Falling Undercover

Chapter 28

"I'm sorry. Do I know you?" Ana was confused when she peered into the brown eyes of the man in front of her. He looks oddly familiar, but Ana can't seem to recall where she has seen the man or what his name is.

"We've not been formally introduced. My name is Special Agent Randy Cable. I'm one of the men working with Chris on this case. I need you to come with me immediately before your shadow shows up. We have reason to believe that Ryan is working with Mr. Rodriguez." Ana was alarmed. She knew that there were other men that Chris had shadowing her, but she wasn't aware that they would ever approach her.

"I'm not sure what you're talking about." Ana tried to play dumb. Why would this man be here instead of Christian himself? Surely he would show up in person if he felt she was indeed in danger.

"Ma'am after the events of last night, Grey felt that it would be best if I approached you. Now we need to hurry before Ryan sees us and reports your location to Rodriguez." Ana's panic was rising. She had told no one of what transpired between herself and Christian last night. Being the upstanding guy he is, Christian would have reported his true identity being revealed. Ana knew this man had to be telling the truth.

"Where are we going?" Ana had already looked back and could see Ryan's head popping up over the crowd trying to find her. He would meet up with them in less than a minute if they didn't hurry. It made sense that he was working with Jose. How else did Jose know where Ana was before each attack? How did Jose find her in Bainbridge? How did he know they would be in Portland and where to find her?

"We need to move quickly. We've secured a safe house and need to get you there fast. You'll need to call your office and your security chief. Tell them that you're with me and won't be in today. They should tell everyone that you are working from home. I'll have to take your phone after that so Ryan can't try and track you that way." Ana and Cable moved quickly. They managed to get in the car and pull out of the parking lot before Ryan made it to the spot where Ana and Cable had been standing. Ana could see his panic rising and the cell phone lifting to his ear as he turned in circles looking for her.

Ana held her phone to her ear as she dialed Luke to tell him what was going on. She would call Andrea after that. Her schedule had been rearranged so many times in the last week. Ana hoped that with the probability of Jose being the bad guy and her trip to a safe house would mean that things could go back to normal on Monday.

"Miss Steele, if you're done with your phone calls, I'm going to need your cell phone now," Cable asked for the phone from the front seat, holding his hand out waiting for her to hand him the phone.

"Sure, can you just turn it off? I keep a lot of import…" Ana stopped mid-sentence when she witnessed Cable rolling down the window and tossing her phone out the window.

"It's the safest way. Get comfortable, we have a bit of a drive before we get to the safe house. I'm sure you'll be happy to see who is waiting for you when we get there." Ana thought of Christopher and then corrected herself again. Christian Grey. Her Christopher is Christian Grey. He told her it was all real. She would wait to ask Luke who Christian's boss was and would call that guy and talk to him. Ana knew that she could ask Cable her questions, but she didn't want any miscommunications.


"Grey!" Christian startled awake at the boom of the voice in his ear. "What are you doing sleeping beauty? You're supposed to be with Miss Steele."

Christian could feel the sunlight hitting his face as he listened to Taylor bark at him. "Someone failed to include the fact that my brother is Miss Kavanaugh's boyfriend. We were supposed to have dinner last night, and when my brother saw me, he blurted out my real name. It didn't take Kate long to connect my mother to me, and everything went downhill from there. Miss Steele kicked me out of her apartment and barred me from her properties." Christian hated admitting to his failure in his job as an undercover.

"You did it, didn't you? I told you not to get close, and you fell anyways. What the hell were you thinking Grey? Did I not teach you better? I know we're close to getting the guy, but you can't risk yourself like that when you're undercover. How many of these accidents of hers have occurred because you weren't thinking with the correct brain?" For the next ten minutes, Taylor berated Christian about the pitfalls of falling for a target during an undercover investigation. It didn't matter if the target was a suspect or vital informant, you weren't supposed to develop feelings and fall while undercover. An agent focused on the emotion of the target let his own emotions cloud his judgment. Christian knew that he allowed his affection for Ana to cloud his thinking on many occasions.

"I did. You don't have to write me up though, as soon as the Papz is in custody, I'm going to turn in my notice. I can't do this anymore. I need to be here in Seattle. I've avoided my family for fifteen years. It's time I came home and fixed my relationships with them." Christian sat thinking of the best way to approach each one and work on repairing the damage he had done at the last dinner. He would need to start with Mia and his father. Elliot had his own demons and would need to accept the role his own actions contributed to Christian's behavior toward the family. Christian wanted a relationship with his brother. It was one of the things he wanted more than anything growing up. Brothers are supposed to be best friends, and Christian desperately wanted a best friend.

"I'll talk to you more when this case is done. No matter what, you'll have to report to New York to debrief when this is over. Looking at everything you did while you were drinking, we should be able to get this done before the end of the weekend. Now let's get out of Logan's office and to the conference room. I hate that prick and he's not happy about me being here and taking over." Taylor didn't wait for Christian to say anything before leaving him sitting on the couch in Logan's office and sauntering down the hall to the conference room.

Christian made a stop in the bathroom to freshen up and splash water on his face. He would send someone to collect his belongings from Ana's later so that he could change. For now, Christian would have to remain in the suit he wore to dinner last night.

Taylor took charge the minute Christian entered the office. "All right folks. We have a suspect finally and possible corroborating evidence to the inciting incident. So far the suspect matches the profile perfectly. An hour ago we received the remaining flight records for Jose Rodriguez Jr. He arrived in Seattle approximately four hours after the last body was found. I've just been informed that we have located a hotel room under Rodriguez's name. The warrant will be waiting for us when we arrive. There is a team currently serving warrants at Kavanaugh Media and the home of Ethan Kavanaugh looking for the alleged photos from the inciting incident in Portland. Grey, give a rundown of the trouble that Miss Steele has encountered in the past few weeks and then we will look to see if we can connect the suspect to each or not." Taylor stood at the head of the table with one hand resting on the maple wood while he looked around the room at the agents that could recite the facts of the case in their sleep now. Each agent knew the details of the case inside and out after living and breathing the Papz for the last five years.

"First up, Miss Steele was shot outside a restaurant two days after the Atlanta victim was found. The day the victim was found, Miss Steele received a package of photos and a letter warning that she was next. The photos weren't just of her. The prior victims' photographs were included, and each one was in some kind of duress during their assault. Next, she was drugged at a charity dinner. A new form of liquid ecstasy was dropped into a glass of champagne and served to her. The next incident was a car accident. Seattle PD confirmed that the brake line was sliced in a way that it would take up to a mile before the brakes actually failed. The next incident was a case of groping by an employee at the launch party for a new business. The jerk is in the custody of the Seattle PD at the moment for other assaults as well. Next, we returned to Miss Steele's apartment after the party to find the place trashed. The suspect had decided to redecorate for her. Next, at the end of a trip to Bainbridge, a trip that no one was informed of other than her head of SHE security, the home she owns in Bainbridge was set on fire. Arson has been confirmed, and the most damaged was done in her bedroom where the walls had been splashed with gasoline. Upon the return to work on Monday, Miss Steele got a new packet of photos taken over the weekend at Bainbridge. On Tuesday Miss Steele was accosted by our suspect. Miss Steele confided that she had been assaulted five years ago in Portland. Last night, after someone left the name of Kate Kavanaugh's boyfriend out of the folder, I discovered that Ana's friend Bob the Builder is my brother, Elliot Grey. My true identity was revealed over cocktails last night. I have been kicked out of Miss Steele's buildings and barred entrance. I'll need someone to go get my clothes at least from her place. That brings us up to now." Christian was exhausted thinking of all that has happened over the last few weeks.

"Agent Blake, I can connect all of these. After Agent Grey's diligent work last night, I was able to work up everything but how Rodriguez knew that Miss Steele was in Bainbridge and Portland. I would suggest a mole on her security team if we hadn't cleared everyone already." Christian stared at the man and waited for him to continue. "The prints from the Portland file are a match for all the others. The DNA is still running from Portland and will be compared samples from each murder as well as the glass left on Miss Steele's kitchen counter. Rodriguez was at the charity dinner. He was there as a photographer and used his press pass for his magazine to enter. The print on Miss Steele's car is consistent with the others. We can't place the suspect at the SIP party. However, the prints at the apartment place him there. The prints on the gas can match all the others. As for the file you received on Miss Kavanaugh though, I am at a loss. I did her background myself, and Elliot Grey was included. In fact, there is a file on him as well."

Christian scrubbed his face with his hands while mulling over the implications of a cleaned file. "The files Cable delivered to me didn't include Elliot anywhere. I didn't know that Ana's personal lawyer is my father until the morning he was scheduled to meet with her at her office, and it was luck that I needed to meet here with Cable and Logan when she was due to meet with my sister Mia."

"Someone call Cable. I want to know what he knows about all this." Taylor barked an order and waited for someone to do his bidding. "Grey, if you had to guess who might be sharing information who would it be."

"Luke Sawyer would know all her movements. Ryan might have been able to aid Rodriguez, but he wasn't there when the arrangements were made for Bainbridge. Plus, Ana told me that only her parents knew the exact location of the property. The place isn't even in her name. It's owned by Claire Standish." Christian chuckled to himself. Ana uses names from Molly Ringwald's 80s movie characters as her aliases. Her Bainbridge home is owned by the stuck up bitch from The Breakfast Club.

"Director, I can't get Cable on to answer his phone. It's going straight to voicemail, and I've already pinged it trying to get a location, and it looks like it's been dropped in Joggers Park." An agent Christian had never met looked perplexed.

"Sir, Cable is usually shadowing Miss Steele and I. Yesterday afternoon he informed me that he was going to be needed here to assist with the warrants and claimed that an agent by the name of Maxwell would be taking his place for the day." Christian sat and thought of how things weren't adding up.

The agent that had tried to call Cable stood up to introduce himself. "I'm agent Maxwell. Logan told me he wanted me in the field today, but Cable called me and told me that Logan decided it would be better to not swap out agents and that Cable would be staying to watch Miss Steele."

"Sir, I have a bad feeling. You might want to call Luke Sawyer and see what he has to say about Miss Steele's activities for the day. I don't think any information will be shared with me. It's almost eleven now. I want to get these warrants served, and then we need to locate Rodriguez, the reports state he left his hotel yesterday afternoon and never returned." Christian was worried. He hated to think that something happened to Ana already because he wasn't there. Cable and Ryan should be enough to cover for her. Maybe Sawyer has glued Ana to his side now.

Keeping to himself while people around him worked, Christian sat and thought of all the good memories he and Ana created while in Bainbridge. He would rebuild the house with his own hands if she gave him a second chance. Closing his eyes, Christian could see the curve of her hip as he ghosted his lips across her porcelain skin. Christian felt his hand tingle as he remembered the way she held onto his as he thrust into her slowly, forcing her to beg him to move faster. Christian felt every kiss, every caress, and the idea that he might never feel her bare and raw like that again left him forlorn.

"We got a problem. We need to get to SHE. Sawyer said Ana called this morning and told him that an agent that was working the case with Grey was taking her to a safe house. Sawyer said she failed to give him the name. The agent supposedly told her that Ryan was a mole for Rodriguez and she needed to move fast and not give out too much information yet. All she told him was that the agent came to her because of the situation with Grey's blown cover and they needed to tell everyone that she was working off-site today. Any ideas who it might be?" Taylor was already putting his jacket on when he told his team what was happening.

"Cable, damn it. That son of a bitch. He knew where we were. He didn't know about Bainbridge as far as I know though. But how the hell did he know about the blown cover? I told no one before you this morning?" Christian racked his brain trying to figure out what he was missing. "Cable would have been able to remove my brother's name from the files I got. He knew that we were having dinner last night. He could have been waiting. But how would he be sure of what occurred?"

Taylor looked up and shook his head in answer. "Maxwell, run everything you can on Cable. See if you can find a connection with Rodriguez. Someone get their ass to Steele's apartment and sweep the place for bugs. Grey, let's move. Grab those files on Rodriguez, we need to see if we can find other alternate locations they would take Miss Steele."

Christian spent the car ride to Steele House praying that his love would be safe.


"Cousin, you've brought me my bride?" The man with the stringy black hair opened his arms in acceptance of the woman that was laid at his feet. "You've done well. Our mothers would be proud of you. She'll be a wonderful mother to our future children. Tell me, how did you subdue her?"

Cable looked at Jose and smiled. "Stopped at the gas station and bought her a bottle of water. A couple drops of your liquid X followed by a bit of chloroform after she fell asleep meant that she stayed this way for the ride. We've got a few hours to prep her for the wedding before she wakes."

"I'll move her to the bedroom to get her ready. I know that it's bad luck for the groom to see the bride's dress before the wedding, but I think Ana will appreciate the effort I put into surprising her." Jose Rodriguez was proud of himself as he squatted down to brush the hair back from his bride's face. "You have always been so damn beautiful Anastasia. We'll be one soon. We'll be a family, and you'll never leave me. I love you."


A/N: I'm taking a nap after a rough night with a sick child. Look for the remaining chapter spread out over the afternoon and evening. Chapter 29 should be up around 3 pm. Don't forget to find Jenalynn Roberts on Facebook and like the page. Thank you .

I don't own FSoG's characters, but the plot is mine.