Against All Odds

by DeLambful Fiction

Once upon a time... There were two best friends. They loved to argue and tease each other. Secretly, they had feelings for one another, but she belonged to another, and both were stubborn to admit it. Then, she disappeared. Christian watched for her everyday she was gone. Then one day, she came back. ...Modern fairy tales do exist.

14. Chapter 14

Against All Odds- Chapter 14

"So you never fucked him huh?" I heard from the darkness behind me making me turn in circles but I saw no one there. "How was he, is he a good fuck?

Now I recognized the voice and without looking or moving I fire back, "No, I never fucked him. We made love which is something you and I never did."

"The fuck we didn't." His voice growled getting louder as he moved closer to me.

"The one time I tried you started and stopped. You only wanted me when you could control me."

"Do not back talk to me Ana."

"Oh fuck you Jose, show yourself..."

Suddenly out of the shadows he appeared, his green eyes stared at me with loathing, "I said do not back talk me."

"And I said fuck you! You do not control me anymore."

"You think your new owner will protect you from me?"

"First of all Christian is not my Dom and yes he will."

"He is a Dom, once a Dom always one. You wait and see."

"FUCK YOU!" In a brave moment I swung my fist at his face but he dodged the blow.

Then he grabbed my arm pushing me against the wall. "Ana you hit me and I will hit you back remember that."

His hands started to slide over my breasts as I started screaming. "DO NOT TOUCH ME!"

"ANA!" I turn my head as I hear Christian's voice calling my name over and over getting louder as I thrash against Jose's hold on me. "Ana damn it, wake up baby."

I blinked my eyes open and looked up into Christian's face. "Christian?" I looked around confused, "where am I?"

"You are with me and safe baby. Remember we are on the boat?"

"Oh yes." I grinned at him as I remembered where we were and pulled him down to me. "I remember now, it is just you and me." Running my hands over his chest I whispered to him, "I dreamed that Jose was asking me about you."

"What else happened? You were shouting for a while there." He pushed the sweaty hair off my hair as he listened to me.

"He was giving me shit about you and said something about you being my new owner."

"I do not now or ever will I own you Ana. We are equals."

"I know and I shouted that at him then I tried to hit him."

"That is when you woke me up then your arm moved and you nearly hit me." He laughed then kissed me.

After kissing him back I laughed, "Oh damn sorry baby."

"Is that all that happened?"

My eyes darkened as I swallowed hard, "No he came at me that is when you woke me up."

"Oh Ana, when will you see that you are safe now?" He kissed me hard pulling me near. "Feel me, touch me and know that I will protect you with my own life if needed. He will never get near you again, that I promise you Ana."

In his arms my body quickly responded to his nearness and I silenced him with hard demanding kisses. "Show me again your love."

His answer was to kiss me back as he pushed me on my back. As we joined together as one again I heard his words, "You. Are. Mine." His breath came faster as he started to move harder and deeper into me. "Now and always Ana, I will love you and protect you with all that I am."

The combination of his words and his movements had me moaning as I let go completely. Shattered in his arms I cried out his name as he collapsed forward in my arms while he released deep inside me. Then in each other's arms we drifted back to sleep.

Hours later I woke up to find my body still tangled with his. Grinning widely I pulled my arms tighter around him. "Hey, don't squeeze."

"Oh no?" I laughed squeezing him harder.

"Ms. Steele, are you trying to start something?"

"Maybe Mr. Grey, I like starting things with you."

Just then my stomach rumbled making me laugh, "I heard that, you need to eat and we need to head back. You have an appointment remember?"

"Awww no, I want to start more things with you. Forget food."

"Ana stop; we have all the time in the world for that but if you almost hit me again in your sleep we will have problems." He kissed me but then gave me a stern look. "I want you to sleep peacefully in my arms without having to worry you might give me a black eye."

Giggling at that I nodded, "Fine let's get up. I am hungry."

Sitting up on deck we ate as the wind blew and the sun shone down on us. "I love this boat; being lost with you has been wonderful Mr. Grey."

"I agree. We should get lost again and often." Christian grinned at me as I noticed a little motorboat approaching and realized its Mac coming back.

"Is that why we needed to get up?"

"Did you want him to hear you screaming?"

"Oh um no." I laughed then finished eating as Christian helped Mac back onboard. This time I got to be at the wheel while they raised the sails. The sun and the wind as the boat sailed across the water made me grin. When Christian came up behind me I turned to kiss him. "You like being on the boat I see?" I nodded then kissed him again. "Hey no distracting the sailor Ms. Steele. You might get us lost at sea."

"I would be happy lost with you Mr. Grey."

"I know baby." His grin made me grin back. All too soon our ride ended and we were back at the marina. As he docked the boat Christian called out to me, "you ready to head off to see Flynn?"

"Yes I am. Then lunch?"

My answer was a big grin while he nodded at me. Our good mood continued as we drove to Dr. Flynn's office blasting music and trying to sing over each other.

As we pulled up to the office both of our cells started to go off. Christian studied his intently while I ignored mine. "WTF!" I heard him say.

"What is it?"

He handed me his cell and I saw picture after picture of me had been sent to him from an unknown number. I cringed; there were pictures that I had not seen before. Jack is in some of them and my blood ran cold as I started to cry.

"Ana, no baby do not cry. We will get back at them both. Here you head in to see Flynn; I want to start to deal with this."

"Okay." I sighed, I wanted him there with me but I just climbed out of the car slowly.

"Ana?"

"Yes?" I turned back to look at him.

"You are strong baby; you do not need me there to hold your hand. I will be in as soon as I can."

Inside the office I was quickly taken into the private room. Dr. Flynn walked in and first thing he noticed was Christian was missing, "Hello again Ana, I see you are alone today. Did you want to speak privately now?"

I shook my head, "No, but Christian is dealing with some issues."

"I see. You seem troubled by this. Is everything alright?"

"Long story short, my ex is continuing to try to black mail me. He sent some pictures that I did not know he took of me to Christian."

"Why don't you involve the police? That is something you could sue him over."

"Those pictures are not something I want the world or a courtroom full of others to see."

"I see, so Christian is handling that. Let us see how you are, any nightmares last night?"

"Yes but it was different than the others."

"Tell me how."

"In this dream it was just me and Jose, I stood up for myself and even tried to hit him but I missed."

"How did you feel in the dream about that?"

"It felt good to let him know that I was not going to just take his shit anymore but he still threatened me. He had a hold of me that was when Christian woke me up."

"Ana it sounds like you are still not resolved in your issues with your ex. What would you say to him if you could confront him?"

Leaning back on the couch I frowned, "I don't want to ever see or talk to him again."

"Yes Ana I know that but you have built up feelings that you need to release so for this exercise, let me be Jose. Tell me what you would if you could confront him."

"I will try." I closed my eyes and pictured Jose. Then I opened them trying to get it all out. "Jose, you never wanted to love me. I know that now, I wish I had never fucking met you. I let you have control of me because I had given up on myself. I thought that I didn't deserve love or I would never find it again. I sold my body, heart and soul to you because you were willing to take it." I stopped as the tears flooded down my face.

Flynn stared at me then nodded, "Anything else?"

"YES! I want you to leave me alone, I do deserve to be happy, I do deserve to be loved as I love and I do deserve to be left in peace. You are dead in my eyes so FUCK OFF!" I screamed out then collapsed back on the couch sobbing just as Christian walked in.

"Ana?" He rushed over to me then glared at Flynn. "What are you doing to her? Ana baby I heard your screaming in the lobby."

"Just an exercise Christian." Dr. Flynn wrote some notes then looked up at me as I sobbed in Christian's arms. "Ana, did that feel good? To finally get it out?"

"Yes and no." I sighed holding onto Christian. "I just don't want to even see him again."

Christian stiffened at that making me look at him, "Christian?"

"He wants to see you."

"WHAT?" I pushed at him but he held me tightly. I forget that Dr. Flynn was in the room as I started to rage.

"I do not give a fuck what he wants. WAIT! Did you talk to him?"

Without a word Christian handed me his cell phone so I can read the messages. I heard a door close and realized that we were now alone as I paged through the messages. It started with one from Christian back to the unknown number. "To whoever sent these to me, you should know that I plan to trace this and you will be found. The pictures will be handed over and destroyed."

"Why would I give them up?"

"You violated her privacy taking those. You will hand them over."

"Grey you do not order me."

"It appears that I am. You will hand them over one way or another."

"So do you enjoy my sloppy seconds?"

"I will not talk about her to you."

"Yet you are fighting her battles for her."

"You brought me into this when you sent those pictures to me. Either tell me what you want to destroy them or this conversation ends now."

"I want her, today at my place. Alone."

"Not acceptable."

"Then the pictures will be all over the internet in a matter of hours."

"You know that I will never let her come to you alone. Try again."

"I am not bargaining with you Grey. Talk to her, by 5:00 I want her on my doorstep alone."

I screamed out then looked up at Christian. "Why is he doing this?"

"I don't know baby but I won't let you go to him."

"I have to, what choice do we have?"

"Give me permission to just take care of him."

"NO! I don't want you to do that, not yet."

A door opened and Dr. Flynn peeked in at us. Christian waved him in and then as I stared off in to space I racked my brain for an answer to this. "Ana I think that is enough for the day, I will let you and Christian tell me when you want to come back and Ana I am available day or night."

"Thank you Dr. Flynn." I nodded to him as Christian whisked me back out to his car.

As he drove I just sat in stunned silence with my mind racing. Why did Jose want to see me again? Those fucking pictures, maybe I should just let him go through with posting them. The thought of being alone with him again had me scared to death.

"Ana?"

I turned from the window to gaze over at Christian, "Yes?"

"Are you alright? I feel like..." His voice stopped and I saw his jaw tighten.

"You feel like what?"

"We were so close this morning and right up till this, now I feel like I have already lost you."

His voice sounded broken and I started to cry again. "No no no! You have not lost me. I just don't want you in my mess. I should have stayed gone."

Pulling over the car Christian parked then turned to me. "You coming back to me was the best thing that could have happened. Ana you are not alone anymore. Please do not shut me out. Let me help you, the worst thing he can do is post those pictures online. Then we will get the site shut down."

"You can do that?"

"Yes, I have people watching the internet. If anything comes up with your name or mine attached it will be downed immediately."

"But maybe I should go to see him."

"No way, you trust him? I don't, not with you. He hurt you when he claimed to love you; god only knows what he would do now."

"He only hurt me in the playroom. Isn't that part of the whole thing?"

"FUCK NO!" Christian's eyes went wild, "It should never go to that. He didn't respect you, your safe word or your hard limits. NO WAY!"

"Stop, we cannot fight between us." I shake my head and sigh. "This is what he wants."

"We can argue but I will not have you upset over him anymore. Come on let's have lunch.

Lunch was a quiet time as we just sat talking about anything else. I wished with all my heart that we could just run away from it all and go somewhere no one knew us. How long would it go on? When would I finally be free?

As we walked back towards the car his cell went off and he motioned for me to be quiet. I looked around and motioned back to him that I was going to a store to give him space. Wandering aimlessly through the aisles I turned as I heard my name.

"Ana, you are alive I see?"

It was a female voice that I recognized. I turned to see Elena standing in front of me. "Fuck me." I muttered under my breath. Behind her I saw another familiar face, Jack. Fuck fuck fuck my brain started to swear loudly at me to get out of there but I could not move.

"So alone?"

"What do you want Elena? We are not friends."

Jack sauntered over and gave me a look that made my skin crawl as his eyes roamed up and down my body. I felt naked in front of him again but this time I was not tied down. I glared back at him.

"Ana, we have a special bond. We have both fucked Christian Grey. That is an exclusive club."

"Go to hell Elena and Jack fuck off."

"You going to let me this time?" Jack moved towards me as I shook my head in disgust.

"Hell no, come any closer and I will start screaming."

Elena laughed and moved to the side so Jack had a straight walk over to me. "Bitch." I spat at her and then got out my cell trying to text Christian as Jack advanced on me.

"Come quietly little one, you can save your screams for later. I like when you fight me."

"I said fuck off." I stepped back hitting send on a message to Christian as I bumped into a rack of clothes behind me.

"Fuck off is in invitation. You come here and I will gladly fuck you."

"No you won't." I shoved him back and scrambled past him running into Elena.

"Watch it bitch." I heard her hiss at me.

"Watch this." I shoved Elena as hard as I could then felt Jack grab me. I kicked him hard in the knee and ran towards the door. Elena was leaning against a rack of clothes but Jack was hot on my heels.

"Jack, go away." I screamed back at him as I ran out of the door but he was quicker than I was.

Slamming me into the wall of the store Jack grinned coldly at me. "Damn Ana, you are one feisty little bitch." Running one hand over my face he suddenly clutched my throat. "I can see why Jose wants to keep you. The fight in you is something else."

"Jack please."

"Now you want to beg, after you piss me off. Sorry that won't work now Ana."

"Then this will." I heard Christian say as he tore Jose off me.

With a single punch to Jack's jaw Christian downed him but Jack jumped right back up grabbing me. He kissed me hard while I gagged. "Ewww fuck you." I screamed at him then quickly bit his lip as hard as I could.

He slapped my face hard making me fall back against the wall hard while Christian went at him again. Like a crazed animal Christian hit Jack over and over again but Jack would not give up. The two of them went back and forth until finally Christian knocked Jack down on his knees. "Fuck you and your whore. She is not worth it." Jack hissed back at him.

"See that is where you are wrong." Christian glared down at him, "Ana is worth it all and more, that whore you were with...she is the worthless one. Tell me are you the one who knocked her up because I know it is not mine."

Jack just stared back at him without speaking. As I pulled myself back up to standing I noticed a group gathering watching them fight. I ran over to Christian trying to pull him towards the car only to see Elena standing there. With no more patience left I balled up my fist and just as my father taught me I let my fist connect with her jaw then pushed her aside climbing into the car. Christian hopped in quickly and we drove off in silence.