All oacters belong to E.L. James as do parts of their back stories. Some of the quotes belong to Nicholas Sparks due to the fact this is loosely based on The Notebook.

This is a very important chapter and yes this is when Aiden comes back. Elena is also in this chapter and she gets a real surprise.

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Chapter XIII

Anastasia's POV

2 weeks after I began working for Christian and still I haven't found a damn thing. Someone keeps beating me to the punch and I can't for the life of me figure out who. I've also kept my promise to help Leila out and she now has an apartment close to my condo and a job at Ever After working as the new PA for Jack Hyde who took Aiden's spot. Surprisingly she's also become a good friend and she lets me know where Elena is and what she's doing. Apparently she's been snooping around looking for who knows what. On a lighter note things are wonderful with Christian but things have also gotten complicated with Christian. I love him and I love spending time with him but his question he asked me yesterday was pushing the limits too far. We've gone out together and we've gone on business lunches/business trips and stuff together but now he wants me to accompany him to Carrick's birthday lunch tomorrow. I'm so caught up in my thoughts that I don't notice him crawl in the bed behind me.

"Mmm you are thinking too much baby." He places feather light kisses on my shoulder and up my neck so that I can now feel his breath on my ear. "It's Saturday and we have all day here by ourselves."

I roll over and arch an eyebrow at him. I had agreed to stay at Escala last night with him only if we would tell Gail the truth. He suggested Luke too but him being Aiden's brother and a close friend to me before all this happened I shook it off and decided it was safer for him if he stayed in the dark. Gail had taken it surprisingly well and her and Jason gave us our space. "Where did Gail and Jason go?"

He shrugs. "Out I guess. Mentioned something about a lunch date." He's trying to distract me by massaging my breasts and every other inch of my body with his hands. "Too much talking. I need you."

He rolls himself on top of me and grinds his hips into mine. I moan at the action and he smirks down at me. His hands are roaming everywhere and his lips are pressing kisses all the way from my ear to my jaw and back. His hands still at my hips and pull me tighter to him. I can feel his smile against my cheek as his fingers start to tickle me like crazy.

"CHRISTIAN!" I start laughing and can't stop. "Please...stop...please!" I get the words out in between laughs and he pulls his head away from my neck so I can see him smiling.

"Nope." He pops the p and keeps tickling me. "I love your laugh too much. Plus..." He leans in close to my ear again and his fingers still on my hips. "You know you like it."

I push him down on the bed next to me and crawl on top of him. "You SIR." I enunciate the word sir and feel his cock twitch beneath me. "are playful this morning. Why?"

He doesn't answer me, he just lays there smiling at me. Okay it's time for my revenge. I go to his waist and start tickling him with no mercy. He cries out for me to stop but I don't give in. Finally he answers me. "Because...you're...here! Please...stop baby!" I still my fingers and peck his lips lightly and get off of him.

"Well I think we should get dressed now. I still have to go to the condo and check on some things." I get off the bed and laugh when he pulls me back down and lays on top of me.

"Oh no. We are not done yet."

He doesn't bother with a warm up he just thrusts into me and then stops. I gasp at the move but grab his shoulders with a vice tight grip so that my nails are digging into his shoulders. He growls and grabs my wrists and holds them down on the bed above my head. His eyes are smoldering and dark with lust and love as he pounds into me very very hard. I love it. I can feel his grip on my wrists tightening and I know I'll probably have red marks later on but I can't seem to care with the way he's fucking me. Our moans fill the room and our bodies are covered in a thin layer of sweat and I can hear his balls slapping my ass each time he pounds himself into me.

"Oh...God...Oh..." I scream the words so loud that the walls were probably shaking as I reach my climax and come all over his dick.

"Baby...Fuckkk...Ohh..." He screams at the same time and then collapses on top of me.

We stay there for who knows how long just laying there with me stroking his hair and him murmuring how incredible that was. Neither of us has had the time to recover when we hear his front door open and close. He shrugs as do I figuring it was just Jason and Gail coming back. It wasn't until we heard the voice call his name that we realized how wrong we were.

"Christian?"

He nearly jumps off the bed and pulls on his jeans and looks down at me. "Stay here. I'll get rid of her."

He walks out of the room without pulling on a shirt and leaves the door cracked behind him. Naturally, as he probably knows, I don't stay on the bed. I pull on his shirt and walk over to the cracked door to listen to him.

"Mia. What are you doing here?"

"I was thinking we could go shopping and find a birthday gift for dad. Are you...do you have company?" I can hear the accusation in her voice and I can only picture what is shown on her face.

"Company? Why do you ask?"

"You have just fucked hair Christian. Are you dating someone?" I don't hear an answer from him. After a few minutes of what I can only imagine was a stare down between the two siblings I hear her exasperated sigh. "3 weeks Christian. It's been 3 weeks and you already have someone else in your bed."

"It's not like that Mia."

"You were ENGAGED Christian! Does she know that? Does she know she's probably just a rebound for the woman you were going to marry?" She keeps going on and on.

I'm ready to step out of the bedroom but then I stop remembering that I haven't taken out my contacts. I fell asleep last night with them in because I was too tired to bother with taking them out. This wouldn't be the first time she saw me as 'Hayley' because she has come to see Christian at work before and thank God she never put two and two together. Her next sentence makes my brain stop and makes me gasp.

"Is it Hayley?" She says the name like it's bordering on being a disease or something. "I've had my suspicions about your relationship ever since Elliot told me she was with you in New York for your business meeting. You never take Andrea with you so why her? Is she your new bed buddy?"

"Shut your mouth Mia." The anger in his voice is surprising. I've never heard him truly mad at Mia. "It is none of your damn business what I do in MY home and MY life. Go. NOW. I will see you tomorrow at dad's lunch WITH Hayley. And yeah mom and dad know I'm bringing her."

I hear the door slam and then Christian walks back into his room. Neither of us say anything we just hold each other. We knew after the surprise visit Elliot payed to Christian's hotel room while we were in New York that things would change. We knew that this siblings would immediately think the worst. We knew what we were getting into but we had told Carrick the truth. Grace already guessed long before that I was the new girl Christian hired.

"Ana. Nothing Mia says matters. We know the truth, my parents know the truth, it will be fine. I promise you Ana."

I shrug and turn away from him to start getting dressed. "Maybe I shouldn't go tomorrow. I wouldn't be able to be...me. It wouldn't be right."

He grabs my wrist lightly and turns me around. His hands cup my face and his eyes look straight into mine. "Carrick wants you there Ana. He wants you there any way he can have you there because you are like his daughter Ana. So whether you're Ana, Hayley, or Bigfoot...he wants you there. Lets get dressed and head to the condo. Maybe we could have dinner later at Zio's."

I smile as he mentions my favorite Italian restaurant and nod my head in agreement. We get dressed and prepare to leave Escala. After 10 minutes of arguing I manage to convince Christian that it would be smart for him to wear sunglasses and a baseball cap in order to not spur on more rumors of him bedding his new PA. He leaves a note for Jason and Luke telling them where he snuck off to, more or less. More in Jason's note and less in Luke's.

The ride to the condo is filled with laughter and flirty banter. The term it always gets really good before it gets really bad never crosses our minds once. This is a change from every other day because we have let down all our walls and decided to just feel. It's not until we are almost there that everything changes.

"Don't stop driving Ana." Christian's voice sounds panicked and curious.

"What's wrong Christian?"

"Someone is following you. Has been for a few blocks. Shit."

"Christian?" I'm getting worried now. He keeps looking from the side mirror to the cars around us and I can see his panic growing. He's radiating fear almost and I have no clue why. I look around and try to see what could have him so worked up but all I see are cars. I don't know if he recognizes any of them but I don't. Should I?

"Fuck fuck fuck!" He hits the dashboard and quickly types a number into his cell phone. He puts it up to his ear and urgently talks into it. "Luke! Get Jason, Reynolds, Prescott and anyone else you can, track my phone and follow us." He takes a break. "I don't fucking care what they're fucking doing! I'm being fucking trapped by ELENA and I have An...Hayley with me. This takes precedence over ANY OTHER SHIT!" Another break.

What does he mean he's being trapped? I look around again and it's only then that I realize the cars on both sides of mine aren't getting faster or slower they're keeping pace with me. Guiding me. Shit I get it now.

"WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN YOU CAN'T TRACK MY DAMN PHONE!?"

His voice snaps me out of my thoughts and when I look at him he's looking at his phone with a shocked look on his face. Damn it. If this is Elena she's one step ahead of us and has a big plan in store for us. "Christian. I can't lose them. Any of them. They're boxing me in and guiding me. I have no choice but to go where they let me unless we want to face the consequences."

He looks up at me and nods his head slowly. "I know baby. Something is blocking the cell phone signal. Shit I thought I prevented this."

Prevented? What the fuck? "Christian?" I know he hears the question in my voice. I look around and find that they are leading us further and further away from any place where people could hear anything that goes down.

He sighs and puts his head in his hands. "Elena has been sending threats. She has suspicions about you and said she knew things. She tried blackmail but I always countered back. She said something would happen but I never thought she'd do this. I mean fuck I know she's got unlimited resources and an ungodly amount of people working for her but THIS is too far Ana! She's out for blood and for the first time I don't know if it's mine, yours, or both of ours."

I sigh in frustration but I can't be angry at him. Yeah he hid it from me but it's not like I haven't hid shit from him concerning Elena in the past as well. I take one hand off the wheel and open the glove box hoping that Sam left the emergency pistol in there. Shit! No dice. I haven't spoken to her in weeks but I know she's been around because I've noticed her watching me and Christian outside of Grey House sometimes and once I even heard her in her room getting clothes and stuff when she thought I was asleep. She's been working with someone but I can't figure out who. It's the same person who is always one step ahead of me in getting the information I need to make Elena sweat. In no time at all we're stopping at some abandoned warehouse. The cars stop and I feel myself being drug out of my car.

"Get your hands off her you fucking asshole!" I hear Christian's screams but then they're muffled by something. I look and see that Elena is standing behind him and has put duct tape over his mouth and around his wrists.

"Let him GO Elena!" I threaten her and try to take a step forward but the man holding me doesn't let me go.

"Hmm. I don't think so...Anastasia." I gape at her and am at a loss for words. "Thought I didn't know hmm? How about we go inside and have a little chat?" She grabs Christian's arm and practically shoves him through the door and part of me wonder why he's not fighting her.

Once we get inside I'm shoved into a chair and the man holding me ties my wrists behind me with rope. I get a good look at him and he can't be more than 20 years old. I look to my left and see Christian being tied to a chair as well by another guy who looks to be in his early thirties. I watch Elena lock the door we came in through and as she rips the duct tape off Christian's mouth.

"Having your subs do your dirty work Elena? I never thought you'd stoop that low as to hide behind them."

She scoffs and runs her hand over his chest and I watch him flinch like he's in pain. "I'm full of surprises darling...or have you forgotten?"

He glares up at her and spits at her. "Get your fucking claws off me you BITCH!"

She slaps him and I struggle against the damn ropes. "Do not talk to me like that Christian. And Ana please calm down. We still have a mistake to fix."

"What are you talking about Elena?"

She turns to me and smiles. "I think you know seeing as you are still here and breathing the same air as my beloved Christian. You were supposed to die Ana and yet somehow here you are and here Christian is acting like a lovesick fool. Now we fix that problem and he watches knowing he can't do a damn thing!" She pulls the same gun that she had that night and point it right at my chest.

I close my eyes and prepare myself for the blow. Hell there's nothing I can do since she's far enough away I can't kick her and I don't have my arms free to hit her. I open them and look at Christian and mouth the words 'I love you. Always.' I can see him trying to think of something to do and I can hear him begging Elena to not do it.

BANG!

Silence. We are all silent when the door is kicked open and two people step inside. I only notice one immediately. The other is wearing a black hoodie with the hood up and sunglasses. Something about the way he's standing is very very familiar but...it can't be.

"Linc?"

Christian, Elena, and I all say the name at the same time.

"Elena. It's over. Let em go."

She's become like a statue now that he's here. He walks over to Christian and unties his hands and then unties mine. The man in the hoodie hasn't moved but now Elena has. She darts her hand out and grabs my arm and pulls me in front of her and shoves then gun into my back. Linc grabs Christian's arm and holds him back and now the man in the hoodie has moved. He's standing closer to us and is breathing very hard. Who is he?

"It's not over Linc. She has the life I'm supposed to live. She has the love I'm supposed to have! I'm supposed to be the one every one bends over backwards to save, the one they love but it's her! Christian loves HER! Grace and Carrick love HER! Hell even you love her, you're looking at her like she's your fucking daughter Linc!"

"Let Ana go Elena. If you let her go before the police get here the charges won't be as bad. They have already been to the house and the lake house. They're on your tail and it won't take them long to find this place. They already have enough to put you away for don't add to it please. As for the love issue Elena...I did love you. I loved you but you loved HIM! You loved little Christian Grey and not your own damn husband! You had multiple affairs behind my back, a child behind my back. YOU gave up on us Elena. YOU were the one who didn't see how much I loved you. YOU are the one at fault."

She doesn't let go. Her grip gets tighter and she presses the gun more into me and I wince at the pain.

"Drop the damn gun Elena Lincoln."

I gape at the man in the hoodie when I hear his voice. He has a gun out and it point it at her. I know that voice like I know Christian's voice. That voice was supposed to be gone. That voice was one I never thought I'd hear again. That was the voice of my best friend. "Aiden?"

He takes off his hood and his sunglasses. I gasp and he gives me a half smile. I hear Christian gasp too but I can't seem to look away from Aiden. "It's me Ana. I promise I'll explain everything." He turns back to Elena and his eyes go cold. "Last time was a warning Elena. Drop. The. Gun." He says each word with a threat behind it.

"Well well well. What do we have here? TWO people who can't seem to DIE when they're supposed to."

"Who might that be? It definitely wasn't my time nor Ana's when you shot us in cold blood. Now are we going to do this the hard way or the easy way. Come silently or make me take you down."

She laughs. "You aren't a cop anymore. You don't have authority."

Wait...what? Cop? Aiden? He was never a cop. I start to put random things together. He had a bulletproof vest. He had a registered gun. He sucked at basketball even though every morning he said he practiced. He was a part time student and he had unlimited resources at his disposal. Could he have been a cop and me not know it?

"I still have enough authority to take you down. If you don't lower your weapon I will be forced to shoot. Choose now Elena."

It's all quiet. A pen could drop and we'd hear it. I hear both guns click which probably means they're getting ready to fire. I hear the sirens of the cop cars outside. I see the looks in everyone's faces and it hits me. One person won't be walking out of here. My heart was beating out of my chest and I was terrified. I couldn't hear any of the yelling going on because it was blocked out by the sound of my heart beat in my ears. Christian was yelling, pleading. Linc was holding him back from the line of fire and yelling at who I had no clue. Aiden was still yelling threats. Elena was still yelling back at him. I closed my eyes for just a brief second and I heard it.

BANG!

Just one shot. That's all I heard but that's all it would take. I didn't feel any pain so I opened my eyes to find out who was on the receiving end. Who wouldn't be walking out. Elena. She was on the ground and Christian was next to me in a heartbeat. Aiden was right behind him and put an arm around both of us. I hadn't heard anyone else come in but then I see Jason kick the gun Elena had up to me away from her and hands Aiden back his. Wait, didn't Aiden shoot Elena?

"Aiden. Who-"

I didn't get to finish my sentence because Jason cuts me off. "I couldn't let Aiden do it. Once you take a life it changes you. I've already taken plenty and honestly as long as you're okay Ana that's what matters. I was just doing my job. Linc was right though. It's over."

Those two words were far from true. It wasn't over. Not yet. Now we had to face the truth. Aiden and I would have to explain everything to everyone and the truth had to come out. We had to get back to our lives and the questioning about what happened here would just be the beginning.

"No Jason. It's just the beginning."