Second update for today as I said. Enjoy.

Oh let me clear up somethings :)
Christian wasn't avoiding things especially on telling his family. He was planning on telling them but he was getting himself ready for that moment. He thought Elena would open her mouth in court not the way she did in the last chapter. He was trying to stop it because Grace did not deserve to find out the way she did. You'll see in this chapter more how he says he was planning on telling them all. Security wasn't around because they were only dropping off the kids and going back home. Security hasn't been tracking every move either just making sure she doesn't leave the country and paying attention to bank withdrawals. Of course no one thought that would happen since the police was going to take her into interrogation that morning.

Oh.. wedding soon! I've written their vows... ;)


After mom tells Carla to take the kids away to another room, probably giving her a small explanation of what happened, Ana and I go in with dad.

"Honey," dad says. "Let me start off by saying I never wanted anything with Elena. She came on to me twice but I brushed her off. You know you're my one and only." He kisses her hand pulling her into a hug. "What the hell happened, why was she here and fighting with Ana?"

"Mom.. Dad.. Take a seat." I say. "Mom, let me start off by saying you're not a bad mom. You're the best mom ever and I'm not even being biased. Please, please, PLEASE.. Don't listen to what she said. I was going through a dark time.. What I did and my behavior was all on me. All my personal shit was getting to me.."

"Christian, what are you talking about?" Dad asks.

"Excuse me.." Ana says. "I'm going to clean up and I'll be back." She gets up and I squeeze her hand. "I'll be back.. I promise."

I begin to tell dad why Elena was here and what she said.

When Ana gets back, I tell them both what happened between Elena and I all those years ago. I tell them how I became a Dom after I turned eighteen and contracted a few submissive. I do let them know that in some ways bdsm did help me but that I now know what Elena did was wrong and I cut her out of my life right after Teddy was born. I didn't want someone like her around my son's life.

After that I talk about Leila and how she was a sub. How she changed a few months after we started our contract and how she got pregnant. When I tell them she got into drugs while being pregnant with Teddy mom sobs. I know she's been trying her hardest not to cry but she couldn't hold it in any longer.

Then that's when I tell them that after she gave birth to teddy she left us and a few months later she died of a drug overdose.

"Elena admitted to be the one to supply her. She's the reason Teddy's mom is dead. She even admitted she wanted Leila out the way." I conclude.

"Christian.." Dad says. "Why did you let her manipulate you? She took what you were going through and used you for her own pleasure."

"I know dad I know.." I sigh. "I hate even thinking about it. I knew I had to tell you both everything before trial started because I knew she'd open her mouth. She beat me to it. And I'm so sorry you had to find out this way.. This isn't the way something like that should come to light. I've been prepping myself to even talk about it and then this happens.."

"What's done is done. We can't do anything about it now except process this in." Dad says. "I.." He sighs. "This is a lot. I'm not mad at you, let me just make that clear. I'm not mad at your or anything like that, this is just big new, son. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to make a phone call regarding Jason Taylor's custody case." Dad gets up and walks my way to give me a pat on the back then walks away.

"Christian, I'll give you some alone time to talk to your mom, I'll be outside. I need some air." Ana says then kisses me. A few seconds later she's outside.

I get up and walk over to my mom. I get on my knees in front of her. I grab her hands and kiss them. "Mom.." I say in a whisper. "Please don't think about what Elena said. I swear you aren't a bad mom. That was all on me, I let her use me. It was helping me become the son you deserved to have. I was going down a destructive path, and like I said before it was a dark time for me. All I knew is that bdsm was changing me and I saw how happy you were to see that I was getting back on track with school and stopped drinking behind your back. I know you were happy that fights were no longer happening."

"Oh Christian," mom sobs on my shoulder so I wrap my arms around her. "I can't believe she took an advantage of you."

"I know.. But please.. I know it's something you have to process but don't dwell on it. Please mom.. You're the angel that saved me and gave me a home." She sobs harder. "I love you so much."

"I love you too, my sweet boy." She looks up at me then kisses my forehead. "Now go on, you have a busy few hours with your fiancée and friends. Have a good time today. The kids will be fine."

"Mom, I'm sorry."

"Don't," she gives me a faint smile. "Don't be sorry. I'm not mad at you. Like your father said, it's a lot to take in. Just give us time to process this."

"I'm not sure if I should tell Mia and Elliot.."

"In my opinion, they don't need to know. This can stay between us. But if you decide to tell them then that's all on you. You do what you're comfortable with, okay?" I nod. "Now go, and tell Ana I said she has a hell of a lot of fighting skills." Mom chuckles making me laugh.

"I'll let her know." I hug her goodbye then walk out to find Ana sitting in the car waiting.

When I get in she quickly grabs my hand giving it a squeeze. "I knew for a fact that Elena would bring me down with her by telling my family everything which is why I was preparing myself to tell them I just didn't think she'd beat me to it or do it like this." I say.

"I can't believe she talked to Grace like that.. She didn't deserve it."

"This is all a mess right now." I sigh. "Your lips doesn't look bad"

"I know and with some makeup I'll hide it" She gives me a small smile "Let's just go home and get everything ready for everyone before they arrive."

"Yeah, let's go."


Ana POV

Jessica, her husband Kenneth, Mia, Elliot, Kate, Luke, Christian and I are all in the game room playing poker and having a few drinks. So far, I'm winning. Everyone seems to be frustrated with that and it's hilarious.

Christian has been out of it ever since we got home. I know he's thinking about what happened today and I wish I could stop him.

About twenty minutes later everyone gives up not wanting to lose any more money. It's fine, I walk away with $500 in my pocket.

"Oh let's watch a movie!" Mia pipes up. We all agree and grab our drinks heading over to the mattress on the floor.

This is so comfortable and the pillows feels like heaven.

"I wanna watch White Chicks." Kate days. "It's so funny I love it."

"Good idea," I say. "Babe put on the netflix." I tell Christian and he does. I lean close to him and whisper, "my love.. Please snap out of it." He turns to me giving me a kiss and gives me no answer. I wish I would have be able to stop it all. I know how much this is bothering him.

In the middle of the movie the girls and I had started a popcorn war throwing it at each other.

"Children, please, you eat the food not throw it" Elliot jokes.

"Oh, shut it." I laugh throwing popcorn at him and the girls follow behind doing the same.

"Great, now I'm getting attacked." Be laugh. "Bro, help me out!"

"Sorry, can't help." Christian smirks. For the past thirty minutes he's managed to ease into conversations more than he was doing before. I'm glad he's trying to have a good time.

"Oh! Let's play two truths and one lie. You have to say three things about yourself. Of course one has to be a lie but we have to guess which one so get creative or not just don't make it too easy to guess." Kate says. "I'll start! Hmm.. I've made out with a girl, I'm afraid of heights and I did some modeling my teenage years."

I snort knowing the lie is that she's afraid of heights. That girl loves getting on roller coasters especially the really high ones that drop.

"Made out with a girl." Elliot calls out.

"Yeah I agree" Mia says and everyone else nods.

"Nope," I snort once again. "She made out with a girl once but she was drunk and it was freshmen year of college."

"I'm not afraid of heights." She laughs. "Who's next?"

"I'll go," Luke says. "I want to give kids self defense classes, I love hiking and I've bungee jumped."

"Okay.. This one is hard." Jessica laughs.

"Yeah, I'm going to have to agree with my lady here." Her husband Kenneth says.

"You've bungee jumped? Maybe that's the lie.." Christian says.

"No! It can't be I can totally see him doing that. Maybe he hates hiking." I say.

"Deff has to be the hiking." Kate adds.

"No" he laugh. "Christian was correct. I've never bungee jumped nor do I want to."

"I'll go!" I say. "I loved taking ballet classes when I was younger, I love baking and I got suspended my freshmen year of high school for calling a boy Mr. Dickhead and throwing a condom at him."

Christian throws his head back laughing and Elliot shakes his head.

"No way you did that last one," Elliot says. "You're too nice to do things like that."

"Oh no.. I got suspended alright for doing that." I laugh. "He said I had small boobs and it got to me so I called him mr dick head and threw a condom at him. Actually I three two closed and one opened at him. That got me suspended for a day. The lie is that I loved taking ballet classes. I actually hated. Not because it was boring but because my teacher was horrible. She went extra hard on me and I ended up twisting my ankle and leaving the class."

Everyone takes turns going and it's been fun. But now it's Christian's turn and I'm anxious to see what he says.

"Hmm.. Let's see.." He says. "I play the piano, I speak French and I'm afraid of snakes." He says the last part laughing giving away that being afraid of snakes is a lie.

"Asshole." Elliot says. "I know why you brought snakes up. By the way he loves them little shits."

Christian is still laughing while Elliot is scowling at him.

"Oh my god! Didn't Christian put a really big snake in your bed making you scream really high pitched and everyone thought it was me that screamed?" Mia says.

Kate and I begin to laugh.

"Really, Mia?" Elliot says.

"Oh that was so funny! Christian was probably 14, Elliot was 16 and I was about 8. Christian had put a snake in his bed but Elliot didn't notice and he got in bed with it and the snake started moving on to him and he screamed and everyone came into my room thinking it was me that screamed." Mia looks over at Christian who's still laughing. "Thanks by the way everyone woke me up!"

"Sorry!" Christian begins to calm down. "That was funny though. Elliot was such a little bitch."

"He's an evil asshole.." Elliot murmurs.

By the time everyone leave Christian has relaxed and had fun. Mom should be dropping the kids off in an hour or two so that gives us time to shower and organize things around the house a bit.

"Christian, baby, how are you feeling?" I ask holding his hand.

"I still feel like shit. You know.. I didn't want my mom finding out like that. I had been trying so hard to get ready to tell her. There's never a right way to do it but it was going to be something hard for me to do. The fact that Elena had the never to call her a bad mom.. That's what pisses me off the most! Grace has been the best mother I could ever ask for. What happened all those years ago was all on me not her."

"I know baby I know.." I kiss his cheek. "But it wasn't all on you. Elena should have known better.. but sadly she didn't. We'll take this one step at a time. Okay?" He nods.


Christian POV

It's Friday afternoon and Ana and I are out with the kids having lunch. We just finished signing some papers, some important papers. Phoebe is now legally my daughter and it feels damn good to say.

Phoebe Grey.

And tomorrow Ana will be Anastasia Rose Grey.

My girls are mine. Teddy is happy to officially have Phoebe as his sister.

And Phoebe must thrilled as well since she introduced herself as Phoebe Grey to the waitress.

Yesterday Ana and I went out making sure everything was in order for tomorrow. It was a bit of a stressful day because the flower arrangement was a bit wrong but it was all fixed thankfully. Ana also told me about how she's going to talk to her friend Jose to be the photographer tomorrow at the house. She would rather much have him there than someone else. I had agreed and when she made the call he was thrilled to be part of it. She had already invited him and his girlfriend to the wedding so it's not like its news to him. She was only going to ask him to do the home photography in the morning but he offered to be the photographer all day and Ana was on board. Of course we offered him a nice paycheck but he refused saying that Ana is a friend and he could use the opportunity to take some landscape photo's for his portfolio. I think Ana is in love with the fact that she'll have a friend taking photo's of her big day. She has no doubt he'll do an amazing job.

Last night mom and I had dinner alone. She wanted to talk to me and so did I. It was weird not having dinner with Ana and the kids but I enjoyed the mother and son time last night. I decided to tell Mia and Elliot about everything because it felt wrong keeping it from them as well. I told them every single thing especially about Teddy's mom, Leila.

They took it hard but they processed it faster than my parents.

Things slowly will go back to normal and I'm glad about that.

Teddy and I will be staying with Elliot tonight with the other guys and my parents, while Ana and Phoebe stay home with the other ladies and her parents. So we're spending the day together before tonight comes.

I get married tomorrow to the beautiful woman sitting across from me. The one who not only has been a wonderful girlfriend but a great friend who I've had the honor to lean on. Tomorrow we tie the knot and start a new chapter.

I'd be lying if I sad I'm not emotional right now.

"Daddy! I want ice cream after food." Phoebe says.

"Me too! Please, dad?" Teddy adds.

"Isn't it too cold for ice cream?" I say and they both shake their head. "Fine, we'll get ice cream."

The kids squeal and Ana smiles at me. How did I get so lucky?


The next chapter will be the wedding! Last chance to vote for the dress Ana should wear. Go to my pinterest and vote! my username is readersfanfic. I'll be putting pictures of the wedding tomorrow in the album Different Encounters!