Chapter 52
Girl time
Monday morning and almost time to go back to the real world, we are all leaving Grace and Carrick's home after breakfast today; it has been a great week-end, no bodies to dispose of, I giggle to myself. Asia and Samuel have kept it relatively PG, I have only disturbed a goodnight kiss once, Christian has not said anything so I don't think he has disturbed them and Elliot has been reasonably clean with his teasing so neither him nor Kate must have caught them.
After a fun and tasty breakfast we go our separate ways, Kate, Asia and I are spending the day together, I have an appointment to have a photo shoot done this morning, they are part of Christians Christmas present, Kate has found a wonderful female photographer that specialises in pregnancy photo's and she was quite happy to sign a NDA so that is our first stop of the day, I have a really fun time she takes loads of different ones, I think my favourite is a one in which I am just dressed in a white strapless bra and white boy shorts, I have a pink bow round my bump and I am cradling it. Both Asia and Kate love that one too so I think that will be the main one, I will have it done as a six foot by four foot print and I will have a few of the other poses done and put in a small album.
We move from there to the art gallery Christian and I visited a couple of weeks ago as we wander round looking at different painting and as I am picking a few out for different room's I see Asia's eye keep been drawn back to one in particular, I say "I don't think that daddy would really like something like that darling" "I wasn't thinking of daddy" she responds and then blushes bright red before Kate teases her, "ohh Samuels Christmas gift, maybe with you as the model" and if it was possible my daughter blushes even redder. I have to close this down, right now, if anyone found out Christian Grey's daughter posed nude even for a private painting for her future husband the fall out would be devastating for her.
I say lunch time, the miracles are starving and I practically drag them both out of there, my mind is racing I need to talk to her without Kate, how the hell am I going to manage to do that before she boards the plane tonight, oh I know where she is coming from, it was quite a tasteful shot and it would be something just for him, no one else in the world would have that, I can see the appeal but it's just too risky, for a normal girl maybe, but the papers would have a field day with something like that, then I remind myself no-one knows she is ours, yet, chirps up the voice in my head.
Kate's phone then rings and she could give Christian a run for his money with her choice of words, she then hangs up and says "sorry the shit is about to hit the fan, some arsehole ran a story without running it past legal first" then with kisses and promises to catch up soon, she is gone.
As we eat our lunch I say "darling, I am not being a prude but you can't" "why the hell not, it's not like anyone but Samuel will ever see it" she retorts "and what's the difference with what you just did?" "I kept my underwear on" I retort back I then take a deep breath and say "sorry, I can see the appeal, believe me I can, but sweetheart it's just too risky, how would you feel if your father ever saw you like that or your grandparents" "they wouldn't" she retorts "you would be using an artist or a photographer?" I ask "obviously mother" she snaps while rolling her eye's at me "so Samuel wouldn't be the only person to see you like that" I hope that gives her food for thought, but I can't be sure, I then say "Angel I can't physically stop you, I can't ground you or spank you, but believe me it's not a good idea" we continue our lunch in silence before she says "mom don't lets fight, please, I'm going back tonight and I won't see you for three or four weeks" "ok sweetheart, I don't want to fight with you either but at least think about how you would feel if anyone else saw you like that, before you do it, please" I press again "OK I won't do it today" she laughs I just shake my head at her and then we are off giggling and chatting away, but in the back of my mind I am scared for her, a shot of her like that could set someone up for life.
After we finish lunch we meet up with the boys at the house so we can show Asia and Samuel how it is coming along, I really hope she likes how I have done her suite of rooms as we stand outside her bedroom door I say if you don't like it, we will redo it and I take a deep breath before opening the door she gasp's "mom I love it" and she does appear genuinely happy with everything I have picked out for her we then move through the house till we come to a room next to our suit and she opens the door as I say" nothing to see in there yet" and there isn't just blank white walls, she then says "ahh the nursery" "yes" I say "we know what we are doing with it but are not going to have it done till the miracles are safely here and in our arms, I am not jinxing anything"
We then have our first official meal at the house, Gail came over earlier and prepared the dining room and has left a beautiful meal for us that I just have to heat through as we sit talking and enjoying out meal Asia chirps up "you would like a painting of mom nude, wouldn't you dad?" I almost choke on my soup and he retorts "NO, if the press ever found something like that they would destroy her, so no the only vision of your mother nude is in here" as he taps the side of his head.
I know he has photos of me nude, but he took them, my face is always covered with my hair or my head is cut from the shot and they are inside a secure box inside his safe. So we both know no one but Christian or I will ever see them, even Jason doesn't have the combination for the secure box.
I just shake my head at her before moving the topic on to hopefully safer ground by asking them what their plans are for over the Christmas break Asia say's "school finishes on the eighteenth so they would like to fly up to Boise as soon as they finish and would then like to fly into Seattle on the 24th before going back to Boise on the 2nd January and then back to Pullman from Boise, for school stating again on the 10th"
I really don't think we can complain about that, we get them for both Christmas and New Year, Christian says he will send the plane each time just let him know roughly what times they want to be taking off, Samuel says "thank you sir, but you don't have to, you know" Christian says "I know son, I want to" Asia and I just look at each other, both thinking maybe he is learning to accept it, and I think I will maybe bring the subject of sleeping arrangements for Christmas break, up soon.
And all too soon it's time to drive out to Boeing Field and let them go again, I can feel the tears start and I look at Asia only to see she is the same, we sit in silence in the car before arriving at Boeing Field and Asia hugs Christian like she never wants to let him go, we both promise to ring her as soon as we have Christian's results back.
