In the morning, we get up and get dressed. We meet the kids downstairs for breakfast and find that Phoebe helped Lily to choose a beautiful pink dress from her new clothes and Phoebe decided to wear one to match her. It's so cute. They both look like they're exhausted, but it's okay. They probably spent their first night together, talking and giggling a lot before they fell asleep.
After the kids are in school, Christian and I head in to work. We all have another great day.
It's been 3 months since we brought Lily home to be a part of our family. The following weekend, we invited the family over and introduced them to Lily. They didn't even know that we were planning to foster or adopt.
They were all ecstatic and welcomed Lily into the family with open arms and Lily cried a lot. She said she's just so happy with all of the love she feels for her new family. We're glad that everyone loves her.
We had to get Lily a therapist shortly after she arrived. She kept having nightmares because, apparently, she suffered abuse at the hands of some of her former foster parents. She seems to be doing much better now. Last week, we officially adopted Lily and now she is Lily Mae Grey. Everyone is so excited. We had a celebration with family and everyone was so happy for us. Lily is adjusting well to being a part of our family and she's started to come out of her shy bubble.
We haven't heard any more from Ethan, which is a good thing, but Kate said that she hadn't seen or heard from him in weeks and that she's worried about him.
Recently, we were notified that Gideon is up for parole. We're not looking forward to his release, but we're hoping that he has learned his lesson and will stay the fuck away from us.
We received word that Sasha was released last month as well. I hate that almost all of the people that hurt our family are being released, but as a family, I know that we will be okay. We were told that Sasha went back to her family in Georgia again and, if we're lucky, she will stay there.
Christian and I have gone on many romantic dates over the last 9 months that we have been dating again. He has really swept me off of my feet all over again. I couldn't be happier right now. In this moment, I have everything I could ever possibly want or need. Christian and all 4 of our children. Everyone is happy and healthy and I couldn't ask for more.
It's Friday and the kids are all going to their Papa's house until Sunday, when they will come back before we need to go over to the Grey's manor for family dinner. We will be flying Christian's new helicopter down to pick them up. The younger 3 kids have never been on a helicopter before so I'm happy that we can finally give them this opportunity.
Christian and I are flying out on a secret 2 day getaway today. We will be gone before the kids get off school so we said our goodbyes to them this morning. My dad will pick them up from our nanny once they're home.
We are boarding the jet now. Once we're on board, Christian buckles me in, as usual and he has a seat next to me and he buckles himself in. Natalia brings us our wine, as usual, and we drink wine and talk until we take off. "Why don't you just tell me where we're going this time?" I ask.
He grins at me. "Because I love to see your face whenever you figure out where we are for yourself." He tells me.
I sigh. "Okay, fair enough." He leans over to me and gives me a sweet kiss.
"You will love it." I nod and he takes my hand as we begin our ascent into the sky.
After we're at cruising altitude, he takes me to the back and I ask him to fuck me and he happily obliges. Afterwards, we nap because apparently it will still be a little while before we arrive. Once we finally land, he picks me up and carries me off of the jet. I look around and I am stumped as to where we are. All I know is that the weather is amazing. "Where are we?"
"Can't figure it out?"
"No."
"We are at the Bahamas. We're going to Paradise Island." I squeal. I cannot contain my excitement.
I wrap my arms around him. "Thank you. Let's go!"
He smiles and carries me to the SUV and he puts me in and buckles me in as usual. Whenever we arrive on the beautiful Paradise Island, we pull up to The Ocean Club. It's a luxurious hotel. Everything here looks luxurious. He gets the key to our room and he takes me to the Hartford Wing. We are staying in the Ocean-View Room. It's so breathtaking. The view is amazing. I've always loved these bright blue oceans. Once we're settled into the room, I wrap my arms around his neck and stand on my tip toes and kiss him sweetly. I attempt to deepen it, but he stops me.
"Patience, dear. Put on your bikini. We're going out." I smile and go through my suitcase and spot my bikini and he helps me to put it on. He puts on a pair of swim trunks himself and grabs us some towels and we head out.
Our first stop is the Mandara Spa. We have couples massages and we enjoy the other amenities available. After we're done there, we head to Paradise beach. We stroll hand-in-hand down the powder-white beaches along the multi-hued turquoise waters. We relax on an oceanside lounge bed made for two before having an intimate candlelight dinner on the beach. As we are finishing eating, he reaches across the table and grabs both of my hands in his and looks into my eyes.
"Ana, we've known each other for the past 13 years and we had a wonderful marriage for 4 years before our own drama tore us apart. We spent 3 years apart and grew as individuals before finally finding our ways back to one another 9 months ago. I learned, yet again, over those 3 years that my life truly was dull and meaningless without you beside me. It was a pure hell of my own creation. I never want to lose you again, Ana. Over the past 9 months, we have grown as a couple again and we now know more about each other than we did whenever we were married."
He stands up and walks over to where he's standing in front of me. He pulls a little box out of the pocket in his swim trunks and he gets down on one knee in front of me. He opens the box to reveal a beautiful, elegant ring, just a little bit flashier than the first. I gasp. "Anastasia Grey, will you please do me the honor of being my wife again?"
I smile with tears of joy in my eyes. "YES!! Yes, Christian! I would love to be your wife again!"
His grin widens and he takes my left hand and slides the gorgeous ring onto my finger and I throw myself at him and wrap my arms around him, knocking him down again. My lips crash into his and I kiss him passionately. "Thank you, Ana."
"Thank you for asking, Christian. Can you take me to bed now?" He chuckles.
"I can, and I will. Let me up and let's go." He says and I get off of him and we get up. I sweep the sand off of his back and we walk, hand-in-hand, back to the hotel. We go up to our room and once the door is closed and locked, he wraps me in his arms and pulls me flush up against his body and he kisses me passionately. He picks me up by my ass and carries me to the balcony. He turns me around to face the ocean. "Grab onto the railings, baby." Ooh. This is going to be exciting.
I do as he asks and grab onto the railings. He pulls the strings on the side of my bikini bottoms. "Legs shoulder length apart." I do as he says and adjust my feet to his specifications. "I want you to let the world hear your pleasure so be as loud as you want. I want the world to know that YOU are MINE."
"Yes, sir." He moves my hair over to one side and he kisses my neck as he thrusts his full length into me at once. "FUCK YES!!" I scream. He begins to thrust hard and fast and I cannot contain the sounds escaping my mouth.
He continues his hard and fast thrusts. After my 2nd orgasm, he whispers, "Come with me, Ana." And my body immediately responds and this is, by far, the MOST intense orgasm I have ever had. He cries out with me as he finds his own release. He doesn't let up on his thrusts until the final pulsations of my orgasm pass and then he slows his thrusts to a stop. He kisses my neck again and he pulls out and spins me around and picks me up by my ass, laying me down on the lounger and he lays right next to me.
He takes off my bikini top and he lays kisses all over my body and he brings me to 2 more orgasms with his mouth before he climbs back up my body and kisses me sensually as he slowly thrusts into me and he makes love to me, right on the balcony.
Over the course of the next day, we stay in our room and order in room service. If I didn't have kids at home, I'd never want to leave this island. The next morning, we wake up and make love again before we take a bath together and pack to head back home.
Whenever we arrive home, we are both sporting sun-kissed tans and we are greeted by our children and my dad. We give them our love and we send them to get ready for family dinner and then we go and get dressed ourselves. I'm pretty sure that my dad saw my ring, but he didn't say anything about it.
Whenever we all arrive at the Grey's manor, we approach the door and knock. Grace answers, as usual, and hugs us and invites us in. We find everyone else in the family room. Mia has Ethan with her again so I guess that they finally got back together. I'm happy for them. At least his obsession with me appears to have died down. We hug everyone and have a seat and talk and drink some wine before dinner is called.
Throughout our meal, I catch Ethan staring at me more than once and I furrow my brow at him and look away. Finally, Christian stands up. "We have an announcement." Everyone gets quiet and looks to Christian. "I have asked Ana to marry me again." He looks down at me lovingly. "And she said YES!! Let's celebrate that. We hear many gasps but then congratulations from around the room. Christian sits back down and kisses me sweetly. "I love you."
"I love you, too, Christian." We continue to eat and once our meals are finished, we move back to the family room and talk. I still catch Ethan staring at me more than once, but I blow it off. Surely, it's nothing to be concerned about.
Whenever it gets late, we say our goodbyes and head home. Whenever we get home, we invite dad to stay the night, but he politely declines and we see him off and he drives back to Montesano. We put the kids to bed and meet in the family room and have some more wine together before going to bed ourselves and loving one another's bodies. Once we're thoroughly sated, we fall asleep, safe, in one another's arms.
It's been 3 weeks since we got engaged again. The Greys jumped right into wedding planning and they said, under Christian's advisement, that the planning process is to remain a secret to me until the big day. I can only imagine how big of an event this will be.
This time around, Kate will be my MOH and Elliot will be the BM, but all 4 of our children will be our bridesmaids and groomsmen. They are all excited about that.
Gideon was, unfortunately, released last week and word is that he's quite upset that Christian hastily took over Cross Industries, but apparently, he's rebuilding another company from the ground up.
We have had a blissfully uneventful 3 weeks, although, the press caught onto our engagement pretty quickly. Christian, yet again, put out a press release to confirm our engagement.