Hey guys! Sorry you had to wait a few days. I had gotten sick and was in bed the whole time. But here is the next chapter. Enjoy!
It's been two weeks since Christian and I made it official.
One week since he told his family and the kids about us.
And a bit over a month since we first met.
In the last seven days Christian and I have been on 3 dates. Us alone, at night. Going out to dinners or spending time alone. We've also had two family dates. Where the kids join us. Those were on a Friday or the weekend.
The first family date we went sailing again then to the park. After that we had dinner all together. Teddy and Phoebe were well behaved.
For the second family date, which was yesterday after school, we went to the zoo. The kids had an amazing time but they kept running around. I swear Christian was about to grow gray hair.
It's Saturday morning and Christian is taking me, Phoebe and Teddy to the mall. Christian insisted on taking us out and Phoebe was all in.
Phoebe and I are walking out the apartment while Christian is outside waiting for us.
Phoebe is wearing black leggings and a cute burgundy dress with burgundy boots and black leather jacket.
I'm wearing Jean, flats, a navy blue silky blouse and a black thin leather jacket. Makeup is minimal and my hair is loose.
When we step out Christian smiles at me and Phoebe. I smile back while Phoebe runs to him giving him a hug. I go over to Teddy and open the door to give him a kiss on the cheek.
When we arrive to the mall walk hand in hand while the kids walk in front of us.
"Mommy can we buy costumes already?" Phoebe asks.
"Not yet but soon, there's still about three weeks left till Halloween." I tell her and she pouts. "Hey.. No pouting."
"Can we go to the toy store?" She asks and I nod.
"Baby you're probably going to hate me for what I'm going to do" Christian whispers in my ear.
"What are you going to do?" I ask.
"You'll see."
What is he going to do..?
When we enter a toy store the kids get excited.
"Alright you two, I'll buy you both anything you want but you can only pick out five things" Christian tells them and they nod and start looking around.
"You what?" I look up at him "Phoebe is probably the smartest four year old I know she'll probably pick out expensive things! Oh no I'm not letting you-"
"Ana" he cuts me off "it's fine I'm doing this"
"No"
"Yes"
"No" I pout
"I'll buy you something too, do you want a doll?" He jokes and I laugh
"Sure I'd like some toys but this isn't the right store" I whisper in his ear then wink and walk with the kids.
As I look back at him he looks lost as to what I meant. When he catches on he groans and rubs his face and makes his way to us.
"Tease" he whispers.
Teddy and Phoebe walk around grabbing and putting back toys.
After an hour of walking around the toy store around five times (it's a big store) the kids have picked out their five items.
Teddy picked a toy truck, a Spider-Man mask, a hulk mask, a Nintendo DS in black and a game for it.
Phoebe picked out a Barbie doll, a crown and wand, a huge Barbie castle and a Nintendo DS in pink with a game.
What is a four and five year old going to do with that DS? Will they even understand the game? Of course I had told Phoebe no for the DS but Christian insisted it was fine and I gave in.
I like seeing my baby girl happy.
Once we're done Christian takes the bags and heads out the mall to leave those bags in the car. It's a lot to walk with.
When he gets back he take my hand and walk. The kids are blabbering in front of us and my eyes find the Michael Kors store.
Only in my dream...
I notice Christian walk in the direction of the MK store and we all go in.
"Teddy, Phoebe stay close and don't think about running around" Christian says and they both nod smiling. "So Ana, see anything you like."
"No. Nope. We're leaving." I should have seen this coming. He grabs my arm laughing. "Did you come to the mall to just buy things for all of us?"
"Yup" he grins. "Come on pick out a handbag"
"But-"
"Baby come on! I'm trying to spoil you here you're making it hard. What did you think we were going to do that at mall?"
"I don't know.. Walk around? I was going to take the opportunity to buy Phoebe some things she needs." I say.
"And you will but first I'm going to buy you something"
"Fine" I fail at hiding my smile.
I look around and I feel guilty. I don't want him spending money on me. He already spent about $200 on Phoebe. Maybe even more.
"Stop over thinking it" he comes up behind me. "I want to buy you something too."
"How did you know I-"
"I can tell by the look on your face" he cuts me off once again. "You're frowning a bit and you look like your lost in your thoughts. Let me just do this for you."
I nod and really look around. I find a black leather handbag. The metal parts are a gold color and it even has a long strap in case I want to wear it on my shoulder.
Simple but really gorgeous. And it's spacious.
Christian comes up from behind me and takes the handbag I'm looking at he smirks and walks over to pay for it.
"Look at those watched baby, pretty right?" He taunts.
"Christian.." I warn.
"Oh look at the gold one. Miss?" He looks up. "How much is that one?"
"$250 sir."
"Christian, that's a lot."
"But I want to see you blinged out"
"Blinged out?" I cover my face laughing. "Who says that anymore, oh my god!?" I continue to laugh.
"We'll take the watch and the bag" Christian says.
"That would be a total of $400, sir." The lady says and I look up at Christian who's handing her his card.
"You bullied me into buying me things," I pout playfully. The lady hands me the bag with my things over.
"You're welcome," he kisses me quickly and walks out the store with the kids.
I giggles and shake my head.
For the next hour I tell Christian he and Teddy can do whatever as I buy Phoebe something's she need. He takes the opportunity to do some things with Teddy.
Yes it took me an hour to buy Phoebe some jeans, T-shirts, socks, and underwear. She needed new clothes. I also get her red converse and all black vans.
I meet up with Christian in the food court.
"You bought a lot for Phoebe" he says when I walk up to him.
"Just necessities. New jeans, socks.."
"Let's eat" he says and we do. We all get Burger King and take a break from all the walking. Phoebe and Teddy go on about how they're excited to use their new toys.
"Ana, can we cook together again today?"
"Today?" I ask.
"Yeah can you come over for dinner?"
"What my son said" Christian adds.
"Alright" I smile.
For the rest of the time we spend in the mall we walk around. Christian ends up buying Phoebe and Teddy and huge bowl of candy.
I'm going to kill him for it.
Murder.
She's already a hyper child. They both are. Teddy may seem quiet but he's hyper.
We're now on our way to his place. Teddy has me entertained telling me about all the times Christian tried to cook.
"Ana he even burned the Mac & Cheese once! But he's gotten better at it." Teddy says.
"Your dad needs to go to culinary school."
"Dad needs to stop cooking forever thank god we have Gail I think I would've died!" He says in an exaggerating tone.
I shake my head and laugh. "Is there anything he can do?"
"Hmm, he makes coffee!"
"Jesus, Teddy why are you making me look so bad?" Christian jokes.
"Uncle Elliot says it's my job to make you look bad"
I laugh hard this time. Elliot is evil!
When we arrive to his place I let Phoebe know to only take one of her new toys. She whines but gives in and bring up her new crown and wand up.
I leave all my bags in the back seat and grab each of the kids hand.
When we get to the penthouse Teddy leads me straight to the kitchen.
"What should we make?" I ask Teddy and look over at Christian and Phoebe.
"Mac & Cheese!" All three of them say.
I tell Phoebe and Christian to wait in the living room while Teddy and I cook.
I sit him on the counter and he tells me where everything he is.
"Ana, I want you to be my mommy." He says.
Oh
"Why is that?" I ask.
"Because you do a lot of mommy things like you helped me with my homework and you let me help you cook and you're really nice and you're really pretty and you are caring and-"
"Teddy take a breath," I giggle "I'm honored that you want me to be your mommy that's really sweet"
"Marry daddy and be my mommy"
Why am I having this conversation with a five year old? He's putting me on the spot! I laugh in my head and shrug it off. Teddy is a cutie.
"Oh umm it's not that easy.."
"Why not?"
"It just isn't sweetheart. But hey I'm always here whenever you need me, okay? And you can always help me cook."
"Deal!" He says.
Teddy and I get our cooking on while we hear Phoebe and Christian singing loudly.
Once the food is ready Christian let's the kids eat in Teddy's room while they watch cartoons. Christian and I sit at the dinner table.
"Had fun today?" He asks and I nod. "Good."
"So Mr. Grey, you know, I know nothing about my security except that his name is Sawyer and that he's rather young."
"Let me feed you some information then," he says as if this is a business meeting and I laugh. "He's twenty-six so he is rather young. His name is Luke Sawyer. He's actually Taylor's nephew. Luke's parents died when he was 16 and started going down the wrong path. His ex wife gained custody of him but she was no help. Taylor shaped him up and has had him under his wing ever since. Especially after the divorce. Sawyer only works part-time for me but since I assigned him to you he's been working full time."
"Oh wow and that's really sweet of Taylor."
"It is. But I feel bad for Taylor. For the past three years his ex wife has been making it extremely difficult for him to see his seven year old daughter. He started fighting for custody lately after his daughter told him about a few incidents."
"What kind of incidents?" I ask.
"Her mom leaves her alone for hours and she even told Taylor's daughter that Taylor doesn't love her."
"What the fuck!? That's so low of her to do!"
"I know, I'm positive Taylor will get custody. My dad has been helping him."
"You're dad is very helpful." I smile. "Just one more week until the appointment at family court."
"And I can't wait to get that asshole out of the state." He says.
"Absolutely!"
I already have the next chapter written. I'm sure you guys will love it :)
Hope you enjoyed this one!