Chapter 10- Alter Ego

Luke flopped on the couch like he felt at home, Ana took it as a compliant she had as prized her herself on making a nice, comfy home though most of their belongings with boxed up. "Coke, Beer or water?" Ana offered, as she fussed about in the kitchen. She heard 'beer' so grabbed two out of the fridge.

She ungracefully flopped down next to him, "so when's moving day?" he asked, probably to make sure there was no awkward silence.

"Few days, going to Seattle"

"By your tone, you don't want to go"

"Well it will be a change... a big change, moving to a big city with lots of people, i need a job" she listed, probably boring the shit out of him but he listened. "How long have you worked for Christian?" she asked.

"3 years..." he smiled fondly, "i had got myself into a lot of trouble growing up, fighting, drugs, prison. That's when Mr. Grey, he had heard about my rep and decided that i would make a good security guard. Gave the police a lot of cash to forget my whole record and make me a free man. Gave me all the rehab i needed"

"He can be a good man" Ana mumbled.

"He gave me a second chance i didn't deserve" he shook his head, "though i am at his constant beck-and-call" he chuckled

"You did deserve a second chance, Luke. See your clean, you friendly, any woman who be happy to have you!" she giggled and jokingly punching him arm.

Their calm environment was wrecked by an opening door, Kate storming in, angry tears dashing her beautiful make-up. She gave a disgusted look to Ana. "Sawyer, Christian wants you now!" She snapped at him and he obediently got to his feet, nodded to Ana and left. Luke must have guessed angry Kate was not to be messed with.

"What's up?" Ana asked her friend, sitting on the couch with wide eyes. Have her and Christian broke up.

"What's up? WHAT'S UP" she screamed at her. "you know the usual, my so-called best friend trying to steal my boyfriend!"

Ana got to her feet, confused. Ana had made it VERY clear to Christian she wasn't interested.

"oh and don't not give me that innocent look!" Kate hissed, "i know your trying to fuck Christian, what a slut? Trying to lose you virginity to someone you barely know?! Wait was you being a virgin a lie too?"

"Wait, wait, wait." Ana rose her hands up in surrender. "I am not trying to sleep with Christian, what gives you that idea?"

"I SAW YOU! coming out of MY dining room, looking like you wanted to cry, followed by Christian" Kate smirked like she had just found out the bad man in Scooby-doo. "What, Ana did he turn you down? You not woman enough for him?"

That pissed Ana off, Kate was pushing button in Ana's body Ana didn't even know she had. No longer was she sorry, little Ana not wanting to hurt anyone. She was now livid Anastasia, ready to defend her innocence in this crime. "And why do you think i would go after Christian? Because I'm poor? Because I'm desperate?" sneered Ana, her alter ego making her first appearance. "Well I'm the one who's pushing him away" she moved closer to Kate, "for weeks he's been trying to get me into his bed, sign kinky contracts, bitch about you"

"You're lying!" Kate howled, like she was in pain. Her golden locks sticking to her wet messy face. "Why would he want you Ana? You are nothing! You have nothing!"

"Unlike you who is key to Christian's business deal with your dad?" Ana chuckled, "I would rather be nothing than used" Ana started to leave the living room towards her bedroom.

"YOU KNOW WHAT? FUCK YOU!" Kate screamed, "GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY APARTMENT!"

"Oh don't worry, i am" Ana replied calmly. "Kate without me to look down on, you are nothing"

Luke sat in the front seat next to Taylor, he could feel Mr. Grey's rage through the back of his head. "I forbid you from seeing Miss Steele again Sawyer" Mr. Grey growled, Sawyers body tensed.

Sawyer bit his tongue, Ana was his friend. She made him feel good and wasn't terrified by his past. Mr. Grey didn't know Ana like he did.

"Do you understand?"

"Fully" Sawyer replied. Taylor was probably going to lecture him later and warn him not to touch Ana but Mr. Grey shouldn't play those girls off against each other. Ana and Kate got on, you could tell that they were bitchy to each other but that what girl-friendships are like. Both of them are moving to Seattle, if they didn't have each other they had no-one.

"What did you do while you were in Miss Steele's apartment?" Mr. Grey questioned.

"Talked, Sir"

"About?"

"Life in general" Sawyer knew that would piss him off, it was quite a sarcastic answer but his business with Ana had nothing to do with Mr. Grey.

"Did you talk about me?" He interrogated Sawyer further, Taylor tensed up. Sawyer knew that Taylor was trying to look out for him but he needed to stay on Mr. Grey's side, he paid for little Sophie's schooling.

"A little bit, we talked about why i worked for you" Sawyer replied, trying to calm the heating situation down. "I explained what occurred a few years back and she agreed you were a good man"

Mr. Grey grinned; Sawyer could sense the change in his mood. Then a text message sounded, Mr. Grey retrieved his phone and read it, paling as he did. "Taylor did you ever find out where Sophia went?" Mr. Grey asked, nervous in many ways.

Taylor gulped; Sawyer knew that it was one thing Taylor failed at, finding Mr. Grey's ex-lover. "No Sir. We tracked her to New York but lost her after that." Sophia was like a ghost, she could be anywhere and even with Mr. Grey's resources and cash, no one could ever find Sophia Felling or as she preferred to been know Sophia Devine.

Christian read the text once more, "We need to talk. Miss Devine x" it was her... Sophia was coming back.

Author's note:

So hello readers i read in a review that 'Ana would be too scared to stand up for herself, though she should'/ something similar and i too believe that and thought- you know what? Fuck it! Let's have some fun with her character! I hope you guys don't mind because i really think that it needed to happen, i absolutely hated it in the stories when she wouldn't defend herself against Kate and sometimes Christian and i think it will lead to a much stronger character. Fingers crossed you like it!

What will happen to Kate and Ana's friendship? Luke and Ana? Why was Sophia such an important submissive to Christian?