The ride takes a lot longer on the way to Escala, where more paps are waiting. Once we get inside, he parks me back in my spot again and we go upstairs to our apartment and I pack up a few things for Liam and he takes us to the top of Escala where his helicopter is waiting. Liam's eyes widen, clearly excited, whenever he sees it. We still hadn't told him that we are taking the helicopter. Once Christian gets us buckled in, I am surprised that he will be flying us, but I trust him implicitly. During the flight, I am in awe of how beautiful the sights are and I occasionally look to Liam and see that he is equally as enthralled by the view.

Once we arrive at Dad's, he is happy to see us until he sees the marks on my throat and I can see the fury in his eyes. We tell him what happened and he finally calms down a little. We bid Liam and Daddy our goodbyes and then we head back to the helicopter and fly back to Escala. Once we get there, Christian scoops me up and carries me back to my apartment and we find Sawyer stationed in the hallway again and he welcomes us back.

He takes care of me the rest of the night. Taylor brings us the cream for my bruises that his mother was talking about. He runs me a bath and gets in with me and washes me. He puts the cream on my neck gently and we have some wine and he tells me to not talk too much and rest my voice. After a couple of glasses, he takes me to bed and loves me for a few hours and we go to sleep, safe and sated, in each other's arms since he has to get back to work tonight. After the way the night started, it ended in a rather pleasant manner. I love him so damn much.

The next morning, he makes love to me again and we shower together before I see him off to work. During the day, I spend time looking for a job online. I find a Publishing House called Seattle Independent Publishing that is hiring so I call and we set up an interview for Thursday. My Dad brings Liam back and we all spend a couple of hours together and they tell me about their night and then my Daddy leaves.

Whenever Christian finally gets home from work, he appears frustrated until he sees us and then he smiles and we spend the evening together as a family until Liam is safely tucked in bed and then Christian and I have some wine and discuss our days and he tells me about Sasha attempting to come and see him and that his lawyers are still working on a contract to make an agreement between him and Sasha concerning the baby while she is still pregnant. I tell him about my job interview and he is excited for me. He says that Sawyer will need to accompany me to the interview, though, in case the paps are still trying to figure out my identity then. He says that Gail will keep Liam while I go and I agree to this.

Eventually, he takes me to bed and we love each other for a while before falling asleep in each other's arms. I will never tire of this man loving me. I am certain that he is my soulmate.

Over the rest of the week, everything is fairly calm, with the exception of Sasha still trying to contact Christian. He answers the phone for her because of the baby, but when she doesn't talk about anything regarding the baby, he hangs up on her. My interview on Thursday went great and they hired me as assistant to a senior editor. I start next week and I am ecstatic. Sawyer accompanied me and I'm glad that he did because the paps continued to try to get pictures of me, but I wore a hat and big sunglasses, as Christian recommended, and Sawyer protected me. They still didn't get a picture of me, thankfully.

Christian has clothes for himself delivered since Sasha ruined the rest of his clothes and, much to my dismay, he has clothes delivered for me. He also had more clothes and some more toys delivered for Liam.

Gail helps me with Liam and cooking and cleaning throughout the week and she is a wonderful woman and I appreciate the help, but I feel bad having someone do so much for me whenever I am fully capable of doing it myself.

Christian's attorneys finally got the paperwork drawn up regarding the baby and he met with Sasha, with his attorneys present, in a board room at Grey House to get the papers signed on Friday. She was upset because she expected more, but she reluctantly signed anyways.

Christian and I share everything about our days and we continue to get closer as the days go on. I couldn't be happier with him.

My bruising on my neck and sore throat have finally subsided, so we're thankful for that. Christian took amazing care of me.

Grace and Carrick kept Liam one day and night this week and he had a great time there and they thoroughly enjoyed their time with him.

They have began the remodel of Christian's penthouse. Apparently, it will take a while. I'm fine with it though. I enjoy sharing my home and bed with Christian. Liam loves having him here as well.

This has, quite possibly, been the best week of my life thus far. I love my family.

Today, Christian says that he has a surprise for Liam and I and he is, quite obviously, very excited about it. We are getting ready to leave now. Apparently, we are riding with Taylor this time and Sawyer is going to follow in another vehicle. The paps have still been on us mercilessly, trying to get a shot of me and Liam, but we are managing them well. They will probably get a shot of us at some point, but we will avoid them as long as we can.

Christian bought me a classy hat that matches all of my dresses and we're bringing along my big sunglasses that he bought for me a while ago. Whenever we finally get out of the parking garage, we start driving out of town and I can see Christian's excitement build, the farther we go. This makes me happy as well. I love to see him happy like this.

After about a 20 minute drive, we come to an iron gate and Taylor puts a code in and it opens. After a long driveway, I see a beautiful Victorian Style home in the distance. I wonder who we are visiting. Whenever we arrive, Christian gets out quickly and helps us out, still smiling like a school boy. He takes our hands as we walk around the front of the SUV and I am in awe of this home. It is huge and beautiful. "Christian, who lives here?"

He smiles and winks and bends down in front of Liam. "Can you go with Taylor out back? I'm pretty sure that there is a playground back there so you can play for a little bit while I talk to Mommy."

His smile grows and he starts to jump with excitement. "Okay, Daddy."

Taylor takes his hand and they walk towards the back of the house and I'm just confused as to why he would send Liam to go play in the back yard of someone else's home without asking them if it is okay. He stands back up and looks into my eyes and takes my hands in his. "You know how Liam has expressed living in a home with his family and having a yard to play in like the one at Nana Helen's?"

I nod, still slightly confused. He smiles. "Well, this is our home. As long as you approve, of course." My eyes widen and my mouth opens but nothing comes out. I turn to survey the house again and it is beautiful, but it is much too huge for us.

"But Christian, it's so big. You know we can't have any more children as long as we are together."

He takes my hands again and I turn back to face him again. "I know baby, BUT I was thinking and maybe someday we can adopt. There are plenty of children out there that are in need of loving homes. How would you feel about that?" I smile, excited about this prospect.

"I would love that." I kiss him sweetly. "Are you going to show me around?"

"Of course, baby." He grins and scoops me up without warning and he carries me bridal style all the way into the house and then he lets me down. He puts me down in the foyer with a kiss. "I had to carry my future wife over the threshold." I smile at him. It may be a while, but I cannot wait to be this man's wife. "Are you ready?" he asks.

"Yes, baby." I reply.

"Okay. My brother is a contractor, so I had him come in and see if there were any damages that needed repairs and make a few modifications that I requested." I nod as he leads me to what looks like a family room, complete with a fire place. "This is the family room, as you probably figured out." I nod again as we continue to walk through the house. He shows me the indoor pool, the offices, the gym and some rooms that can be guest rooms for whenever we have company stay over. There is also what appears to be some kind of game room, where you can play indoor sports. Liam will love this.

He finally takes me up the intricate spiral staircase, showing me to each room. He tells me that he will let me choose which rooms to make Liam's and the baby's. He gives me his opinion and I actually agree. He is brilliant. I guess he has to be to be so successful. He shows me a room that would be good for a toy room for Liam and the baby someday. Finally, we come to the master bedroom and it is HUGE. It has a beautiful view and I can see my son playing on the playground out back. I didn't even see the glass doors until Christian opens them and leads me out onto a beautiful balcony. After we go back inside, he shows me the huge closets and I'm impressed, but we will need a lot more clothes to fill them.

I notice a door hidden at the back of one of the closets. "What's that?" I ask him.

He pushes a code into a pin pad on the wall and it opens and it is a pretty big room. It's about the size of the bedrooms, but with no windows. "This is supposed to be a room for ladies' shoes, but I know that you will never allow me to buy you enough shoes to fill this room, so I was thinking." He stops and he takes me into the room farther. He looks at me and he looks a little nervous so I furrow my brow slightly. "You said that you were into BDSM yourself?" I nod. "Did you like it?"

"I loved it." He grins.

"How would you feel about being my submissive as well as lover, best friend and, someday, my wife?"

I gasp just a little. Mostly with excitement. I put my arms around his neck with a smile on my face. "I would love to be your submissive as well as all of those other things that you mentioned. You're it for me, Christian. You have been since I met you."

He smiles back and leans down and kisses me deeply. "I would love to be your master and all of those other things for you as well." He pulls back a little to look directly into my eyes again. "How would you feel about turning this into our own private playroom?"

I grin. "I would absolutely love that, baby. This makes me extremely happy."

"I'm glad it does. I live to keep you happy forever, Ana." He kisses me sweetly one more time and pulls back again. "Also, this room, as well as our bedroom will be sound proofed. I want to give you free reign with all of the furniture for outside of this room. I will handle all of this. I will have professionals come in and set it up."

I am extremely excited at this point and I kiss him feverishly. "I would love to furnish this house, Mr. Grey. Thank you for all of this. I love you so damn much. Liam will love this house and he will be so excited about his room and toy room."

He grins. "I love you so damn much as well. This makes me extremely happy. I have something else to show you. Come with me." I smile again and take his hand and follow him out of the room. He closes the door back and I hear the lock click into place. I'm so excited about the prospect of getting back into BDSM and, especially, that it will be at the hands of this extremely talented, beautiful man. He leads me back downstairs and out onto a beautiful back deck and I see the obviously expensive playground that Liam is happily playing on. He also has another bigger t-ball setup out here and I'm sure Liam loves that as well. I wrap my arms around Christian's waist and hug him.

"This is all so perfect, Christian." He pulls back and lightly puts his fingers under my chin to lift my head so that I'm looking into his eyes again.

"Only the best for my family." I smile and stand up on my tip toes and kiss him sweetly. As I look back out past the playground, I find that the meadow is huge and it leads down to a dock on the sound. There is a fence that goes all of the way around the family. I wonder if Christian added that. "There is also an absolutely stunning view of the sunset from here. You will love it. OH, one more thing." He walks me around the side of the house where I see 3 smaller around the property. "This is for our staff."

"You think of everything, Christian Grey. You truly are a remarkable man, Mr. Grey." He smiles and winks at me.

"Let's go let Liam know that we are going to be living here and show him around."

"Let's do."

We go, hand in hand, out to the playground and we tell Liam that we are going to live here and he is ecstatic. We show him around the house and I have never seen him so excited. "We will live here as a family. Just like my picture." He says.

"Yes, buddy. Just like your picture. Let's head back home and we can move in here as soon as Mommy gets it furnished."

"Okay, Daddy." He says with just a little disappointment in his voice. He really just wants to stay here now.

Christian puts his arm around my waist and takes Liam's hand and we leave. He locks the door once we are outside and we walk back to the SUV and get in. Christian buckles us up, as usual, and I put my hat and sunglasses back on, because you never know if the paps may have followed us out here.

I'm surprised Liam didn't say that it would be a happy day this morning, because it certainly turned out to be an extremely happy day. Maybe because pretty much every day this last week has been a happy day.

Thankfully, the paps aren't here, so we have light conversation on the way home and Liam tells us about his BIG plans for his room and toy room. I know Christian and he will most likely get him absolutely everything that he asked for. I don't want my son to be spoiled and I have expressed this to Christian, but he assured me that it would be okay. He said we will still teach him the value of hard work and I believe him so I finally relented and allow it.

Whenever we get through the paps at home, Taylor drops us off at the elevator and we go up to our apartment and Sawyer is somehow already there, standing guard in the hallway. His staff amazes me with their sneakiness and obvious expertise.

We spend the rest of the day together at home as a family. On Sunday, we go back to the Grey's house for dinner and aside from Mia, everyone is there again. She's probably still mad and has her head up Sasha's ass. It was a pleasant dinner this time.