It's been 2 months since we returned from Russia. We celebrated Liam's 18th birthday in style with his friends. We went zip lining first. We didn't take the younger kids for that. It was hard enough to talk my husband into it. We had a wonderful time. After that, we all went to a Twenty-One Pilots concert together. We got close to the front of the pits and had a great time. Liam's friends thanked us for a great time.
We just celebrated Phoebe's 14th birthday as well. She had a bunch of her and Lily's friends stay over for a sleepover after the party. The house was overrun by female hormones. We set the basement up for them so that they can stay up and do all that fun teenager stuff that they enjoy doing without waking everyone up.
We flew Liam out to his new apartment in New Haven, CT the day after his birthday. He starts his freshman year of college soon. Christian got him a new car there so that we don't have to drive his car across the country. It was incredibly bittersweet leaving him there and I cried way too much, but he is happy and knows that our home will ALWAYS be his home and he can come back at any time.
The kids all started back at school after Phoebe's birthday. Even the twins start school this year. It's hard to believe that it's been 5 years since they were born.
Christian and I have been married for nearly 6 years this time. It's hard to believe how far we've come since the first time that we were married. We truly are so much stronger this time.
Christian and I are both at work today. I'm going up to his office to have lunch with him now. Whenever I arrive on the 20th floor, I'm greeted by Andrea, as usual. "Go on in, Mrs. Grey. He's expecting you."
"Thank you, Andrea." I say with a smile and I walk past her to my husband's office doors.
Whenever I enter the office, I find my husband looking out of the floor to ceiling windows. I close and lock the door because there's no telling what will be happening in this office. "Mr. Grey, are you available for your wife?"
He turns around with a huge smile on his ridiculously handsome face. "I've always got time for you, Mrs. Grey." I approach him and he saunters over to me and meets me in the middle.
He wraps his arms around my waist and pulls me flush up against his firm body. I wrap my own arms around his neck and he leans down and kisses me sweetly. "Is lunch here yet?" I ask him.
"Yes, as a matter of fact, it is. I have it on my desk. I was just waiting for your arrival." He kisses me sweetly again. "Go have a seat on the couch and I will bring it over for us." I nod and smile.
I walk to the couch and have a seat. He grabs the bag off of his desk and carries it over and sets it on the table in front of us and he sits next to me. He starts pulling stuff out of the bag and setting it out for us.
We eat our lunch and share casual conversation. Once we're done eating, he pushes the table away and wraps his arms around me and his lips crash into mine and he kisses me passionately. I eagerly reciprocate. He lays me back on the couch and he reaches up my skirt and hooks his thumbs into the sides of my panties and pulls them off of me delicately.
He crawls back up the couch and towers over me. His lips crash back into mine as I hear him undoing his pants. Once he is free from his pants, he thrusts into my core and he fucks me hard and fast through 2 orgasms before he asks me to come with him. As soon as our orgasms end, my phone rings. "Fuck!" I exclaim. "It could be work, but I will call back in a little bit."
He holds me for a little bit before he gives me a sweet kiss as he pulls out and then he rolls off of me and lies beside me and holds me tight for a little longer. My phone starts ringing again. "You should probably go get that."
I nod and roll off of the couch and stand up, straightening out my skirt and I pick up my purse and pull my phone out of it. I notice it's a New York number and I furrow my brow. Maybe it's my New York office? "It might be my New York office." I say as I dial the number that had just tried to call twice.
"Jensen and Ryan Law offices. This is Roy Jensen speaking."
"Hi, Roy. This is Anastasia Grey. I just missed a couple of calls from this number."
"Yes. Yes, that was me. Are you able to come to my office this week. We have some business pertaining to Mr. Gideon Cross to discuss."
"I want nothing to do with anything related to that man."
"Mrs. Grey, I understand that after all that he's done to you in the past, but you may want to hear me out. Mr. Cross passed away in prison recently and his will specifically names you as his beneficiary."
"Why the fuck would he put me down as his beneficiary?" I ask.
"Well, the last time that I spoke with him, he wanted it to be you because he said that he owed you after all the trouble that he's caused you and your family."
"Shouldn't his stuff go to his ex-wife and son?" I ask.
"He left them a lump sum and some property, but there's a lot here that he left to you specifically."
I gasp. What the fuck was this asshole thinking? "Can I accept it and sign it all over to his ex-wife and child?"
"You can do whatever you want with it. If you want to do that, I suggest that you bring your attorney along for that. I can only deliver the stuff to you to do with as you please."
I sigh exasperated. "Okay. I will discuss this with my husband and get there as soon as I can."
"Thank you, Mrs. Grey. I will see you soon." He hangs up and I walk over to my husband who looks perplexed.
"What was that about?" he asks.
"Well, apparently Gideon is dead and he left me everything that he didn't leave to Mia and Carrick. I am going to accept it and hand it over to them. I don't want anything from the monster."
He gasps. "Wow. I'm with you no matter what you decide to do."
"I need to go there to accept it. We need to bring our attorney along so that I can sign all of it over to Mia and Carrick immediately." I say.
"Do you want me to come along?" I nod.
"I'd appreciate it if you could. When do you think we should go?" I ask.
"We can go tonight and head to the attorney's office. I will contact our attorneys now to go with us." He suggests.
"That sounds like a good plan to me. Let me go down and let the office know that I'm gonna be out for a couple of days." He stands and wraps his arms around my waist.
"Okay, baby. I will meet you down there after I tell Andrea to clear my schedule for a couple of days." He says and he kisses me sweetly before walking me to the door. I go down to my office and let them know that I'm going to be out and then I meet my husband in the elevator and I ride down to the underground parking garage with him.
We head out to the office and I ask dad and Samantha to keep the kids for the next couple of days while we go and deal with some things in New York and they agree. We go and pack some stuff and whenever the kids get home, we spend some time with them.
Whenever it's time to head to New York, we meet our attorneys at the jet and we all get on. Whenever we arrive, it's late so we all head out to our house and the attorneys stay in the guest rooms and Christian and I go to bed ourselves. We love each other's bodies before getting some sleep.
Whenever we get up, we shower together before getting dressed and getting the attorneys and Jenson and Taylor and heading out to Jenson and Ryan law offices. Whenever we arrive, we are brought to Mr. Jenson's office pretty quickly. He has us have a seat and then he pulls a huge file folder out and sets it on his desk. "This is everything that he left you. It includes Cross Industries." He tells us before sitting in his chair. "We need to go through all of this paperwork, so I hope you have some time."
I shake my head. This is ridiculous. "We have time. Let's get this over with." He nods and starts pulling out the papers one by one and Christian reviews them each with me. We don't come out of his office until around 8 pm. He lets us use their conference room to go through this with our attorneys. "Christian, would you like to take over Cross Industries? We know Mia won't know what to do with it and you already owned it once. You can rename it Grey instead of Cross." I ask my husband.
"Yes. I can handle that, but only if you're sure because, technically, it is all yours." He says.
I nod. "I'm sure. Having access to that may help further advance your empire since you both did similar things. I just want to keep the New York office of GP open."
"We can do that, then. You can keep CI in your name, though and I will just run it." I nod.
"Works for me. Let's get this over with." We go through everything with our attorneys and whenever we get back to Seattle, we have all of the paperwork ready for Mia to sign. She married him so her and her son, his son, deserve all of this stuff. Not me. I was simply his obsession and I'm not necessarily happy that he's dead, but I'm glad that I don't have to worry about him coming after me again.
Whenever everything is together, we all head back to our house and the attorneys go to their rooms and Taylor is going to drop them off at the airport in the morning so that they can go home. Christian and I have decided to stay a couple of days.
Whenever we finally arrive home after not leaving our New York home for 2 days, we are greeted with our excited children. We spend time with them until it's their bedtime and then we have some wine before going to bed ourselves. Christian set it up and Mia is meeting with us and our attorneys at Grey house in the morning.
Whenever we arrive at Grey House, Christian and I go to a conference room and wait for Mia to arrive. I don't know how she will react about the fact that the asshole left me everything that he didn't leave her, but she should be happy that I'm giving everything but CI to her.
Whenever she arrives, she is wearing her usual pink dress. We both get up and give her a hug and Christian directs her to her seat and comes and sits next to me. The attorneys pull out the mountain of paperwork that they put together that hands it all over to her. She just has to do the same amount of signing as I did.
"Mia, I'm sure you know about Gideon's passing?" She nods. "He left me everything that he didn't leave you and I am handing everything except CI over to you if you will please accept it. I don't want anything from him. Christian will be handling CI and I'm sure that we can give you a portion of the profits for you and Carrick."
She gasps. "Are you sure, Ana? He left you all of that for a reason." She asks.
"The reason being that he felt bad about all that he put me and my family through. Regardless, I do not want or need it and I thought it was only right to accept it and hand it over to you. Are you interested?"
"Yes, it would be nice to have more to offer my son whenever he gets older." She says.
"Excellent. Our attorneys will walk you through everything and explain it before having you sign it. I will just tell you now that we will be here for a while."
She nods. "Thank you, Ana." I nod and the attorneys start the process of presenting everything to her and Andrea comes in a few times to bring us food and drinks so that we don't all leave thirsty and starving.
Whenever everything is done, it's late. "We need to get home." Christian says.
"Can we go out to dinner together tomorrow?" Mia asks.
I nod and look at Christian. "Of course. We can make that happen. I will get reservations and contact you with the details."
"Thank you both so much for everything. I truly appreciate this."
"It's really not a problem, Mia. You deserve this for the hell he put through as well."
We all head out and go to our homes and the kids are already in bed whenever we arrive so we check in with them before going to bed ourselves.
It's been 3 months since we accepted Gideon's stuff and gave it to Mia. She's really thriving even more than she was before now. We're happy for her. She has Gideon's jets to fly wherever she wants whenever she wants. She wants to go to Paris and be a chef there. She said that it's always been her dream and that it would be nice for Carrick to grow up in the Parisian culture.
We will miss her, but she's an adult and she can do whatever she pleases. She said she will be back to visit as often as possible.
The kids are all doing great in school. The twins are really enjoying school. It won't be long before Teddy will be 12 and Lily will be 15. Shortly afterwards, the twins will be 6.
Liam has come back to visit a couple of times for the weekend. He said they mostly party up there on the weekends and he has no interest in it. He says that he's focusing primarily on his studies. We're so proud of him. We're proud of all of our children, really.
Cross Industries is now Grey Industries. Christian and I have flown out and helped everything to transition smoothly about 5 times in the last 3 months. Everything there seems to be flourishing under my husband's thoughtful guidance.
Christian is taking me away for a week for a late 6th wedding anniversary and for my birthday. We haven't gotten the chance with everything that had been going on and we missed it the year before because I was gone. I know that Anton is supposed to come in soon so maybe we will meet him wherever we're going? I'm not sure because Christian always likes to keep me on my toes as far as plans that he makes. I find it exciting, so I enjoy it.