Christian POV
It's Monday morning and from the sunlight pouring in through the window I guess I have overslept. I roll over and find that Ana is gone but she left a note on the pillow.
"Good morning sleeping beauty;) I had to see my professor before class this morning so I left early. Good luck at your meeting today! Yours, Ana x"
She is so sweet I think to myself as I head to the closet to pick out a dark grey suit and a white shirt. After taking a shower and realise that I only have thirty minutes to get to Esclava. Quickly, I gather all the paperwork and contracts that I have been looking over for the past couple of weeks and head out the door. Taylor meets me in the lobby where he hands me the keys to the R8.
"Good luck Sir, drive safely"
"Thank you Taylor"
Turning onto the highway I think over the deal that Elena has made me. She has always been a family friend for as long as I can remember and she has supported Elliott, Mia and I throughout school and always does whatever she can to help us out. After my first year in college I was ready to drop out. I was barely getting by with my grades and I was ready to leave it and go back home to do nothing with my life because I had no motivation. Elena had found me that night and asked what was wrong so I explained everything to her. She took the bottle away from me and offered to help me get started in business if I graduated. At the time I thought she was joking but as Isaac told me at dinner, Elena is a woman who keeps her word and she would help me out if I needed it. I pull up outside Esclava and collect my Macbook and files from the passenger seat before handing my car keys to the doorman to park it in the parking garage down the street which belongs to the salon. When I walk through the door I think pretty much every woman turns to stare at me and they are practically drooling which makes me very uncomfortable. Luckily the receptionist recognises me and leads me straight through to Elena's office.
"Christian how are you darling?" she asks before walking over to me and pulling me into a brief hug.
"Hi Elena, I'm good. Thank you again for dinner last weekend"
"No problem, you and Anastasia are welcome anytime. Lets get this show on the road shall we?"
Two hours later I am having a very unmanly back massage because Elena said I need to de-stress, at first I was skeptical but she was right. I spent almost an hour showing her various spreadsheets, graphs and business plans about projects that I would start with once all the copyright and contracts were in place. She was impressed and offered me a $500,000 loan along with an entire floor in an office building so that I can hire staff and people to help me with different departments of the company. I signed and NDA so that I can tell Anastasia about the deal. I trust Ana completely but Elena insisted on it which I understand however I don't plan on telling anyone about my company until Christmas. I drive to the address Elena gave me which will be the offices of Grey Enterprises Holdings Inc in a couple of months. I walk into the space and immediately feel at home. In front of the elevator is a large, curved reception desk with frosted glass behind it as a barrier so that people who are not authorised to enter cannot see the workplace. I walk around the desk and down the corridor, noticing that the décor is similar to Esclava which I don't mind as I think it is modern but it's a little too clinical for me. I make a mental note to email Elena about hiring Elliott to change the style of the place for me. There are seven offices in total. Six line the hallway, three on each side, with frosted glass walls and clear doors. My office is the one at the very end of the corridor which is the largest and has tinted glass interior walls with a frosted glass door. Under an archway next to my office door there is another hallway which leads to the restrooms and a kitchen/break room with a sofa and a two large dining tables with ten chairs at each. There is also a conference room down this hallway which has a projector and large oak boardroom table in the centre. I check my watch and realise that I spent a longer time here than I intended to and Ana will be home soon so I speed along the highway to get back to my apartment. I can't wait to tell her about my day.
Ana POV
I have had such a stressful day and I can't wait to get home to see Christian. As soon as I open the door I am almost pushed over backwards as he comes powering towards me to envelope me in the biggest hug ever.
"Hi baby how was your day?"
"Ana oh my god you're not going to believe how amazing it was. Come with me"
"Er, okay?"
And with that we head out the door. I notice Taylor outside and wave to him, he nods his head to me in reply. I get even more confused when we start to head towards the city so I give up trying to guess because Christian is giving nothing away as to where we're going. We park in a basement level parking garage and head into an office building which I don't recognise and Christian never mentioned that his family own any sort of company other than his dad's law firm but that's in a different area of town. We head up to the 7th floor and Christian takes my hand and pulls me out of the elevator.
"Christian I don't think these people will be happy that we're in their offices after hours"
"Oh I'm sure they won't mind" is all he says whilst leading me down a long corridor to a large office at the end.
"Take a seat"
"Okay, I still don't understand baby what's going on?"
"My meeting today was with Elena," he says as he leans against the desk opposite me and crosses his arms, "I graduate in a few months and she offered me a loan to start my own company which includes this whole floor of offices. So welcome to Grey Enterprises Holdings baby."
"Really?! Oh my god Christian that's amazing! I'm so proud of you!" I launch myself at him and kiss him passionately until we both have to pull back for air.
"I love you"
"I love you too. You're really proud of me? You don't think I'm being crazy to want my own company?"
"Yes I am proud of you. No matter what you want to do baby I will support you. But you said you got a loan from Elena, she said she would give me money or support or something to get my book published, I don't remember what was said exactly"
Christian POV
I'm so happy that Ana is proud of me, it means so much. She tells me that Elena was planning to help her out too. Well at least that clears up why Elena invited us over to dinner last weekend but if she is looking out for Ana too that means that she considers her part of the family already.
Note: Sorry the update was late but I start university this weekend which also means moving out so life is a little hectic but as soon as I am settled with lessons and timetables I promise the updates will be more regular. Also (a slight rant so sorry if it doesn't apply to you) I do try to reply to all reviews/messages and I don appreciate them and I'm thankful that people are reading my story BUT as I said before, this is not a cheating/breakup/drama story. Elena is a GOOD person is this fic. I have chapters planned and there are cliffhangers but nothing catastrophic. *rant over* As always thank you for your support, please follow/favourite/review and enjoy! Becca x
P.S: Please check out the teaser for my new story Fifty Shades of London which will be updated starting from November
*All characters and the Fifty Shades Trilogy belong to E L James. All stories written on this account are my own*