We arrive back at my apartment. Christian races around and open the door. He really is a gentleman, he has been taught well. I hear him shutting the door and we head towards the main doors of the apartment complex.
"So shopping with your sister, do you do that often?" I ask thinking of Mia dragging him from one clothes shop to another. She makes me think, she is the type of girl that wants to try on everything she finds. So I sense a long and boring day for Christian as he opens the door for me.
"Not as often as she would like, then again what are big brothers for if not for carrying the shopping bags." The way he says it makes me laugh out as I have a vivid picture of Mia dragging his one arm into another store while his other arm, neck, and back are loaded with bags of clothes. We arrive at the elevator and he presses the button for my floor.
"Poor you. I could tag along if you like. It's not like I'm busy." I offer.
"As much as you would brighten my day being there. The two of you together seem like a dangerous mix." He says smirking.
"Whatever do you mean by that?" I act innocent as I say it.
The elevator doors open and we walk towards my apartment.
"Your very inquisitive and my sister can be a gossip." He replies smiling sweetly.
"Really I had no idea." I offer the little white lie, tucking my hair behind my ear. I was hoping to ask her everything there is to know about Christian Grey.
I open the door and freeze as there is a man standing with his back to me in shirt and pants leaning over my kitchen table. My thoughts snap to Kate and where she is. When the man turns hearing the door. He is wearing a name badge which makes me relax a little. No man would break into any place with a name badge on. He steps forward.
"Miss Steele." He asks. I nod my head in reply. "Your friend Kate let me. I have just finished sorting it out and setting it up for you." He says smiling.
"I'm sorry. Setting what up for me?" I'm confused. What the hell is he on about?
"Your new laptop. It's a Mac book pro top of the range, best design, highest specs and expensive." He reels off the list like a salesman.
"Are you kidding. I don't have a job at the moment I can't afford this. What the hell." I say getting slightly more worked up. The man grabs a file from the table.
"It's okay Miss. It's already been paid in full yesterday by a Mr. Christian Grey." My eyes snap in his direction and he is pretending to look away. Oh, there will be words when this man leaves. "I also took the liberty of transferring everything I could over from your old laptop due to it breaking. Right, then I will get out of your hair. If you can just sign here." He asks politely.
I sign the sheet and he grabs his bag heading out. My eyes are on Christian the whole time. I just go to speak when he says. "I felt guilty for breaking your laptop."
I can't stay mad at him when he looks that damn good. I hear a door behind me open and I spin round as Kate comes out of her room. "Hey, guys. Ana guess who brought you a new laptop?" I stare at her as she speaks.
"I know," I say back.
"Well, I guess the date went well last night. You can tell me all about it later. Right now I have to rush out. Christian would you mind walking me down." Kate says grabbing her bag and walking over to the door.
Christian takes my hand and I turn to face him. "So I'll see you later then?" I ask hopefully.
"I'll come by after I had dealt with Mia. Till later." He leans and places a hot and fiery kiss on my lips as he holds my chin.
I melt into him wanting him to stay and take me to the bedroom or sofa, anywhere. He releases me from the kiss and turns opening the door for Kate and then follows her out. I turn and look at the laptop already booted up and ready to go as I sit down at the kitchen table and decide to test it out.
I love my new computer it's so fast on the Internet. After fiddling about with it a little bit, I have gotten the hang of it now. My background is our picture together at the hotel. I have soon hidden away the folder of his pictures so he won't find it. I put them in a fake band name folder inside my music folder. That should stop him finding it. After that, I spent the next bunch of hours searching for ways in which those scars could have been made.
It's unsettling the images I look at to try and find marks like them. I have the mental picture of his scars in my mind as I place each one against the picture in my head. I have to take a break after nearly an hour as the exercise is turning my stomach. I see pictures of people on torture racks of the old days. Other pictures were from BDSM. Whatever that means. Others were awful attacks on other people. The only thing I managed to work out in the four hours of searching was the marks had been done by either a cane or whip. The three images that fly into my mind are a young Christian getting caned in school. He never went to school, though. I hate the other idea, that Christian was tied up in some kinky sex dungeon being whipped by a someone. The last image of Christian getting attacked by a group of people who beat him badly. I close my eyes tightly shutting out the thoughts. When I open them pictures of whip marks cover the Internet page I'm on.
There is a knock at the door. I quickly minimize the window and walk over pulling the door open without looking through the spy hole.
(Now Christian has a shopping trip with Mia to deal with and Ana has an unexpected guest at the door. How could those marks of been made? Mia being a gossip could really help out Ana if she could get her alone.
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