6 weeks later – 30 weeks pregnant

It has been 6 weeks since I had to testify against one of my worst nightmares.

A week later, after less than an hour of deliberation for the jury, he was sentenced to 30 years in prison. To say I was relieved was an understatement. Ella's testimony was quite helpful in putting the final nail in his metaphorical coffin. He should never be free again unless he grows very old. There's no possibility for parole, which is refreshing. I have been seeing Flynn since court again. For the first few weeks I saw him 3 days a week but I'm back down to once a week now that the nightmares have subsided.

My husband has been a dream. He stays next to me all the time while I'm asleep so I don't wake up alone. He wakes me anytime he catches me having a nightmare. I'm just glad he has not had to in a while.

I'm now 30 weeks pregnant, which means in less than 10 weeks, I will be holding my son. I couldn't be more ecstatic.

Christian still comes around to visit Ella about 3 times a week, which is highly unusual. He used to only see her maybe once every 3 or 4 weeks. He has been especially kind as well, bringing gifts for the kids at least once a week. I'm starting to think he has something up his sleeve so I'm just exercising caution around him.

Today I'm sitting at work when my phone rings. Kate.

"Ana Sawyer."

"Ana, it's Kate. We should go out to lunch together. Are you available today?"

"Yeah, actually I'm available in about 30 minutes. Meet me at the café across the street from SPI?"

"For sure. I will see you there."

I hang up and for the next 30 minutes I wrap up my work and gather a few manuscripts to take home and I will work from home the rest of the day.

"Hannah, I'll be out the rest of the day. I'm working from home this afternoon so contact me for anything urgent."

"Okay Ana. Have a good day."

"You too." I nod and walk up to my husband. I give him a sweet kiss. "I'm going to lunch with Kate across the street. We will sit next to the window so you can see us. I love you Luke."

"Okay. I love you too baby." I give him another kiss and leave.

I enter the café and have a seat at the window closest to SPI.

I order my favorite tea and I see Kate coming in, followed closely by Jose. I haven't seen him in years. He made a move on me whenever I was drunk and Christian stopped him before he did anything to me.

Kate knows this. Why did she bring him? They approach the table and I hug Kate first and whisper in her ear. "You know I don't feel comfortable around him. Why would you bring him? I will talk to you later."

"Okay. I'm sorry."

I pull back and give Jose a short hug but he holds on a little longer than is comfortable and I squirm out of his grip almost panicking. "I've missed you Ana."

I just nod and take my seat by the window and I make Kate sit beside me and Jose takes a seat on the opposite side of the table. The barista brings me my tea and takes their orders.

"So Ana, what have you been up to?"

"I mostly spend time with my family and I run SPI."

"Oh, are you seeing anyone?"

"I'm married with almost 6 kids so yes. I'm seeing my husband."

"I was hoping since you weren't with Grey anymore that I would have a chance." I raise my eyebrows and roll my eyes.

"You know that you have been like a brother to me in the past and I never did and never will see you as more than a friend."

He nods dejected. We drink our drinks and we eat when our food arrives. We have a lot of small talk while we eat. "I need to go to the ladies' room. Kate can you join me?"

She nods and we both get out of our booth and go into the ladies' room. "Kate, you know that I don't feel comfortable around him. Why would you bring him? This was supposed to be a ladies only lunch."

"I ran into him on the way out of my building. Apparently he is photographer for us and I didn't know it. I'm sorry I didn't run it by you but we all used to be great friends."

"He hasn't been in our circle for years for a reason Kate. I don't trust him one bit."

"Okay. We can make him leave?"

"No. I don't want to be rude but I should probably go soon."

"Okay. I'm really sorry Ana."

"It will be okay."

She hugs me and we walk back out to our table and Jose isn't there anymore. I look around and see my husband talking to him outside the door.

"Be right back Kate." She nods and I go out the door that they are next to.

"What's going on here?"

"Tell her Jose."

"he caught me slipping something in your drink."

"What the fuck Jose? Why?"

"You belong with me Ana."

I punch him in the face. "I belong with my husband so leave me the fuck alone."

"I will have you Ana." And my husband punches him.

"No. You will not. You will apologize to the lady for ruining her lunch that you obviously weren't wanted at." He looks at me. "are you okay Ana?" I nod. "go make sure to stop Kate from drinking or eating anything else. He may have tried to drug her too."

I give him a chaste kiss and walk back inside and take Kate's obviously drugged ass out of there after throwing some money onto the table. "He drugged you Kate. He tried to drug us both. Luke is taking care of him."

I throw her arm over my shoulder and walk her out. "Luke, he did drug her too. We should call the cops. I'm taking her to the SUV so that she can safely rest and I'd like you to take us home after we deal with this piece of shit."

"Go ahead. I got it."

I take Kate to the SUV and lay her down in the back seat and scoot in with her and lay her head on my lap.

Thank God my husband was paying close attention to what was going on.

I see the cops pull up and Luke is still holding onto Jose. One cop takes Jose and handcuffs him and puts him in the back seat of his cruiser. Luke and the other officer come over to us. Kate is still passed out so she can't say much.

"Can we talk to you Mrs. Sawyer?"

"Yes." I slide out from under Kate's head.

I step out of the vehicle and close the door.

"Can you tell me what happened to the best of you knowledge?"

"Jose once made unwanted advances towards me and my ex-husband stopped him. Kate invited him to our lunch without me knowing. I immediately felt uncomfortable when I saw him. I took Kate to the bathroom to talk to her about it and Luke knows the rest. Kate was clearly drugged and he said that I belong with him so I hit him but then he said he would have me and my husband here hit him."

"Okay. That's all we need for now." He hands me a card. "Have Kate contact me as soon as she is coherent. We have enough to hold him. We found the date rape drug in his possession so hopefully he won't be getting off too easy."

"Thank you officer."

He nods and crosses the street. "Luke, let's take her home and go home ourselves."

"Of course baby. You want to call Elliot so he knows what is going on?"

"Yeah, I need to."

I give him a soft kiss and he helps me back into the SUV. I dial Elliot's number.

"Grey"

"Elliot, it's Ana. I'm bringing Kate home. Our former friend drugged her and Luke tried to stop him but he didn't move Kate's drink before she got there because he thought he only was trying to drug me."

"Okay. Bring her home and I expect full details after she is feeling better from both of you."

"Okay. I can do that. See you shortly."

I hang up. "I'm starting to dislike Seattle all over again."

"It will be okay baby."

"Thank you for coming to our rescue Mr. Sawyer. I owe you one."

"Just doing my job and fulfilling my duty to protect you as your husband."

"You definitely are the best baby. You must have excellent eyesight to see all that from across the street."

"I saw how uncomfortable you looked so I moved closer and saw what he was doing when you ladies went to the bathroom."

"Regardless, you're the best Luke Sawyer."

We get to Kate's where Elliot is waiting outside. "thank you for bringing her home safely."

"You're welcome. I will talk to you later Elliot. Tell her to call the detective whenever she is coherent. I don't know how much she will remember though."

I hand him the card.

"I will do that." He picks her up and Carries her into their house bridal style and Luke gets out to shut her door.

"Luke, you've earned a hefty reward from your wife."

"I'm a lucky bastard."

I giggle. "I'm the lucky one baby."

When we get home, my husband carries me bridal style into the house and straight up the stairs and takes me to the bathroom. He sets me down on the counter and runs me a bath. He helps me into the tub. "join me?"

"Sure." He strips out of his clothes and climbs in with me and washes me gently.

"I'm so happy and fortunate to have found such an amazing husband/CPO."

"I will be anything you need me to be baby."

"Another reason I love you so much."

I turn around and straddle him and kiss him feverishly.

"I need you Luke. Take me to bed."

"anything you need." He helps me up and gets up himself and then he scoops me up and takes me to bed and makes love to me.

"Thank you for being amazing Luke. I really lucked out with you."

"I can say the same about you."

"We better go spend the rest of the day with our kids."

"Sounds like a plan."

I give him a sweet kiss and we roll out of bed and get dressed and go spend the rest of the day with our amazing children.

After we put the kids to bed, my husband and I go to bed and I worship his body with my own until I'm wore out and he just holds me until I drift off to sleep.

I'm awoken to Luke's voice. "Ana, wake up. It's just a nightmare. You're safe."

I open my eyes and realize I had another nightmare but this time, Jose is the perpetrator. I wrap my arms around my husband and cry. "Why does this stuff keep happening to us?"

"I don't know baby but it will get better. It has to."

"What if they let Jose out? He is clearly delusional."

"We will keep you protected baby."

"I hope they just keep his ass in jail but I have a bad feeling that he will get out on bail or something."

"I will call in the morning to make sure we're notified if he is released. "

"Thank you. I love you so much Luke."

"I love you so much too baby. Just keep your CPO with you anywhere you go. Or me. One or the other. Possibly both."

"I'll take both."

"Okay baby. Now get more sleep. I'll call Flynn in the morning for you also."

"Mmm.." is the last thing I say before falling back to sleep in my wonderful husband's strong arms.