Thank you all so much for sticking by me through this. I hope you enjoy this chapter as much as I did... It's a time jump.. don't be mad until you read it through even the note at the end. Much love xoxo
Their time
Two Month's Later
Ana lifted the trail of her dress as she stepped off of the porch's last step and sighed as the velvet like sand slid between her toes. This was more than she had expected. When this all started she never would have thought Christian would be capable of fulfilling her deepest wishes. Not because he didn't love her, but because they didn't involve the mafia.
Letting her trail slip through her fingers Ana spread her arms and just let the wind glide over her sun kissed skin.
She spun around meeting his charcoal stare as he leaned against the back door's frame smirk placed on his lips. It was all too surreal, all too impossible, that she just couldn't stop the laughter that bubbled up inside of her. Her head fell back as she let out the most boisterous sounds she had ever heard and for once she truly felt free. There was no Patrick, no Brian and no Mafia. Everything about that life was left behind. Christian had made his choice and she had made her's and somehow, someway their choices coincided. After the whole thing with Patrick went down, Ana wasn't sure she wanted anything to do with the Mob life any longer. Christian had also decided he didn't want his title as the head of the family if it meant losing her. Brian was spared and now sat in his rightful place as the head of the Kelley family. She wished she could say it was the first time she'd ever witnessed a miracle, but that would be a lie. Life with Christian had shown her more miracles than most people witnessed in a life time.
"Do you like it?" He questioned as he laughed at the sight of her. She turned breaking into a sprint towards the water lifting her hands into the air as the waves crashed at her feet.
"I love it!" She called out to him drinking in his commanding presence. He still was, even after all this time, so very intoxicating. Ana watched as he slipped his suit jacket off placing it onto the deck railing. His curly hair swayed with the wind and her throat constricted in an overwhelming amount of emotion as his gray eyes caught hers. There was nothing that could make this more than what she could have wanted. Never once did she think their conversation of "Where to go from here" would have landed her on a private Island with the man of her dreams. Ana had always figured that their romance was doomed from the start and it was only a matter of time before she would have to give him up.
She remembered being a young girl and her mother, or who she thought was her mother at the time, telling her that nothing good could stay. She had told her, "There's always something out there in that big bad world that will tarnish every piece of silver you own Ana. You remember that and you'll have the key to surviving life baby girl." That was the last thing she had heard from her. After that conversation she walked out on her and her father.
She smiled as Christian made his way to her stopping only inches apart. Throwing her hands over his shoulders, she closed her eyes and allowed the sun to wash over her face. Her skin prickled as his hands caressed her waist and his lips found hers. It was still as confusing and as perfect as their first kiss had been. She found herself praying that it would always be that way. She would always wonder how and when but know the why ever single time they kissed.
"Thank you." She whispered against his soft lips.
"Thank me by saying what I've been dying to hear you say." Her heart skipped at his words and she knew exactly what he meant. It was no secret that Ana loved Christian, hell anyone with eyes could see it miles away. But this was completely different. Once things had settled down from their incidents in Chicago, Christian had asked her to marry him. It was a completely different thing for her to say those words aloud. It was always the same in every relationship she had encountered. "I love you" and "I do's" were the beginning of the end. And she'd rather have a million days with this man knowing that the love was there, whether they married or not than one day of hearing those cursed words, but if this was the one thing that was truly so important to him who was she to deny it?
"You know I want to."
"Say it." He pleaded squeezing her waist as he waited with bated breath.
She smiled at his nervousness and laughed at the impossibility of it all once again. "Yes, I'll marry you." She whispered.
"Say it again." His smile lit up his whole face and she found that it was contagious.
"I'll marry you!"
"Louder this time!" She screamed as he threw her over his shoulder running through the translucent water.
"I'll marry you Christian Grey!" She laughed and wrapped her arms around his neck as her feet touched the wet sand once again. Her breathing was hard and her dress soaked and she knew the last thing she looked was perfection, but yet there he stood staring as if nothing she did could make her anything but. The raw emotion in his stare took her breath away and she found herself holding onto him in order to stay upright.
"You'll never regret saying those words." His voice wavered and it was the first time, she realized, that she'd seen him look so vulnerable. So unsure of himself. The thought brought tears to her own eyes and for once she believed it. She believed that maybe every once in a while when you were least expecting it fairy tales had a way of becoming someone's truth.
Part 2
Finito
Christian left the mafia with many stones un-turned and bridges burned. Will his family and the one he left in charge be able to handle the war that will crash upon them now? Will he and Ana be able to live a life outside of the Mafia? Or will the call of his previous life be too much for him to fight?
That's all folks! One reviewer spotted that it sounded like the end. It was for Part 2. However, it could go on to its final part 3 or end here depending on what you guys would like. A lot has happened to Ana and Christian. Patrick was a lot for both of them to get over. It was a big scare. There are some loose ends that still need to be tied. Their story can continue to the end or you can guys leave it here and imagine the ending to your fancy ;).
Thank you all for sticking by me truly. xx
