I'm glad you are liking this story! Sorry for the short chapters - at least I update like every day! ;)
Thanks to icalyn for editing !
"There is everything you might need. Where were you; you never don't answer your cell?!" Kate said as she was taking Ana to the airport.
"Well, I was having a manicure."
Her first steps to becoming a beauty in the next twenty-four hours included going to a hairdresser, getting a manicure, a pedicure... and finally a wax today. She had to look perfect in order to get what she wanted.
And she knew what she wanted. She wanted the job.
She needed to know Christian's ideas so she could be aware of what was he planning and then she could make her project better.
"And so you had to switch off your phone? Anyway, the dress I bought for you today matches your nails," Kate said, smirking.
"What?" Ana asked as she noticed the smirk.
"Are you planning to do it?"
"Do what?"
"You know, have sex with him?"
"Oh God, no!" Ana exclaimed. Have sex with that stupid man? Never.
She only had to make him want her. That didn't include her wanting him.
"Well, that is good. Because you know how those things happen…it would be hard to work together if you two..."
"Nothing is going to happen. You know I don't like men who only think about themselves, who are arrogant, who flirt with anything that moves. Not my type. Never will be my type."
"I am glad to hear it because he is a heartbreaker."
"But not my heart is going to get hurt," Ana said and looked out of the window – they were almost there. Her one-week business trip with Christian Grey, her least favorite colleague, was about to start.
Christian drank his coffee and watched the airplanes take off one after another. And in exactly fourty-five minutes the plane to Rome would also takeoff, only onboard would be him and Steele. He had to make most of this trip. He had to get the most information he could from the client, then he would just have to use it and do his job.
And Ana will not stop him. And he won't try to stop her, either. At least not by seducing her as Elliot suggested. Not her.
He reminded himself that again when he saw her buying coffee at the same bar where he was. He watched as she took the coffee and found a seat in a corner. Then she took out her book, must be some English oldie again, Christian thought.
How could she live her life like this? Maybe she did deserve him seducing her so she knows how interesting life can be when you do something other than work or read?
Well, what did he know – maybe she had a boyfriend? Maybe he works in the library she goes to?
Anyway, he didn't like her. And seducing her was off of the list of good plans to make her fail.
Meanwhile, Ana knew she was being watched. She knew also who was the one staring at her as she drank her coffee before the flight.
If only he knew what he was going to see tomorrow. Because it would have to be it – it would have to be that one thing he always puts first: women. And she was going to become one that he just won't be able to ignore.
Maybe Kate had been right – it was time to finally become a lady and stop wearing jeans with different tee shirts with, of course, sneakers. Maybe it was finally time to show that she didn't wear those clothes to hide her ugly body, because she was aware she didn't have a bad body. Not with the excercising she did.
And maybe this was going the start of the biggest changes in her life – new appearance, new job…
And Christian Grey will not be the one who stops her from getting her dream job.
She closed the book and finished her coffee as she realised she should start going to the gate.
She sat there, waited for her flight to be anounnced and thought of the long flight in front of her.
When the door was finally open and the boarding had started, Ana got another shock as that arrogant jerk happily went to the plane first – he had a first class ticket! Of course, how could he survive without those first class perks? Someone like him couldn't survive the economy class flight that the company provides.
She sighed as she stood in the seemingly endless line. But she felt so good when it was finally her turn to enter the plane and find her seat. But she quickly wished she hadn't – she was seated between a man who smelled like…like garbage, like everything a man shouldn't smell like on one side, and then there was a very fat lady who wouldn't accept that Ana needed some space, too, on her other side.
The takeoff had been bearable. But when the seatbelt light was off and the man decided to drink alcohol and the woman eat, it was no longer fine.
She was so jealous of Christian who was getting the first class treatment unlike her.
Well, maybe he had some bad things too. She had to hope that, for example, he would get a stomach bug from the food served to him.
But it was not so.
"Thank you." Christian flashed the girl a smile as he took his sandwich.
He wondered how Anastasia could be so stupid and take an economy class flight to Europe. Maybe she was not as smart as he had thought. The plane was full of people and he was glad he had upgraded his ticket.
He had to be fresh and ready for work when he landed. And as for Ana... maybe it was good that he had already started better.