Saturday morning.
(A pov)
I wake up to Christian giving me light kisses all over my face and neck.
I look around and see it's still barely morning out.
"what time is it?" I ask.
" 5:30am. Get up you know we need to be in the office by 6:30." He says moving around.
We have a shower together and quickly dress.
" I'm so happy it's Saturday, I get to stay in the office with you all day." I hum as me and Christian climb down from the gate.
" me to, what do you want to do all day it's our last night of freedom?" Christian says as he take my hand and we begin to walk.
" mhmm." I think. " I want to have another date , I enjoyed our first date so much we never got to date..." I say making Christian chuckle.
" no we just jumped right into marriage Ana remember I was there." He says sarcastically still laughing. "Anything else you want to do?" He asks after he stops laughing.
He brings my hand to his mouth and kisses it.
" well if we are going out on a date, we will need to hit the mall." I say and Christian sighs dramatically pouting.
I kiss his lips giggling.
" stop it you big baby." I say teasing him.
We go to get breakfast like usual and then head into GEH.
Things get professional from there because Christian knows that I am nothing but his assistant inside of these walls.
After working all day me and Christian have lunch like we've been doing together for the pass week.
I tell Christian that I want to go to the library to get some homework I need done out the way for just a few hours until it's time to go to the mall.
While I'm at the library Christian is at the courts playing basketball with a few of the boys he played with last time.
He is to meet me here in a few hours as we both saw no point in him staying with me and watching me study. when he can be enjoying a game of basket ball with some new friends. plus we go home tomorrow so no telling when Christian will get to play with them anymore.
I've got my reading glasses on frowning at the paperwork when I feel someone staring at me,
I look up and I recognize the guy from the charity dinner in Spain.
" princess Ana" he slightly bows.
" I was coming here to pick up a book for my sister she's in college. It's always lovely to run into such a beautiful powerful woman." He says as his eyes roam my entire face.
He scams my body and finally brings his eyes back up guiltily as he catches my glare.
" powerful?" I raise a brow.
I am hardly powerful.
" you are the princess of London. everyone talks about you, you seem to have it all" he mutters
I don't reply, I just shake my head and go back to working.
"may I sit?" He asks still standing there.
Honestly I don't even remember this boys name and I'm sure I don't want him sitting with me.
" your distracting me, As i only get a few hours of studying. surly your sister is a college student and you are? You understand right?" I ask eyeing him.
Christian clearly doesn't like him and vice versa but Christian is my husband so I'm not going to be super giggly with him.
" i am currently going to college yes." He says sitting down anyway making me frown.
" can you be any more rude? I'm studying here I can not focus with you in my face." I say.
He chuckles.
" princess Ana, you are so cute. Can I have 5 minutes of your time?" He asks and I roll my eyes.
" fine. But you are going to have to stop flirting with me." I hold my hand out showing my ring. " I'm married. one more slip and I'll have you calling me mrs grey instead of princess as a reminder that I am indeed taken."
I watch anger cross his face. matter fact anger wouldn't discribe it, it's more of a deep hate & it's gone just as quick as it came.
" alright princess Ana. I'm going to go-" he starts to get up but I stop him.
" NO." I mentally smack myself for yelling so loudly in a library. " I mean, why do you hate Christian so much?" I ask much lower this time.
He shifts,
" it's nothing." He says but I don't buy it so I promise to talk to him for a whole 20 minutes about anything he wanted and he cave.
I push my books a side deciding that I'll at least talk to Him for a few minutes and still have an hour to get some work done.
" about 2 Year's ago me and Christian were cool... I'd come by the castle all the time and hang out with him. my parents like his are powerful people so that's how we got in touch. anyways we got really close and my parents gave him a chance and started doing business with him. them being his first big time clients he blow up within a year, as people didn't take him serious in the business world until then. my sister..." he pauses clearing his throat.
" who at the time had only just turned 16, long story short I found out that they were messing around, for some time. When I saw them... when I found out I forbid Christian to see her I was so mad, I trusted him around her as my friend. She was so sad when he left, she wasn't her usual happy self anymore. I missed her, she stoped eating, she was failing school she told me that she loved him so I felt bad and just wanted my sister back so i told her she could see him. she went to him and confessed her love." He says.
I watch him choke up and I know there's more.
" he pushed her away, told her he didn't love her and that he never would. It alone sent her into a deep depression for months. On her 17th birthday she tried to kill herself." He shakes his head. " To this day she was never the sam. And I was willing to forgive him for fucking around with my sister but to play with her feelings as my friend?" He laughs " and then the piece of shit had the nerve to show up at the hospital I wanted to beat his ass but he had his goons." He finishes.
" and what happened?" I ask mouth gape.
Why didn't Christian tell me any of this?
Ana you've been married 5 minutes and at that it was forced, give him time! I scold myself.
" nothing. I didn't let him see her so he left I hasn't heard from him since." He says. " now it's time for me and you to talk." He grins sitting back in the chair.
I almost scowl but I realize it's un lady like so I settle with rolling my eyes.
" ok let's start with your name. because I forgot it." I say turning to him.
He fakes like he's hurt.
" Shawn." He says. " now if you weren't Christians wife would I have a chance?"
" no. Next question."
He laughs.
" ok, do you enjoy the perks of being the princess?" He asks.
" what perks? Besides marrying my husband, I haven't really had perks."
" I mean the title alone comes with status. Plus you get to become queen someday, how you feel about that?"
" I don't really look forward to it honestly being queen is hard work it isn't all what people put it out to be" I answer.
Soon we fall into light conversation over the next 20 minutes.
" ok Shawn, I really need to study..."
He gets up.
" I get it princess, catch you another time? Never thought I would run into the royal princess of London in the local library." He jokes.
...
" hey baby." Christian removes my glasses and kisses me.
He's just arriving at the library which is great timing because I'm just finishing up.
" ready for the mall?" He smirks pulling my hand in his.
" um, yea." I says walking with him.
The entire time we walk around the mall on and out of different stores all I could think about was what Shawn had told me.
" can I ask you something?" I ask looking up at a oblivious Christian stuffing his face with candy.
He nods not able to talk as his mouth is to full.
" why does Shawn hate you?"
Christian looks at me shocked.
" w-why ? You remember his name? Where is this coming from?" He throws questions at me instead of answering mine.
" answer the question Christian." I say holding his stare.
" I don't know Ana, he's maybe jealous of my success or something." He lies.
" Christian wow you are lying to me, it makes me question so much. I know the truth Christian and I am giving you a Chance to tell me yourself if you continue to lie I will be done with this and walk out." I say calmly.
He just continues to stand quietly.
" and if you continue to stand there and say nothing I will be done with this and walk out." I add.
" what do you know?" He asks angry.
Why is he getting upset?
" you're still avoiding the question." I point out.
He shoots me a glare.
" why are you asking if you already know?" He asks.
" because I want to hear what you have to say. I want to believe that you didn't just use that girl and ruin your friendship with no remorse." I answer.
Christian sighs rubbing his eyes exaggerated.
" I wasn't just playing with Keri's feelings. We had a bond, and we let sex get in the way of that." He says waving his hand trying to down play the situation. " Keri wasn't all that innocent, I didn't seduce her it was the other way around. And she was very much experienced Shawn makes it seem like I took his sisters innocence" he mutters the last part.
I'm guessing he don't want to let to much out in case I don't know everything.
" so you didn't tell her that she meant nothing to you and to leave you alone when she poured her heart out to you?" I ask casually looking at some cute shirts.
" where the fuck you getting this information?" Christian growls.
" ANSWER ME!" I yell.
Thank god it's not packed in here!
I don't know what's gotten into me, it's just...
The thought of someone trying to kill them self over my husband bothers me...
" Ana calm down." He groans " yes I did tell her that she meant nothing to me because I was scared shitless from her confessing her love... I - I didn't love her back, maybe I did have feelings but it wasn't love! The sex was good maybe it was lust? And I did care for her. It's why I showed up at the hospital, Shawn didn't let me see her." He shakes his head " it's just ... the thought of her loving me it - it disgusted me." Christian says with pain in his eyes making me gasp.
" she claimed she was in love with me. Said she wanted to spend a life time with me " he continues to shake his head like the thought of that is ridiculous. " I wasn't ready for that shit. I was 16. I wasn't thinking about a lifetime with anyone So I did the only thing I knew how to do I pushed her away, said alot of shit to her that I didn't mean but in my defense I had no idea Keri was a danger to her self and would become suicidal." He huff, " plus my parents didn't like her, us being together caused trouble in the castle they didn't want her as my princess or queen mom didn't see her as queen material."
" I regretted everything I said though. and I said I would never forgive myself for the horrible things I said to her if she died. I went to the hospital with hopes that she'd make a recovery despite my parents forbidding me to. I hoped that I'd get to apologize I didn't get to though." He finishes.
" did it hurt you that you never got to apologize?" I ask.
" I don't know. Part of me is just happy that she recovered & hopefully moved on."
I nod.
" so when I told you that I loved you it disgusted you?" I ask.
We haven't really talked about that at all, no one brought it up. I do love him but I said it in the moment, I refuse to repeat it and have him not say it back again.
To scared to be rejected.
" no baby." Christian reaches out to pull me to him by my waist.
I side eye him.
" are you lying?" I ask.
He shakes his head.
" I love that you love me. I've been waiting for you to say it again. I was scared that I would feel that way at first... but the thought of you loving me just sends me into pure happiness." He beams then frowns " and I'm sorry but I'm just not ready to say it back I hope you understand." I nod.
" as long as it doesn't disgust you." I mutter.
" but seriously in all this time you haven't talked to her?" I ask.
" no, Shawn or his family refused to let me near her. & when she started getting better I figured the right thing to do would be to leave her alone." Christian answers.
" why didn't you tell me?" I asks hurt.
" it's not something I like to talk about. How did you find out?" He asks.
" I ran into Shawn at the library and we got to talking so I asked why he hated you so much." I say and I see Christians face turn red in anger his eyes black.
" what the fuck do you mean you and him got to talking, talking about what?" He growls.
" REALLY Christian grey? I'm trying to understand a serious situation about someone attempting to commit suicide over my husband, I'm trying to understand why the hell the word " love " scares the living shit out of you, and all you can worry about is what me and Shawn talked about?" I ramble upset.
" did he touch you? Flirt with you? How long was he there?" He continues shocking me.
I give him a death glare before storming out of the store.
" Anastasia!" I hear him yelling behind me.
" oh don't act like I didn't tell you everything you asked now answer my question!" Christian demands on my ass.
He grabs my hand and pulls me into a corner blocking me from moving.
If I wasn't so pissed I'd be turned on...
I sigh.
" I still don't get why you took so long to tell me this? I am you're wife. This is serious, were you ever gonna tell me?" I ask.
" honestly I don't think about it. I told myself that Keri was good, I moved on and pushed it out my head."
" how did you two start?" I ask curious.
How does one start dating their best friends little sister.
" Keri always had a crush on me and I knew. but We were cool & i didn't pay it any attention at first. One day she came by the castle flirting with me long story short that one time I didn't dodge temptation. and the rest was history we were basically friends with benefits from that day on and that's all I seen it as. Looking back I can tell that maybe she saw it as something different and I could have been more clear with her."
" If you two kept your, err, situation a secret how did your parents hate her?"
" They didn't hate her until they found out, they were hell bent on picking my queen. They didn't want me involved with my own fate which is why when the ball dropped and everyone found out about us from Shawn they got nervous thinking I would want to marry her, so they tried to do everything they could to push her away. I honestly believe that played a part in her trying to kill herself." Christian says hanging his head in shame at that thought.
i can tell that bothers him what she tried to do to herself & I can understand that because, hell that bothers me to.
i truly hope she's found happiness and peace.
" so you think you sent mixed signals?" I say.
He shrugs.
" I guess I did. Like I said I did have feelings but they wasn't love. I liked her." He admits.
" enough to ruin a friendship." I mutter.
" Selina is my only real friend anyway. Shawn was never my real friend." He shrugs " if he can push me away like that, and give up on me assuming shit without letting me explain and then go to completely hating me, maybe we weren't friends."
After talking we end up both buying a outfit for our date tonight and finally getting out of the mall.
Dressed in a red silk dress, and my hair down in waves, Christian kisses my cheek and tells me how sexy I look for the 100th time as we enter the restaurant where we chose to eat at for our second official date.
...
" hey is it true that you two ran away from the castle?"
" were you two forced to marry? Did you have enough and run away from the castle?"
" are you having second thoughts about becoming king of London prince grey?"
Christian pulls me along as reporters bomb us with question as soon as we leave the restaurant. there's cameras from every angle flashing in our faces.
" shit, our disappearance must have gotten out to the press." Christians mutters as we jump into the back of a cab.
" where to man?" The taxi guy asks pulling off.
" just drive." Christian says handing him a 100 dollar bill and he nods taking it.
" we neeed to go home." Christian says after a while. " this can cause a big scandal, we need to straighten this up." He adds
I nod and tell the taxi to drive us to the castle.
Once outside of the castle all of the trouble we are probably in hits me.
Guards run outside and grab us up once they realize who we are.
I squeeze Christians hand tighter before we are separated and yanked in the castle as if we are going to try and escape again.
