"Mommy is going to miss you so much." I watch as my wife presses a dozen kisses to our son's tiny face and cradles him to her chest. "I love you, I love you, I love you. And I'll be back tomorrow really early, you know that right?"

I crack a small smile, knowing that Ana was excited for some adult time but was struggling in her own way about leaving Teddy alone for the first time. She looks up at me and her lip trembles slightly. "What if he needs me?"

"My mom will be here and my father." My mother had booked her tickets to come back east for Ana's birthday weekend before we were even off the phone which turned in to my father coming as well. They'd be staying at our apartment with Teddy while Ana, Sean, Shannon, Kate, Elliott and I celebrated Ana's twenty-fifth birthday at the Four Seasons. I'd already given everyone a stern talking to that we would not be having a repeat of my twenty fifth, and to check their shit at the door or don't bother coming.

"I know, but I won't be here." Her hand finds her breasts and it's amazing that my dick has learned what it means when she touches them with our son in her hand. "What if he runs out of milk?"

"Do you know how much you pumped for?" She darts her eyes around the room before looking back down.

"Maybe I should again."

"Anastasia, he'll be fine. You pumped enough for two days and we're going to be gone maybe fifteen hours." I already know the second Ana opens her eyes tomorrow morning, hungover or not she'll be booking it back here to see our baby.

"That's a long time, Christian!" She looks down at Teddy. "I don't think I can do it."

"Baby… we talked about this."

"But that was before! I can't leave him. It's too soon." She shakes her head and moves out of our bedroom and towards the nursery. I'm on the move immediately behind her, wondering how in the world I was going to convince her that she was leaving this apartment one way or another.

"Ana." I say her name calmly and watch as she places him in the crib.

"No Christian, I just…"

"You were so excited, baby. Remember? Wearing clothes that didn't have spit up on them? Getting drunk with Sean and Kate like in college? Followed by hot and sweaty sex with me?"

"We can do all of those things here, Christian." She pleads. "We can give your parents our room at the Four Seasons."

"And where are Kate and Elliott going to stay? Here? No. Because I don't need them hearing what I have planned for you." I raise an eyebrow at her and run my tongue over my lips as I indicate just what I have planned for her, and more importantly that space between her legs.

"Christian…" She pouts and I can already see where this is going. Fuck she's going to break me down if I don't get back-up here, ASAP. And as if the Gods could hear my prayer, I hear keys in the door and a booming flooding my living room.

"LET'S GET DRUNK MOTHER FUCKERS!"

Bingo.

"Fine. You can tell Sean, that the night he's been looking forward to for WEEKS, is now being cancelled." I cross my arms and point towards the living room and she growls at me as she passes by. I slap her ass as she walks by and she shoots me a glare, though I'd bet every dollar I have that she liked it.

"Hi Seanny!" She gives him a small smile as he puts a paper bag on the counter.

"I brought tequila and vodka and whiskey." He says as he points to the bag. "Is little dude awake?"

"Well if he wasn't, he probably is now with your loud ass entrance."

"Oh perfect. I told Shannon we'd facetime her."

"Where is she, anyway?" I ask, knowing that Sean and Shannon together would be no match for my wife. And just wait till Kate got here.

"She had to work late, she's meeting us at the hotel. Why aren't you dressed?" He asks as he pulls his suit jacket off and nods at Ana. "I mean, I wasn't expecting you to be completely ready, but I was expecting you to at least to have your hair done. C, want a beer?" He nods at me and I nod as I wait for Ana to drop this bomb.

"Sean…" she lets out a sigh and puts her hands on her hips.

Sean lets his beer drop from his lips and stares back and forth between us. "Oh I think the fuck not. Get your ass dressed, Banana."

She frowns and looks at me. "Christian…"

"No, you got it." I nod at her. "Go on."

"You are not bailing, Anastasia Rose. So help me, GOD. I will hurt you."

"Christian!" She looks at me and I already know what that means, you're going to let him say that!

I look at her, and narrow my eyes slightly. "I'll allow it."

She stamps her foot. "This is so unfair! Neither of you just had a baby!"

"Oh wowwww. You know I could have sworn, I did too?" My eyes widen as I cross my hands over my chest.

"You know what I mean! I'm his mother, he was inside me and he might need me!"

"I'm his father, and you didn't just have a baby. It's been almost two months. You can leave him alone for one night with his very capable and world renowned pediatrician, grandmother."

"Little dude will be fine. Ana, come on this is your twenty-fifth!" Sean adds.

"I know but…"

"Kate and Elliott are flying here for it! We have dinner reservations that took C months to get!"

"Hardly. Christian can get us reservations with one name drop, don't bullshit me."

"Well… not at restaurants where everyone name drops to get in. There are bigger names than us that go to this restaurant." And this was true. I was actually on a waitlist to get a private room at this particular restaurant. Just last week Cameron Diaz rented the very same room.

"I don't want to go. I don't want to leave Teddy!"

"You're going Ana, I don't care if I have to tranquilize you and drag you to the hotel by your hair." He opens the tequila. "Now here, have a shot and pipe the fuck down."

"We can just drink here!"

"And then we have to be worried about waking Teddy up? The point is for you guys to let loose. Teddy is not going to forget you, Ana. I know you're worried something could happen, but we'll be ten minutes away. A quick cab ride. If something happens, WHICH IT WON'T, then you can be back in a flash. Seriously."

She looks at me and I can see the tears forming in her eyes and I realize that maybe I should take it from here. "Sean we'll be back." I tell him.

He waves us off, already opening our refrigerator and pulling out everything he can get his hands on. I pull her into our bedroom and shut the door behind us. I don't even have to reach for her, she's in my arms before I can blink. Her arms wrapped around my neck and pushed flush against me. I hoist her into my arms and stroke her back slowly before sitting on our bed. "What are you worried about, huh?"

"Christian…" she sniffles and I pull her face away from my neck and look at my beautiful but very teary eyed wife. Her eyes are so dark, the blue amplified by her tears and it tugs at my heart. "I'm just a little nervous."

"I know. But would I push this if I didn't think you were ready? That we were all ready? It was hard for me to be away from you and Teddy when I went back to work, but it was okay. And this is going to be okay."

"Yes but at least you knew I was here with Teddy. Neither of us are going to be here."

"But my mother will be." She nibbles on her bottom lip and I reach forward and pull it from her teeth. "Okay how about this, we just go for dinner, and if you're still feeling this way, then we won't stay out. Just dinner."

"Just… dinner?" Her eyes clear up slightly.

"Just dinner."

"Oh...kay. And we'll come straight home?"

"If that's what you want."

"You promise?"

"Have I ever lied to you? Or broken any promises to you?" I frown slightly as I wonder what would make her ask me that.

"No." She lets out a breath. "Okay, I can do dinner."

"Good girl." I press my lips to hers. "Now get dressed. I saw that silver dress you bought for tonight, I'm already looking forward to getting you out of it." I tell her as I pull her to her feet and kiss her nose. "Regardless of where we end up tonight, I'll be ripping it from your body."

She smiles and heads into our bathroom as I make my way back into the living room where I see Sean holding my son in one hand and a phone in the other.

"You fucking kidding? You woke him up?" I ask, knowing that Ana is a little unstable right now, and seeing his tiny grey eyes looking up at her will not help us getting her out of here for the night. "I barely got Ana to agree to dinner… I was hoping to get her out of the house while he was still asleep." The plan is to get her out for dinner and for her to realize that it wasn't so bad and she would be okay with staying out for the entire night. Here's hoping.

"When I went in his room, he was awake, he wanted to hangout with Uncle Sean, right little dude?" I hear cooing from the other side of his phone and I look over and see Shannon on the screen.

"Hey Shan."

"Hey Grey!" She waves. "I seriously cannot get enough of your baby. Are you sure he can't come too?" Her eyes are pleading and I swear I see stars in them, but I think it has more to do with the fact that her boyfriend is holding a baby than anything.

My eyes widen and I stare at Sean and point at the phone. "Handle that. If Ana hears that we are fu-" I look down at the gurgling baby in my best friends arms. "F-U-C-K-E-D."

"Babe, chill. Christian just got Ana, sated." I flick him off, irritated both by his comment and by the fact that I wasn't actually inside of her like he insinuated.

There's a knock on the front door, followed by someone coming through it. How many people have fucking keys to our apartment, Jesus!

"Knock knock! Where's the birthday girl!" I see curled blonde hair pushing through the door followed by my brother behind her, holding their bags. "Hey guys! Teddy!" She squeals and immediately reaches for him and Sean backs up.

"Chill. I had him first."

"What the heck! Lemme hold him!" She leans forward and kisses his head and then his nose. "Hi bunny! Tell Uncle Sean to let Aunt Kate hold you!" She looks at the phone that he still has up. "Hey Shan!"

And Kate is already behaving. Good. I knew all four of these people were wild cards, but I really hope they've heeded my warnings because I was NOT playing around this time. No one could ruin Ana's birthday. And I fucking meant that.

"Hey, Kate!" I hear chirped from the other end, and while Shannon is the nicest of all of us, I know Sean probably told her to just play nice with Kate.

"Sup bro! Where's my favorite sis in law?" I hug my brother as he looks around.

"She's getting ready… and… she's a little skittish about leaving Teddy, so everyone just… no one say anything to her until I get her out of the house." I chuckle and Kate frowns.

"What do you mean?"

"She was trying to bail!" Sean whispers.

"WHAT!" Kate shrieks and before I can stop her she's taking off towards my bedroom.

"Kate, I got…." I go after her when my brother wraps a hand around my arm.

"Let her handle it." Elliott tells me.

"She's just going to be… well Kate. And Ana is sensitive right now. Tough love is not going to work!" My eyes drift towards my bedroom and when I look back at Sean and Elliott I see Elliott pouring a shot for me. Sean is still cradling Teddy and talking to him.

Twenty minutes later, Kate and Ana make their way out of the bedroom and instantly my dick twitches and I feel it hardening in my pants. The red dress that looks like it was made for her body is calling out to every part of my body. It hugs every one of her delicious curves and it doesn't help that her lips are painted the same color. "Fuck." I say way louder than I intended and Sean and Elliott groan.

"Are you kidding me? So should we just go ahead and move our reservations back?" Sean asks as he downs his beer. I'm holding Teddy in my arms, holding the bottle that's tucked firmly between his lips as he sucks and part of me does wish I was watching him suck from Ana's nipple because it truly was an erotic sight.

Ana doesn't even react to Sean's comment, her eyes having zeroed in on me and Teddy. She moves towards me instantly and sits next to me and holds her hands out for me to give him to her.

"You're wearing a very expensive dress that can't afford spit up, Steele." Kate tells her and she waves her off.

"Please let me feed him before I go." She looks up at me and pouts, her eyes blink a few times, and she peeks up at me through her eyelashes. God I can't deny her anything anyway, but I'm putty in her hands when she looks at me like that.

"Of course, baby. Let me just get you a towel, okay?" I know I'm placating her a bit, but I knew this was the way to get her out. I grab the biggest towel from our closet and all but wrap her in it, just in case Teddy did decide to lose it all over the dress that I wasn't sure I wanted to know the cost. She leaves the living room without another word and moves to the nursery.

My parents were due here any minute, and I can only hope that he falls asleep before we go. I kneel next to her as she sits in the rocker. "It's going to be okay, Ana. You know that right?"

She pulls her gaze away from Teddy and looks at me. "I'm sorry, I'm being so silly." She whispers.

"Not silly, this is the first time away from Teddy. I understand you being nervous. But I promise, it'll be okay. And Teddy will probably sleep the majority of the time we're gone. He won't even realize you're gone, baby." I press a kiss to his head and then her cheek. "I love you so much, you know that? Teddy is so lucky to have you as a mother."

Her lip trembles and she nods. "I can do it."

"Yes you can. And I'll be right there with you."

Ana had barely let go of my hand since we left our apartment. The entire ride here she was quiet, and cuddled up beside me, despite Kate yammering a mile a minute next to her. I stroked her hand and gave her tiny kisses on her face, knowing she was only holding on by a thread. I was pleased when she cracked a smile when she saw our private dining room and she doesn't even try to hide her appreciation when she pulls me into a hug and a very obscene kiss that caused a few cat calls out of Sean and Elliott.

"This is so nice, thank you!" She whispers against my lips as she takes in the room. I had silver balloons in the shape of a 2 and 5 spread out all over. Black, silver and gold balloons line the ceiling and there's a bar tucked into the corner. A round dark mahogany table is sat in the center of the room and there are more red roses than I've ever given her at one time.

"There's more upstairs." I press a kiss to her neck and before she can protest I stop her. "If we leave, Taylor will go up and get everything, okay?" She nods and sits down scooting her chair a little closer to me so she can hold my hand again.

"Okay, how about a round of shots and then we can pop this bubbly." Sean says as he makes his way to the bar. "Or Ana do you want a margarita?"

"No… I mean…" she looks around at all of us and then at Sean. "I'll have a shot of tequila."

"Atta girl!" He cheers as he pops open the bottle of Patron.

"Do you want your gifts now?" I rub her hand gently and she cocks her head slightly.

"You and I always do gifts in private." I nod knowing that was true because ten out of ten times we wanted to have sex immediately after.

"Well I got you something." Kate bounces up and down and hands it to Ana. A small size box perfectly wrapped with a pink bow and she smiles. "You're going to love it."

I watch as she opens it and her eyes light up when she sees the gold bar with numbers etched into the metal. "What… what is it?" She looks up at her best friend and smiles.

"The coordinates for Harvard." She smiles.

Ana springs to her feet and wraps Kate in a hug. "I LOVE sharing a Pinterest account with you! I love it, I love it!"

"I figured Harvard was the best time in our lives. And it also double for where you met that one." She points at me and Ana turns around and meets my gaze.

"Thank you, Kate. This is amazing. She holds the necklace to her chest. I'll cherish it forever."

They hug again and I hear a pop of a cork followed by Sean's voice. "Everyone grab a glass." We all follow suit and Sean holds his up. "To Ana, the glue that holds us all together. I know it took a little bit to get you out of the house, but I hope you enjoy tonight. You're one of my favorite people in the world, and I love you like the sister I should have had." He smiles. "Happy birthday, Banans."

Ana giggles as we all clink our glasses together and I'll admit I'm only slightly irritated that Sean got the first toast of the night to my wife. I let it go as her birthday was officially tomorrow and I did have something special prepared for later.

Halfway through appetizers, Ana perks her head up. "Did anyone bring cards?" Everyone looks at her including myself and she frowns slightly. "What? Everyone wanted to get me drunk and now I'm on my way there… so we kicking this party into high gear or what? I assume my husband got this private room because we are embarrassing."

Sean is immediately on his feet. "I'll be back." He doesn't say anything else before he's out the door and Ana frowns.

He better come back with a beer bong that's all I'm saying. She says as she takes another long gulp of her champagne. "Thank you so much for getting me out." She looks at me and rubs her hand over mine. "You are so good to me."

"I would do anything for you." I lean forward and rub my nose against hers.

"I think… I think I'll be okay with staying the night." She murmurs against my mouth and I can't stop the smile from spreading across my lips or my dick from rising knowing that if she's already tipsy at ten, by the time we get to bed she'll be very enthusiastic about spending the rest of the night on my dick in some form.

I tuck a hair behind her ear. "There's a club next door, do you want to go?"

"I do love dancing with you." She giggles and I nod at her.

"Your wish is my command. Just after midnight, alright? I have something planned for that."

Her eyes light up and she looks around the room like maybe something was hiding in plain sight. "Can I have it now?"

"No no. Not till midnight."

She pouts and goes to protest when Sean comes back in with a bag over his shoulder. "I prayed to the Gods that we would get here." He pulls a rack of solo cups out of his bag and a beer bong. "Flip cup anyone?"

An hour later, I'd had a long rectangular table brought in and Ana myself and Elliott were on one side while Kate, Sean and Shannon were on the other. We'd gone through at least thirty beers and a bottle of champagne and were now crossing over into dangerous territories.

"Who decided to put vodka in those cups!" Ana giggles as she sways slightly into me as we've just finished another round of the game that always pushed us all over the edge. I pull her into my arms and she melts instantly and presents her lips to me. "Mmmm you're so cute."

I was half expecting someone to make a smart ass comment but I happen to catch Kate and Elliott having a similar interaction out of the corner of my eye. "It's getting a little late, do you want to check in on Teddy again before you get toooo drunk?" I laugh, knowing that we were already well on our way to that.

Her eyes perk up and she nods her head. "Yes! Can we call home?"

I nod and pull her into a corner of the room away from the prying eyes and press the facetime button. In a matter of seconds, I see my mother in the picture and my father who was holding Teddy in the corner of the screen.

"He's fine, guys. He's asleep."

"Can we see him?" Ana asks and my mom holds the phone over his tiny face. He yawns slightly and opens his eyes and I think Ana is going to lose it. "My little blip." She presses her fingers to the screen. "Mommy misses you so much."

"Awww, he misses you too, but he's having fun with grandma and grandpa!" She pulls the screen away from him and looks at us. "Guys have fun, you deserve a night out. I'm so proud of you both. We'll see you in the morning?"

Ana nods and grips my arm tighter as I end the call. She doesn't say anything for a second before she looks at me with a wicked smirk on her face. "Can we go upstairs for a second… you know, for old times' sake?" She giggles and I remember that used to be our code phrase whenever we wanted to get away from the party in college.

"Now?" I ask, my dick already halfway out the door and upstairs in the suite I'd rented for us. She nods again and bites her lip for good measure, and then we're on the move.

"We're going to go fuck, we'll be back." There was no point in hiding it and the way Shannon was all but sitting in Sean's lap at the table, I wouldn't be surprised if they were a beat behind us.

Ana's hands have somehow found their way into my slacks and she grinds her body against mine in the elevator. "Baby baby… we're almost there." I let my eyes shut as the sensations of her body against mine and her lips on my neck take over my body. Fuck, she's hot.

"I just want a little taste, now. Please?" I felt Ana getting a little handsy as we walked through the restaurant, so I sent Taylor up first, knowing that Ana didn't care about having an audience, and would probably try to mount me even if he was in the elevator with us.

"Shit, Ana. You're killing me, baby." I rub the back of her head and guide her face towards mine so I can kiss her perfect lips. They were stained bright red, a color she wore when I knew she wanted to leave a trail of kisses all over my body. "We can't be up here long."

"You and I both know, that you're the one who can't stop once you start."

"I do believe that both of us have that issue, Mrs. Grey." I shoot her a look. "Especially once I put my mouth…" I run my hand down her body and under her dress. "Here." She shivers against me and I take the opportunity to run my fingers underneath her barely there panties and rub her folds. "This dress is short as fuck. Don't let me catch you bending over, unless I'm directly behind you." I demand.

"I thought you'd like it."

"I do. I love whenever you wear something I can easily get off with my teeth." I whisper in her ear and her knees buckle.

The elevator stops for our floor and I see Taylor waiting to lead us to our suite. Sawyer was still downstairs, as he was instructed to stay with our friends in case there was any issues. "Taylor, in ten minutes, just give us a knock."

Ana, who'd been staring up at me on most of our walk towards our room snaps her head to Taylor and then back to me. "Ten minutes? Taylor, twenty."

"Baby…" She frowns and I lean down and nip her ear with my teeth. "You and I both know I only need ten minutes to get us off, hell I can probably get you off twice."

"But… maybe I want more than twice." Her voice is low. "And maybe I want you to get off more than once."

"Later." I mouth at her. I pull her into our suite and before the door is fully closed the dress is over her head and placed on an empty chair. My eyes devour her delicious curves as she slides her panties down her legs leaving her completely naked. "Fuck me, Anastasia."

She beckons me with her finger and sits on the bed spreading her legs for me. I pull off my jacket and undo my slacks and slide them and my underwear down my legs, not bothering to take off my shoes before I haul her ass to the edge of the bed. I slide into her instantly, her pussy sucking me deep inside of her and making me feel like I could come before I even thrust once. "Christian!" She screams.

"Fuck." I growl. I've fucked Ana already twice today and I feel like it's been days with the way my dick is already ready to explode. How is it possible, that it's still this good? How has our sex life not lessened in intensity at all?

Those heels of hers dig into my ass, the point of her stiletto pushing harder and harder. "Harder, baby."

The way I was fucking her it felt like I might split her open with how hard I was thrusting, but knowing my wife, I'm sure she'd welcome it. "I'm gonna come, Ana."

"Please."

"Wait." I growl and her eyes fly open. "On your hands and knees." Her eyes light up as I pull out of her, my dick slick with her arousal and then she's in position waiting for me to fuck her from behind. I wrap her hair in my hand as I push into her and she cries out. I begin fucking her harder, my hand still in her silky locks, while one reaches around and touches her clit. My balls slap her sex every time I thrust and her clenching around me lets me know that she's close. Very close.

"Baby, I'm so close!" She screams and it's as if her words push me closer to the edge because I begin to pulse inside of her. My balls tighten, the cum preparing itself to flood her pussy.

"I'm going to come, Ana."

"Yes. Yes. Yes!" She screams and I see her push her face into the mattress and her hands grab the sheets. "Oh my God, I'm there." Her screams ricochet off the walls of the room and has a direct line with my dick which spurs my orgasm, shooting my seed inside of her.

Ana wasn't on any kind of birth control, and while I wasn't coming inside of her every time because we weren't exactly ready for baby two, sometimes we couldn't help it.

I'm hovering over her back, trying not to put too much weight on her, both of us breathing like we've run a marathon. I rest my head on her back once I pull out of her and press a kiss to the skin that had a thin layer of sweat coating it. "You're so fucking beautiful." I murmur into her skin as I lay down next to her, and look up at her as she's still on her hands and knees.

She drops down next to me and snuggles closer to me, wrapping her body around mine like ivy and I relish in the feeling of her pressed up against me. "I'm so glad we're here." I'm about to suggest a round two when our phones begin to ring.

"Ugh, go away." She whines as she props herself up and sits on top of me, her wet pussy rubbing against my cock and making it spring to life.

"Baby, it's your birthday soon, don't you want to celebrate with-" I start to say our friends when she interrupts me.

"Your cock? Yes please." She beams and I chuckle as I remember that Ana is slightly drunk already, which means she's horny. as. fuck. And I wasn't far behind her.

"I thought you wanted to go next door?" I ask her, knowing that after spending it with my cock, spending the night dancing is a close second.

She side eyes me slightly and stands up. "Fine… but don't get too drunk. I want birthday sex tonight."

"Well look who's decided to grace us with their presence." Kate teases as we walk back into the private room. Ana's hair is slightly disheveled, her lipstick is long gone and my lips are slightly red from our making out. My hair was slightly unkempt from Ana tugging on it, and I'd left my jacket in the room. Ana wraps her arms around me and gives Kate her middle finger before she starts giggling.

"So we were thinking of going next door? Taylor has already gone ahead to secure a table and make sure it's not too crazy over there." I tell them. It was odd to always have that in the back of my mind now. Long gone were the days of being able to move from bar to bar without a care in the world of how safe the location was. Ana's safety was my number one priority and it pissed me the fuck off when the paps wouldn't leave her the fuck alone. And it was even more intense when her and I were out together.

Everyone wanted a piece of us.

The six of us walk through the door of Envy, a club on a rooftop known for it's strong cocktails. Ana is already teetering past slightly drunk and I wonder how long she was going to last before she was going to need to go home and lay down. And she accused me of being the one who wouldn't be able to have sex. It was the constant back and forth between us when we drank together. Which one would prevent us from fooling around later?

We are nestled in a booth in a corner, Kate and Elliott are across from us in their own little world while Shannon and Sean went to grab us drinks. Ana moves into my lap and her eyebrows furrow slightly as she looks back and forth between the crowd and me. She purses her lips when she turns back to me. "That girl is staring at you."

It hasn't registered exactly what she said as my lips are dragging the length of her neck and behind my ear and her ass is perched firmly on my cock. I barely had any coherent thoughts when she was sitting on me like this. "Hmmm baby?"

"That girl." She pulls away and blatantly points in her direction. "She's staring."

"Don't point." I scold her slightly, only because Ana does get off on me telling her what to do at times.

"I don't care. She needs to keep her eyes to herself." She frowns, as I think she hears what she just said and then turns back to me. "It's not like how women normally look at you. It's like she knows you."

"Baby, who cares. Your birthday is in…" I look at my watch. "Twenty minutes and I don't want to spend it thinking about some other woman that doesn't even fucking matter. No one else matters but you, sweetheart." I did have plans for Ana once we got back to our room, but I did want to do something special for when the clock struck midnight. "Can you wait here for me? I'm just going to talk to Taylor, okay?"

"Is everything okay?" She asks and I nod.

"Yep, five minutes."

She accepts my answer and moves off of my lap. I hit Elliott in the shoulder once I leave the booth, effectively pulling his lips off of Kate. "What?"

I point at Ana and he rolls his eyes before he nods as I head towards the main bar. After ordering a few bottles of champagne with sparklers wedged inside, I make my way to the DJ booth, to request a song for midnight. I wasn't sure what I wanted to request, knowing that a slow song probably wouldn't go over well in this high energy club.

The alcohol swirling around me, coupled with being out a club with Ana and Sean and Kate and Elliott, transport me back to a time where we did this all the time and I smile as a song comes to mind. I request it for midnight and slip him a hundred bucks to make sure he wishes her happy birthday. I'm almost back to the table when I feel a hand on my arm. I turn to see the source, and immediately scanning the room for Taylor when I see who it is.

"Leila?"

"Mr. Grey." Her eyes are glazed, her cheeks are flushed and she's wearing a top that is far too revealing. Is it my imagination or is she pushing her breasts up and closer to me?

"What are you doing here?" I wonder if she was around when Andrea was making my hotel reservations, leading her to believe I may show up here. Shit, was I just paranoid?

"It's a bar, and it's a Friday night." She giggles and I don't miss the way she twirls her hair around her finger.

"No I know but… did you know I'd be here?" I hadn't completely given up my thoughts that Leila had inappropriate feelings for me, but I did know I needed to lay off before Andrea and Ros completely castrated me. They had apologized for their slight tantrums last week, and while I forgave them, I know they're still uneasy and feeling overworked and stressed out. Little did they know, I'd already been looking for Leila's replacement.

She had to go.

"No, I live near here."

I wrack my brain, trying to remember her address, because I find it hard to believe that she lives in this area, as I know the rent is unbelievably high, and I know what we are paying her. "Okay, well have a good night."

"Wait!" She says. "Can I meet your friends?"

"No. And that's not appropriate of you to ask." I feel myself sobering slightly as I plan to reprimand this employee of mine for being literally out her damn mind.

"I just… I've talked to Sean and Kate and your brother… and… you know, Ana."

What the fuck does that even mean? "That's Mrs. Grey."

Her cheeks redden further and she blows out a breath. "Right."

"My answer is still no, Miss Williams. I'll see you on Monday." I go to pull away when she stops me again.

"I'm really not that bad." She tells me. "I don't know why you hate me so much." She sways slightly and I know it's time to play that card.

"I don't hate you, but you're drunk and I'm your boss, you really should consider your audience. I'm not amused or pleased and I don't have time for this. I'm here with my family and my wife." I look down at my wrist, realizing it's been longer than five minutes and we were inching closer to midnight. "Now if you'll excuse me…"

I feel her without knowing she's behind me and when I turn around she's still behind me. Following me.

"Are you kidding? Go." I grit out at her as I point away. "Do not make me fire you."

"You can't fire me?" She squeaks, her eyes wide and unblinking. "I'm allowed to go out and drink."

"Watch me. And while yes you can, this behavior is inappropriate, and if you think I'm not reporting this to HR on Monday you have another thing coming."

"But, Christian." I am about to lose it at this blatant disregard for boundaries when I hear her.

"Mr. Grey." I hear her voice booming over the music and then I see red in my peripherals. I see my wife in red… seeing red. Her eyes are narrowed slits and she crosses her arms over her chest. "Who the fuck are you?"

Leila visibly shakes under Ana's gaze. "I w-work for Mr. Grey."

"I gathered as much. But he is not Christian. Don't let me ever hear you address him that way again. He's not your friend, he's your boss. He's nothing more." She turns her face towards me and our eyes are having the conversation that we can't speak before she turns back to her.

"What's your name?" Her voice is even, and while I know she's very drunk she's the picture of professionalism.

"Leila Williams." She says. "I've heard a lot about you, Mrs. Grey."

"I'll bet you have. Well the only thing you need to know about me…" she takes a step forward and Leila takes a step back. "Is I am not someone you want to mess with."

She gulps, her eyes widening further. "I-"

"Now, my birthday is in approximately one minute. And as lovely as this interaction has been, I would prefer to not bring it in with you." She says and then her hand is in mine and she's tugging me through the crowd to the other side.

Once we are through the crowd, I pull her into my arms. "Is that… is that who you said was staring at me?"

She nods. "You should have seen the look in her eye. She totally wants you. I'm sorry I didn't believe you." She wraps her arms around herself. "I almost saw red when she touched you."

"And there's the woman I married. Where has she been?" I tease.

"I thought you were overreacting… and… I really am trying not to lose it. I was a rational person before you got your hooks in me, remember?" I was proud that Ana, was finally realizing that she had no reason to ever be jealous or insecure, but I would be lying if I didn't say it didn't turn me the fuck on watching her put women in their place.

I pinch her side at her choice of words. "I'm getting rid of her."

"She's so...odd, I can't put my finger on it. She's not like women who explicitly flirt, but it's like she's pretending to be this naive young woman… trying to make you think she doesn't know any better."

The music stops, effectively stopping Ana from talking when I hear the announcement blaring through the speakers.

"This one goes out to Ana. Happy twenty-fifth from your husband. I've loved you since the moment I saw you dancing to this song eight years ago." I hear people cheering for Ana, and screaming happy birthday, for this person they didn't know, and it made me grateful that I had the foresight not to use our last names.

"That's me! It's my birthday!" She cheers and presses her lips to mine. "What song, what song?"

I see Kate, Elliott, Sean and Shannon making their way towards us just as the first few beats of Summertime Sadness blares through the speakers and a smile finds her face that makes me forget that I was irritated because of Leila.

"Oh my God, I can't believe you remember that." She chuckles as she remembers that song was playing the first time I laid eyes on her. "Come on." She pulls me back into the crowd of people dancing and rubs that perfect ass of hers into my crotch, wiggling it in a circle against me and making me wish we were alone so I could lift her dress and slip inside of her. She spins in my arms, her arms raised to the ceiling as she moves to the beat and it's like I'm eighteen all over again, hard as a rock as I watch the hottest girl I've ever laid eyes on, hop off a stool and make her way towards me to introduce herself. Now said hot girl is my very hot wife and my very hot mother of my child. Damn where did the time go?

Kiss me hard before you go.

I pull her hard towards me. "Happy birthday, baby." I groan against her lips as I pour everything I can into the kiss. It's messy and sloppy, our tongues and teeth clashing every few seconds.

I just wanted you to know, that baby you're the best. I hear through the speakers.

"The fucking best." I growl in her mouth and she giggles.

"I think I'm ready to go upstairs now." She whispers and I nod, knowing that I was just as ready to be alone with her. "I want to fuck you."

Yep, the window of us having sex is closing. Her eyes are slightly glazed and hooded, and while I think she's in a slight sex haze, I also know she's pretty drunk now.

Just when I thought that going upstairs was going to be our next move, Sean is in front of us holding shots in his hand, two of which are for me and Ana. "Happy birthday, Banans!" He cheers and I notice that Elliott, Kate and Shannon are all holding small cups of the clear liquid.

"Baby," I look at Ana as I know we are getting to that point in the night, where shots are not a good idea for her. But before I can advise against it, she grabs the shot from Sean and holds it up.

"Yay!" She clinks the glasses with all of us and I hold off on taking mine as I watch all my friends and my wife down the drink. "Take it!" She points at it and giggles and I shake my head.

"Not yet, come." I pull her towards the table to grab our stuff when I notice something sparkly out of the corner of my eye. Fuck. More booze. I did not think this through.

It hadn't occurred to me that Ana was drinking much faster than I was and she was probably getting close to the end of her rope. "Oh! I've never had these!" She scoots in the booth and waves everyone over as they pop the champagne for her. Kate and Shannon take about a million pictures and I'll admit, I am pleased at how happy Ana is. I was going to tell her that she only needed one sip when I see her down the whole glass and Sean pours her a second.

"Baby…"

"Dude, it's fine, it's her birthday. And you're going right upstairs." Sean says in an effort to calm me.

"Okay, I'll be sure to send her to your room to redecorate your bathroom."

"Yeah okay." He rolls his eyes as he knows that I would never send Ana anywhere, especially if she needs me. "Besides doesn't usually puke."

"We aren't twenty one anymore. And she's drinking like a fucking frat boy."

"Hey, I resent that." Sean jokes. "Look, let's just get her some food and some water and she'll be fine."

"Kate and I want to go to another bar!" Ana does a shimmy in her seat and Kate nods her head vigorously.

"Yes it's only a few streets over!"

I pull Ana towards me and press my lips to her neck, as I try to distract her from this horrible idea. "I thought you wanted to go upstairs and fuck?"

"No… well yes… but can we go here first? You were so right about getting out, and who knows when we will be able to do so again? We should make the most of it!"

"Ana…"

"Come on dude, it'll be fun." Elliott nods at us as Kate has basically climbed into his lap and is leaving kisses on his cheek and neck. Since when did they become me and Ana?

I look at Shannon, wondering if maybe she would be some back up or the voice of reason or something helpful, but she just looks at me, as she's just taken a large gulp of champagne. Her cheeks are slightly puffed out as she's holding it there and she gives me a look that says sorry… I am pretty sure I'm one of you guys now.

I shoot her a slight glare and she winces. You're not helping, Winters.

"Please." Ana's bottom lip juts out and I put my head in my hands, not thrilled about being further away from where we are sleeping tonight especially as Ana is crossing into dangerous territories.

"You need some water." I point at her. "And to not let go of my hand the entire time we're there." I warn her.

She nods. "Yes, yes!" She presses my cheeks together, and plants a wet kiss on my lips.

I chuckle. "Alright, let me send Taylor ahead to secure everything."

She presses a kiss to my cheek and hugs me. "Thank you! This is going to be so fun!"

God let's hope.

A/N: I decided at like 5,000 words that I wanted more drama, so I decided a part two was needed for that ;) Stay tuned!