment's hesitation, she ditched her iPhone and took a cab to the airport. She booked the last seat on a flight to New York. She couldn't live in Seattle anymore. She vowed to herself never to return. Even if Christian Grey himself came to her, got on his knees and begged her to return, a farfetched idea that, she would not return. She may not be the most secure, emotionally stable person at the moment, but she was ready to turn over a new leaf.

Her life in Seattle was over. She would never return.

Or so she thought.