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Winds of Change
It has been three days since the hospital visit. Christian call me every hour, if he can, just to make sure I'm alright. As I sit and think about the reason why, I get a chill down my back.
The next morning after our talk I'm dressed for work in clothes that Taylor was able to pick up for me. As we are eating breakfast prepared by Gail, who kept watching and smiling at me. However, Taylor comes in and looks pissed as fuck.
"Taylor what's wrong, why do you look so mad?"
"Sir the press are outside and have the front of the building swamped."
"Shit why wasn't I notified about this?"
"PR had been trying to reach you but you have not been answering."
I watch them continue to talk about the best way to leave and think well I better get used to it. I realized last night that he is a public figure and by association that makes me a public figure. I can't say that I'm looking forward to being watched all the time, but I will work on getting my act together.
"Sir, since no one knows Ms. Steele's name yet and they have no clue where she is right now. The best thing is to leave via the back entrance to Escala and avoid them all together. Which is what we do, escape like thieves on the run. It may take me a little while, this getting used to being media fodder.
We arrived at SIP with no problem and I go about my day. When it is time for lunch I head down the street, to the deli a few doors down. I get a ham and cheese sub, a bag of baked Lays chip and a Pepsi to drink. As I start to leave a camera is shoved in my face and people are shouting things at me.
Are you using Mr. Grey? Is he your baby's father? How long have you been together? When is the baby due? Ms. Steele, Ms. Steele Ms. Steele….
I'm stunned and can't say a word. How do they know my name? How did they find me? I am grabbed gently by a blond male and pulled back into the deli to relative safety. As I snap of the out of the haze I was in, he is speaking to me, and nope I am wrong he is not speaking, well not to me, but to someone on his phone, okay not at all strange…. Is it another reporter possibly, who is this man?
"I got her T and she is fine, but we have no way out as there is only the one exit to this place. Ok, we will sit tight." He then turns to me and he speaks to me. "Ms. Steele you may want to go ahead and eat we could be here a while."
"Who are you?" You would think that he would introduce himself, my knight in a dark suit and tie; alas he has no white charger to ride me off into the sunset on.
"My apologies mame, my name is Luke Sawyer and I have been hired by Mr. Grey to watch you from afar but I can see that changing."
"Ok, you may want to open up with the introduction, you were about to get hit in the head with my sub" is the only sarcastic answer I can give. That was yesterday introduction to my CPO.
A knock on my desk brings me back to the present and Jack is sitting on my desk, I am too busy worrying about going to lunch today. I can't think why I would need to worry much?
"Jack is there something I can do for you?"
"You can keep you head out of the damn clouds, this is a place of business, and if you can't do your job I will find someone else who can."
"Jack if it is ok with you I'm going for lunch." As I look around I notice that Luke is standing in the door way. No doubt that Christian called him. Jack has been getting on my nerves. He no longer puts his hands on me but the way he speaks to me is a sheer nastiness and always spiteful and mean. I push Jack Hyde to the furthest unused part of my mind, and aside for the moment.
Kate and I are going to meet for lunch and finalize the list of things needed for the house and baby's room that is much better than thinking of my crabby assed boss. I meet Kate at a small Italian restaurant and she has already ordered the seafood Alfred for me. We discuss the house and the things needed for Miranda's room for a little while before she asks about Christian.
"So how are you making out with Mr. Big Buck?" I giggle at the name she has given him.
"Oh Kate, he has been very understanding about this situation with Jeremy. He even talked to his dad and we are all supposed to meet on Friday after we go to the house and look around. He thinks I don't know, but he is going to have Taylor look around the property, to see what security measures need to be put in place."
"So I will see you there on Friday, it appears that their mother is big on family dinner and is having us all over the same night." We end lunch on a high note and made plans to meet again soon. Kate makes it seem like I don't live there with her already, but I guess she is getting ready for the fact that I'm moving out. I know that she would love to have me and Miranda stay with her, but don't want to cramp her and Elliot style, not with a baby in the house. When I reach my desk there is a text from Christian.
Christian: I hope you had a great lunch and Miranda is doing well.
Me: We are doing great and I can't wait until Friday so you can see the house.
The rest of the week has gone by pretty quickly and mostly without incident. Jack is still being an ass but it seems to have gotten worst since it has been made public that Christian and I are dating. Miranda is doing flips and it makes me extremely happy. It is now time to meat Christian, so we can go see the house. I know he is going to love it and I can't wait to move it. I wish that the place could be mine without having to pay rent; instead I'd love to be working to pay it off, with a mortgage…
Christian:
This week started out great with me taking my girl out to dinner, but turned to shit that evening. The next day more shit hit the fan. This asshole that lives next to Ana sold the pictures of me carrying her to the car that day along with her name to a sleazy tabloid. My people are doing everything possible to shut them down, especially with the lies they have been printing.
Christian Grey buys publishing company girlfriend works at
Baby Grey due any day?
My mind is spinning with everything that has happened. I am meeting with Taylor in a while, because we are going meet up with Ana at the house. We are going to have to speak too, in regards to the bastard that showed up to Ana's that night. Taylor has a man watching him. The man has been told not to hide the fact that he is watching him, but he is not to make it seem as if he is stalking him either. I watch Taylor as he flexes his hand every time his name is spoken aloud.
I am then alerted to a problem downstairs and Taylor receives a call from Sawyer. We head down in the elevator. In my lobby I see Sawyer with Ana, and she is crying. I look over to the left and Jeremy is in restraints and with Ryan. I head over to Ana and let Taylor deal with Jeremy. As I walk over to her I call my dad and have him file a restraining order against him.
"Ana, baby are you alright?"
"Christian, how did he find me?
"I don't know Baby, but why didn't you tell me that you wanted to meet me here? I would have been waiting outside for you."
"I wanted to surprise you and then ride to the house together. I'm so excited." She nervously giggles and strokes my face. Has she forgotten he is here too?
"Okay." I kiss her, but I am confused, as to why she is cutting him out of the whole scene taking place before us?
Damn, I'm so hard just from a kiss but I'm not sure if she is ready to take on the sexual part of our relationship, but I need a release soon and my hand is not doing the job. I am having trouble walking right now but I take a deep breath and will my dick to go down. How is it that her touch can do that to me?
"Let me go check in with Taylor, and then we can leave." As I walk over to Taylor he looks ready to explode.
"What are you doing here Mr. Shell?" He asks the dickhead.
"I was here to see Mr. Grey."
"What business do you have with me?" I've now taken over the questioning.
"I want to know why you are having me followed." I smile at his question and I know for a fact that he cannot prove that I am having him followed but if he is following Ana we can prove it.
"I am not having you followed; but it is something we should look into Taylor. I should keep an eye on you thou especially since you took advantage of my girlfriend." With a smile on his face he opens his mouth to speak.
"Is that what she told you? Maybe one day you will hear my side of the story, there are two sides to every story after all, don't believe everything she tells you, she isn't all she appears to be Mr. Grey." I want to choke him but the hand that Taylor keeps on my shoulder, and the shake of his head, he keeps me rooted to my spot.
"Taylor please release Mr. Shell, as we have an appointment to keep." I keep my face straight and turn to leave. I go over to Ana and pull her in close with both hands behind her back and kiss her soundly. The feel of her lips on mine calms me, and I can feel the electricity that flows between our bodies.
"Let's go see your new home baby." We leave hand in hand with Taylor and Sawyer following. I take a glance back and Mr. Shell is standing there with fire in his eyes. Yeah, watch and weep, she is leaving with me dickhead, and not you, the best man won, today she didn't even acknowledge your presence.
We arrive at her new home and I realize that it is by the water. As I listen to the sound of the breaking waves makes as it crashes into the shore and heads back out to sea, and over the pebbles and the sand, I realize that it is a beautiful and soothing sound it is to hear. The house is small, but it is beautiful and just right for Ana and Miranda. I listen as Ana talks to the landlord. They are discussing the lease and I am pleased to hear that she is free to make any changes that she would like too, as long as it adds to the value and does not deter from the price he has already been quoted for the property. He also tells Ana that the house is to be turned over to the hands of his son in a few months, but that she shouldn't have any problems, he doesn't like the house and won't be wanting her out, just the rental income. My ears are really tuned in as they speak.
"Mr. Anderson why are you giving the house to your son?"
"Please call me Jim, I will be moving into a gated community and I believe my son will be able to take care of this place for me."
"Well Jim you can call me Ana." I can see this look pass over her face and I watch her take out her phone press a few buttons and continue to hold it in her hand. What is she doing texting on her phone? Then she continues to speak. "I'm wondering if you will be using the money from the rent to pay for the community place you are moving in to?"
"No Ana, I have no need for the money from the renting at all. I just didn't want to see this place sit and go to waste. This place used to be mine and my wife's, but after her passing, I cannot handle being here any longer without her. I have brought a condo in the community. I just want this place to be lived in and not watch it sit on the market, like many places do around here, for them to get wrecked and ruined by homeless folks and drug users, if I were to put it up for sale and it was empty, and if that happened it would break my heart." Ana's smile widens as she speaks the next sentence.
"Jim will you allow me to buy and to own this place this place? The amount I pay each month to you, will allow me the opportunity of buying it from you, and instead of renting it, I will be paying off your asking price, but giving it to you, not the bank. It would be a private mortgage between us, with an added reasonable and fair interest rate, and you would incur no sellers fees either. I love this place and I can see my child growing up happily in this house."
"Ana that is a great idea. I will have the paperwork drawn up and sent here to the house. The new paper work will replace the current lease, with a right to buy private mortgage."
"Thank you Jim. I look forward to moving in tomorrow and I can't wait to sign the new paper work too." Ana presses a button on her phone and now I know that she just recorded the whole conversation between them. She is brilliant. We are in the car headed to my parents place. The joy radiating off of Ana is contagious and all I can do is smile. Ana is full of surprises Today.
"Taylor, I know that you were there in regards to all security measures needed. Please go ahead and do what is needed. I'm sure Christian said money is no object." I know that Ana is not really comfortable with all my money but I also know that the beginning of the week has opened her up to my world.
"Yes Ms. Steele."
"Christian, Tomorrow someone will need to go to Wal-Mart and pick up the packages that I've ordered, as well as going by Kate parent's home, for the things that they have given me." I can't understand for the life of me why she won't let me just buy her anything that she needs.
"Okay baby, what are you getting from Wal-Mart?" Why is she shopping in Wal-Mart? I just can't understand her sometimes, but I'm learning especially from Taylor, to just let her be herself. In this relationship we have to learn to merge out two personalities, and if she can give in about security, I will give in about where she shops.
"I ordered the supplies needed for the kitchen and everything else needed for Miranda's room, the bathrooms and the patio in the back."
I begin to kiss her again and rub my thumb on the top of her knuckles enjoying our contact. I am beginning to get as excited as she is. I love her enthusiasm. We arrived at my parents' home and we head in for dinner...