Good God, I suffered a nasty cold and now my bone tail so painful and I can't get comfortable to do anything. Hello, my lovely readers. I'm back with the new chapter of this story. Have a great day for all of you, dear. Xoxoxo.

Thank you so much for the review you have left me, that so good to know that you enjoyed reading my story, and I am sorry if I had many lacks in any aspect of the present invention. I will try harder to give you all the best, so stay tuned for the next update. Xoxoxo.

I also write a little bit of tale to let you know who is the woman and little boy who wandering around Ana. Let me know what you guys think, how the man keeps the body of them?

EL. JAMES own all the FSOG characters. Plot and imaginary characters are mines.

Chapter 8

CPOV

"Yes.." I pump my hand in the air, I'm so glad Ana agreed to have dinner with me tonight. I'm really nervous to ask her before, I scared she will decline it in the first place. But lucky me she agrees to have dinner with me in my office later. I can see the hesitant in her eyes when I ask her for the first time, she is afraid the paparazzi get our picture if we dine out and it will make gossip in the company. I hate it that the vultures got obsessed with me like I'm a fucking celebrity when I just an ordinary businessman.

Shit, I want to get close to Ana and have a relationship with her as normal as a man pursue the girl he likes. But how I do that when every move I make to woo her, I need to keep looking over my shoulder because the fucking press always tailed me. I hope Ana gives me a chance to pursue her without terrifying paparazzi would harass her.

"Good afternoon, Gail speaking may I help you?" Gail's voice answering my call at the penthouse line.

"Gail, it's me, Christian. I need your help to make me dinner for two but packed it to bring at the GEH and I will tell Taylor to take it later!" I tell her as soon as she answers the call.

"Oh, yes Mr Grey. Do you have any preference for your dinner tonight?" I know from Gail's voice, right now she is curious about my sudden request for dinner preparation for two people. I can't blame her for becoming curious because never had I told her to make dinner for anyone except me. And my one-night stand ladies before never step their feet in my penthouse. I'm always sensible not to bring them back to my place. We did the things at the hotel after that I took off back to my penthouse and never stay for the night with them.

"Please make your special mac and cheese for the main and also make a salad for us. If you have any dessert that will be better, Gail." I talk to her for around ten minutes with a special request to make the food looks great because I want to woo Ana with the things she loves so much. I chuckle remembered our first met when she got angry and said that she loves her food so much. How come she loves food so much than fashion? She is really the opposite of my sister Mia.

"Taylor, come to my office for a moment!" I call Taylor intercom and tell him to come to my office. I need to run my plan with him for later.

"Yes, Sir." Taylor is my head of CPO and he is one of my loyal employees. He starts to work for me after I make my first million earlier in my career.

Knock..knock

Taylor opened my office door, let himself settle in the seat in front of my desk. It is normal for both of us whenever I called him to my office he can sit as soon as he comes in and I will tell him what I need from him. Except for if I called him for the emergency he will stand up and waiting for my command.

"Taylor, later I need you to run to the Escala to take the packed food from Gail! Tonight miss Steele and I will have our dinner here and like you know this morning Ryan drove my R8 and park it in the garage in GEH. I will drive miss Steele to her apartment myself tonight, you can follow us from your SUV if you like it or you can tell Ryan to do it. Understand?" I run with him my plan, slightly I can see his smirk but he is good to make his face stoic.

Yeah, he knows that I am interested in Anastasia for more not just as a fling for a night and it never happened before as long as he worked for me, to know me interesting to be more with females except for one nightstand.

After telling Taylor my plan for the day, he going back to his own office to do his own duties. I need to stay focused on my work for our next acquisition for a technology company in London. But I found it not so easy to put aside my thoughts about Ana, she always creeps in my mind whenever I try to do my damn job.

"Damn it!! Focus Grey!!" I curse myself for being thinking about Ana every minute. Shit, she really gets under my skin and always consume my thoughts with her shadow dancing in my mind. From the moment I set eyes on Ana and her beautiful, sweet face. I wanted to date her and have more than just fling but I want to do a committed serious relationship. What the fuck, I didn't fucking do commitment in any relationship before but for her, I will do anything as long as she becomes mine. MINE.

What the fuck did this girl do to my head and my heart in the short time she came to my company?

At 6 pm I decided to walk to Ana's desk to pick her up and bring her back to my office. I know that most employees in executive floor already leave the office for the day, except for me and the security like Taylor or one of his trusted team. With a nervous heart, I was determined to impress Ana and make her not hesitate to try to have a relationship with me although I'm her boss's boss.

Closer to her desk faintly I hear Ana groaning voice and she say "No" word for a few times. Pick up my step speed I half jog to her desk to make sure she is fine and no one hurt her. When I stand in front of her desk I can see she was squirming in her seat with her head on the desk. It looks like she falls asleep without she knows it and from her face, I know that she gets a bad dream at the moment.

"No..No… " she said a few times, is somebody hurt her in her dream? Shit, I need to wake her up.

"Ana...Ana..wake up baby you are safe right here!" oh shit, I call her baby. I try to shake her to wake up but she, not budget and continues to squirm.

"Anastasia…" I call her louder so she can hear me and wake up from the bad dream she got.

And I think my loud voice success to wake her up, but when she woke she is so disoriented and her eyes full of distress.

"Mr GREY…" She suddenly launches her body to mine caught me off guard but thank fuck I reflex hold her tight so both of us not fall on the floor.

"Ana, what happens? Tell me, please!" her body trembled in my embrace and her breathing too fast and uncoordinated. I hold her and run my hand on her back up and down, trying to calm her so she can tell me what happens in her dream.

"The woman..the woman…" she repeats say it but can't form a complete sentence because her body does not calm yet. Patiently I wait until she calms and doesn't release her body from my arms. A minute later her breathing becomes normal, she tried to release her body from my embrace but I'm not let it. She put her head on my shoulder and let me continue to hold her.

"Tell me what happened a minute ago in your dream? From what I see it looks like you get a bad dream, is it right?" I ask her and feel her nodding say yes while her head still on my shoulder.

"Do you want to talk about your dream Ana?" Once again she nodded her head.

I give her five more minutes to settle her mind when I can feel she becomes more relaxed. I tell her to pack her belongings to bring it to my office and we can start our dinner together. After hugging her for the first time, it seems my body craves to be close to her even more. I reluctantly let her go to tidying her desk when she is ready to leave her desk without being told my hand take hers and pulled her close to me. Together hand to hand we walked towards my office, I know our meals had already been on the table because Taylor had prepared it for us when I walked to Ana's desk area.

"Please sit down, Ana. What do you want to drink? I have wine, soft drinks and orange juice in here." I ask Ana, I try to make her more relaxed so she can tell me about her dream, of course, if she wants to confide it to me. I don't want to suffocate her or look to be aggressive and make her uncomfortable around me.

"The Orange juice, please." She answered in a low voice. She is so quiet right now not like Anastasia I know who always smile her beautiful smiles.

I pour both of us a cup of orange juice, I would like to have a glass of wine but I need to drive later so the juice will do for now.

"Ana, are you okay? You are so quiet, are you still thinking about your dream?" I hand her the juice which she drinks as soon as I give her.

"Yes, Sir. Last night I had a dream about a mother and a child. A little boy actually around four or five-year-old, both of them lived in the big house with forest look-alike around it…." She told me about the strange dream she had last night.

"Did you had met both of them before? Or maybe it's just like a usual dream anyone would have every night?" I attempt to ease her mind a little bit.

"No, Sir. I've never got that kind of dream nor met them before. And the other strange is this afternoon after having lunch with Andrea. When I walked back to the office, across the road I see the woman from my dream last night standing right there with her eyes focus on me. Her skin is so pale, her eyes screaming the need of help." She stops to take a breath, I'm the kind of person who does not believe in ghosts but after Marks tragedy, I change my belief that a ghost or wandering spirit is real.

"Ana enough with Sir thing. Can you call my name when it's just both of us, please! Call me Christian that way we can be more comfortable around each other." I don't like her talking to me with formal tones.

"Really.. Don't you think I'm being rude with calling you in your name when you are my boss?" She scrunches her nose and it's cute with little freckles around her nose.

"Yes, I'm sure and seriously would like if you call my name. I'd love to make you comfortable enough around me. And it's just us so no need to be too formal. You can be formal when we are around the other staff or when we are in the meeting." I give her a wink and playful smile which earned a cute blushing smile from her.

"I'd love it too, Christian." My breath stop when I hear, she said my name for the first time. The voice of my name from her lips like a song from heaven.

I smiling wide enough like a loon when her face blushing even more after saying my name.

Fuck I like it so much, I hope she not shy to call me by my name starting now.

"How about we had our dinner first before we continue with your story? My housekeeper cooks us a delicious feast like salad, mac and cheese, and dessert is my favourite chocolate cake." I grinned at her and can't wait for her to try Gail food.

"Wow, si.. I mean Christian. The foods are so mouth-watering, please convey my gratitude for the delicious food at her later." Her mood changes become happier than before after looking at the food in front of us. I'm chuckled looking at her, this girl really loves to eat.

We start eating our foods, every time Ana eats hers she makes moaning sounds signing that the food was delicious. I'm glad she likes what Gail cooks for us but her moans were torture for me. It's making my member standing whenever she makes sounds. Shit, she needs to stop it I can't responsible for the actions I'll do to her. Be strong my dick!!

"What do you think of the meals tonight, Ana?" I ask her after we finish eating our mac and cheese.

"Wow, Christian. The one who makes this dish is truly a great cooker. I know mac and cheese are not too difficult to make but she cooks much better than I." She giggles and slowly I can see that she back to cheerful herself again.

"Glad to know you like what Gail makes for us, don't worry, I will tell Gail later that you like her food. So, dessert. Do you want to have it now?" I want to ask her about the dream but I refrain myself to be such a busy body.

I'll let her tell me in her pace without feeling being pushed to telling me

"Can we have it for later, please. Now, I want to start to let you know about the previous dream of mine. Of course, If you still want to know." Thank God. She was the one who starts to talk without me asking first.

"Of course, please start whenever you like to start. I 'll sit right here as your loyal listener, Ana." Her eyes spark after I said that.

"You are the first man who says something like that at me, Christian. I mean my parents and grandma are the only ones who will listen to whatever I tell them. No one ever offers to listen to what I have to say or care enough to talk to me. They always label me as a freak girl or a nerd who does not deserve their time or attention. Thank you, Christian, for your kindness." Her voice is so sincere and I feeling so great that she noticed it that I care about her.

"I'll start to talk about what I see right now. In my dream, it feels like I am walking on the corridor at an old house, the little boy who came with his mom before told me to follow him. But before we reach the room he wants me to visit someone touches me on the shoulder, when I turn to see who is behind me…" Ana suddenly stops talking and I see her body shuddering with goosebumps raised around her body. Is it that bad what she sees.

"What you had seen, Ana? Is it that bad?" I ask her because I feel so curious about her story.

"It was.. It was the woman, the mother of the boy but something different from her at that time. Her face is full of blood, I think someone has hurt her and the boy. Before I can ask her what happened with them, from afar I can hear your voice calling me the first it's just a whisper and it changes your voice call my name becomes louder and when I opened my eyes. It was real that you are the one who calls me, thank you, Christian, for waking me up before I walk farther and didn't know how to come back to the real world." she surprises me with the sudden hug and whispering her grateful at me.

I honestly love it when her body close to mine and craving closeness every time she near me.

We talked for an hour about all the things, starting with me ask her how she has the ability to see the spirit and how she takes it when she knows that she is unique in a good way. But when I say she is unique in a good way she looks so uncomfortable. Why she can't receive a compliment from other people? Have somebody crushed her self esteem before?

"Hey, what happens with you, you look withdrawal after I say you're unique. Are you okay, Ana?" I reach her hand and pulled her to be closer to me.

"I'm fine, Christian. You only surprised me a little bit by saying that having my ability to see the spirits is unique and it is in a good way. The only people who said that are my own parents and my grandmother from daddy side because she also has the same awareness as me. No, she was greater than me because it was her job as a ghost exorcism and she also semi paranormal." She chuckles but stops immediately, her face becomes sorrow after that.

"Go on continue with anything you want to say! I'll listen to it and promise not to discriminate with whatever you saying!" I encourage her to talk, I really want to know anything about her, bad things and good things. She looked into my eyes as she tries to find am I being honest or not. I give her a sincere smile so she knows that I'm not lying with everything I'd said just now.

"I was born into a small family and it's just my dad, mom and me and my grandparents from daddy. We are happy although dad sometimes needs to go far away because of his job in the Army, my mom stayed with me at home because my grandparents lived in Montesano so we seldom meet them. I'm just a normal little girl who has a happy childhood until I turned five years old, everything changed. I started to notice a spirit around me and talk to them, my mom had been surprised by my sudden changes and becomes worried. My nana had the same ability as I told my mom not to worry about it because it was in our family line. From there, the other children don't want to play with me and our neighbours called me a freak little girl. My dad told me to ignore what others say and just focus on my own happiness but my mom feels excluded from the community because of me, so when I turned eight years old she had enough of it and sign her right as a parent and left me and dad. After that, I become withdrawal from the other and just focus on my own without friends around me. But thankfully after my mom goes away, daddy and I moved to start a new life in Montesano, both of us slowly become a normal family again. And I had another chance to have a real mother who loved me with all my baggage without being burdened with my ability. She loves me like her own daughter, she supports and taking care of me like how a mother treats and love their child." Wow, I can't help but wonder how come her own mother leaves her and her husband alone just because she had a daughter with a gifted ability which not many people had.

"Wow, Ana. Thank you for telling me about yourself and can I ask you something?" She nodded, I want to ask her about her University life.

"You always say that Andrea is your first real friend you ever had, don't you have any friends when you attended the University?"

"No, I don't have any friends when I attended WSUV and my focus entirely on my education. I have my parents and my loyal dog accompany me and it's enough for me. You can say that I'm not comfortable or have the courage to make a friend because I'm scared of being rejected and the memories of my childhood when they labelled me as a freak still entirely in my mind. " She said smiling. But I can't believe how she is existing or finished her Uni life without other people around to talk. She is a really strong girl.

"Not even a boyfriend, Anastasia?" There, I ask it out loud. The thing I want to know best.

But she caught me off guard by laughing after I ask her that question, am I ask her something funny?

"Why you laugh at my question? Is it that funny?" I asking her. She stops laugh and resumes to look at me with a soft expression and amusement in her eyes, she talks to me.

"Christian, I had told you a moment ago that no one wants to be my friend or to be close to me. The only friend I had right now is Andrea and maybe I'm also close with Ros. So, the answer to your question is I don't have a boyfriend. I even haven't held the hand with a boy before. It has always been my family who accompanied me through any phase of my life." She blushing scarlet red after confessing that she is indeed like what I had guessed. She is really a pure, innocent and little bit timid kind of girl. However, her innocence wouldn't stop me from pursuing her and I promise if she let me come in her life, I'll keep her safe and shielding her from the cruel world.

"Wow, thank you for answering my question, Ana. I'm sorry, that I ask you too much but I truly want to know you better." Should I tell her about my feelings for her now?

"No worry, Christian. Actually, I feel good after telling you about myself. I never talked to anyone about my life nor have anyone else interested enough to ask about me. You are truly a nice person, Christian." A nice person, this is a rare someone calls me a nice person. Since I build my empire all the colleagues or the people I do business with calling me a tyrant. I also do not have many friends around me.

"Ana, what do you say if I ask you for a date this weekend? Will you go out with me?" Shit, I'm so nervous asking her to go on a date with me.

"Hmm.. Is it okay to go on a date with the CEO of the company I work for? I don't want to become talk between the other employees if they know I am going out with you.. it's not that I reject your invitation, I just want to be safe for both of us. And it is my first time getting an invitation to go to date from anyone." She stuttered telling me what she feels about my sudden proposal.

"Ana, please don't be worry about anyone who will talk about us. I am the owner of this company and I promise to keep you safe and no one will talk bad about you. Please, Ana, going out with me this weekend, I guarantee you won't be disappointed to agree to have one date with me." I move to kneel in front of her and take her hands in mine. I give light squeezed to convince her without looking so pushy.

"Okay, I will go on a date with you this weekend, Christian." She gives me her beautiful smile which I copying with smiling at her and say thank you at her repeatedly.

We continue to talk more until forget the time, it's already ten at night, we are in my car on the way to Ana's apartment. If I have my way, I would like to bring her back to my penthouse and have her beside me the whole night. But I have made a pact to take it slow and not scare Ana away before we make it into the next stage. I want a real relationship with this beautiful woman next to me, so I reign myself to be in my best manner as a gentleman.

"Here we are, thank you for tonight, Ana. I have a great time with you and thank you for open up to me and share your story." I turn my body to face her and take her hand, I caress her knuckles with my thumb, my eyes focus on her sweet complexion.

"I'm the one who thanks you for everything you do in the office today. Good night, Christian. Drive home safely, please." She is so sweet and caring, I don't realize what I do at the moment but I cup her face in both my hand. And leaning towards her and kiss her forehead. It was not typed of kiss which implies a lust but the kiss I give her now is my way to tell her that I care about her.

Ana closed her eyes when I kiss her forehead and she does not try to dodge it too, is it a good sign right? After a while, we stayed in the same position as I put my forehead on hers. My thumb caresses her soft cheek skin, her eyes sparkling brightly with her face blushing.

"Good, Ana. Tomorrow, can I pick you up to go to the office together? Please!" I still remember she told me that her car is broken and she uses public transportation to go to work.

"Okay, I 'll be waiting for you to pick me up. Be careful on the way home, Christian." Shyly she put a small kiss on my cheek and exits from the car.

"Later, baby," I shout out to her it makes her looking back one more time before entering her apartment building. When I know she is safely inside her apartment, I drive myself back to Escala and can not wait for tomorrow to come so I can see Ana again. Oh fuck, I'm so whipped.

Good God, my first step in pursuing, Ana success. I need to make a good plan for our date this weekend, it needs to be perfect because this is my very first time to charm someone I really desired.

Narrator POV

Marley was dead, to begin with. As dead as a statue her husband made. How her life turned from a happy woman with a husband and son who she loves more than life itself. But everything was damaged with the infidelity of her husband commit outside their house. That one afternoon, when she planned to visit her husband at his gallery in the city, bring hers and her son's life to the end."Alex, come son. We need to get going now if you want to have lunch together with daddy." Marley calling her five years old son to be ready for driving to her husband gallery. She has cooked and bakes a cake for their family lunch, she wants to surprise her man with coming to his working place without telling him before."Yes, momma. Can I bring my toy car with us? I want to show daddy my new toy." Her son Alex says with his cute puppy eyes who difficult to ignore. She smiles at the little boy and nodded her head.She drives her car to the gallery where her husband worked every other day. Jacob Simon her husband is a sculpture artist, both of them is a high school sweetheart and got married as soon as they graduate from high school.Thirty minutes later she parked her car, hand in hand they walk into the gallery ready to surprise his man. The place looks so quiet today it is so odd for her because the place is usually crowded with visitors and other employees. When she closed on the main office she can't found her husband secretary Lily, the girl always stands by in her desk to greet whenever people who came to meet Jacob.Marley does not think too much of her husband Secretary absent but when she opens the oak door of Jacob's office, she's welcomed by the scene which brings her family to the edge of hell. In front of her, Jacob her husband fucking his young secretary and from the look, they are in the heat of the moment and did not realize that she was in the same room as them."What the fuck you are doing?" She shouts out loud so the sinner's couple can hear her voice. Marley immediately turned around to block Alex's view so that he could not see what his father was doing. She urges her son to go out and waiting for her outside the door."Marley, sweety." Jacob surprised and shocked to see his wife standing in his office and witness what he does with his secretary."Don't call me sweetie anymore, Jacob! Wow, I can't believe it you have the guts to do this and destroy our marriage. What is wrong with you, Jacob? Why you.." Marley shouting at her husband, she can't believe the man she loved for years have the heart to cheat behind her and break the sacred promises they made on their wedding day."Marley, please I can explain it to you. Please listen to me, babe." Jacob walks towards her try to reach her but Marley stepping back from him, not let him touch her. She feels disgusted to be close to the man she loved."You do not need to explain anything to me, Jacob. Your action a few minutes ago, already gives me the answer. From this minute you are nothing but a nightmare for me, Jacob. Goodbye, have a nice life with your whore of secretary." Marley opens the for and take her son on her arms and run to their car and drive home to packing their clothes and leave the house they have shared. All the way home she can't think clearly what is wrong with her marriage to make Jacob cheats on her.In another place, Jacob cursed and angry with himself, because of his idiocy the family he builds with the woman he loves destroyed and now his wife left him."Fuck...fuck…" Jacob shouted, he grabbed his car key and run leaving his office to drive back to the house to beg Marley for not leaving him. He drove like a mad man and doesn't care if he would break the law with speeding up.Marley fought Jacob to let her and their son leaving their residence to back to Marley's parent's house. Marley also told Jacob that she will send their divorce letter as soon as possible but Jacob opposed to Marley's petition of divorce. He was wrong for had an affair with his secretary behind his wife back but deep inside his bastard heart he loved his wife so much.Jacob tries hard to stop his wife and son from walkout from the house, with Alex hugging tightly onto Marley's body, he needs to be gentle when he pulls his wife away from walking down the staircase. But everything blurred and happened so quickly when Jacob tried to pull Marley's hand, she pulled back her hand from Jacob grip forcefully and lost her balance to standing on the staircase. She's with her son in her arms together both of them fell downstairs."Marley..Alex.." Jacob rushing towards his family, he is panic looking at both of the people he loved hurt badly due to falling from the top floor."Oh my God, what have I done?? Please.. Please be okay sweetheart. I will call the ambulance quickly!" He pleaded with his wife and son to be strong until the help coming. Blood coming out of their heads, Jacob looking at them with a look full of fear, he prayed that the two of them hold out until help arrived. But before he can dial the ambulance, Marley's words stop him."You kill us, Jacob. You kill me and our son, why you are so cruel and selfish, Jacob? I would never forgive you. Never, Jacob." It's was the last sentence Marley had said to him, that's what she said in her last breath. On the side, Alex their son is already gone because the tumble he takes so tough and makes him lose the blood that came out of his head poured out profusely and his small body could not withstand the pain for too long. His lifeless body lay limp in his mother's arms."No… Marley.. Alex...please don't leave me alone, sweetheart. Please stay with me, please." Jacob repeatedly calls for his little family but it is late both of them were departing to another world. World of eternity and peaceful, but they can't get their peaceful yet because Jacob refuses to bury their bodies properly.Marley and Alex need someone to find them, to let them be free, not be stuck in the cold basement of their own house. Please help us!!!

Lovely readers what do you think about this chapter? I hope it's not that bad to read guys.I will back with revealing the ghost in the next chapter.

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Ntan