I was up all night to finish this chapter,
I hope everyone enjoys my quick updat. Its not a long chapter
but I wanted to continue with what happened

Thank you for reading xoxo -A


His eyes are narrow, he looks pissed, I wonder how much he actually heard between the three of us. He walks over to me with a glaring gaze that does not leave my eyes,.

"Do you know him?" Elizabeth says in my ear but I ignore her.

"Christian." I breath out. "What are you doing up here?" My heart is pounding. I'm holding my finger and blood trickling out. Liz is silent at me and clearly drooling over Christian. He pulls out a monogrammed delicate handkerchief out of his pocket and hold it on top of my finger. He is acting cold towards me though, it feels off.

"Grab your things." He says through his teeth.

"Excuse me?" I say looking up at him.

"You are not coming back here. Do I make myself clear?" He says.

"Is this your boyfriend?" Elizabeth whispers. I look towards her and then look back up in Christian.

"I told you to not come up here." Christian holds the handkerchief to my finger and looks at Jacks office door intently. "How much of that did you listen to exactly." I look past Christian to see Taylor walking into the large room. Suddenly I hear Jack's door swing open and him start to yell...

"DID YOU..." I spin my head around and his face is pale. "Mr. Grey, I was not expecting you." He looks down at Christian hands lightly holding my finger.. I haven't had a chance to see how bad the cut is or if I need stitches. "I'm sorry if my employee is causing a problem." I whip my eyes to Christians.

"Is this how you treat your employees Mr. Hyde?" He growls. I can feel his grip on my hand tighten.

"I don't understand what you are talking about. This mess? Oh it's nothing, a little... accident. Miss. Steele here is quite clumsy." He says. Christian looks down at me.

"That she is." He says. His face expressionless. His eyes flicker over to Liz and he almost makes a face of disgust before looking up to Hyde. "Tell me again about what exactly Miss. Steele has done wrong?" He says. I look back at Hyde who's face pales after he realizes Christian heard what he said.

"I am not sure what you think heard, but it certainly is not what you think and certainly none of your business." He try's to explain. He starts walking over to us. My anxiety kicks in and I start trembling, maybe out of fear of what Christian will do. Does Hyde know how powerful Christian is.

He leans down and whispers in my ear, "Go wait in the car." I look at him, he is angry, his brow is creased and his eyes dark.

"Anastasia, how about you go wait in my office while I have a talk here with Mr. Grey." Jack says from behind me. "Let me have a look at that finger."

Christian's one hand moves to my hip and he pushes me to the side, never letting go of my finger. "Don't you dare touch her." He growls at Jack.

"I do not see why you have such an interest in this matter, it does not involve you." He says. I look up at Christian and he is staring Jack down. My eyes falls to Elizabeth who is standing in between two desk closer to us. She looks petrified. I look at Jack who is looking at me when my eyes meet his. I instantly look away. Christian takes a deep breath, looks down at me, and grabs my other hand with his free hand. He takes my fingers and places them where his just were.

"Keep pressure on this till I look at it." He says. "Taylor. Take Anastasia and her friend downstairs." His eyes never leave mine. Taylor takes a step towards me.

"I am not going anywhere." I say, standing my ground.

"Now is not the time to argue with me." He narrows his eyes at me. He looks over at Taylor who approaches my side.

"Come Miss. Steele." He says.

Before I can register what happens Jack grabs my arm trying to pull me away. "She doesn't want to go with you." Christian takes one look at Hyde and punches him right in the nose. I hear the crunch of the breaking cartilage.

"Christian!" I yell and cover my mouth as a loud gasp escapes. Liz squeaks and jumps back. Jack stumbles back and falls right on his ass. Blood pouring out from hiss now flattened nose.

"You fucker." Hyde stands back up and takes a swing for Christian. Taylor grabs my shoulders and moves me out of the way. Christian is much faster and his moves are cleaner. He steps to the side and lands a blow to the side of Jacks neck and then a upper cut to the gut as he was hunching over. Liz starts crying.

"I should kill you for talking to her like that. If I ever see you again I will." He says. I can almost feel his anger.

"Stop! Stop!" I yell. Christian looks at me. His eyes on fire. Jack sputters on the ground and gasping for air. I almost feel bad for him.

"Christian, let's go." I say, Taylor let's go of my shoulders. Christian steps around Jack and puts his arm around me. "You shouldn't have done that. Now I am out of a job." I say. He raises his eyebrow, he just defended his girlfriend and I am worried about a job. I wiggly away over to grab my picture and the rose off the ground. Jack is still on the ground, Elizabeth walks over to him and comforts him. Traitor much. I shake the glass off the picture of my and Kate. I walk over to Christian and he puts his arm around me and we leave. I look back one last time at Hyde and Liz, the image imprinting in my brain. We get to the car, I am holding my finger tight.

"To my mothers, Taylor" he says.

"Yes, Sir." Taylor nods and pulls away into traffic. Christian eyes my stuff.

"Why is the flower so important?" He says as he slips the out from under my arm.

"Because you gave it to me." I say back, his face drops.

"Where did you get this?" He says. My heart quickens and I break out in a cold sweat.

"It was on my desk." I say. "I thought after seeing dinner that it was from you..."

"I would never send you just one rose Anastasia. When exactly did you find it?" He takes my hand and hold the handkerchief for me.

"Umm.. When I got to work Monday morning... Liz stopped me in the hall to tell me that it was on my desk when she got there. And she was the first one there so she didn't know how it got into a locked building." I say. I look down at the rose. "It had a grey ribbon on it." I think back to how I took it off and used it to tie my hair back on Thursday. He pulls out his phone.

"Welch, I need you to get me all the security tapes to the cameras outside SIP all week and Monday morning... Yes... By tonight..." And he hangs up.

"Someone hacked into my emails when we were on our date." I whisper. "Thats why I got called there in the first place. Someone purposely sent out an email to get me in trouble. But who would do that? Who could hack into my emails?" He looks at me. He pulls out his phone and calls Welch again, demanding the logs to my work computer for Monday night.

"What does the rose mean?" I'm shaking. Is someone trying to set me up now that I am back with Christian, no one even knew except for Kate. I shake the thought of accusing her out of my head instantly. "Who do you think its from?"

"I don't know." He pulls the handkerchief off my finger and blood gushes out. "But I will find out." It's my pinky finger of my left hand, so much blood for a small finger. "You need stitches." I pale. I have never had stitches and I do not like needles.

"Are you sure?" I wince.

"Awe baby, don't be scared." He pulls me close to him and wraps his arms around me and puts his nose I'm my hair. "I should have killed him." He says after a minute. I just remembered... I pull away and look at him.

"What if he presses charges? What if you are arrested?" I gasp at him. I had not thought about that. "My job... All the work I have done. Gone." I frown. Tears prickle in my eyes. I planned on moving up in SIP, maybe one day take Jack's job. Christian raises his hand up to my cheek, using his thumb to wipe a stray tear. His warm palm cupping my face.

"I am not getting arrested," he chuckles, "Let's not worry about that stuff right now, okay?" I feel like throwing myself face first into a pillow and crying my eyes out. Hours and hours of lost sleep this past year to just loose it all in one day is heartbreaking. I sniffle up my tears and decide I will just let it all out next time I am alone.

Sniff, "Okay." He kisses my forehead and I lean into his armpit with his arm wrapped around me.

"We are almost to my mother's." Christian says, he is lightly shaking me awake, I had fallen asleep on the way. I sit up grabbing my finger out of his. "I am really sorry about your job. I know it meant a lot to you. But I think something better will come out of this. Trust me. Okay?" He kisses lips softly and tucks my hair behind my ear.

"I do trust you. I guess I could use a mini vacation anyways." I say, that small nap has me feeling a little rejuvenated.

"Will you stay with me?" He says.

"Well I don't know how long I will be out of work for. I don't want to burden you or anything." I say. He chuckles and smirks at me.

"Burden me? If I remember correctly you are the one who wanted to only come on weekends." His arm is stretched behind the seats, he moves his hand to touch my neck. The littlest of his touch sends shivers down my spine.

"Here sir." Taylor says. Perfect timing. I slide out of the car super fast. Before Taylor can even get out and open the door for me. Grace opens the front door.

"Ana is that you? My darling I was not expecting this!" She comes with open arms toward me but stops when she she's my hand.

"Dr. Grey, it is so nice to see you again. I know we are early but I umm... Had an accident at work this afternoon." Christian comes up behind me and wraps his arm around my back.

"Oh come in dear, let me look at it. Christian go grab my bag out of my office, please." She comes and takes me from Christian, wrapping her arm around me. I turn and look back, he frowns at me and I just flash him a smile. Grace and I walk into the house. I forgot how big and elegant their house was. Grace has such lovely taste in furnishing and decorations. I follow her into the kitchen and sit on a bar stool at the end of the island. She pulls out a clean wash cloth and gets it wet with warm water.

"Thank you Grace." I says. She looks at me confused.

"For what dear?"

"For welcoming me back into your home after you know..." I look down at my hand and Christian's poor ruined handkerchief. She walks over to me and places her hand on my shoulder.

"Christian was only ever truly happy with you. I am more than delighted that you worked it out. Everyone in the family is. Your such a delight Ana, please don't think we will ever think less of you. Things happen." She smiles at me. She instantly made me feel a thousand times better. I wish my mother was more like her. She removes the handkerchief and examines my finger, some blood gushes out. "You will defiantly need a few stitches. Good thing I know a good doctor." She winks.

We both break out in laughter when Christian comes in. "Were you guys talking about me?" He laughs and sets Grace's bag on the counter.

"Not everything is about you son." She says. I blush and look away, laughing but trying to hide it from Christian. After a half hour I have acquired 6 new stitches on tip of my finger. "Not to bad, huh?" Grace says.

"Not as bad as I thought but I surely don't want anymore." I chuckle. She puts a white bandage over my finger and cleans up the mess. Christians grabs my hand and pulls me out the back door in to yard. "I should help clean up." I say before exiting the room.

"No, no, it's okay. You kids go." Grace says.

"Thank you Grace. For everything." I smile at her.

"You are family Ana. Anything for you dear." She smiles and turns back to cleaning up the blood soaked gauze. I feel bad but Christian has me out the back door in a split second.

"Not so bad right?" He smiles down at me. We stop halfway down the yard and I look at the light glistening off the sound.

"I guess not." I say looking down examining my new bandaged finger. I frown when I remember everything that has happened. "Everything is changing." Christian moves around to stand in front of me, blocking out the sun. he puts his finger under my chin and makes me look up at him.

"My feelings for you have never changed and never will Anastasia." He says. "But I have changed so I can have you in my life again because I never want to know feel that emptiness when you are gone. I am sorry about your job but you will get something better. You were being held back of your potential anyways there."

I sense that he feels bad I can't go back. I wrap my arms around him and slam into his chest, letting tears flow down my cheeks. "I love you Christian. That will never change." I say. His arms around me tighten. He kisses the top of my head and I feel his whole body relax. I have to stop denying that I feel the best when I am with him and his arms around me like this.

From behind me hollers a squeaky familiar voice. "ANA!" Mia yells.


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