Chapter18
We walk back to the patio table to have lunch and everyone is there. Taylor, Luke, Alex, Carrick, Elliot, Grace, Christian and I.
"So Elliot and Anna what happened to you to? Were you'll in a car accident?" His mother asks us.
"No Mom my wife and I were sparing on the mat in our home gym this morning."
"What the hell Elliot?" You beat up you wife?"
The look on Christian's face is pure rage I had to grip his hand tighter. I shook my head no. And he realized and calmed down.
"No mom, it was not like that.
"But Elliot, you are crazy and so is your wife. What is wrong with you'll sides? You'll both are battling to sit up straight at the table." Did you'll go to the hospital to have it checked out?"
"Wow mom so many questions." Luckily Anna takes on the task of explaining this one. I sit there with a very proud grin on my face.
"Well I have to admit Grace, I am to blame for the whole thing. I asked Elliot to spar with me at 2am. Your son and I did get a bit carried away this morning in the gym.
"A bit", says Christian "you two fucking idiots are blue and black look at the amount of pain you'll are in?"
Christian you don't understand. I had a nightmare and I couldn't go back to bed because, when the nightmares are gone I am left vulnerable and weak and the cravings to use again are at there strongest. So Elliot would always take me to the gym to burn off some steam and to also exhaust me into sleep.
Mr and Mrs. Grey you'll have raised a wonderful, kind, generous man in Elliot, you'll, should be very proud of him. I owe him and Alex my life; they saved me. I would never be able to afford to pay them back. I am forever grateful to them. This morning we got a little too aggressive and one thing led to another and I landed him on his ass and then I forced him to tap out on the mat."
I said that last part with a little too much pride. And everyone noticed and started laughing.
"And I promise it will not happen again at least not until his ribs are healed at least. We both only have 4 bruised ribs. We did go to the hospital just before we got here. We got a check up and must go back in 6 weeks time."
Everyone around the table winced as if they were in pain. Not a single one of them were happy about that last part of my statement. And Elliot and I chuckled. Ok kids lets eat then you can tell us all about you holiday and your wedding, and all the drama in between. Christian gasped at the wedding part and I gripped his hand tighter. Then he said.
"Alex do me and Taylor a big favor and get us a copy of the CCTV in the gym from 2am this morning. I need to see my brother's ass getting whipped" and we all laughed again.
Elliot POV
Fuck this is some messed up shit. I would have never guessed that her Chris is my baby brother. All this time and I didn't even know. Now the love of her life is here. She is so emotionally spent, she passed out in his arms. He carried her to his childhood bedroom.
He is so good to her. You can see the strong love he has for her, he will never let anyone hurt her again. I have never seen my brother like this before and it is so good to see. We have waited a long time for my baby brother to find happiness and what better woman for him than my butterfly.
Our little lady deserves all the love in the world for what she went through. I am so happy for both of them. They both come back down to have lunch since we missed that part. They are holding hands. Each so scared that if they let go the other one will disappear. That's when the rest of the family put two and two together and they all gasp. I'm at a complete loss why.
Taylor POV
Wow Elliot, Alex and Anna have no idea what been going on for the past 2 years. They must have been all living under a rock. This day feels so unreal like we are going to wake up and its not real. I explained in detail what happened as far as we knew. From the moments on the ship to now when we walked in. I even showed them proof on Christians I-pad. They were all very shocked. Then Elliot tried to understand it the, Elliot way.
"Ok Christian let me get this straight." He says.
You got a fake passport and traveled on it to go on a cruise.
Butterfly done the same thing and went on the same cruise with you celebrating her 19 birthday.
You'll met once and it was love at first time
Non of you knew each other real name
You took her virginity and the very next day she was kidnapped
You pulled out every resource to look for her but after a year of not a single lead on the mainland you'll went back to Seattle and carried on the search from there.
You were so attached to her; you dedicated a room in your penthouse for her, for when she comes back.
Now you find out the woman who I have had for 6 months in my life, the woman I married is the same woman you have been looking for, for 2 years.
Wow this is defiantly something from the movies. Elliot says.
"Well Elliot I guess you can look at it like that, yes that is correct." Christian says and Butterfly just blushes.
Christian POV
Elliot and Alex took us through all the gory details of Anna's Trials. I was amazed at how strong she is. She sat there and talked about it too like it was just another day. I know it must affect her but she does not show it. It was very hard for me. Elliot told us how she always talked in he sleep about her soul mate who has Grey eyes, and how she loves him and one day she is going to find him. She blushed and hid into my neck.
That's when I lost it and broke down at the table. All this built up tension from the past 2 years just made me snap. I couldn't handle it anymore; it was all too much for me. She just held onto me tight till I composed myself. Just like the list Elliot made for our journeys he done the same for theirs. Elliot carried on by saying.
"Fuck bro what a cluster fuck of events I can't believe how everything is linked. Wow who would of thought? " Ok here are our events.
I decided it was time to come home so I went to the mainland for one last party.
Butterfly escaped her prison that same night and managed to hide out on my boat.
The next day we found her and took her in.
It took her 3 months to totally kick the drugs and heal from the beatings, but she was strong and done it
We got married so she could change her name and for us to get passports. She became Storm Sarah Grey wife of Elliot Grey and best friend.
She had lost all her memory of her life before the cruise so she couldn't even remember her real name.
6 months later the man who bought her at a slave auction for 12 million. Mr Mike Paul, found out where she was staying.
We made and emergency getaway luckily GEH jet was on standby for us at the airstrip.
Unlucky for us Christian's pilot was passed out on the floor from booze and drugs so we had no pilot. "Thanks bro."
The stress of being caught triggered some of Butterfly's memory and she took charge and flew the GEH jet home to Seattle. She looked so hot doing it to. They called her Pilot GreySteele. Doesn't that make your dick switch Christian?
"Fuck off Elliot," Christian and Anna shouted.
"Taylor get Welch on the phone and have an entire new crew replaced on the Jet. Thank you."
"Anastasia I cant believe you flew my Jet before me. I am so jealous. Is she a great flight?" Ha that's a joke Christian Grey jealous of me never would of guessed that one.
"She is fabulous I would take her out on the town anyway. She is so smooth," Shit I think we are straying off topic here calm down Grey you just got her back
And now here we all sit. That is one hell of a story. And this has been one hell of a day for us all .My phone pings notifying me of an email from Alex its the CCTV video footage of this morning in the gym, so we decide to wait till we get back to the penthouse to watch it all together.