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CPOV

It's been a week after the tragedy of Mark's mystery murder cases being solved. I did not expect this unfortunate happen at my company, this was very surprised not only for me but all the employees at GEH who knew about this case also deeply regretted by Mark's tragic departure. Of all the people who were devastated by Mark's departure, Andrea was the saddest and most felt devastated here. not only did she lose her lover but she also lost the father of the baby she is carrying right now.

Still fresh in my mind how bad Andrea reacted when Mark's body was founded and being moved to hospital for autopsy. She fainted every time she remembered the reason she needs to come to the hospital to see her beloved lifeless corpse. It's also my first time look at Andrea being weak and lose her faith in life. She is one of my top employees after Ros, she is tough as steel and brilliant with her job, without her help my workday will be hell.

When Mark funeral service was held Andrea's eyes never dry from tears and she fainted about three times. We are all so worried about her and the baby she carrying but thankfully she had Anastasia beside her to give her support and shoulders to lean on whenever she feels weak or needs of support. They found friendship with each other in GEH, Andrea also thought that Anastasia is Mark's saviour, without her, we wouldn't have found him for along time.

Maybe, the way we found out about this so unusual, we found it out about Mark's murdered tragedy from a new employee who had the ability to see the spirit. However, I'm so grateful by Anastasia's ability which really helpful not just for her to help Mark say goodbye to Andrea. But also help the company catch the murder which one of the employees we had in GEH.

Yesterday, Ros and I talked about what kind of employee is Anastasia. Both of us agree on her, not just a clever girl but she also different from any other Ros ex PA before. She is such a great addition to the company with her excellent works and her also multilingual, she speaks four different languages like French, Mandarin, Japanese and Spain. Ros really hit the jackpot with her PA this time, Ana is remarkable as Andrea in her work manners.

Something strange was happening, this past week I don't know why but she always comes to my mind whenever I have spare time. It's the first time that this has occurred to me, to have my mind continuously thinking about a girl and not forget she is one of my employees. I had my share with a woman before but they never come to my mind as Ana does, I don't know what is it but if I can tell the truth Anastasia really gets under my skin. It's not just about her ability to see the spirit but her other criteria also hook me to her.

"Mr Grey, Ros and all the head managers already gathering in the meeting room for the weekly meeting, Sir." Andrea's voice rings from the intercom and disturbed my daydream.

"Thank you, Andrea. I will be there in a minute." Time for back to work.

"Mr Grey, do you have any other things for me to do?" Andrea standing in front of my desk asking me. She was helping me with some files I need for my meeting in London next week. Check my watch it already at half-past six in the evening, Andrea need to off work a half-hour ago.

"No, Andrea. Thank you for your help, you can leave for the day, Andrea. I'm sorry I make you work overtime today. Now go home and have a rest, be careful on your way home!"

"Thank you, Sir. Oh, Sir. Tomorrow, I will come a little late to work because tomorrow I have my pregnancy check-up." I give her a nod and tell her not to rush to come for work.

I continue my work for a while until my stomach grumbles need the feed. I walk to the break room for making the coffee, actually, I can tell Taylor for order dinner for me but my feet bring me to the break room. When I enter in front of me standing a familiar face who always stays late in the office from the very beginning she works in GEH. Anastasia standing near the pantry waiting for the water to boil.

"Ehem.." I clear my throat to make a sound so she knows she is not alone here. I don't want to startle her and make her jump. She turns her head and looks at my direction.

"Oh, good evening, Mr Grey." she gives me a smile. She is a true charm woman, just with a small smile can beam the entire floor.

"Ms Steele, why are you still in the office when it's passed your working time?" I ask her, attempting to make small talk right now.

"I still working on some files for Ros, Sir. Are you need something in here?" she asked me back.

"Oh, right. I need to make coffee, Andrea already off so I need to make my own coffee now, unfortunately." I say deadpanned, she giggles at me and now it is the most beautiful sound I have heard. It was my first time to listen to her giggle.

"How do you like your coffee? I will make it for you, Sir," she asked me.

"I'm…" shit I don't know what happens with me, why I am so nervous near this girl?.

"Hmm, no add anything, please." she smiles and starts to make my coffee. I on the other hand just stand there appreciate her posterior glance, she has an incredible S line body shapes. It's not too thin also not too fat, perfect her body is perfect.

"Here your coffee, Mr Grey." I take my cup of coffee from Anastasia, I thank her and together we take a sit across each other.

"Wow, you brought your dinner again for tonight? Are you always have dinner here?" I look at her unwrapped a tray of sandwiches.

"Yes, I brought my dinner with me today. I like to have my dinner in the office, it is so helpful when I suddenly felt hungry while working on unfinished documents or other works need attention. I can immediately eat my dinner without rushing to back home. Would you like to eat some, Mr Grey?" She offers her sandwich to me. I raised my eyebrow at her, I still cannot forget her reaction when I ate her food last time. Now, here she is offering me to eat her sandwiches, doesn't she said that she loves her food last time?

Looking at my face she giggling and say " Don't worry, I am not gonna scold you or call you a thief anymore like last time! Today, I'm the one who offers you to share my food, so it safe and you won't meet the crazy girl who loved her food and got mad because you ate her food without asking first." She laughed loudly after saying that to me.

the hairs on my whole body stand up to hear her laughter, she has very lovely laughter, as lovely as her face that looks like an angel. I can't help it but laugh together with her.

"Why Miss Steele, do you find me funny??" I ask her after she stops laughing.

"No, Sir. No, I am sorry to laugh at you, but I can't help it. Your face looks so cute when I offer you to share my food and when you look at me with an eyebrow lifted up like you think I'm losing my mind. Your surprised face is really cute. I'm not that bad right last time?" She scrunches her face, remembered her actions in this room a while ago. Cute… she says I'm cute.. Wow, never in my life someone else called me cute.

"No, it's not that terrible thing when you accused me as a good theft, but I am still not over yet with the trauma you cause me weeks ago. It was the first time someone called me a thief in my life. Now you say that I'm cute! Wow, you're really different from the others. " I chuckled whenever I remember the accident. I can't believe that my new employee labelled me as a cute man.

"Actually, I would say congratulations to you, Mr Grey, you are the first outsider who suffered getting scolded by me after my own dad. Up until now, honestly, I never raised up my volume when I talked to anyone. Except for my dad when I am so upset at him. And it is true that you are so cute just now, Sir." She laughed out loud after say it without care that I'm her boss, she is really a breath of fresh air in my company.

We exchange a good humorous conversation and sharing her sandwiches. I feel so good to see have this kind of interaction with a woman for the first time, I never had this kind of interaction with any women I had met before. We just exchange a flirtation and BAM inside the room and I will leave after that. That all just about sex and never more than that, but I find myself relax with Anastasia stay right across my seat. Sharing dinner and chatting about our day, she makes me comfortable around her. What is it about this girl which made me feel comfortable near her? I have the sudden urge to get to know her better, to see what kind of person she is, other than she is such a beautiful and alluring woman. I want to know all of her shades and anything else she had beside her ability to see the ghost.

I don't care that she is my staff and I have rules never had any private connection with staff. For Anastasia, I'll have to break those rules and I will do anything to be close to her.

"Opss. It's already eight o'clock, I need to get home before it is too late." Anastasia suddenly stands up, from the chair she sat. What, she needs to leave already? I don't know why to listen that she needs to go home makes me disappointed. It is my first time really enjoyed it talking with someone and I don't want it to end so quickly.

"Yeah, I thought you right. It's late for an employee to leave the office. How you go back home from here? Are you drive your own car, Ms Steele?" As disappointed, I feel right now. I don't want her to work overtime every day. And I need to know how she got home from work.

"Unfortunately, I need to call a cab, Sir. My car broke down yesterday. I don't have time to bring it to a car repair shop, so for the rest of this week, I'll use a cab to go to the office." She explains to me. I don't like her go home by cab it's not safe for a beautiful woman like her.

"No need to call the cab, Ms Steele! We can drive together and I would drop you at your apartment." She looks up at me, startled, and I love the blue colour of her eyes, striking against her brunette hair.

"Mmm, thank you for your offer, Mr Grey but I do not want to bother you. and also it's possible that the direction of our house is different and I don't want you to bother taking me home. I can call a cab, really." She explains but I am not going to let her go by cab.

"May I ask where is your apartment, Anastasia?" I ask her. I'm not giving her time to give the excuse to drive her home.

"It's close to Pike Place Market area, Sir. So it's not that far from the office, I can walk but it's too late and I don't want to take a risk so the option is to go home by cab." Her living area is closed with Escala, it is my opportunity to make her rides in my SUV.

"Your apartment is in the same way as my place, so let's drive together and I will drop you before I went to mine. I expected you to stand by near the elevator for ten minutes from now, Ms Steele. Is it work with you and I want my employee safely arrived in their home after late working time. Now, would you like to join me in my car, Anastasia?" Anastasia stares at me for a moment, and I think that she's going to say no, but then she nods. "Yes. I'd like that."

"I'm glad," I say, and I am.

I waited for Anastasia in front of the elevator with Taylor beside me, five minutes later she appeared from the direction of her office and smiled at me. oh shit, her smile made my legs weak, dimples on the left cheek made her smile more beautiful.

"Sorry, have you been waiting for me for a long time?" Anastasia is not late I was waiting for her earlier than the time I gave her.

"Don't worry, I am the one who early waiting here. Are you ready to go, Ms Steele?"

"Yes, Mr Grey. Thank you." She gives me shyly smile which looking so adorable.

From corner my eyes I can see Taylor looking at both of us, he is grinning like a loon but try harder to not let us see it. He knows it not my style to waiting for someone or my staff to ride together at my private elevator. This elevator designed especially for me.

"Anastasia, this Taylor my CPO and head of security, he also my driver. Taylor, Ms Steele will drive together in our vehicle and we will drop her first before going to Escala." Taylor look does take back by what I say. It is his first time to hear me drive a woman go home especially my staff from the office. He is surprised but maintained his professional face without saying anything.

"Yes, I remembered him from our meet last time about Mark situation. Hello, Mr Taylor nice to see you again and sorry to bother you to drive me home." Anastasia is a polite girl and her friendly personality is beyond other women I had met before.

"Nice to see you again too, Ms Steele. And it does not burden to be driving home." Taylor gives her a little smile, fucker he never gave any smile to another employee before except the boys from the security staff or Ros and Andrea. Now he gave Anastasia smile and its make me pissed up.

What kind of strange feeling I have for Anastasia right now I can't tell it by myself, but this woman is like a breath of fresh air. The way her mahogany colour hair falls around her shoulders is simple, and everything she's wearing looking fabulous and elegant in her body. Her skin so white I dare say the sun has never had the pleasure of touching her. And lips. God, those lips. Full and stained with a colour that reminds me of fresh cherry. There's an innocence to her that calls to me, and I immediately feel the urge to take her in my arms and protect her. Because she looks delicate like she might blow away if a breeze blew through the room. What the hell is wrong with me?

Anastasia is standing beside me when Taylor is standing in front of us, my gaze is drawn from her mouth to her neck down across her body to the way her ass is sticking out just a little. God, she's sexy, and I'm feeling far too warm, far too close to being hard. I don't want her thinking that I'm some sex-crazed CEO by looking at her pervertedly. Calm down, Grey.

The elevator brought us to the underground parking lot where this area serves for mine and Ros vehicle alone. No one can parking right here except my family when they come uninvited to harass me. Joking it's my mom or my sister Mia who sometimes will visit me in my office when I don't have time to come home for dinner together at the weekend.

"After you, Ms Steele," I say to Anastasia when the doors opened. She gives me a shy smile and murmur thank you.

"Are you really sure is it ok for me to riding together in your car, Mr Grey?" Anastasia suddenly asks for so many times. from the look on her face, she really doesn't want to bother me.

"It's okay, Anastasia. Really, don't worry about it. You are not bothering me or Taylor and we had the same direction actually so it was good." I smile my megawatt smile so she knows I'm ok to drive her home.

"Thank you again, Sir. It is really not inconveniencing when my car broke down." She huffed adorably but in her lips corner draws a small smile.

I want to respond to her comments about her car, but before I say it she suddenly halts to talk to someone invisible which makes me got goosebumps. Not only me but Taylor also look so surprised and stop walking immediately.

"Hello, Mr Jefferson. Are you patrolling the executive parking area today?" She says absentmindedly without care that Taylor and I standing just a few feet away from her and looking at her horrified.

Wait! Does she talk to Jefferson? Is it Jefferson from my security team who passed away a month ago by a sudden heart attack, Is he the one she talks with?

My head whirling quickly to look at Taylor need to confirm what I was thinking right now the same with what he thought. And by the look of Taylor's face, I can see both of us had the same thought.

We look at Anastasia with horror in our eyes, how she can talk to Jefferson in a normal manner as chatting with a real human? I don't know what they are talking about, Anastasia giggling with whatever Jefferson spirit tell her. They had a conversation like a normal person talking with each other.

'Taylor, why Jefferson still in here? Didn't he passed away last month?" I whispered to Taylor without turned my eyes from Anastasia direction.

"Sir, he passed away when he was still on duty, our other security staff found his lifeless body in the lobby near the elevator!" Taylor tells me. Almost five minutes later Anastasia jogged to our way, from her face she looks embarrassed to make us waiting for her to finish greeted her spirit friend.

"Oh my God, I'm so sorry Mr Grey and Mr Taylor. I didn't mean to make you wait for a long time. Mr Jefferson is one of the spirits that I have met besides Mark spirit. He always greets me and reminds me to be careful because I'm always the last to leave the office." Anastasia explained how she knows Jefferson. If I've not experienced it myself to know that she knows how to see or have a communication with a spirit, I would though she is a crazy woman.

"No worry, Ms Steele. You just a little bit surprised me and Taylor by greeting our deceased security crew. Jefferson is one of my best security teams for GEH, he joined my company the first year I build my empire. It's sad he can't join our company any longer." We continue walking to my SUV, like a gentleman I opened the passenger door for Anastasia and let her in first.

"Thank you, Sir." She tells me shyly.

"You are welcome, Ms Steele," I answer her. Anastasia is a rare kind of girl, she kind to be fiery, stubborn and annoying when she does what she does when we first met. But she also modest, friendly and adorable sometimes. Adorable yes adorable, how many times already I say those words after I met the girl next to me now. God, I'm surely fucked and head over heels to know and to be close to this girl.

APOV

Apparently, I'm in one car with the CEO of the company I'm working for. Today, when I start my day never in my wildest dreams, will be ended in one space with my boss alone in the back seat of his SUV. I'm so surprised when he strolls inside the break room by the time I will start my late dinner in the office tonight like I always did every other night since I started work in GEH.

I thought he was such an aloof man, never smiled even for a little bit and always had a serious expression, mostly he is famous as a business tyrant in the business world, but Ros and Andrea told me before if he is such a private man and an equally good leader also a nice son and siblings for his family. But after our short conversation in the break room today my thoughts on him change, actually, he is such a nice man and has a great sense of humour also he was a perfect gentleman.

Ten minutes later, the car stopped in front of my apartment building. I felt so relieved and grateful to Mr Grey kindness to care about his employee's safety. I buckled off the safety belt and turning toward Mr Grey to say thanks.

"Mr Grey, thank you very much for your kind. I hope I do not trouble you or Mr Taylor so much." I smile at him and try to show my gratitude.

"You are not troubled me or Taylor, Anastasia." There again with Anastasia, it bothers me to listen, someone uses my full name. It is like I'm being called when I get trouble.

"Ana, just call me Ana, please. When you call me Anastasia it feels like I'm back to my teenage years when I have trouble with my parents they will call me, Anastasia." I smile sheepishly.

"You have a beautiful name, Anastasia. But if you are not comfortable with the way I call you then I'll do as you wish. I'll start to call you" Ana" starting from now." He chuckled.

"Thank you once again, Sir. Goodnight and safely drive home." Taylor helped me to open my door, I give him grateful smiles and saying goodnight to him too. Turning back I notice Mr Grey SUV still park and not move yet, the window rolling down make me catch a glimpse of him. I wave my hand to him and he waves back and signals me to continue walking inside my building with smile grace his face. God, he is one of the most handsome men I know and really such a gentleman.

Arrived at my apartment, I did what I have always so every other night routine. I have called my parents and tells them how my day ends. Mom gets a little bit worry with my car broken, she insisted that dad will get me the new car next week and send it to me in Seattle.

"Mom, I don't need a new car because the old one still can be repaired and I will have it checked this weekend, okay. You or dad didn't need to drain your money to get me the new vehicle. I'm happy with my old Lola." I tell her and giggles when calling my car's name. Mom and I gave the car name as Lola, because of her deceased husband, Mr Conrad bought that car from his friend's name is Lola.

"I know you can repairs that old car, baby girl. But that car does not save anymore, you still lucky it's were still in the garage when you can't start the engine. What about the car suddenly broke down when you are on the way to work or going home and suddenly the engine off then no one to help you. You will get trouble with your own safety, Anastasia Rose Steele!." Hah, Anastasia. Mom getting irritated with me already with her call my full name. I need to put a stop at my stubbornness or she will drive to Seattle and give a lecture about my safety.

"Okay..okay. Mom, you can buy me a new car but promise that is not that kind of high class or expensive one. I don't want you and dad throw the cash just for me when the money you can use it for your business guys!" Daddy had opened a new branch of his carpentry business in Portland and I don't need to stress them with my problem and let them waste the money on me when they can use that money for making their business more established.

I know that my parents not from low-income family background, my dad except an ex-Army his family one of the richest families in Montesano which had a few lands in the area. My mom Lauren is ex-nurse but when Mr Condrad past away and as the last family members he has, Mama inherits all the assets he had left for her. Although they had enough money to spend, I don't like it when they use it in unnecessary just to buy me a car. I'm a grown-up woman with a good job, I know how to handle this small problem. But I don't want to be called as an ungrateful daughter by rejecting their enthusiasm to help me with my car, because I know in their eyes I 'll always be their baby girl.

Finished call my parents I do my last habit before sleep. From the very beginning, I understand my ability to see the spirit with my bare eyes. I always lit the candle and sending my prayers for all the spirits I had encountered. I wish them to rest in peace in Heaven. All the candles I lit I put it on the glass candle holder which had its own glass lid to keep the flames on until the candle melted and the fire will be off itself.

"Dear all my friends in Heaven, like every other night I send my prayers for all your peaceful rest. Rest in peace, your soul now free from all problems from this world and now you all in a safe and beautiful place in heaven. Amen." I close the glass lit to secure the fire so the flame not went out a whole night but still safe without having to cause a fire.

I'm standing in front of an old house, the house was surrounded by a starkly formal garden which was the size of a small park. High, closed spaced iron railings surrounded the house and garden. Beyond them was a road and beyond the road was a tangle of dark trees that make up an ancient forest. Who is the owner of this old house? Why do I stand in this place? Before I could answer my question my eyes catch a glimpse of two people who stand side by side. I think they are mother and son because the woman I see holding the children's hand tightly. From their eyes, tears flow down to their cheeks and fears drawing on their faces."Help... Please help us, Anastasia!! " I try my way to be close to them but whenever I am close they become further.

"No..No...wait..wait…." my alarm rang, awakening me from my odd dream.

"Oh, my God. what kind of dream I have, why does it feel like real?"

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