Christian
I have just finished brief my security and I know Ana has entered the room even though my back is to the door. These fuckers are all staring behind me with there moths hanging open. I spin around and fuck me. She is absolutely mouth watering.
"Taylor get them the fuck out of here." I all but growl at him. I hear him laugh at me but dismiss the men. Fuck. I walk up to her and I can feel my heart is racing.
"Fuck Ana. You look amazing." She instantly blushes for me. I rotate my finger in the air asking her to turn and Oh holly fucking hell. If I die tonight I am going to die a fucking happy man.
"Ana there is no fucking back to this dress. And that slit is very high." I say and she smiles.
"Do you like it baby?" She asks me seductively and my whole body tightens.
"I love it but I am going to have to keep you by my side the whole night."
"Don't you dare go all caveman on me Christian Grey." She says making me smile.
"Ana I wanted to apologies to you about the gift I left for you. I did not know until Alex told me. I am so sorry if I made you sad."
"Christian don't? They were beautiful. You cant apologies for doing something nice for me and besides I didn't tell you about my ankle. I am sorry I put you in that situation." I peak down to Ana's feet to see what she is wearing with this sexy dress and fuck me.
"Ana those shoes make you look fucking sexy. I have plans for those silk ribbons later tonight." This gets me another blush and she looks so cute.
"I can't wait baby, but if we don't leave now we are going to be late." We leave for my parents place and I can tell Ana is nervous so I decide to rather distract her.
Ana
I have no idea why I am so nervous about tonight. Security has been tripled and I have Christian on my arm.
"Baby what's with all the nerves?"
"I'm ok. I was just thinking."
"By the way how did it go with Kate today?" Oh boy Kate. I appreciate him changing the subject but this is not a welcome change.
"We worked things out sort of. She is going to be my maid of honor in the wedding."
"That's good. Did she say what all the drama was about?" Now how do you tell your overprotective fiancé that her best friend is jealous of her and she does not like the love of her life but loves his brother?
"Well it was just a case of her feeling left out and she also felt I get to much of the Grey brothers attention. She kind of just flipped when she saw the picture of Elliot kissing me even if it wasn't as it seems."
"Well that is ridiculous and very childish of her. If she wasn't so stuck up and crabby all the fucking time we might have a completely different relationship. Anyway I am happy you two have sorted things out this way Elliot is not in a awkward situation."
"That's what I said to her to. I told her to stop trying to make Elliot choose between you and her because I can promise you she will be in the loosing corner. She kind of did not take that the right way and it almost caused another fight. But in the end she saw my point."
"I will not put up with her trying to come between my brother and me and I am going to talk to him about it. Enough of Kate this evening let's go have a good time baby." We exit the car and I am surprised at the attention Christian gets. Even with his mask everyone knows who he is. While we are escorted to the main tent the flashes just keep going off all around us. I cling on to Christian's arm and let him lead me.
"Smile baby I got you." This makes me relax and I enjoy the moment. We are ushered to our seats were the rest of the family are all seated already. I notice I have Christian on my left and Elliot on my right with Kate next to Elliot. Then its Alex and Mia and Grace and Carrick the other two people are none other than Elena and her sub Jody. Who is conveniently sitting on Christian's left? He is only 16 but looks to be in his twenties.
"Christian darling it's so nice to see you again and I see you have a plus one with you?" Of course she knows he wont react in front of his mom and dad.
"Hello Elena yes this is my soon to be bride Anastasia."
"Anastasia its good to see you again."
"Hello Elena. Hello Jody. How are you doing?" I lean over and shake his hand and I can see the surprise on his face because I know his name. He politely greets me and I can't help but decide to get on Elena's nerves. The conversation is flowing around the table till Elena voices her concerns yet again.
"Why the hell have we got sparkling grape juice on our table instead of wine?" She asks nobody in particular. Grace looks at me with a smile and I know why she has done this and now I feel bad. I lower my head as Kate pipes in and agrees with Elena and they are making a scene.
"Elena and Kate that is quit enough. I will have none of that. I asked the caterers to not have alcohol on our table tonight. If that is a problem for either you, you'll are most welcome to move to a different table." I am grateful Grace didn't say it was because of me.
"No need Grace it's perfectly ok. I will just order from the bar." Kate says and looks at me. She knows why Grace has done this and now it's my fault again.
"Kate if you did not hear me properly we would appreciate it if nobody at this table consumes alcohol tonight. I have done this for personal reasons and would like it if everyone respects that." Kate mumbles something about princess Ana under her breath and I caught it and noticed Elliot giving her a piece of his mind as he heard it to. This causes issues and she storms off to the bathrooms.
"Christian excuse me, I need to go after her."
"Baby please keep Luke close by?"
"Ok Love you." He gives me a kiss and all the men at the table stand as I leave. Such manners. I find Kate standing correcting her makeup in the bathroom.
"Kate what the hell was that?"
"This was done for you. Everyone needs to bend over backward to please you."
"No, that's not it. I have been having a very bad week. I was harassed trying to buy a dress. Then on my way home I was run over and landed in hospital. My back is so badly bruised I had to go to a salon this morning to have them air brush the marks away. While I was out I met up with some very unfortunate people and had a confrontation with them. I was so stressed out I thought I was going to break. Grace called me at that time and I went to lunch with her but I was feeling so down. By mistake she spilled her glass of wine all over me and I flipped. All the bad memories of what HE had done to me came crashing back and I bolted. I managed to get into the lift and I stripped off my dress to get that smell away from me. I was totally out of control. Luckily for me Luke gave me his shirt to wear and that's how I went home. So when Christian told Grace why I bolted she was feeling so bad she decided to take all the alcohol off the table. So nobody is bending to what I want. I did not ask for any of this. Grace is doing it because she cares for me and I can promise you if it was you she would do the same thing." I take a deep breath to calm myself and realize she has tears on her eyelashes.
"Ana I did not know you have been having such a hard time. I am so sorry. Please forgive me."
"Kate I will forgive you if you promise to enjoy this evening and have fun with me please." I ask hopefully and the smile on her face is brilliant.
"I promise. Come lets go back to our men." We walk back and oh hell no. They are going to be serving the meals and I notice a few of the waiters as being Christian's subs.
"Kate I need to talk to Luke. I will meet you at the table."
"Ok Ana." When Kate is gone Luke comes up to me.
"Ana is everything ok?"
"I am not sure come with me I want to see something." He follows me to the caterers tent and I scan the room.
"Ana what is it?" Just as I thought. I remember Christian telling me Elena is in charge of the event so she has done this on purpose.
"No I am ok. Lets go back to the table." I need to warn Christian on what is going on before something happens. We get back to the table and Christian, Elliot and Alex are all gone. I will have to wait for him to come back. Just then they start to serve our meal. I decide to swop places with Christian and Elena is not impressed with my plan.
"And what do you think you are doing little girl?"
"Hi Elena. I just thought Christian would like to chat with his brother instead of leaning over me. I don't mind."
"Well I do."
"Oh that's to bad. I did see your little friends in the catering tent by the way." I can tell by the guilty look on her face she knows what I am talking about but she just smiles at me. Of course there is not a thing I can do without proof.
"They were desperate for the money. You know how hard it can be without work or someone rich to support you?" What is she getting at? I probably have more money than her but I wont say a thing. She can think what she wants.
Then my mind starts working overtime and all my training kicks in. What if they try to poison my food? What if all the food is poisoned? Is this why she is angry that I swopped places with Christian. Am I the target? No, I am over reacting. But now I have planted doubt in my mind and it's going to worry me the whole night. I have just lost my appetite completely.