Brunch with mom and Bob was nice. I missed her, so it was nice to have some time with her today. She was happy to have us over, and not so surprised to see Phoebe hurt. Apparently my mom has caught her jumping on the bed a few times while we were in our honeymoon.

Now we're home. We picked up Phoebe's medicine and gave her some since she said she was feeling a bit of pain. Apparently it had a fast affect on her, it quickly made her tired so we put her down for a nap. I'll wake her up before we head out to dad's place.

"Mommy can I have cookie?" Teddy asks.

"No, honey, you already had a cookie with Grandma Carla."

"But I want another one" he pout.

"Two was enough, no more sweets until after dinner."

"No! I want another one!" He pours again, this time getting a bit loud. Whoa.. Teddy has never acted like this.

"I said no, Theodore. That's final." I firmly say.

"Fine, I'll ask dad"

"Ask me what?" Christian says entering the living room.

"I want cookie but mommy says no."

"It's just one cookie, babe."

"Christian they eat way too much junk food, I'm trying to cut them back. They're hyper enough." I tell him.

"True, Teddy just wait till after dinner." Christian tells him.

"NO! I want it NOW!"

"Theodore Adam Grey, did you just yell at me?" Christian asks sternly.

Teddy stays quiet.

"Apologize. Now."

"I'm sorry daddy.. I didn't mean to yell. I'll wait till later for the cookie. I'm sorry too, mommy."

"Go to your room and play." I tell him and he runs off. "These kids woke up extra hype today. We shouldn't have given them chocolate ice cream so late."

"Lesson learned," my husband smiles. "I'm kind of excited to see Ray later. It's always fun to see him fall hard for Lauren."

"Babe!" I smack his chest playfully laughing. "Leave my dad alone."

"Oh I will, he'll probably shoot my balls off if he knew I was joking around right now." Christian laughs making me laugh even more.

"I love you, Mr. Grey."

"I love you, Mrs. Grey."

Hours go by, then we're at dad's place. Lauren greeted us at the door with a smile on her face and cheerful as always.

She immediately asked what happened to Phoebe and we explained to her and to dad everything once we were inside.

We've just started eating dinner, and it's delicious.

"So, how is Michael and Mariana?" I ask.

"Oh they're great," she smiles. "She asks for you all the time. I know she has your number but she tells me she's afraid to text you afraid you'll be busy."

"Oh no," I giggle. "Tell her she can text me anytime. Did they start looking for internships yet, being juniors year and all. I did a month internship my after junior year. After graduating I wasn't able to do it again." I shrug.

"Oh they have, Mariana actually has a spot for Grey Publishing. I think she said it's a month internship and it gives her credits for a class. If it all goes well, after she graduates next year they'll hire her. Her grades are opening a lot of doors, early too. Michael as well, he's applied for a few places but he really hasn't decided on the one he really wants. He doesn't want to do an internship this year, he wants a summer job."

"I offer a great internship program. Of course it's for graduate students but I think I can make an exception. All my internships are paid as well." Christian says. "You can tell him that. Also, it's good to hear Mariana got into GP already. I may not work directly with it but it is one of the best publishing companies in the west coast. Kind of glad I took over" he says cockily making me laugh.

That's my man.

"Thank you, I'll let him know." Lauren smiles. "Who wants dessert?" The kids yell 'me' and Lauren gets up to bring cake she's made. Immediately dad gets up to help her.

"He's so whipped." Christian whispers, joking.

"Stop it!" I giggle. "He really is falling hard for her."

"He deserves it." Christian says. "Don't you think so?" I nod. She really does makes my dad happy and in my book that makes her amazing.

Just like Bob makes mom and happy an in my book that makes him amazing.

After dinner, Teddy gets his cookie, Phoebe is playing with my phone, Christian and dad are having a few too many drinks and Lauren is telling me about Mariana and Michael. She talks about them so proudly it makes me smile.

"I should get going before my husband gets my father drunk" we both laugh. "Kids! Let's go!" I call out. "Christian!"

He comes out with my dad. "Are you trying to get my dad drunk?" I joke.

"Babe he's the one that's gonna get me drunk. Here," he throws me the car keys. "We should get going."

The kids say their goodbye as so do we.

When we get home we help the kids take a shower then put them to sleep. I tell Phoebe to come over to our room if anything.

Christian and I get ready for bed. I drift off with my love's arms around me.

Sunday goes by pretty fast. Teddy and I bake cupcakes while Phoebe goes into GEH with Christian for a while. He had some business to get to so he took Phoebe along with him. She is grounded but I let her go.

At night, we have fun family dinner which is when we all go to the game room, watch a movies and eat takeout.

It was a nice time. I love our moments together. I let Teddy play for a while but told Phoebe to go up to her room, she asked for a book so I gave her one.

When Monday morning arrives I'm beyond exhausted. Christian kept me up late with his sexcapades.

It was deliciously hot.

When I arrive to my office I notice Penelope fidgeting a lot.

"Penelope, good morning." She jumps as if I startled her. "I'm sorry, didn't mean to scare you."

"No, it's fine." She gives me a tight smile. "Jessica left today's work at your office. She also said to check your email, something about a lunch date."

I nod and laugh. Jessica and I haven't had much time together so I'm so down for a lunch date.

When I settle in I look over what I have to do. My phone distracts me quickly from what I'm doing.

"Christian?" I smile. "I literally just said see you later a few minutes ago. Why are you bothering me?" I joke.

"Mrs. Grey, can't a man just call his wife?"

"Of course, what's up baby?"

"I have a booked day. Have a few meeting here and then in the afternoon I have to go out to Vancouver. I might be home late." He sighs.

"I understand," I say. "I'll see you when you get home then."

"Alright baby, I love you."

"And I love you." I smile.

We both hang up at the same time.

The work day is hectic, I get frustrated a few times in the morning.

As for lunch, that was fun. Jessica and I went out and we gossiped and talked about everything. I missed having lunch with her.

Sawyer picks up the kids and stops by with them for a few before taking them home. Phoebe looked tired, i would expect so. She said it was hard to sleep with her hand in the brace.

I send Christian a few texts through out the day but he doesn't reply. Must be busy.

At the end off work day, I head straight home. I greet the kids and do homework with them. Christian texts me saying he'll be home by seven so I let Gail know, so dinner can be ready by the time he gets home. We can have dinner together.

About thirty minutes later it starts to rain hard. Thundering. I pray Christian gets home okay.

And he does.

Right at 7pm he walks in, he looks mad.

"Hey Christian, are you okay?" I ask.

"Just work troubles, I'll be fine." He walks away to the kids but I can tell he's ready to explode. After he greets the kids, I take his hand and walk over to his home office.

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing Ana, just a tough day. That's all"

"Talk to me.." I say "You look like you're about to explode."

"Nothing Anastasia. Drop it."

"Christian-"

"I SAID DROP IT. I HAVE ENOUGH TO WORRY ABOUT." He yells at me.

I sigh and step back. "Fine, suit yourself. Deal with whatever you have to deal with."

He grabs my arms and shakes his head. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to yell at you baby." He kisses my hand. "We lost a deal today, the laziness of one of my employees, or should I say ex employee because he's fired? Anyways, he made errors for being lazy and we just lost a three million dollar deal. This was important. Very! The guy was furious, he had every right to be. I tried to make another deal but he declined. Starting tomorrow HR is going to check up on everyone and their work. I can't afford to have another mistake like this happen again."

"I'm sorry, Christian. Was this deal with Tim Ryan?"

"Yeah, with him."

"Come on, lets have dinner, get you a bit relaxed and tomorrow you can continue to deal with everything. Okay?"

"Yeah, lets go".

Christian is passionate about what he does, I wish I can help sort this out. Maybe I can?

Short chapter, sorry! I'll make it longer next time :)