Oh wow, I have never had so many reviews. I think I might have to do more cliffhangers! That was fun. Well you really all want to find out about husband number three, but that story line won't be revealed quite yet. So this is a short little chapter for your inquiring minds. After this chapter we will have the boys go shopping, good for some laughs, and then some Mia and Brady time. This chapter might be a bit controversial in that the resolution is not one some might think Christian would resort to. But….as he will do anything to protect Ana….the question becomes; did he have any other choice.

Thanks as always for the reviews and many laughs! You all are so much fun! Lilly

Chapter 38 – The Wrong Thing Might be the Right Thing

Taylors POV

"Sir, Joe Rizzo just made physical contact with Mrs. Grey. He approached her when she walked out of a restaurant with your brother. Reynolds is holding him but I need to go right away. He should never been released without our knowledge."

"What the fuck Taylor. We will deal with that later- I don't care about that right now. How is my wife?" He stands and puts his suit coat on.

"Sir, please stay here. The press will probably show up in a few minutes and Elliot is bringing Mrs. Grey here. Let me take care of this please." The boss isn't going anywhere. I see him pick up his phone.

"Elliot where are you? How is Ana? She didn't pick up her phone." He looks at his watch. "I will wait in the lobby for you."

"Mr. Grey, please wait up here. I really need to go and I can't be wondering what the fuck you are doing."

"Just go and don't worry about me. I will call my dad and tell him to find out how this happened. God damn it this has been a shit fuck week."

Against my wishes, we go down to the lobby together and Grey agrees to wait in Welsh's office. I already called Ryan in but with Luke still out and Wilson back with Mia my team is over extended right now. I almost run to the SUV and as I pull out of the garage I see Elliot pulling in with Mrs. Grey, neither of us stop.

I get to Third and Pike rather quickly and a small crowd is in place. No cops yet. Perfect. This is a huge problem for us because this loony has been writing letters from jail to Mrs. Grey since the minute he was arrested. He is fucking obsessed with her and Sawyer has intercepted at least one hundred letters written to her and they are disgusting. Fuck fuck fuck how did this get past us? She was relatively calm about him until about a month ago when one of his letters got past Sawyer onto her desk. He told her how much he missed her and wanted to fuck her. We didn't tell her he has been writing her ten times a week. Shit, we thought this wacko was out of our hair. He had so many other charges against him for theft, writing bad checks, fraud and the stalking. How the hell did he get released? I could write a book on the prison system in this country. Keeping bad guys in jail is not easy. My cell vibrates. I press the hands free.

"Luke, where are you? You won't believe what is going on here."

"Hey I just received a call from my source over at the county jail. That fucker Rizzo is out, you might want to have Reynolds be on the lookout for him."

"Yea, you're too late. He already made contact with Ana and I am on my way right now. Elliot was with her at the time and he knocked him down. But we're done here playing by the rules. I am not handing back over to the county jail."

"Shit, he just was released at five am this morning. He must have followed her from work. I am on my way back T."

"How's your grandfather. If you need more time take it."

"No, I said my goodbye to him last night. Nothing else I can do or anyone can do for him. I will be in around four. Keep me posted. Shit, I wish I had been there. That fucker has been a thorn in my side since day one. Get a shot at him for me."

I get out of the car and walk straight over to Reynolds and Rizzo. A few Pap's have arrived. How the hell do they know this shit happens before we do? "Move the fuck out of the way." I pull Rizzo by the collar and throw him in the car. Reynolds jumps in with me sitting in the driver seat. I am in the back with Rizzo. I called Wilson off of Mia and told him to get his ass over here and I see him double parking and walking up to the window. Reynolds tells him to stand outside of the door to keep anyone from getting too close to the car.

"Mr. Rizzo we meet again. I tried like hell to keep you locked up but you sneaky mother fucker, they let you out. So here you are." I take my fist and slam it into his leg. "Good to fucking see you again."

He groans a bit. God he is a disgusting fat, soft fuck. "You can't keep me from her. You don't have a restraining order anymore. She loves me."

"You are nuttier than squirrel shit Rizzo. But with that said what do I do with you? I could file another restraining order on you. And I am sure we will. But, that isn't quite what I need. Even the cops find you too disgusting to keep in jail, so Reynolds what should we do with Mr. Rizzo? I take great offense that you touched Mrs. Grey. And your creepy letters to her, those really got under my skin. By the way, she never saw your mail. The letter with the remnants of your jiz was a beauty Rizzo." Just thinking about the letter he sent with dried up semen on it makes me angry so I take my elbow and slam it in his face breaking his nose and making him bleed. "Don't fucking bleed in this car asshole or I will be pissed. Use your shirt to wipe up your blood."

"You can't do this to me. I didn't do anything wrong." I can tell Rizzo is seeing stars.

"Oh Joe, Joe, Joe. Too be in your fucked up little head." My cell vibrates and it is the boss.

"Sir….yes I am sitting next to the fat little fuck right now….well he hasn't said much, he somehow has come up with a bloody broken nose. So we haven't come up with any resolutions yet….yes, I can do that….He just called he is on his way back as we speak…..no….not sure we have a choice….yep…no doubt sir….may I ask how Mrs. Grey is doing?...Sir, that upsets me. Please let me know. Yes sir. Ryan is taking you? Good. Yes I will."

I look at Rizzo and grab his hair and slam his head into back of the driver's seat. He almost cries.

"You motherfucker. Mrs. Grey is on the way to the hospital. Her blood pressure is through the roof. She is pregnant you cocksucker. You better hope nothing happens to her or that baby."

"That is my baby. I should go to her."

"Have you been evaluated by any doctors Rizzo? Because you are one delusional fucker. Either you're toying with me or fucking nuts. But….I can't let you roam the streets. So here are your options….the first is I take you somewhere and beat you up so bad that you can't even remember your name when I am done with you. And I really find that an attractive option. Option number two is we put you on our private plane and drop you off in the middle of a desert and let you find your way back. You most likely will die but if you were a good little boy scout you will figure it out and find your way back. Third, you voluntarily commit yourself to a loony bin and we have a doctor that will keep you there for a long time. But I don't like option three because you will still try and make contact with Mrs. Grey and I just can't have that. So…unless you have some ideas, I am kind of torn between one and two."

"You just can't go around beating people or dropping them off in the desert. That is illegal."

"Illegal? This coming from you. See, I don't think we can play by the rules anymore." I take a toothpick out of my pocket. And stick it in my mouth. "Want one?" I offer him a toothpick and see Reynolds try not to laugh. Just trying to be nice. I move towards Rizzo and he flinches. "Relax Joe. I can call you Joe? By the way feel free to call me Jason. I don't think I will hit you anymore. You are messing up my wheels."

I lean back. The boss wants me to do whatever I need to do to get rid of him. He has given me permission to do something illegal since we tried it the other way. But killing isn't my thing if I am not in combat. So I am having fun with the idea of flying him to the Mojave Desert and be rid of him. If he is lucky he will run into some illegals and they will help him. Or border patrol will help him. But it won't be pleasant. He could die too. That wouldn't hurt my feelings, but the problem with that is we won't know for sure. So, beating him until he is permanently stupid works well for me. He can share a room with Hyde. I don't think I have ever known a woman that make men go so goofy as Mrs. Grey. But the fact that this dick scared her so much that she is on her way to the hospital means retribution.

My cell vibrates again and it is Carrick Grey.

"Mr. Grey…..yes he is sitting right next to me….. I see….. Hmmm that is a dilemma…..I understand sir….Not sure about that….well I don't think I should have that conversation with you sir, with all due respect. …..Okay sir, thank you for the information." I hang up after he informs me that we can't get Rizzo arrested again and a restraining order has been drawn up. Even if he violates the order he is locked up for fifteen days at best. He was cleared of his other charges. He asked me what I planned to do about him, but I don't want to get old man Grey in any trouble so I told him I respectfully didn't think he needs to know my plans and he made me laugh when he said to make sure they were good plans. He knows we are done fucking with this guy, he just can't get involved.

"So Joey, do you have a mommy and daddy somewhere?" He doesn't respond. "Reynolds call Welch and have him pull up Rizzo's detail. I think we might want to make a few phone calls to see if any of the family wants our little friend."

"Don't call my mother. My dad is dead and my mom is done with me. She won't care. I will leave Ana alone if you let me go."

"Who?"

"Ana"

"Who?"

"Ana"

"I said, who?"

"Ana, my Ana, I will leave my Ana alone."

"Tsk, tsk. I don't even get to call her Ana. Now what makes you think you can call her Ana. And Joe, she ain't your Ana." I pop him one in the chest with my elbow. Fucker is not going to leave her alone. When he snaps he goes right back to her being his Ana. That is a bad sign.

Wilson taps on the door and Reynolds rolls the window down.

"I am double parked. The cops have come by twice. They did a make on the cars so they know this is Grey business, but they probably won't look the other way too much longer. And your crowd of pap's is getting bigger. Should we move this pow wow somewhere else?"

I am in a dilemma. The boss is tied up with Mrs. Grey and I don't really have any place to take this guy. "Joe, where are your personal belongings?" He looks at me like he doesn't understand. "Where were you going to sleep tonight? Where are your jammies and toothbrush?"

"I don't have anything. I was going to sleep with Ana." Fuck me. This guy is a nut job.

"No you weren't and you know that, so where did you plan to go once you were rejected again. You knew you would never get to her. Come on talk to me Joe."

"I was going to get to her. I just got so excited when I saw her up close I ruined my plan. But I was going to wait and be patient and take her to our new house together."

"What new house?" He doesn't say anything. I am sick of this whack job. "Reynolds let's get out of here."

"Where to T?" I tell Reynolds to drive me to Flynn's office. I reach Flynn on the phone and tell him to stand by. He has a patient in an hour so we need to hurry.

Two hours later we are leaving Flynn's office. I don't think he was too happy with me when he saw how fucked up Rizzo's face was, but he evaluated him and his professional opinion is that Rizzo is playing us a bit and completely obsessed with Mrs. Grey who is at great risk if Rizzo is roaming around free. I took him to Flynn because I don't want what I am about to do on my conscious if the guy is really a whack job and needs psychiatric help. But Flynn thinks he is legally sane. So…I wait to hear from the boss.

"Drew, I am hungry. Take us to a drive thru." We drive through a Burger King. I decide to be charitable and get Rizzo a drink and whopper. "See Joey, I can be nice. How many guys would buy a dick like you their last supper."

My cell vibrates. It is Mr. Grey. "Sir. Actually, we are just hanging out in the parking lot of a Burger King. How is Mrs. Grey?" He tells me her blood pressure was sky high so she is at home resting right now. His mom is with her and Ryan is at the house. He is in the car with Elliot. God damn it he shouldn't be out without security but I guess he is okay with Elliot. They are more than capable of handling themselves. But it isn't protocol. I tell him where we are at and he is insisting on seeing Rizzo, so we decide to meet in the garage at GEH. This could get ugly. I try to talk him out of it, but he is pissed. Should he even have left his wife. Yea right. He is on a mission right now. This will definitely get ugly.

We were at the hospital this morning at 8:00 am so he could get a blood test. I have no idea what that is about. He was really quiet and didn't say. His mom met us and she gave him the longest hug and seemed really worried. I need to ask him what is going on. If he is sick or something, he hasn't said. So much shit keeps happening between the fucking sub club, Elena's exit to hell and several GEH employees getting shit canned. Whenever that happens we are on high alert because people go postal. I am still short staff and he put the brakes on my hiring anyone because he said we had enough people. We are stretched to the limit right now. I want to replace Thompson because he is useless. He is more like a chauffeur, he can't do any CPO anymore. He is getting too old. Wilson is with Mia all the time and we can't leave her unattended. She is way too naïve and is an accident waiting to happen. Maybe he will let me hire up now that this has happened.

We pull into the underground garage and Rizzo hasn't said a word other than he has to take a piss. So we find a spot behind the parking garage and let him piss in the field. We bring him back and we are parked on the top level where no one ever parks because it is uncovered. It rains too much around here for anyone to ever want to use this lot. Only when we have some of the other offices here, like Grey Publishing is this lot full. We wait a few minutes then see Elliot's truck. I look over and see the Grey boys having a heated discussion. Now what?

Christian's POV

"Elliot, just go. I am not going to get you involved in this. I don't want you to get in any trouble here. If you don't know what we are doing, then you can't be held responsible. Please leave."

"No Christian. I'm a big boy. I am not leaving. You don't get to blow me off or ignore me ever again. I have enough guilt to last a lifetime. So, I will sit right here until your done. Look I know you are going to beat the snot out of him, so just go do it so we can go back check on Ana and then do this miserable fucking Christmas shopping we have to do. The day is a total waste now anyway. It is almost four o'clock. Hurry up. Go pop him good and let's go. In fact, let me pop him again, and then you can have at him. Motherfucking soft pudgy little fuck." Elliot opens his door and actually makes me laugh when he opens the car door and punches Rizzo in the face. "That is for fucking up my whole day and for feeling Ana's legs you perverted sick twisted fuck." He wipes his hand and gets back in the truck and looks at me. "Hurry the fuck up will you."

I get out of Elliot's truck and almost laugh. He can make the most tense situations funny. Taylor comes around the back of the SUV to talk to me and he is trying not to laugh.

"Fuck he nailed him. He is out cold for a few minutes. Your brother is almost as crazy as Rizzo. Okay so Flynn thinks he is a total threat to Ana, your dad can't get him locked up again and we have a restraining order again, but he doesn't give a shit about that. So what do you want to do…after you get your licks in a few times…which is why I am sure you are here."

"I would like to have kept this all on the up and up. You know I don't like to go against the law, but I am not letting my wife go through this shit again. Can we pin anything on him so that he gets arrested?"

"Like?"

"I don't know. I don't think we should beat him so bad he ends up like Hyde. We can only get away with that one time. So…if we do a fly and drop what are the chances he will make his way back here."

"I don't have any idea. He could get lucky and meet up with someone on a dirt bike or he could die out there. The problem is we have no way of knowing."

"I don't like it Taylor. It's just too barbaric even for me. But, I want him gone." I walk around for a few minutes and then I come up with a plan. Fuck I am brilliant.

Elliot and I arrive home and find Kate there. She was coming over tonight to bake Christmas cookies with Ana while we were shopping. In other words she is going to sit and drink wine and chat while Ana bakes. My mom is sitting with Kate in the family room and it feels pretty tense. I wonder if they were fighting. I talk to them for a few minutes and tell them I am going to check on Ana and change my clothes.

"Hey, baby wake up. How are you feeling?" I sit on the bed and Ana is in a little ball sleeping with her stuffed rabbit that I got the baby. I push her hair off her face and kiss her. She opens her eyes and looks at me and then grabs my fist.

"You promised you wouldn't hit him." She cringes when she sees the blood on my knuckles.

"I promised I wouldn't kill him. I never said I wouldn't hit him. Ana, if I hadn't met up with him and gotten to give him a piece of my mind and whatever else, you would have had to put me in a cage. I was furious and needed to do this my way."

"What did you do?" She is playing with my ring. She still looks flushed to me. I call Taylor on the speaker phone and ask him to send my mom up with her blood pressure cuff. "Answer me. You're scaring me Christian."

"Baby, I hit him a few times and then left. Don't worry about it. I will take care of you, he won't be back but I promise we didn't do anything to him. He is still alive, still getting a boner over you, but he is nowhere near here and I seriously doubt that he will cause you any more problems." I bend down and kiss her. There is a knock on the door and I yell for my mom to come in.

"Ana honey, are you feeling better? How's the dizziness?" My mom pushes me aside and sits on the bed. "Let's have you sit up so I can check your blood pressure." A few seconds later my mom removes the cuff from Ana's arm. "I think the nap did you well sweetie, but you're still a little higher than we would like."

"That is because I am nervous. Christian you need to tell me what happened." Fuck. Don't ask me that shit in front of my mom. God damn it Ana. They both are looking up at me. It is one thing to sort of tell Ana what we ended up doing, but not my mom.

"Christian, you don't need to stress Ana out anymore. She has had enough on her plate lately. Now I am going to go downstairs and fix you a cup of tea. Christian, follow me." Shit.

We get out to the hallway and I am trying to think of how to get out of this. I don't think my Mom will approve if I tell her the truth. My dad would think it was shady but brilliant and Elliot is knee deep in it since he scored me the shit I needed to get this done.

"Yes Mom."

"Don't yes mom me mister. Her blood pressure was dangerously high this afternoon, and it is still too damn high. You need to tell her something to calm her down and I don't care what the hell it is. When you avoid telling her anything, it makes her nervous. Just like I am right now. I don't want to know what you and your brother were up to but I assume you addressed the problem logically and hopefully without ramifications down the road. But young man, you march in there right now and tell her something to calm her down."

Well I would if you would get off my back. I just nod and turn around and head back to the bedroom. I wash my hands and change real fast before sitting on the bed with Ana.

"Baby, I had a few choices. The first was to put full time security on this guy, which I can afford, but I don't want to take the risk that at some point he got by us. He is obsessed with you. I could have beat him until he was nothing more than a breathing body, but I am not a gangster, that is not our MO. I was tempted to fly him to the desert and leave him out there for the vultures, but he might get lucky and find his way back. So instead he is arriving in El Paso, TX in several hours. When he lands in El Paso he will be walking across the border to Jaurez with one thousand dollars in cash and we told him not to come back. He can start his life over there."

"Christian, why would you do that? What if he doesn't go across?"

I hate not telling her the whole story. But she doesn't need to know that Taylor planted some heroin on him and that he knows two of the agents that work Juarez border patrol who have been tipped off to look for him. He will never leave a Mexican prison again if we have our way. If the USA won't lock the fucker up, let the Mexican government do it. Good old Elliot had a former employee that was heavy into drugs and he scored the heroin. So that was the most illegal thing we did. Okay maybe planting the drugs in his back pocket without his knowledge wasn't nice, but he should do well with the Mexican Federalies.

"Reynolds flew with him, and he will make sure he crosses the border and stays there a few days." In other words gets arrested and doesn't leave. "Trust me baby, he liked this option the best." Because he doesn't know he is going to get fucked in a Mexican prison.

"Are you sure you have told me everything." I smile at her and kiss her. "As far as I know of there is nothing more to tell at the moment. He is still in the air and hasn't landed yet." How is that for evasive? Not quite a lie right? There are some good things about having a naïve little wife. I see Ana visibly relax. "I can't believe how freaked out I got Christian. Before, he never bothered me that much. But after that one letter he wrote me, I just got scared….but not for me. I was scared that he would hurt the baby. I felt so protective and I just freaked out." I pull her to me and hold her tight.

"I hate that he showed up right now. We have so much going on and you are amazing to keep the baby safe through all this shit. I promise you he won't get near you again. That is why we need two guys on you Ana. The two most important people too me in the world are you and Teddy. So you each get protection."

Reynolds fucked up – yet again. He should have been the first one out the door today and done a quick surveillance of the area. If he had, Rizzo would not have gone near Ana. Taylor needs to have a conversation with Reynolds. He keeps fucking up and I know he can do better than this. But not at my expense.

"Good news baby, Sawyer is back today. In fact he should be here any minute. I know you trust him completely." Ana smiles and I feel guilty for not telling her the truth. I feel torn about doing something that feels so wrong, but I can't let anything happen to my wife or son. I really wish I could tell her the truth, but I don't want her to know in case this comes back at us someday, she could be implicated. This way she is completely innocent. Plus, she might not understand. She typically has sympathy even for the bad guys.

She sits up further in the bed and takes my hand placing it on her bump. Teddy is rolling around and I scoot down and kiss her bump. I close my eyes and pray that all this shit will go away quietly. This is our first Christmas together and I want it to be perfect. I am about done with the stress for the week. Jesus Christ one thing after another.

"Good I am so glad he is coming back. Is his grandfather better?"

"No, but he felt he couldn't do anything else and he was worried about you." She smiles. I know she is happy he is coming back. I see the bed moving on my side. What the hell. Benson pokes his head out of the covers and Ana smiles and looks up at me. I hadn't even noticed that he was in the bed.

"Ana…what did we say about him getting in our bed?"

"I know Christian but he comforted me and I fell asleep because he was here with me." He comes over and places his head on her lap. Despite myself I find I am petting his head.

"You have moved right in and made yourself right at home haven't you boy. I am happy you feel so comfortable here, but news flash. You are not sleeping in this bed when I am in it. My bed, my wife, my house, my rules. Think you're pretty smart don't you?" Ana has a huge smile on her face and she bends down and gives Benson a kiss. "Hello…I think I am the one that should get the kiss here." She laughs like a school girl and reaches up to kiss me. Benson stays put on her lap. "Ana, don't over spoil him okay?"

"I love him already Christian. I want to take him to work with me but Ann said no. He is a big baby. Look at that face."

I receive a text from Taylor that Sawyer has arrived and we should have a quick meeting. I tell Ana that Kate is downstairs and she decides she feels well enough to get up. As I make my way down the stairs I see Elliot talking on the phone.

"Come on, you know you miss us and we will take you to dinner. Just the three of us." I am trying to figure out who he is talking to. "Come on Mia, please. I will owe you…Anything…..No I am not building you a fucking house. Just go with us please." I grab the phone from him.

"Mia I will throw in another interview on your radio show if you will come with us. We miss you and truth be told, we pretty much can't do this without you. Please." I smile at Elliot and nod letting him know I think I have convinced her. "You will? You're a sweetheart. But you can't tell Ana and Kate." I whisper. "We will pick you up in…." I look at my watch and it is going on five thirty. "We will pick you up in fifteen minutes. Are you at Brady's or home?" I hang up and wink at Elliot. "Let's just give her the list and set her loose. We can have her meet us afterwards."

"No, you two need to go with her." Shit. "I won't tell the girls, and I will stay here with Ana a few more hours, but I better not find out you left this all to your sister or you will hear from me."

"Eves dropping doesn't become you mom." Elliot pulls my mom into a semi headlock. I have never been so informal with her, but that is the way he is.

"Behave Elliot. Now off with you both. I will be calling your sister to make sure she doesn't do your jobs. The girls will appreciate it much more if you both do the selecting. And keep it clean!" She knows us well. Elliot releases her and I pull her into a big bear hug.

"Thanks for being here today." I kiss the top of her head.

"Oh just keep hugging me dear boy. That is all the thanks I need." I talk softly in her ear as I continue to hug her.

"Thanks for meeting me this morning too. If I am a match, will you go with me to Michigan?" I must sound like I am ten years old again. "I don't want Ana to deal with that."

"Yes, of course Christian. I will always be there for you and if you want me there, then consider it a done deal. You are such a good person for doing this." I smile. After today, even if it's not true, having your mom tell you that you are good makes you a believer. "Even when it feels wrong, you always do the right thing." She kisses my cheek and wipes the lipstick off after.

That's exactly how I feel. Sometimes you do what you have to do. Even when it might be wrong.