Lets find out what happened…
Still Christian's POV
I wake up with an intense headache. I look around the room and realize that I am in a hospital.
What how did I get here?
The last thing I remember was that I was driving Ana to lunch. What happened on the way there is something that I for some reason cannot remember.
My mother rushes into the room. Her blue eyes look very concerned.
"Oh my sweet boy! I am so glad that you are okay." She says, putting her hand on my arm and kissing me on the cheek.
"Why am I here?" I ask her.
She lets out a sigh and sits beside me on the hospital bed.
"You got into a car accident. And according to the police report, you were rear-ended." She tells me.
Car accident? That does clear up the fact that I am here.
"Where's Ana?" I ask her.
I hope to dear God that everything is okay with her. If I lose her, I don't know how to live.
"Ana is fine, Chrisitian. She is just resting in the next room." My mother reassures me.
"Thank God." I say with a sigh.
" Everything is alright with both of you, so you two can be discharged soon. " She says.
I thank her with a smile.
She smiles and leaves the room to check on the other patients.
I get out of bed and make my way to Ana.
She is resting when I walk in. She must have sensed my presence because she opened her eyes slowly.
"Hey." I say. I sit down on the side of her bed. I take her hands into mine.
" Hi." She says to me, giving me a smile.
" My mom said that we are free to go home." I tell her.
"That's good news." She says. "Do you know what happened?"
" Yes, we got rear-ended on the way to lunch." I explain to her. " I would hope that this is all accidental, but until an investigation is done, we won't really know for sure."
Ana sighs.
"It will be alright, baby." I say. I pull her into a reassuring hug and kiss her on the forehead.
"I hope so." She says. We both walk out of her hospital room hand in hand and leave the hospital.
Taylor is already waiting to pick us up. He acknowledges our presence with a nod and opens the door for Ana to get into the SUV. I follow her into the SUV.
"Are we headed back to work?" Ana asks me.
Um we were just in the hospital, a little shaken up after the accident and you want to get back to work?!
"Ana, we are going home. I can work from home and you need to just relax." I tell her. I don't want Ana to immerse herself into work just yet. She need to take the rest of the day off.
"Baby, I still have some manuscripts to finish through the online publishing website." She says to me.
" I know, but you can finish them later. As soon as we get to Escala,I will contact those people and see if we can work out an extension. " I say to Ana.
"Won't that make us look like we aren't good at reaching deadlines?" Ana asks.
"Ana, we rarely ask them to make extensions, so no it won't make us look like we can't reach deadlines. It will make us look like we want more time to work on the manuscripts so they can be perfect." I tell her.
Ana doesn't argue with that.
We arrive at Escala.
We make our way up to our penthouse. Ana heads to our bedroom to take a shower and rest. I head down to my study.
"Sir. I have some news regarding your car accident this afternoon." Taylor stops me.
"What is it?" I implore.
" The police have done their investigation. They are still doing it as we speak. Whether or not you want your own separate investigation is up to you, but they have reviewed the tapes and they believe that the car accident was done on purpose."
Ugh, I knew it! I had a gut feeling that it was done on purpose. Now I know that it can't be Ethan because he was arrested, so who is it then?
"So who is it?" I ask Taylor.
"We tracked down the license plate of the car that rear-ended you ." Taylor stated.
"Well… who is it, Taylor?" I ask him again. "Why are you stalling?"
Taylor clears his throat.
" The woman that Ethan was cheating on with Mia." He answers me.
Wait why her? What did we do to her? Oh I know, her man is out of a job, which means no fancy presents. I doubt that he did buy her anything fancy…
"Oh for fucks sake! Why can't these people just leave Ana and I alone?" I say, my tone is slightly high.
" Sir, I cannot answer that question, but I am sure with further investigation we can understand why this all happened." Taylor says.
"Thank you, Taylor." I tell him. He leaves the room and goes back to the security room.
I go to the kitchen and ask Gail to pour my a glass of scotch.
"Does Ana need anything?" She asks me.
"Im not sure. When will dinner be ready?" I ask her.
" In about 10 minutes. Tonight's dinner will be a string bean casserole and with a side of French bread and some fruit salad for desert." She says.
"Thank you, Gail. " I say.
Ana's POV
Once I make it to the bedroom, I fall onto the bed and just lay there for a few minutes.
What a day! First Ethan makes an appearance thinking that he can somehow sneak through Christian's security without getting caught. And then we get into a car accident while trying to have a nice lunch together. Sounds like something out of a movie..
Ethan won't quite until he gets his point across. What exactly is his point? Why does he continue to pester us all when he should just live with the fact that what he did was wrong and it did cost him.
I am glad to hear that he is arrested, maybe that will give him some time to think about his actions and hopefully from that point forward he will realize that there is really no point in trying to explain his side of the story because quite frankly, it is pretty obvious.
I hear a knock on the door.
"Come in." I say.
Its Christian looking slightly disheveled. The buttons on his collared white dress shirt is undone and he doesn't look the least bit happy.
"Dinner is ready in ten minutes." He says, sitting on the bed next to me.
"Thanks for letting me know. I will go and take a shower." I say.
I start to gather my things for the shower. Christian is still sitting on the bed.
I'm about to go in when he speaks.
"Taylor told me that the police are running an investigation of our car accident and it appears that the person who rear-ended us did not do it on purpose." He says to me.
"Who did it?" I ask him.
Christian runs his right hand through his hair. Oh Geez, just tell me!
"The woman that Ethan was sleeping with." He answers me.
"But why ?" I ask.
" We don't know exactly. She could be siding with Ethan and she most likely believes that the way we are currently treating him is not fair. She just wants to make more damage for his sake, but she won't get far." I say to Ana.
" Ugh, why can't people just leave us alone?"Ana says.
"I was asking myself the same thing." I tell her. " Don't worry about it too much, baby. Everything will be fine." I tell her.
She doesn't say anything and heads into the shower.
I just wish that all of this Ethan crap can end soon. I am getting tired of it and so is everyone else in my family. I will get to the bottom of this, if it's the last thing that I'll do.