I wake up in the middle of the night to screaming.
I realize it's Ana. I grab her shoulders gently and shake her. "Ana, it's Christian. Wake up."
She opens her eyes and hugs me and starts sobbing into my chest again. "She's a horrible person Christian. Please tell me she's in jail."
"She is. Taylor put her and Reynolds there. They shouldn't be getting out anytime soon. You're safe now."
"Am I? Everything bad that can happen keeps happening. I'm terrified Christian. What's next? a bombing? It's one damn thing after another. I think I should go visit my Mother for a little bit with Avery."
"Ana, you don't have to leave. I can keep you safe."
"Yeah? So how do you explain me being kidnapped by a protection officer Christian? He was here to protect us! He fucking kidnapped me and gave me to a psychotic bitch troll."
"Good point. Will you be back?"
"That's the plan. I just need time to think."
"Where's your mother living?"
"Savannah Georgia"
I sigh. "I can arrange it so your job is waiting when you get back. No matter how long it takes. What about Avery's school?"
"Shit. Can you come get her on Mondays and bring her back Fridays? You have to keep her safe. Put someone YOU trust with your life on her because SHE is MY life. Okay?"
"Sawyer. Do you trust Sawyer?"
"Yes. I trust him. But would you trust him with YOUR own life?"
"I tell you what. I will put Taylor on Avery and take Sawyer for myself. Deal?"
"Deal. Now make love to me and make me forget."
"My pleasure." I make love to her slowly.
Hands down the best sex of my life happened tonight.
Ana's POV
After an amazing night of love making, Christian is sending me on a jet to my Mom's in Georgia. Avery is coming on Friday because she has school this week.
I told Avery goodbye this morning. Now I'm at the jet with Christian trying to tell him goodbye but it is harder than expected to actually get onto the jet. "You don't have to go, Ana."
"But I need to. Take care of Avery and Skype me daily."
"Will do. I love you."
"And I love you Christian."
I give him a sweet kiss and board the jet waving back before they close the door.
2 Weeks later
I've decided to go home today. We're moving into the house in a couple weeks. I ordered all the furniture. I just need to paint and decorate. I'm excited because I haven't seen Christian at all for 2 weeks. Taylor has been coming with her on weekends.
When the jet lands at Sea Tac I'm overly excited. Christian is only expecting Taylor and Avery. He has no idea I'm coming back today. When the doors open, Taylor and Avery go out first. They know not to say anything. I see out the window Christian hugging Avery and when he turns around to out in the car. I sneak up behind him and put my hands over his eyes and say, "Guess who."
I feel him smile as he turns around and picks me up and spins me around and kisses me passionately. "You sneaky little minx. You managed to surprise me. Kudos."
"Mmm.. I aim to please. Now will you take me home please?"
"Of course. Get in."
I get in and when we take off I let him know about my plans to go decorate the house and that's why I'd come back so soon. He seems a bit disappointed but happy I'm back nonetheless.
For the next 4 weeks, I helped decorate our home and today we are officially moving in.
We are all excited. I'm now 18 weeks pregnant and today I'm also going for an ultrasound and they said I can possibly find out the sex of my babies. I hope I can find out.
Christian is coming with me, not as the babies' father but as my boyfriend. He missed out on all of this with Avery so he deserves a chance to get to experience it but I can't bring myself to do as Ethan said and let Christian be dad. Maybe someday my perspective on that will change but Ethan still deserves a chance to change his mind about being the babies father once they're born. Not that he necessarily deserves to opportunity, but I think my children deserve the opportunity to have a chance at knowing him.
"Why do you look nervous?" I ask Christian as we drive to the doctor's office.
"Baby I'm just thinking about everything. How I missed everything with Avery and this." He waves at my stomach. "is an amazing thing to witness. Today we might find out the sex of the babies and that is another milestone that makes me ecstatic."
"Don't be nervous. Just be excited with me." I say as I rub my huge stomach. I'm not even halfway done baking these babies but I feel like a cow.
"You're so beautiful."
I look at him, "I look like a cow.."
"Stop, growing a person, much less 2, is a beautiful thing and it does beautiful things to your body."
"Well this is almost as big as I got with Avery, but I suppose since I'm growing 2 now, it makes sense."
"We're here. Let's go in."
We walk into the doctor's office holding hands and I go up to the reception desk to check in. We're seated in the waiting room and Christian is just observing women with babies and he looks like he is panicking when there are a few acting rowdy. "Christian, kids get antsy when you take them new places sometimes. It's not always like that." I whisper in his ear and he visibly relaxes.
"Miss Steele?"
We stand up and go through the normal tests I have every time I went to the doctor when I was pregnant with Avery.
Finally, I'm laid back on the table waiting for my ultrasound. I'm looking around at the walls, trying to not get too excited.
"Now look who is nervous." Christian quips. I smack his arm.
"Shut up."
He laughs and the doctor walks in. "You ready to see your babies?"
I nod. She pulls out her wand and squirts the goop on my belly and moves it around with the wand. Finally we see 2 tiny little babies on the screen and they actually look like babies now compared to the blips they looked like last time. I grab Christian's hand and watch as she measures each baby. "Do you want to know the sexes?"
"Yes, please."
"It looks like you have a boy and a girl. Congratulations!"
I smile and a tear drops from my eye and runs down my cheek. Christian wipes it away with a thumb and kisses my lips softly. "Congratulations baby."
I kiss his nose. After we leave the office we head to our new home. While we were at the doctor Avery stayed with Grace and Carrick. The staff moved all of our stuff from the penthouse.
We pull in and the driveway is full of cars. There's a lot more than there should be. "Christian, why are so many people here?"
"Housewarming party. Mia's idea."
"Great." I say sarcastically.
"It will be okay. We can send them away as soon as you would like."
"It's fine. We will get plenty of alone time here. I am just horny. It's frustrating."
"Then let's go take care of that." He says and before I can object, he comes around and picks me up and Carries me bridal style into the house and I'm giggling. We walk quickly through the front door where everyone is waiting for us. "We will be back shortly." He says as we race past them and up the stairs.
"Christian, they are gonna know what we're doing. That was rude."
He takes me into the bedroom and kicks the door shut behind him and throws me down onto our super soft bed. I giggle again. He kisses me hard and helps me out of my clothes. "This Is gonna be fast. Okay?"
"okay"
"We have to be quiet as well." I nod.
"Just fuck me Christian."
He pulls his pants and boxers down in one swift motion and hovers over me and kisses me as he swiftly enters me and thrusts deep and fast. I try but fail to keep from moaning but he catches it with his own mouth as he continues to thrust in and out of me. "Cum Ana" he says against my lips and I detonate around his cock and take him with me over the edge. "Fuck." He whispers.
We lay there a few moments to catch our bearings. "Okay we need to go entertain our guests Christian." He nods and pulls out of me making me wince. He gets up and retrieves his pants and puts them on and gives me a kiss.
"Get up and I'll see you downstairs."
I still hadn't moved. I'm too exhausted. I must've fallen asleep when he left because next thing I hear is "Ana wake up."
"Hmm.."
"You fell asleep about 30 minutes ago. As you just told me, it's rude to keep our guests waiting."
I sit up and he gives me a kiss on my nose. "I'm not moving until you're getting dressed. Don't need you falling asleep again."
"Okay, okay." I get up and he watches me as I get dressed.
"Ready?" I nod and he takes my hand as we walk downstairs. I'm greeted with everyone looking at me and immediately know I'm blushing. They know. Ughhh..
Everyone in the Grey family is here. Even Kate. I miss Kate so I approach her first and she welcomes me with a bear hug.
"I know what you were doing." She whispers in my ear and I smack her arm.
"Shut it Kate."
"I hear you're finally divorced." I nod.
"Did you also happen to hear how your brother has cheated on me for 3 years and I caught him the day after your wedding when I went to get my stuff?"
"Noo.. that bastard!" she says loudly and everyone turns to look at us. "He may be my brother and I love him but I will kick his ass. Listen, we're having a dinner party tomorrow and you, Christian and Avery are invited."
"We will be there. Christian too probably unless he is busy. I'll have to ask."
"So you find out what you're having today?"
"A girl and a boy." I smile proudly and rub on my baby bump.
"Yay!! A niece and a nephew. 2 in one."
I laugh. "You are not the one who still has to carry them for 5 months."
"Fair enough but we're here to help however we can. Let me know. You should go mingle," she says and kisses my cheek.
I spend the next hour talking to everyone and they are all excited about the babies. We have a family supper and I sit next to Christian at the head of the table with Avery.
After dinner everyone starts to leave until it's just us left. Avery went with her grandparents for the night.
We spend the rest of the night christening as many surfaces of the house as possible. About 3 am, we finally get to sleep.
When I wake up in the morning I have to pee pretty bad so I have to squirm out of Christian's hold and end up waking him. "I'm sorry. I just really have to pee."
"It's okay baby." He looks at the time and jumps up "shit, I'm late."
When I return from the bathroom, he is already dressed in his suit for work.
He gives me a kiss. "I will see you after work."
"Wait, we have to be at a dinner party at Kate and Elliot's tonight. Will you be able to make it?"
"I will let you know. Text me the time and I will do what I can."
"Okay. I love you."
"I love you too."
He leaves and I shower and get dressed for work myself.
I spend the day at work going through manuscripts and almost forget to message Christian the time.
The dinner party is at 6:30. Xx -A
His reply is instant.
I should be off by then but I will meet you there in case I'm running late. Xo -C
I get done at work at 5 so I run home to change then pick up Avery from Gail who picked her up at school.
We arrive at the dinner party at 6. We're the first to arrive.
"KATEEEEE!!" I scream as I hug her tight.
"Ana, you're early. Yay! More time for me."
We walk into the living room and sit on the couch. She gives me a flute with sparkling apple cider and Avery gets a glass of juice while Kate enjoys wine and makes me jealous. Her and Elliot had to hire a cook because they would starve to death if they had to cook for themselves.
"So who all will be here this evening?" I ask curious if I'll have to see my ex-husband tonight.
She looks at me guilty. "He is my brother. I don't like him but I love him. He will be here and requested to bring a guest. I figured it would be okay since Christian was supposed to come with you. Is he still coming?"
"Yes, he said he would meet me here."
"Good. I don't want it to be too awkward
"oh honey, we passed awkward weeks ago."
She giggles and then the doorbell rings. Please be Christian, please be Christian.
Unfortunately it's Ethan and his slut. Avery runs over to him and hugs his waist, "Daddy!"
He hugs her and looks back at me like I'm supposed to train her otherwise.
"Daddy, I missed you but I got another daddy too now and we moved into a big house. It's so beautiful Daddy."
"I missed you too sweetheart. I have to talk to your Mommy. I'll talk to you later."
Great. Just great. Ethan motions for me to follow him. He pulls me into the bathroom and closes the door. "Ana, she can't keep calling me that."
"I'm sorry but she is 9. You cannot just expect the habit to go away."
"Well fix it. I may be an asshole but I have some kind of a reputation to uphold. I can't have a child that's not mine calling me daddy when you have…" he points at my stomach with disgust, "child that actually is mine who I'm having nothing to do with. Plus I lost my highest paying client because you started fucking him."
"Excuse me. We were long divorced before I fucked him. Whereas you have been fucking someone else for years. Christian stopped seeing you because you're a dick with loose morals. So stop projecting your shit all over me Ethan."
"So you are fucking him. I hope he enjoys my leftovers." He quips and I slap him hard.
"I am not your leftovers you dick. You need to pull your head out of your ass and recognize that you're quite simply a worthless dickhead. You will be kind to my daughter and you try to tell her that you aren't her daddy yourself because Christian and I will be here to help her when you break her heart. And when you do, don't you dare come near her again! I've got to go." I walk past him and out of the bathroom where Christian is standing against the wall. I jump into his arms and he holds me and I'm pretty sure he's shooting daggers at Ethan. "shh.. I got you. Let's go join the others." He kisses my forehead and takes my hand and walks us back into the living room.
Elliot and Kate come and give me a hug. Christian comes to sit back on the couch with me. Mia is playing a game with Avery.
"I want to leave after dinner. If I have to stay in the same house with him much longer I will not be held responsible for my actions."
"Why did he even want to talk to you?"
"When he came in Avery screamed 'Daddy' and ran to him and talked about her new Daddy and he thinks that I should train her not to call him that. Oh, and then he said that you quit seeing him because I started fucking you. He wants to blame me for everything."
"What a dick."
"Agreed."
I turn around and see Ethan standing there staring at me looking evil as fuck. I look back at Christian and he noticed it too. I squeeze his hand to try to calm him down and he looks at me and visibly relaxes and then nods as if to assure me he won't cause a scene.
Finally dinner is served and I'm sat between Avery and Christian and Mia, Ethan and his skank are across the table. The whole meal is quite tense. Christian keeps his hand on my knee occasionally giving me a reassuring squeeze. He engages in light banter with Elliot. I try to talk to Kate but it's hard to concentrate with evil glares from across the table. Everyone notices it. Finally Kate speaks up. "Ethan, if being around my friend is a problem, you should leave. Otherwise stop staring at her like you're about to stab her with your steak knife."
"Fine sis. Choose your 'friend' over your brother. I'm out of here." He stands up and storms out like a petulant teenager and forgets his whore. She gets up and follows him out after she sees every one quietly staring at her.
"Well, that wasn't awkward." Elliot quips trying to lighten the mood and I giggle.
"Let's finish eating." Kate says.
We finish eating and we leave after saying our goodbyes.
On the way home we're all silent. Avery fell asleep in the backseat.
"Are you okay Ana?"
"Yes. Every time I have to argue with him is just exhausting. I want to just sleep."
"Okay baby." He says and kisses my knuckles.