Chapter 7
Ana decided that instead of just sitting around crying, she would go see Mrs Jones and tell her that she would prepare dinner for herself and Christian as they wanted to talk. Ana started to get all the ingredients together that were needed for dinner and distracted herself with cooking.
Once dinner was ready, Ana walked over to Christian's study and tentativly knocked on the door until she heard him say come in. She walked in and turned her head to look at Christian and he looked back with a look of hurt, tinged with anger and sadness. The look he gave made Ana wont to run to him.
She regained her composure and spoke in a near whisper that dinner was ready and waiting for him to join her at the table .
As Christian sat in his study, he decided it was time he went to face Ana and speak to her but as he was about to stand he heard a knock on his study door and told whoever was on the other side to come in.
When Ana walked into his study and looked at him he could tell that she had been crying and it hurt him so much as he hated seeing her cry it was like a knife through his heart.
Christian had no idea what to say or do as Ana told him dinner was ready and on the table, so he just stood from his desk and followed her out so they could have dinner together, although he knew it would be a quiet affair. Both Christian and Ana kept looking at each other over the table wondering which one was going to speak first as the tension in the room became unbearable.
As both Ana and Christian were eating, they both had so much they wanted to say to each other but had no idea how to start the most difficult and unusual conversation they have ever had to have.
But they both knew it had to happen if anything was going to be resolved so Ana decided to speak up first. She looked straight at Christian and said "sweetheart we really need to sort out everything that was spoken about earlier. If we don't talk about this, it will tear us apart and that isn't what I want for us
