His North Star.
Christian POV
The first day I met her I knew she would change my life for good. I knew that without a doubt there were parts of me coming to life that I never knew existed.
I'm one of the most powerful men in the country, people heard the name Christian grey and immediately stopped, either in fear or in anticipation. I'd worked hard for that. Specifically, on the business side I was the youngest self-made billionaire in acquisitions and those who were there before me feared me for that fact alone.
Dropping out of college after only a year and starting my own company was not an easy accomplishment. Carrick, my adoptive father, certainly never thought I would succeed but my sweet adoptive mother, Grace, quietly lent me the startup money behind his back anyway. The thanksgiving that followed when Carrick found out where the money had REALY come from, not some silent investor, but his wife, well let's just say things in the Grey house were not exactly festive that holiday season. He eventually calmed down, once I told him I had already made seven times the startup money in the previous quarter, paid Mom back with interest and promised her I would be at every Sunday dinner till I die.
On the other hand, Elliot thought it was hilarious, my goof of an older brother was enthralled at the prospect that the self-made-billionaire-brother borrowed Mom's money behind Dad's back. However, Mia, my younger sister, was more concerned with whether or not this meant she could get an allowance from her older billionaire brother than the fact that the turkey had gone cold. As a family we have endured more than our fair share, when the Elena scandal broke in the family just on a year ago now, I thought they would disown me. I had known the books at her salons had been 'off' for a while and when I had Welch look into it and he revealed the disastrous tax evasion Elena was running I knew it was time to cut her loose.
That's when the black mail pictures turned up. The wicked bitch had hundreds of pictures of myself with my submissives that dated back to the beginning. On top of that she had pictures and video of the both of us when I was only 16. I thought that would be the end. I thought that that would be the knife to my career, my reputation, everything. A career I had fought for and worked for my entire life for suddenly gone because she chose to out me as a Dom in the lifestyle, she got me addicted to in the first place. That day those pictures showed up was also the day Elliot decided to show up at my office unannounced and saw everything first hand. It was him who told me to tell Mom and Dad, that he had known what shit this bitch had been doing because she had tried to do a similar thing to him. That was the day my relationship with my brother changed. He went from being the older brother I pushed away, to my most trusted friend. He stood by me as I told our parents, as Mia cried, as my mother marched over to Elena's house with a hammer and threatened to kill her. Luckily Dad managed to cover up what physical damage she did to the front of their house and restrained her. He stood by me as I had her house ransacked for evidence only to find she had been doing much worse and to much younger. At least all evidence pertaining to my lifestyle was quickly burned and the rest was handed over to the authorities. She is now doing 30 to life in some dump of a prison up east. I had not had a submissive in a number of years when this all went down. I don't really understand why I stopped just one day I didn't want them anymore. Didn't want that play room anymore. None of it.
Everything that had happened in my life up until I met this beautiful creature had been challenging, I worked hard for everything I got and endured a bunch of crap while doing it. But I would live it a hundred times over just to be here for this moment when this beautiful creature walked into Grey Enterprises Holdings.
So this is where I am starting, it was important for me to be slightly AU with his current situation when Ana walks into his life. This is going to be a story of romance but not hallmark like at all, just because Elena isn't around doesn't mean people aren't lurking in the dark waiting. Hope you like where I'm headed with this. LJ.