CHAPTER 6

Taylor coordinated with Welch and Barney in tech security with GEH over teleconference. They both looked at the information Taylor provided from an anonymous source. They both were impressed with the intricate details of tying all of this together.

Taylor said, "I need both of you to say Welch had the anonymous source. This person is to be protected and Mr Grey needs to cut Elena Lincoln out like a cancer now because the source said that the hammer will fall in three days to a week. I need you to back me up on this. He's not going to like having to move this fast on something he has drug his feet on for so long."

Welch said, "I just wonder what that old bitch has on him to make him hesitant. It has to be damaging."

Taylor said, "I have an idea, but not 100% positive I do. I'm going to talk with him now. So be aware." They both nodded.

Taylor took a copy of the file and report and went into Christian's bedroom and said, "Sir we need to talk." Christian was working on his laptop computer.

Christian looked up at him and realized it was something serious. He set the laptop aside. Taylor sat down in a chair. Taylor said, "Sir, I have a complete dossier on Elena Lincoln that you're not going to believe." He handed the file to Christian and let him go over it."

Christian was quiet at first he grunted, then groaned, then sat up straighter, and then had his mouth open. He growled and said out loud, "WHAT FUCK!?"

Taylor said, "It gets worse." He handed the report over to him. Christian read the report and looked green like he was going to puke.

When he was done, he said, "She… she is a vermin hiding out to victimize people." Christian's skin was crawling thinking of how all the times she touched him or more.

Taylor said, "There's more. You have to cut ties with her today now. Welch received an anonymous tip that the hammer is falling no later than this week to the soonest of three days. You have to cut her out completely now or you may end up involved financially, socially, and personally. No time to drag your feet or you will have the government, law enforcement and the media crawling all up in your business."

Christian just stared at him. Christian said terrified, "You said an anonymous tip? Why would someone warn me or have Welch warn me? Most people would watch a wealthy businessman crumble for entertainment."

Taylor said, "It's a reliable source that's all I know. You have a very short window to get as much distance as possible away from her, sir. I suggest you take the only opportunity you have."

Christian said, "She has photographic evidence and videos of me doing what I do in the red room. She will either expose me or your anonymous person or persons will get the evidence against me and expose me."

Taylor said, "You have no more choices. You either take the chance to save your business. Your reputation will depend on how it plays out. These are government officials from various departments going after her and will be after her for heinous crimes against children and God knows who else. You need to stand clear out of their way. Let me be frank, son, you don't have any more time to hem-haw, about what to do about this. I know you're scared but it's over, you've run out of time. Do what you can to get her away from you now." Christian picked up his phone and called Roz.

Christian said looking straight into Taylor's eyes, "Roz, dump everything on Esclava salons, cut the funding, sell the 60% share to anyone, and call in the loans. I need you to move on this as top priority above all to save the company. She has become a pariah and dangerous to our welfare as of right now you have two days to pull in whomever to get us released the fastest…. I don't give a shit about how much we will lose. Maybe if we're lucky down the road we will get money recovered. Get auditing and accounting flying on this…. I'll call Legal right now. Hurry move on it, Roz."

Christian went into full cracking of the whip on everything. The Legal Department said that Elena could be served tomorrow morning with the mandatory audit papers, and the notification of the release from financial backing and termination of the partnership and the option to buy within twenty four hours the stock before it is released to the open market immediately. It can happen in the morning if the departments get paid overtime to execute a complete audit on all three salons. Christian of course, consented to the overtime. They will simultaneously lock the doors at all three locations at 7am. There will be GEH armed security on each site round the clock to prevent anyone from entering the premises during shutdown for the next two days. He was the majority stock holder until they could dump his shares of stock onto the stock exchange. The loan markers are Elena Lincoln's responsibility due to the partnership agreement being Christian as the silent partner in the salons. She will be forced to pay all loans back to the banks immediately and purchase all stock within that twenty four hour window.

Christian saw those overseas account balances and knows she can damn well afford it but it will suck down that account total. If she has been embezzling, he can file charges, it will get him off the hook from legal liability on anything else she may have been doing behind his back. Then when "the hammer falls" his business is safe.

Christian's reputation will be the only thing that may be cannon fodder.

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The next morning Christian was in his bedroom working on his laptop. Taylor came in and said, "Mrs Lincoln is down stairs having a fit and refuses to leave the premises until she is able to speak with you. She is causing a scene and they are about to call the police for disturbing the peace."

Christian said, "Let them call. I can't go down there with a broken ankle and arm and I refuse to have her in my penthouse if she wants to talk to anyone, it better be my legal department about her stocks in the next twenty four hours. They will be sold by 7am tomorrow morning to Merryland Spas."

Taylor said, "Can I go down and tell her that?"

Christian smiled at him and said, "Be my guest." Christian had come to an understanding within himself to just let it happen if was going to. He had felt a huge relief to just get it over with like ripping off a band-aid.

Taylor took off and went down the elevator and could hear her screaming five floors up before he got down there. He hit the recording on his phone before the doors opened.

He got off the elevator and said, "Mrs Lincoln, stop acting like this now or you're going to jail!"

She marched up to him and started screaming, "I demand to see Christian now! If you don't let me up there I will tear this place down to get there! How dare he do this to me! It was probably that little bitch that put him up to it! I fucking hate her!"

Taylor said, "Mr Grey has clear instructions that you will not have access to his penthouse. He is injured and can't go down here with a broken ankle and arm. He said and I quote, "If she wants to talk to anyone, it better be my legal department about her stocks in the next twenty four hours. They will be sold by 7am tomorrow morning to Merryland Spas." She screamed out a loud shriek of rage.

She said, "You tell that little son of a bitch that I am going to ruin his ass for this and destroy his family. He's going to rue the day he ever met me. That fucking little bitch of his will be dead by the end of the goddamn week."

Taylor said, "Can I quote that to Mr Grey and to the police? If anything happens to Miss Steele you're the one who will die in prison. Just cough up the money you old greedy bitch and you can keep what you have. If the auditors find any tampering on your part you'll be in prison for life. I know your filthy rich just stop with this stupid tempertantrum bullshit and spend some of your dollars to get out from under all this. The clock is fucking ticking until it blows up in your old haggard face." The cops came up to her after they talked to the concierge. That's why Taylor was distracting her.

She said, "He won't let me see my partner in my business that is trying to put me illegally in the poor house or on the streets. He must be holding him hostage up there. He was in an accident and they probably tied him to the bed. It's a nightmare." She was acting like she was going to faint. Taylor looked at the cop in his eye and rolled his eyes to let him know it's and act.

The one cop came up to Taylor and said, "What's your side of the story?"

Taylor said, "Come up stairs and talk to Mr Grey and you'll see she is causing a scene for attention. Everything is legal and above board."

The cop said, "Ok, lead the way." The cop went up the elevator and Taylor texted Christian that the police were on their way up.

Christian was sitting in the living room with copies from legal of the complete severing of their partnership and the audit shutting her down today.

The cop said, "You look injured and you don't look like you're being tied to a bed and being held hostage up here by your employees in any way, like that woman Elena Lincoln said."

Christian said, "Hardly." He handed him a copy of the legal papers served to her this morning to sever business ties with Elena. The cop looked them over with all the lawyer signatures and the partnership agreement to his 60% ownership.

Christian said, "She has the money in the bank to do the stock purchase and the loan payoffs but she is a hoarder and probably embezzling. I have my auditors gathering all the evidence at her three locations now and cleaning out the safes. If anything criminal shows up in the next twenty four hours I will be calling you to turn over evidence and press charges.

The officer said, "Well we can't hold her for twenty four hours for disturbing the peace. She will just be fined and released."

Taylor said, "What about death threats directly to Mr Grey's girlfriend? It was issued as a retaliation for severing her business." Taylor played the recording.

The cop said, "That's different, we can hold her for psychological examination and Assault and verbal threat with a copy of that recording." Taylor went off and burned a thumb drive recording off of his phone, came back and handed it to the officer.

Christian says, "I want to press charges but I'm unable to get around right now from an accident. Be aware if she gets to a phone, for anything other than her lawyer, she will make arrangements to pay someone to do her dirty work. If my girlfriend gets hurt or killed I will press charges against the SPD." Taylor said that he just recorded this whole conversation so he is aware. The officer took down all information, copies of the partnership and the recording and left.

Taylor got the information to Welch on everything that went down in the penthouse this morning.

The SPD sent out an officer to get Christian's signature and official statement on the charges being issued on one Elena Lincoln for disorderly conduct, being a nuisance, death threats to commit bodily harm. He said she was being psychologically evaluated. He got Taylor's official statement and the concierge on duty during the incident. Christian thought, 'At least they're taking it seriously.'

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In the police station, Elena was sitting in a jail conference room with the two way mirror being questioned by the psychiatrist on staff. The officer on the case was listening with his superior.

Elena said, "You have to let me go. I only have twenty four hours to purchase my stock for my salons since 7am this morning from my corrupt partner."

The psychiatrist said, "Mrs Lincoln, if that was so important to you, why would you go to his place of residence and get yourself arrested for making a terrible scene and making death threats?"

She simpered and said, "I was distraught over him filing all those papers on me with his arsenal of lawyers. His girlfriend made him do it to make me go away. I was his best friend until he had his accident. She manipulated him with her feminine wiles and took my Christian away from me. She claims to have saved his life during the crash but she just found a way to get his money and take over his life. He needs me to save him from her. I just want to protect him and help him. She's no good for him, don't you see?"

The psychiatrist said, "Yes, I see."

Behind the glass the officer said, "Wow, she is Looney tunes and a bad actor. She wants out to drop a dime on that woman and get her rubbed out but good. Grey said that's what she does and had the money to do it too. I can see it but I hope the judge does too."

His superior said, "Perhaps Judge Watkins needs a heads up on this wack-a-doodle. This one needs to be held in custody. She could do harm to others in her state of mind. Maybe the severing of the partnership with her salons drove her over the edge. Daphne will do the full evaluation of her. Until then no phone privileges. We will call her lawyer for her and get him here."

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Ana hadn't heard from Christian in two days since her call to Taylor and she was laying low and searching for information on the news on TV, the news sites and financial reports internet sites for information on what was going on with Elena Lincoln and Christian or GEH. The only thing was a local police report on an incident of disturbing the peace at Escala concierge desk involving Elena Lincoln.

Well there is nothing she can do but wait for him to call her. She was sorry for stirring up everything in his life and forcing him to face what a vile creature she really is. Her phone rang, it was Uncle George.

Ana said, "Hi, Uncle George."

He said, "Hello, kiddo. I am giving you a heads up. We entered her home off the record and found a ton of items. I'm sorry to have to give you in regards to your friend Christian Grey. She abused him at a very young age, honey, until he was an adult." Ana's eyes teared instantly. She prayed this wasn't the case.

He continued, "I need you to get this big package so it's out of my custody. You find a way to get it to him. We are dropping the hammer tonight. She is in the local SPD custody for a death threat against you and causing a nuisance and disturbance at Grey's home. That will make it easier to retain her. The SPD thinks she snapped her cap when he severed ties and is blaming you. I just think she's diabolical and trying to manipulate them. You watch your surroundings and your six, kiddo. If that crazy bitch gets to a phone you'll have big problems. Get your 9 millimeters out sweetheart. I know you have your CCW still active. We are watching her lawyer too for odd behavior. I love you, kiddo."

Ana sniffled and said, "I love you, too, Uncle George. Where do you want to meet and when? I'm at the condo."

He said, "The coffee shop at 3rd Avenue and Virginia Street is fine, kiddo. Let's say at 1pm?"

Ana said, "It's fine. I'll be glad to see you again."

He said, "You too , sweetheart." He hung up. Ana started to cry for Christian. He was molested by the monster. She got herself together and took a shower and put on some casual old clothes of a tshirt, jeans and sneakers, so as not to draw attention to herself. She put on her sunglasses and her baseball cap with her braid hanging out the back. She had on her gun holster corset. And put her Kel-Tec P-11 in the holster on safety. She was going to walk the two blocks. She put her tiny RFID wallet with her ID and debit card in her back pocket with her money in her front pocket of about twenty bucks. She put her keys in her other front pocket. She headed out. When she left the building she felt someone had eyes on her immediately.