A.N
Sorry for the lack of updates this week guys. It's been a weird week tbh and tomorrow I've got an interview for a new job so I'm a bundle of nerves right now so been all over the place tbh!
Anyway, love how you are loving the twist of Gia into the mix! She may have some more 'screen' time later on in the story but for now this might be the only time we see her unless I get some inspiration! Haha! Enjoy!
Much Love
K xx
"So, let me get this straight." Gia began as she looked to her cousins. "Christian Grey knocked you up." She gestured to Ana. "And you married Elliot Grey, who you have only known for three weeks while you were on vacation?" She gestured to Kate. "Sorry girls but you don't have do things by half. Talk about a fucked-up situation."
Kate scoffed as she looked to Gia. Carla and Ray were keeping Lily-Rose occupied while the others all sat in the living room to discuss what was going on. Luke currently playing referee while Christian and Elliot sat in silence. "You're not little miss innocent Gia. I'm guessing from my husband's reaction that you've been hooking up with him over the years? And seeing as you've never actually bought a guy home in forever, it couldn't have been very serious. Must suck knowing that for years you couldn't get him to commit yet he meets me and three weeks later we are in love and happily married."
Gia glared at Kate. "I think what happened between Elliot and I should stay between Elliot and I." Gia told her with a shrug.
"That's fine but let's get one thing straight. Elliot is my husband and Christian is Ana's guy so I suggest you keep your filthy fake paws off them and stay at least twenty feet away. I saw the way you eye fucked both of them as you came in and frankly, I don't want you teaching my niece on how to act like a whore to get a man's attention."
"Oh, the claws are out tonight kitty Kat. Feeling a bit insecure in your marriage already?" She mused with a smirk to her.
"Okay knock it off the both of you." Ana cut in looking to the pair of them. "We are supposed to be adults here." She looked to Gia. "No matter what your history with Elliot is, it has no factor anymore. He is a married man. You've already got a reputation, don't add home wrecker onto that reputation."
Gia glared at Ana. "Least I didn't get knocked up on a one-night stand."
"Least I knew his name." Ana countered back.
"Enough." Luke cut in with a snap as he looked to them all. "We are not in fucking high school."
"Oh Lukey…" Gia pouted going to move her hand to his leg.
"Don't even think about it." Luke told her causing her hand movements to halt mid-air. "Gia we are not related in any way. Your mother is Carla's sister so nothing to do with me whatso ever so I have no issues in any way or form in putting you in your place and not giving a fuck in the process. And there is only one person who gets to call me Lukey and she is three years old. Don't call me that again." He told her firmly.
Gia rolled her eyes. "God everyone is so touchy today."
"Why are you even here?" Ana asked looking to her. "Last I heard you were in Miami."
"I was. I was simply passing through on my way back to Seattle. Thought I'd come and say hello to my favourite aunt and uncle."
"They're your only aunt and uncle." Kate commented with a roll of her eyes.
Gia looked to Kate. "Whatever." She shook her head before looking to Elliot and smirking. "You are quiet over there."
Elliot looked to her blankly. "I have nothing to say to you."
"Not what you said last time we were together." Gia replied with a smirk.
"If you are trying to get a rile out of one of us, I seriously suggest you quit while you are ahead." Ana warned her.
"Oh, you two are such bores!" She shook her head before looking to Christian. "What about you? You're normally shouting your mouth of, putting the fear of God to anyone who dares looks at you. Yet here you are. Quiet as a mouse."
"The CEO version of me and the father version of me are two very different people. But make no mistake Miss Mateo. The CEO version is never far behind and the fact that I am now a father…well. You know the saying; a lioness will do anything to protect her cubs?" He asked looking to Gia dead in the eye. "Well the same goes for me. Lily-Rose is my world as is Ana. Anyone who dares fucks with her or Ana fucks with me. And well. You are very aware of my reputation Miss Mateo as well as the influence that I have pretty much all over the states. I am not afraid to use my influence to make sure you never work in interior design ever again."
The whole room went silent. Ana had goosebumps going up her arm from Christian's statement and even Gia was blushing!
Gia looked at them all before she got up and left the room and headed into the garden to find Carla and Ray.
As Gia left, Luke couldn't help but smirk as he looked to Christian. "Dude that was awesome. Are you like that in the office?"
Elliot couldn't help but laugh as he looked to Luke. "Dude, the guy walks around like he has a stick up his ass. Seeing him this happy has been a…well I'm so fucking happy he's happy."
"Language." Ana teased as she looked up as an exasperated Lily-Rose came in and flopped on the sofa. "What's wrong baby?" Ana asked looking down to her.
"Gwandma is talking to Gigi and Gwandpa is talking to Taylor about the silly man." She huffed a little.
Ana frowned as she looked to her daughter confused. "What silly man?"
"The one from the telly with the silly hair." She grumbled before she climbed up on the sofa and climbed onto Christian's lap and snuggled into him.
Ana wracked her brain to try and think who she was on about and she was drawing a blank. Man, with the silly hair? That could be anyone to Lily-Rose. She calls Luke's bed hair silly!
When no one answered her, Lily-Rose rolled her eyes. "The one who has the same name a Donald Duck. The man who's in charge of Merica."
Ana looked to her. "Donald Trump?"
Lily-Rose nodded to her. "Yeah. It's boring." She complained with a little huff before she let a small yawn pass her lips. "I's tired. Are we going home soon?" She asked.
Ana looked to her watch and saw it was going on four o'clock. Knowing this was a time that Lily-Rose started to flag if she didn't have a proper nap, to which she hadn't today. Her earlier nap was more like a cat nap. "We can make a move soon. We can go home, have a nice bath and get into our pjs, make our popcorn and get into bed."
"Yes pwease mommy." She grinned as she looked to her dad. "I's so excited for our sleepover daddy!" She squealed clapping her hands. "Uncle Lukey are yous coming to our sleepover?" She then asked looking to her.
Christian couldn't help but smile down to his daughter. "Me too princess."
Luke shook his head. "No princess I'll be in my room but I want to hear all about it tomorrow okay? I want to know everything!"
Lily-Rose grinned to her uncle before looking to Christian once more. "Can your mommy come and have a sleepover too?" She then asked looking to him. "And your daddy? And Mia?"
Christian couldn't help but smile. "You remember me telling you about Mia?" He asked amazing. He had only talked about Mia briefly the other day.
Lily-Rose nodded and grinned. "She loves glitter."
Christian laughed. "That she does." He smiled. "Me and mommy will talk and sort out something okay? You'll meet them soon I promise. And my grandpa and grandma."
Lily-Rose's eyes lit up. "Weally?!"
"Really." He promised with a smile. "They're going to love you."
"I's going to love them too." She told them before she looked to Elliot. "I loves you too uncle Lelliot. You talks too much but its otay." She happily informed him.
Ana couldn't help but laugh and shake her head as she got up. "Let's go say goodbye to grandma and grandpa and save poor Taylor."
Lily-Rose nodded as she climbed down and ran to the garden. "Taylor! I's coming to save you!" She shouted running over to him.
"I'm going to say goodbye to dad and Carla….and reluctantly Gia." He grumbled before he got up and headed to the garden.
Christian couldn't help but smile as he watched her before he got to his feet and followed Ana and Lily-Rose out into the garden so they could say their goodbyes. "Thank you for having us. I know it's been an…interesting day."
Ray scoffed. "You can say that again."
"Where's Gia?" Ana asked looking around not seeing her cousin noticing it was just her mom and dad and Luke in the garden.
"She had to take a phone call. She said if you had to go then she would catch you another time but this phone call was a potential new client so she had to take it." Carla told her with a smile before she smothered her granddaughter in kisses.
"Gwandma, stop!" Lily-Rose giggled before she hugged her grandmother tightly.
"I'm going to go wait in the car." Luke told them before he hugged his dad and gave Carla a kiss on the cheek before heading back to the house.
Carla smiled down to Lily-Rose before looking to Christian. "It was lovely having you here. I'm already thinking of when I can have you all over again! If your parents come to town let me know. We will have another barbeque. Hopefully with no drama." She laughed. "And no unannounced marriages." She raised an eyebrow at Ana.
Ana laughed. "Don't worry mom. We won't go and get married. Taking it slow remember?" She smiled before she looked to Lily-Rose. "Go give grandpa a hug please Lily-Rose."
Lily-Rose nodded before running to Ray as Carla put her down. Squeezing him tightly around the neck she smiled. "Loves you gwandpa."
"I love you too princess." Ray smiled giving her a gentle squeeze before he kissed her head. "Be good."
"I wills." She promised before going over to Christian as he put her down.
Scooping her up Christian smiled as he shook Ray's hand and then went to shake Carla's hand but she moved to hug him. Well best she could with Lily-Rose in his arms.
"You are welcome anytime." Carla told him with a smile.
"Thank you." Christian smiled before he pulled back and smiled to Lily-Rose. "Ready for our sleepover?"
"Yes!" She grinned to him.
"Well let's get this show on the road then." Christian smiled before he gave a nod to Taylor to indicate they were ready to leave. Following Ana back through the house he said goodbye to Elliot and Kate before they headed to the SUV where Luke was already sat in the passenger seat flicking through his phone. Climbing in the back he strapped Lily-Rose into her car seat before he got in next to her while Ana got in the other side.
"What a day." She commented putting her seatbelt on.
"Such a fun day!" Lily-Rose beamed.
Ana laughed and smiled to her daughter before looking to Christian. "Thank you for coming today."
Christian looked to Ana and smiled. "You don't need to thank me. Even though we had an interesting start…but I enjoyed myself." He smiled. "Though I can't believe that you are related to Gia…"
"You and me both." Ana replied with the role of her eyes. "She's the daughter of my mom's sister. My aunt is lovely, but my uncle is Italian…I think…and he's so stuck up and uses money to get what he wants. He passed that trait onto Gia." She rolled her eyes before looking to him. "Though you must have been impressed with her work?"
Christian nodded. "Yeah. I mean I don't like her as a person. No offence seeing as she's your family…"
"No one likes her." Luke cut in with a scoff. "She's a living, breathing nightmare." He grumbled with a roll of his eyes.
"But she is good at her job I got to give her that credit." Christian finished looking between the siblings.
Ana gave a reluctant nod. "I have to give you that. She is good at what she does." As her phone went off in her pocket, Ana pulled it out before she groaned at the message.
"Everything okay?" Christian asked looking to her.
"Yeah I have a meeting tomorrow and the person wants it's to be a lunchtime meeting. I always make sure I'm free lunchtime just so I can have lunch with missy here. Gives Luke an hour break."
"You know I'll have her no matter what." Luke piped up glancing back to his sister.
"Well I can have her?" Christian suggested looking to her. "I have a few things I need to sort out in the morning but lunch time I can take her off Luke's hands?"
"Are you sure? I don't know how long I'm going to be in this meeting."
"Ana…it's fine. I mean she is my daughter…this will be the perfect opportunity for us to really bond. I mean as long as it's alright with Luke?" He smiled looking between the two. He had to admit the thought of spending some one on one time with his daughter made him feel all giddy!
"Fine by me." Luke shrugged before smirking and looking to Christian. "I wish you luck." He mused wiggling his eyebrows knowing how much of a handful his niece could be sometimes.
Ana smiled and nodded. "Okay." She looked to Lily-Rose who was busy playing on Ana's phone. "How does that sound baby? Afternoon with daddy tomorrow while mommy is in a meeting?"
Lily-Rose looked to her mother and grinned and nodded looking to her dad. "We's going to have so much fun daddy. Wills Taylor be playing with us?" She then asked looking to Taylor driving before back to Christian.
"Taylor will be around but it'll mainly be me and you princess. Is that okay?"
Lily-Rose nodded. "Yes daddy." She replies before she turned her attention back to her game she was playing.
Christian smiled before he then smiled to Ana before looking out the window as they came to a stop. Noticing they were back at the hotel he smiled as he got out of the car. Luke had already gone over to call the elevator while he helped Lily-Rose out of her car seat and down onto her feet.
Ana held out her hand for Lily-Rose, smiling as she ran over and took it before they all headed over to the elevator where Luke was waiting for them.
Punching in the code, Luke then busied himself on his phone once more causing Ana to frown.
"Who are you texting?" Ana asked looking to him. "You've been on that thing since before we got in the car."
Putting his phone in his pocket, Luke blushed a little. "No one." He mumbled. He did not want to get into this right now.
Ana smirked. "Yeah right." She shook her head before looking down to Lily-Rose. "So, what are we doing first?" She asked.
"Potty and bath time!" Lily-Rose responded.
"Good girl." Ana smiled. As they reached their floor, they all headed out. Taylor went to his room while the others headed to Ana's suite. Opening the suite, Ana watched as Lily-Rose ran in and headed straight to the bathroom. Ana smiled to Christian. "Why don't you go and get yourself sorted? Then just come in when you are ready?"
Christian smiled and nodded as he leant in for a kiss and smiled. "I'll be twenty minutes. Tops." Kissing her one more time he left the suite and headed to his own so he could get ready for the sleepover.
Luke smirked to his sister as he grabbed a beer from the fridge. "You two got it bad." He smirked.
"Mommy I's finished!" Lily-Rose called from the bathroom.
Ana poked her tongue out to her brother before she went to her daughter. Going into the bathroom she smiled. "Hey baby. Well done." She mused as she got some tissue for her. "Don't forget to wipe."
Lily-Rose nodded as she took the tissue and wiped before discarding it in the bin before she independently went to the sink, climbing up her little steps as she washed her hands.
Ana couldn't help but smile as she watched her. She was getting so grown up. Emptying and cleaning out her potty she then washed her own hands before she then put the plug in and started the bath up. "Mermaid bubbles or unicorn bubbles?" She then asked looking to her daughter.
"Urm mermaid!" Lily-Rose chimed before she started pulling off her clothes.
Ana nodded putting the bubble bath in before she laughed at her daughter. She could see that she was so excited for this sleepover, she couldn't wait for their sleepover. "Shall mommy join you?"
Lily-Rose nodded. "Yes! The quicker we have a bath the quicker our sleepover starts!" She told her.
Ana laughed and shook her head before she stripped off her own clothes. Once the bath was ready, she double checked the temperature before she then climbed into the bath and held her hands open for Lily-Rose, smiling as she came over. Scooping her up she then bought her into the bath and passed her, her sponge and soap.
"Thank you, mommy." Lily-Rose beamed as she took the sponge and soap and began to wash herself down.
Ana smiled as she took her own sponge and soap and cleaned herself, knowing that Lily-rose wanted to be in and out of the bath as quick as possible. She could tell because she hadn't asked for any of her toys.
"I's finished mommy." Lily-Rose declared with a smile to her.
Ana chuckled and nodded as she climbed out of the bath. Wrapping a towel around herself she then grabbed Lily-Rose's towel before helping Lily-Rose out of the tub and wrapped her in her towel. "Let's go find our pjs!" Ana beamed as they headed out of the bathroom and to Lily-Rose's room. Grabbing Lily-Rose's pjs and pull up as well as the unicorn teddy they then headed into Ana's room. Drying herself off, Ana quickly put her own pjs on, well a vest and some pyjama pants before she then helped Lily-Rose into hers. "Shall we go and find some popcorn before daddy gets here?"
Lily-Rose nodded as she took Ana's hand and dragged her to the kitchen area.
Ana smiled and scooped Lily-Rose up as they got to the kitchen and opened up the cupboard where she kept the snacks. "Okay so what flavour?" Ana asked looking to her daughter.
"Sweet and toffees!"
"Ooo good choices." Christian commented as he came in. Closing the door behind him he locked it before heading over to his girls. He was dressed in a t-shirt and a pyjama pants. He didn't normally wear pyjamas to bed, maybe a pair of boxers if he was lucky. He preferred to be in the nude, though he knew that was out the window now with Lily-Rose around. She could walk in at any time. Literally!
Lily-Rose grinned to Christian. "Theys the best flavours daddy!"
Ana smiled putting Lily-Rose down. "Why don't you two go and get comfy in the bed and I'll get our popcorn ready. How about I make us all some special hot chocolate?"
Lily-Rose gasped as she looked to her mother wide eyed and nodded. "Yes pwease mommy!"
Ana smiled. "Go get comfy and I'll be in soon." She promised.
"Comes daddy!" Lily-Rose beamed as she took her father's hand and dragged him to the bedroom. "Otay so you's sleep here and I's sleep by there and then mommy will sleep there." She told him with a nod before she climbed onto the bed and got comfy in her spot, pulling her unicorn teddy to her before tapping the bed. "Comes sit with me daddy."
Christian couldn't help but smile as he moved to the bed, kicking his sliders off he then climbed onto the bed next to his daughter and smiled. "Are we still going to watch Aladdin?"
Lily-Rose nodded. "Yep. It's the bestest and has the bestest songs. I asked mommy if I could have a monkey but she said no because I'm a monkey." She told him with a giggle.
Christian couldn't help but smile. "You're a monkey?"
"No, I'm a girl." She laughed with the shake of her head before she happily snuggled into his side.
Christian laughed and kissed the top of her head before he looked up as Ana came in with a tray. "Wow that looks good."
Ana smiled to Christian as she put the tray on the bedside table. Passing the bowl of popcorn to Lily-Rose she raised an eyebrow. "Don't eat them all." She warned playfully before she then grabbed her mug and went around to her side of the bed and put it down. "Okay so remember if you want your drink then you have to ask daddy okay? It's going to be hot for a little while so we have to let it cool."
"Otay mommy." Lily-Rose replied as she tucked into the popcorn.
Ana smiled as she climbed into the bed and grabbed the remote and searched for the film before pressing play. Getting comfy she then smiled as she grabbed some popcorn before she reached over and picked up her drink and taking a small sip before tucking into her popcorn. She did love nights like this with Lily-Rose and she was glad that Christian was now able to experience this as well.
As Lily-Rose started to sing, Ana couldn't help but smile before she looked to Christian. "Glad you came?" She mused with a smirk.
Christian smiled to Ana. "No place I'd rather be." He happily told her. "This is where I belong. With you two."
"Mommy. Daddy. No's talking pwease." She told them seriously looking to them both before her attention turned back to the television, putting more popcorn in her mouth with her one hand while her free hand kept a tight hold of her unicorn.
"Sorry baby." Ana apologised trying not to laugh. Relaxing back into the bed she happily watched the film, looking to Lily-Rose she smiled seeing she was happily snuggled into Christian. Now and then she would have a little sip of her hot chocolate but for most of the film she was snuggled into her father, the bowl of popcorn forgotten that Ana happily took advantage of!
As the film finished, Ana looked over to Lily-Rose and Christian, smiling seeing they were both fast asleep. Moving her mug to the bedside table along with the popcorn she then smiled and made sure that they were all covered with the duvet before she turned the television off and then her light. Laying down so she was facing Lily-Rose and Christian she smiled to herself as she let her eyes fall to a close.
"Ana?" Christian whispered as his eyes fluttered open slightly before they closed once more.
"Yeah?" She whispered back.
"I love you." He whispered as he drifted back off to sleep.
Ana couldn't help but smile. "I love you too." She whispered back. And she did. It might have happened fast but the truth was she couldn't fight her feelings anymore. She was completely in love with Christian Grey.
