HEY
SORRY IT'S TAKEN SO LONG,
LIFE JUST GOT IN THE WAY AND THEN WITH
THE MOVIE COMING OUT :-)
I KIND OF GOT WRITERS BLOCK BUT I'M BACK NOW SO
SO HERE IS THE NEXT 2 CHAPTER'S
ENJOY!
APOV
Before long we are pulling into the police station carpark. Christian gets Theo out and he rushes to my side grabbing my hand, thumb in his mouth. I smile lovingly at him as Christian holds the door to the precinct open for us before his hand goes to the small of my back.
"AA!" Theo screeches as he sees how busy it is and instantly puts his arms up to me. I scoop him up as we head to the reception desk. He lays against my chest, resting his head on my shoulder, thumb in mouth.
"Hi, I'm here to see Detective Woods. He's expecting me." I say to the mousy brown-haired gentleman behind the desk, he looks mid-twenties.
"your name miss?" he smiled at me.
"Anastasia Steele." I say as I gently stroke Theo's back. I don't know if I was doing it to soothe him or me, as the gentlemen who's name tag said Davis called Detective Woods to the reception. A few moments later a dark-haired female walked into the reception area.
"Miss Steele" She smiles at me as she held out her hand. "I'm Detective Woods, I've been assigned your case now its officially being charged here." She says as I shake her hand.
"Nice to meet you." I say kindly as she eyes Theo, "This is my fiancée Christian." I introduce and Christian shakes Woods hand, she doesn't ask about Theo. She leads us through the precinct as she explains about the lineup.
"This is one-way glass, so you can see them, but they can't see you." She says as we enter the adjoining room to the lineup. "are you ready?"
I nodded, and she speaks into the intercom. A few seconds later several talk dark-haired men walked into the adjoined room and lined up under their assigned numbers. I was starting to feel even more queasy especially as Detective Woods called each guy to step forward to give me a better view.
"Number 5." I say trying to breathe through the sickness.
"Are you certain?" Detective woods asks, and I nod as I stared at Matt standing under the number five. I'd recognize that face anywhere. It's been part of my nightmares ever since my memory of that night resurfaced. I feel Christian step closer to me as I stare at Matt. Suddenly I can't hold back to wave of sickness.
"I'm going to be sick." I gush as I quickly hand Theo to a startled Christian, getting a whine of protest out of Theo in the process as I rush out to the bathroom across the hall.
A few minutes later I walk out of the bathroom when I'm hit by a familiar and unwelcome voice, "What's she doing here?" I turn and there stood a blonde-haired woman in her late forties, early fifties. Her stick figure clad in the best clothes, her hair and nails pristine and those lips covered in bright red lipstick turned into a sneer as she walks towards me.
"What are you doing here? Trying to ruin my son's life even more." She sneers as she stands in front of me, looking at me like I'm a bug that needs to be squashed.
"Hello Elena." I sigh. "and I think you have that backwards, Jack ruined my life."
"OH? You were the one who shot him." Elena snaps as I see Christian out of the corner of my eye. He was instantly at my side, hand on my lower back, Theo sitting up on his hip watching.
"I shot him to stop him from killing me, like he did to his unborn child." I snapped back at her, I was so not in the mood for this. I felt Christian stiffen next to me, I hadn't spoken about what happened that day since I explained it to the detectives back in Houston.
"Miss. Lincoln. Please." An officer who had been dealing with her says clearly looking annoyed. Elena ignored him.
"Please, he'd never do that!" Elena practically spits venomously, "I told him you were nothing but trouble. You weren't worthy of him. You didn't understand his needs."
I couldn't help but laugh sarcastically at her words. I could see Theo holding his arms out to me.
"The funny thing is I know you believe what you're saying." I laugh sarcastically. "His need was to beat the crap out of me on a daily basis was it?" I snap back at her. "to stab me because I wouldn't let him and his friend rape me in an alleyway? To follow me across the country to finish the job? if you think those are acceptable needs then your just as bad as your son." I add angrily. I grab Theo who was whining at me for ignoring his out stretched arms. He clings to me tightly and buries his face in my hair.
"You bitch!" Elena spits and raises her hand looking like she was about to hit me. Christian is instantly in front of me glaring at Elena.
"I'm not your son. I don't hit women. But if you touch her I may make an exception." He says dead calmly to Elena, showing his anger more than if he had shouted
"Miss. Lincoln. May I remind you, you are in the middle of a police station." Detective Woods interjects as she comes out of the lineup room after hearing all the commotion. She nods to the officer next to Elena and he starts to escort her away against her protests.
I hated that Theo had to see that. I gently stroke his back and kiss his hair as I watch Elena being escorted away. I notice the precinct was eerily quiet and I realize everyone had stopped to watch, but now it was over people started to get back to what they were doing. I feel a hand on my waist and I jump at the touch before realizing it was Christian. He looks at me worriedly and I give him a small smile.
"Come on let's go." He says still watching me worriedly and I see a flash. We both turn to see a couple of photographers snapping pictures of us while an officer is trying to remove them from the precinct.
"crap." I say holding Theo tighter.
"There's more outside." Detective woods says and Christian and I look at her. "It seems someone tipped off the press that Mr. Grey was at the police station." She says looking apologetically at us.
Shit! That's all we need. Since the incident with Jack where Christian was involved had been in Houston, Taylor had been able to keep Christian's name out of it. but I guess his involvement with me is now about to become very public news, and so is Theo.
A couple of officer's escort us to our car. Theo looked up as we walked out of the station curious to see what all the flashing was.
"Aa!" he squealed scared and buried his face back into my hair. Christian stands next to me on Theo's side trying to shield him as much as he could. Ignoring all the calls and questions being shouted at us. I climbed into the back of the car with Theo and Christian rushed around to the driver's seat as the press held there cameras up against our windows, while the officers tried to hold them off as best they could, but there was a fair few of them.
"It's ok Theo. You're safe." I say soothingly to Theo as Christian sped away. "You need to get into your seat buddy." I say as he wouldn't let go of me. "Mommy's going to sit right next to you ok." I say as I finally manage to get him in his seat. I strap him in quickly before strapping myself in. he was shaking, his thumb in his mouth. I see Christian glance through the rearview mirror at us worriedly. I gently stroke Theo's hair trying to soothe him. I rest my head against his car seat. I feel drained and the queasiness is still there, as Christian drives us home.
