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"What!? What do you mean? What did he do!?" I swear to god I'll kill him if he has hurt her!

"When I left school, Dad was waiting at the gate. He said he needed to talk to me so I followed him back to his. He wanted me to drive with him and leave my car but he was drunk and I didn't feel safe. As soon as I got into his apartment he locked the door. He told me that you were an unfit mother and that I was going to have to live with him now. He started telling me how you were no good and that you were going to be nothing but a punching bag for Christian. I told him he was crazy and then he started yelling at me that I was an ungrateful brat that ruined his life. I've never seen him like that before. He scared me" She starts crying again and I pull her into my arms.

I am going to kill Ethan for this!

"When I asked if you were hurt you nodded. What did he do?"

"When I tried to leave he blocked the way. I shoved him and opened the door and then he grabbed my wrist and squeezed really hard" She pulls up her sleeve and shows me her wrist.

Its black and blue and I can see the individual finger marks.

Rage wells inside me but I cant let it out now. Phoebe needs me.

"Your father should never have yelled at you or laid a hand on you. I will sort this out, OK? I don't want you going back to his apartment on your own and I don't want you to meet him by yourself from now on, OK?"

"I don't want to see him again. He's always been so great until these last few months. Now he's always letting me down and cancelling our plans at the last minute. What did he flip out like this for?" She asks as she snuggles into my chest for comfort.

"Well I know Mia broke up with him and then today he came to Christians office and spouted lots of bullshit about how he loved me and didn't want me to be with Christian. I angered him and he's taken it out on you"

"Mom, Does Christian hit you?" She looks up at me with fear in her eyes.

"No baby. I promise. Christian is a great guy. He was into some things in college but nothing like how your dad said"

"OK" She snuggles in more and I just hold her.

"Hey, do you want me to bring your food up for you or do you want to come down?"

"I'll come down. I hate crying. Sorry for being such a baby"

"Hey, none of that. You have reason to cry. Lets go downstairs and I'll get you some ice for your wrist"

When I inspect Phoebes wrist I have half a mind to call the cops and have Ethan Arrested! How dare he put his hands on my baby!

I dish out Phoebes food just as the door bell goes. Phoebe looks at me with wide eyes.

"You stay here" I get up and on my way to the door I grab the baseball bat that my dad insists I keep on hand.

I have every intention of hitting Ethan if its him but when I look through the peephole I see Christian.

"Christian!" I say as I open the door.

"Hey, sorry to just drop by but you left your phone in my office today and I like our nightly talks so I wanted to return it"

"Thank you. I didn't even realize I left it"

"No problem. Whats with the bat?"

"She was going to hit my father with it if he showed his ugly face here" Phoebe says from behind me.

"Phoebe!" I turn to her and she is stood behind me with the ice pack on her wrist.

"What happened to your wrist?" Christian walks straight in and gently takes Phoebes hand in his.

"Who hurt you? Did Ethan do this?"

Before I can stop her, Phoebe tells Christian the full story of what happened today with her dad.

Christian practically has steam coming out of his ears come the end.

"I'll be back in a while" Is all he says before he storm's out of the house.

"Christian, don't do anything stupid, please" He ignores me before getting in his car and speeding off.

"Phoebe! Why would you tell Christian all that?"

"Because...Christian is important to you so he deserves to know whats going on...and, I kinda hope he decks Dad"

I walk back into the house and lead my daughter back to the kitchen.

"Christian and I have only been out a couple of times. We have known each other a matter of days. Why do you say he's important to me?"

She rolls her eyes and starts digging back into her food.

"Mom, don't be naive. The way you two look at each other its clear that there's love there"

"LOVE! Again I've known him a matter of days!"

"And? Ever heard of love at first sight? I'll bet you twenty bucks that Christian will one day be my step father"

How can she know all this? And step father? That would mean Christian and me being married. Is that what I want? Surly it's to early to know? But then again...waking up to that God of a man every single day? Sign me up.

"You're blushing, Mama" Phoebe smirks.

"Eat your food"

She giggles and then takes a big bite of her spaghetti.


Hours later I am watching my daughter sleep in my bed. After what she has been through today I wanted her close.

I see headlights flash in my drive way and I walk down and look out the window.

It's Christian.

I open the door and he lunges into me and sweeps me up to kiss him.

"Christian, what did you do?" I ask when I see his bloody knuckles.

"Can we talk?"

I pull him inside and we sit on the sofa.

"Did you punch Ethan?"

"Yes. I did. How dare him put his hands on Phoebe. I know he is her father but no man should man handle a girl like that. I went to his place to tell him if you wanted to press charges then you would have my full legal team behind you. He started mouthing off about you and then when he called you a slut I punched him" He shrugs like it's nothing.

"Christian, I appreciate what you did but we don't need a white knight to come save the day. I could have handled it"

"I don't want you in harms way, Ana. If he would grab his own daughter like that then I dread to think what he would do to you" He looks like a young boy that is worried I am going to reprimand him.

I lean u and kiss him softly.

"Thank you"

He smiles a shy smile and then wraps his arm around me.

"If he gets in touch with you, please call me. I know he wont be totally out of your life but until he is more stable I would like to know so I can have someone keep and eye on you and Phoebe"

"I'll tell you" I agree.

I really want to make love to him but Phoebe is in my bed and I've never had a man stay over before if she was around.

"I should get going. It's late"

"I really want to ask you to stay but Phoebe is in my bed"

"It's OK. I'll see you tomorrow and I would like to take you and Phoebe out for dinner tomorrow night"

"We would love to, Mr Grey"

I walk him to the door and we kiss for a long time.

"I have to go before I fuck you on your front lawn"

"Maybe next time" I smirk.

"Goodnight, Anastasia"

"Goodnight, Christian"

As I watch him walk away and get in his car, it feels wrong. Like he should be here.

Is Phoebe right? Am I in love with this man? Already