WOW the responses to my last chapter update are amazing :) I just love it.

Now remember this has so far happened over a few day, four or five tops. Not sure what would be worse her suddenly changing her mind or taking a few days or so to change her mind giving her time to think about it all.


We've been curled up on the coach for several hours now watching movies, we're onto movie number two and honestly I haven't really been paying attention to the movies themselves, I've spent a good part of it watching how Ana and Kate interact together, but also how my brother has his one night stand still with him and is curled up on the coach like I am with Ana. I wonder if the two of them would be good for each other. Elliott needs to settle down, plus it make mum so happy if he does.

"Ana baby?" I say to my girl.

"Mm" Is all I hear from her.

"Why don't you go back to the apartment get some clothes and then come back? Since your roommate knows about us you're staying here with me, for the next few days." I watch her turn and look at me a smile on her face, she then plants a kiss on my lips before getting off.

"Keys please?" She says to me. But before I can reply there's a knock on the door. I know its Taylor by the way he knocks, it's like a code between me and him.

"Come in Taylor."

"Sir, Ma'am we have a situation." Comes from him, once he's in the room, I know Ana hates it when they call her Ma'am but he always does it when in company of others, he's told me it feels wrong to be informal, they family as far as I'm concerned, him and Gail, so first names are ok at times of course.

"What's that Taylor?"

"Sir, Mr Rodriguez I've returned him back to his place, though I'm not sure how long he is going to stay there, he was saying some not so polite things about you in the car on the way back, I'm concerned for Ana's safety."

"Thanks Taylor and Taylor can you take the lady's back to their apartment, Ana needs to pack some clothes, and then bring them back." I say to him and I can see the pissed off look on Ana's face. But Taylor gets my hidden message.

"No baby Taylor is going with you, I'll be fine right here. Take Kate, have some girl talk before you come back, then we shell go down stairs and have dinner." I say to her firmly, she doesn't bother to disagree with me. The girls leave the suite, leaving me alone with my brother.

"Hey bro why didn't you tell me?" I can hear the hurt in his voice, when he asks me a few minutes after the girls have left.

"Well to start off with Elliott, neither set of parents were happy about it, when we first told them."

"I beat, Dad would have been worried about the legal side of it all, considering you were with a minor." I get up and poor us both a scotch, I know this talk is going to take some time and some Dutch courage from me as well.

"Yes, plus with me starting up GEH at the time. It wasn't until I employed Taylor that Ray came on board."

"What do you mean bro?"

"Well you remember how I was starting to make headlines, regarding the money I was making rather quickly, threats where coming in and I started to need security."

"Yea you had woman throwing themselves at you."

"Not just that Elliott there were more serious issues as well, dad knows about them. Anyway on Dad and Ray's advice I started to look for a security team, I did interviews and found Taylor. His credentials were outstanding, EX Army, amazing track record the list was long. When he applied I had Barney run back ground check him, and on Barney's remarks I employed him as head of the team and with his help I have the team I have now. Though unknown to me at the time was that Ray had sent him, the two had known each other while in the army. Ray was concerned about my intentions with his only daughter, and he knew Taylor would relay back everything that goes on."

"So you employing Taylor got you on Ray's good side?"

"Nope it's what I told Taylor regarding Ana that got me on to his good side."

"What was that?"

"I don't remember everything I told Taylor, but it was all to do with Ana's wellbeing, plus I also told him that if Ray wanted any information regarding his daughter he was to give it to him regardless wither he thought Ray should know or shouldn't know. Plus I also told Taylor that Ana and I were together but on respect for Ana's dad and my parents no one outside of the people listed on the list I gave him knew, and no one, and I meant no one was allowed to know. As you well know I always have everyone's safety in mind, you all have CPO's, and I paid to have mum and dad security system upgraded and changed. Once I started making millions threats became more so, Ana has always meant the world to me, her safety at the start was always paramount, its why the press only ever had her down as a family friend, and I still blame Dad and Ray for introducing us. Dad he was concerned about how it would look on the Grey family and my business for it to be known I was dating someone still in school. Dad was concerned about image, Ray was concerned for Ana's safety. Plus other things. What got Ray the most was that I would cave so easily to anything that involved Ana, and even more so if it involved her safety, regardless of how I truly felt, how much it would upset me, piss me off, even sometimes piss Taylor off as he would have to deal with the aftermath, she has always been the priority, at all times her safety has to come first."

"Yea I bet Ray was concerned, concerned you'd be fucking his underage daughter."

"That's one way of putting it but that didn't happen for some time Elliott unlike you, I can kept mine in my pants."

"Yea right, all this time I thought you were gay and just didn't want to tell anyone, I thought you were ashamed of it, it's why I was always poking jokes at you about being gay, hoping you soon pick up that I didn't care about it, but all along you've been straight as and with Ana. Though I'm gutted I never got to be at your guys wedding, now that suxs. Man Grandma and granddad are going to be rather pissed off over not being invited as well."

"We didn't have a wedding as such Elliott, it was done at the court house all under wraps, per Ana's insistence. Dad sorted it all."

"What Ana didn't want the big flash white ferry tail wedding?"

"Nope, and if she had her way we'd still be hiding this from Kate and then in turn you."

"But why you're married?"

"I honestly think she is absolutely shit scared of what is ahead of her, but she's too afraid to tell me so." And I'm pretty sure it's why she's scared to move in with me once she returns to Seattle, she knows once that happens everything will change.

"But why be afraid?"

"There are many changes that will have to be done by her when she returns Elliott, she'll be going from being a college student, doing basically her own thing in a way, college, home, study, assignments, eating when she wonts, going out when she wonts, with no worry at all. No one here knows who she is connect too, which has surprised me as I was sure within a few weeks people would recognise her as the woman who was on my arm at every event I attended, but nothing to be honest I was hoping for it so it give me a good reason to out us both as in a relationship but nothing." I stop for a moment, to gather my thoughts before talking again and Elliot seems to understand my need for a moment to think, as he says nothing, just watches me as he sips on his scotch.

"She's going to be going from a basic simple life, to that of one that involves being back in the spot light, where she will have no freedom, she'll be back in the press but for other reasons now, which will mean more press following her, more targets will come out and go after her, means upping security. I also sometimes wonder if its cause I'm the only one she's ever been with, ever had a relationship with, I'm not perfect got shit loads of baggage hanging on to me."

"Come on Bro don't talk like that." He's know what I'm like with regards to myself and everyone in my life.

"Why not Elliot, We've been together for six years now. She was a kid, when all this started. Sorry it's just been really hard, it's why I never talk about her when we have family dinners, hard to stay positive about it all when all you get is a couple of days once a month with the person you love." I say my voice cracking at the end shit, don't cry in front of Elliott he'll never let you live it down. I get up and walk over to pour myself another scotch, man I never knew it could be so good but also so hard opening up to my brother like this. I walk over to the doors to the deck and I look out and over the city.

"I've given her everything she's ever wanted and asked of me, this college life she's been living it's what she wanted so I gave it to her. She promised Kate she would go live with her when they return."

"She did what?" I hear the shock in my brother's voice that Ana would do that.

"Why would she do that, she use to live at your apartment all the time before she moved to college, OMG so that is why she was living with you it wasn't so she could attend a better school." I hear from him.

"School was the main reason Elliott, but yes it was due to our relationship and Ray allowed it as there was Taylor and Gail who both lived in the apartment, he knew his little girl would be well looked after."

"But why is she going to live with Kate and not you? You're married, it's what married people do don't they?"

"Honestly Elliott I have no bloody idea, we've spent the last two and half years of it living two very different and separate lives, only meeting up once a month. It's going to be a massive adjustment for her and me as well. Think about it Elliott, we've lived two separate lives for three years now, in two different places. Both lives are the totally opposite of the other. She's being at College, living like every other young adult, me I've been burning the mid night oil, working my arse off, closing deal after deal, often up until 2am then back up at 5am, going to charity events, dinners, traveling around the world to finalize deals. She been refusing to use the joint account for the last few months. She use to use it now she doesn't. She wants to work and she reckons there is no way she'll get employed on her merits because of my name. I even offered to buy her, her own publishing company just so she could work but man did I get an earful over that one."

I stand there looking out the window, Elliot and I not even talking, enjoying the silence in the room. I have no idea how the hell I'm going to address the issues that Ana and I have, and I know there is always going to be times when we both won't agree on something, and I suppose I'm the only one to blame for this, giving into everything she has wanted in life, since we've been together. But never has it been money related, never has she asked me to spend money on her, in fact she hates it when I spend money on her, buy her gifts, clothes, anything that is for her. Another one of the reasons I love her, she's never been after my money at all.