Just like her nights when he stared in her dreams, there Max was again but this time their connection was stronger now that she has learned his true identity. She has to tell her best friend that Max is not imaginary and she can't wait to tell him that he's real and not just a dream.

When she finally woke up she checked her phone and saw there was a text message from Max and she couldn't stop smiling.

Max: I'm so glad that we met last night and I can't wait for more time with you tonight. Talk to you later. Have a great day.

It was real, it wasn't a dream.

She texts him back thanking him and wishing he has a good day. Next she calls Kate but her call goes straight to voicemail. This isn't something you can say in a message so she tells her that it's urgent and to call her back ASAP.

As she drives to work she hopes that once again she will drive next to Max. And before she could hope that would happen, she hears the roar of an all too familiar motorcycle and looks in her rearview mirror and there he is coming up alongside her.

As soon as they reached the red light, she rolled down her window to get his attention.

"Max," She calls out but she's not sure he could hear her over his very loud engine. She waves her hands and hopes that she just turns her way before the light changes and finally he does.

He flips up his eye protector to see who's been trying to flag him down.

"Good morning," He says and Anastasia blushes a little. "Coffee?"

He nods and he tells her to follow him and as soon as the light changes he pulls in front of her and drives another few blocks before finding a Starbucks. She has butterflies knowing that she will see him again and she pulls into a parking spot next to Max. She turns off the car and watches as he slinks off the bike. God he is some sight to behold she thinks as he removes his helmet and turns to face her.

"How did you know it was me?" Max asks as he pulls her into his arms.

"I saw you yesterday but I didn't know it was you until last night and I was hoping I would run into you today."

"How perceptive are you?"

They order coffee and Anastasia picks out a fruit platter and Max finds them a table in the back and away the rest of the customers.

"Would I be too forward in telling you that I couldn't stop thinking about you last night? Or would that be too creepy?"

"Not too creepy," She says and they both start to laugh falling back into the ease of the conversation they had last night.

As much as would love to blow off the rest of the day, there was no way she can and on her second day of work.

"I have to get to work, I'm sorry," She says while Max takes her hand.

"There's no way I can pursade you to stay a little longer?"

"Tempting offer," She says leaving over the table and kisses his lips. "But there is always tonight."

"I'm counting on it."

Max watches as his new crush drives away before he heads in the opposite direction.

For her second day on the job, Anastasia was in court much of the morning that she hoped that the afternoon would be quiet so she could get out of the office in time to meet Max for dinner.

"Steele?" She heard an all too familiar voice call out and she turned around and saw none other than Katherine Kavanagh.

"What are you doing here?" She asks of her best friend.

"Well, I got your message and I was covering a court case so I thought I would stop by."

She stands up quickly and hugs her friend before pulling her into a nearby conference room.

"I found him Kate," She says holding onto her hands nearly shaking.

"Who did you find?"

"The man of my dreams, he's real."

Kate can't believe what she's hearing. Her best friend must be mistaken.

"You're not joking are you?"

"Last night, when you stood me up, I got up to leave and I ran into him, literally I couldn't believe it but there he was in the flesh and we talked all night and then we had coffee and we are going out to dinner tonight."

Hearing the story Kate can't but to believe her best friend is telling the truth, but how could this be? She's heard about this dream man since their freshmen year but she always dismissed it but now it's a reality.

"I take it went okay otherwise you wouldn't be going to dinner with him tonight."

"Oh Kate, he is amazing. I've never felt this way about anyone and I can't believe he's real. I mean I knew he was but it's all just a little overwhelming."

"Can I meet him?"

"Definitely, how about we do drinks Friday night?"

"Great, Elliott already had plans on going out however he left this morning for a short business trip but he's due back Friday afternoon. Look at us, both taken can you believe it."

For Kate, she was so happy for her best friend. She has been through so much and finally deserves her happy ending. She knew that she would have to grill this Max character to make sure that he was up to snuff as her best friend deserved nothing but the best and someone who wouldn't hurt her because she knows all too well that Ana can't stand another heartbreak.

Anastasia was over the moon but she had just met Max even though she felt liked she has known his for her entire life but they just met yesterday so the status of their relationship still remained undefined. As never having a boyfriend before she didn't know what happens next. All she can think about is Max and that she never wants to be without him and that revelation scares her. If only her mother was still alive to talk to her about such things and as much as she loves her dad she could never talk to him about her love life.

At 6:30, Anastasia was nowhere close to being done at work so she quickly texted Max and asked if they could push back dinner an hour and that she would just meet him at the restaurant. She called him once she was on the road and apologized to her profusely and Max told her not to worry and that he would wait for her at the bar.

The thing that she despised the most was people being late, and now she's the one who's 15 minutes late. By the time she arrived at The Edgewater Hotel where she would be dining with Max at the Six Seven Restaurant and that made her nervous. She felt like she wanted to figure out what Max was thinking of their new relationship but she didn't want to scare him by calling him her boyfriend at least not yet.

The moment he sees her Max relaxes. He couldn't concentrate on work as all he could think about was Anastasia. He greeted her with a more than an appropriate kiss but he didn't care, he just wanted to taste her sweet lips.

"I'm so sorry that I'm late," She says as they are being shown to the Chef's table.

"You're here now and that's all that matters," he says pulling out her chair and sitting down next to her and the waiter brings them wine.

"I hope you don't mind, but I already ordered."

As much she wouldn't have liked it if any other man ordered her meal without her input but for Max she would do almost anything from this man. Her first thought was to skip directly to dessert in one of the impressive suites that this hotel offers and she knows firsthand from her last trip to Seattle just how magnificent this hotel is.

"You have barely touched your dinner, it is not up to your liking," Max asks as he pours himself and his date another glass of the finest red wine the restaurant has to offer.

"Oh no, it's very good, I've just had a lot on my mind," She says purposely taking a large bite of her fresh lobster.

"That's better. But do you want to talk about what's going on?"

Anastasia took a moment to think about everything that has gone on since they first met and she's conflicted if she should tell Max the truth but she was worried how he was going to react.

"This is all new to me and I'm scared."

"Why are you scared?"

"Isn't it obvious?"

"Not to me."

"I've never had a boyfriend before so this is all new to me."

"Is that what I am, you're boyfriend." He says with a smile hoping that's what she's thinking.

For Anastasia the very thought asking if he was her boyfriend was a little embarrassing as she's a 24-year-old woman asking this 28-year-old man to be her boyfriend. What is this middle school she thought?

The way he looks at her makes her feel relaxed until she watches him freeze.

"If you'll excuse me," He tells her and answers his cell phone and gets up from the table. He leaves her alone in the chef's private dining room for what seems like a lifetime until he emerges a few minutes later and he looks angry. "I am so very sorry but I have to cut our dinner short as I was just called into work. I tried to get out of it but I'm the only one who can fix the problems."

Trying to hide her disappointment, Anastasia tried to reassure Max that it was okay. If only she knew exactly what he did would help. For some reason neither of them knew what each other did for a living and now she more curious to know why he was being called away so late at night.

"Please stay and finish you meal and I will call you later if that if I didn't ruin my chance with you."

"I understand, don't worry about me."

And with that he leans over and kisses her again but heading out.

The only good thing about Max leaving their date early was that Anastasia was about to relax enough to finish her meal.

By the time she got home she had so much on her mind and she couldn't sleep so she decided to get into bed and try to get some headway on tomorrow's workload. By three, her phone starts to buzz and she sees that it's Max telling her that he's still at work but wanted to apologize again and tell her that he would make it up to her but there are several problems that he's dealing with at work and will be pulling an all nighter.

After three hours of sleep Anastasia was awake barely and on the road to work. Part of her was hoping she would run in to Max but to no avail she pulls into her parking spot without any sight of Max.

Over course of two days, Max had been MIA with the exception of a half-dozen texts with excuses about work and suddenly she got the feeling that Max was giving her the brush off.

At lunch on Friday, sensing she would be meeting Kate and Elliott alone, Max calls and Anastasia was little too quick to answer sounding a little too eager.

"Please don't hang up; you have every right to hate me. I'm just getting home. I've been stuck at the office since Tuesday night, no joke," He says and Anastasia can't understand if that's the truth. It doesn't help that she is still in the dark about what he does. "Are we still on for tonight? I promise I won't take off on you tonight or anytime again."

There is no way she could say no to that but she doesn't want to let him off the hook that easy.

"We'll just see about that," She says and that illicits a little giggle.

"That's a beautiful sound; remind me to make you giggle more often. That's my mission tonight."

The thought she would see Max again was the only thing that got her through the remainder of the day. Working overtime to get everything squared away Anastasia was able to leave the office right at six. On her way out of the office she was stopped by Brooks.

"Do you have plans for the weekend?" He asks as really doesn't want to have this conversation right now.

"I'm not exactly sure what my boyfriend has planned," She says and when she said the word boyfriend that finally got Brooks reaction.

"Oh, well have a good time and maybe I will see you around," Brooks says as he heads back into his office.

If everything played out as she hoped, she thought tonight would be the night where she would lose her virginity. Enough is enough in her book and she was more than ready to take it to the next level with Max despite his missing in action status over the past three days.

Showering and taking extra care to shave her legs, under arms and bikini area, Anastasia wasn't going to any changes and she wanted to be ready for what was to come. As she was headed out the door, she texted Max letting her know that she was headed to the bar early and to come and join them whenever he was ready.

Luckily, the bar was just a block away from her apartment so in these crazy high heels that matched her very short and revealing little black dress they wouldn't break her ankles during the short walk over.

When she arrived, Kate who was also early and motioned to her to a booth in the back. As she approached she saw who she assumed was Elliott by her side. At first glance he looked like a Norse God with his blonde hair and he was built. The two of them looked so in love and now she could finally understand their deep connection.

"Ana, it's so nice to finally meet you, I feel like you're my best friend too," Elliott says standing up and taking her in his arms and swings her around.

"You too Elliott, now Kate is my very best friend in the world and if you ever hurt her I will kill you, I hope you know it," She says and everyone starts laughing.

Ordering her a drink from the bar, this was the time that Kate could interrogate Ana about her new boy toy.

"He's amazing and I think he's my boyfriend," She tells Kate whose jaw nearly drops to the ground.

"Well tell me about this Max, your dream man," She asks as Elliott comes back to the table.

"So girls, what are we talking about?"

"Just about Ana's boyfriend, he's the man of her dreams." Kate says as Ana pokes her in the side reminding her that she still hasn't told Max. "Speaking of which where is this dreamy man?"

She's never going to let her live this down, Ana thought so she decided to look into her bag and find her phone to text to boyfriend.

"Christian, what are you doing here?" Elliott says which catches Ana's attention and she looks up to see who he's talking about and can't believe who's standing in front of their table.