Chapter 21

Anna POV

We chat for a long time. I told him all about me. He told me about his past and the hard times he went through. My heart broke for him. My anger was at its peak when he told me about the troll lady that seduced him at 15. I can't wait for when I get my hands on her. She needs to burn in hell. He still has not mentioned her name but I wont push my luck. I accepted the fact that he was once a Dom. A person past is there past. And at this point in my life my past is not the prettiest either. You could see the relief in his entire body when I just smiled at him.

"So you don't hate me baby?" He asked me. "Never Christian. I could never hate you." "Our past choices do not dictate who we will choose to be in the future."

With tears in my eyes I say, "I love you Christian Grey, with all of my heart and I am never going to leave you ever again. That is a promise."

He has tears in his eyes when he says, "I love you to Anastasia Steele, and I promise you I will never let you leave ever again. But please don't hurt yourself like this again" And we just lay in each other's arms peacefully no secrets hanging over our heads anymore. And drift off to sleep.

Elliot POV

Wow never in a million years would I have believed that background check was true. If it had not come from Taylor himself, I would have never believed it. Fuck so her name is Anastasia Rose Steele and by now she will be 21 years old. I knew some of the stuff in there like. She has her Fucking Pilots license to fly choppers and Jets. My brother has finally met his match. She also got her skippers license while been with that fucker Mike Paul but might have to redo it under her real name. She speaks 11 languages. She has taught us Spanish and French she is a great teacher.

We agreed while on the island that when she speaks Spanish to us it is because she doesn't want the others to hear and understand us. I chose Spanish because Christian knows French.

The things I didn't know are. She is a weapons specialist that explains a shit load about how much she has done to upgrade our security systems and weapons on the island. But her Employment details are classified and she doesn't know why.

She dropped me out cold for 2 hours with her stun glove she invented. I was numb for 2 days after that. Never again will I volunteer to test one of her toys. They still tease me about that day but I don't find it very funny.

We have become best friends. I can't live without her in my life. We chat about everything. She really understands me. I'm so excited that even tough our marriage is not real she will still be in my family. We still were out rings as a reminder of our bond as friends.

My brother and her are truly in love you can just feel it. I can see my little brother taking her down the aisle in the biggest wedding in Seattle. And by the looks of things it's going to be sooner rather than later. You just wait and see when she is free, she is going to spread her wings and really fly.

Anna POV

I'm woken up at 2 am again by a bad dream. So I get up and leave the room just as Elliot is coming out of his.

"What are you doing up this early El?" I ask.

"You had a bad dream so I was coming to find you." Elliot says.

"How the heck did you know that?

He points to our rings and says,

"Connected for life baby".

And we just hold onto each other for comfort for a while.

"El, I'm to sore to hit the gym but I can't go back to sleep."

" I know. I am sore to. Lets go find your secret room that my brother made for you."

"Yes that's a good idea El."

"Our bodies can't take any more punishment." I state.

I grab my bags that our security brought over from Elliot's house, the ones with all my gadgets in and we walk together looking for the room. At the back of the passage just past Taylor's security office, on the second floor we found it because it's the only wall in the house with a hand scanner on it.

"Shit El, we need Christian's hand print to open it. Now what?"

Elliot tries his hand and it says Access denied. We both burst out laughing because that was Christian's CEO voice coming through the speaker, it sounded so sexy. Elliot said my hand would work because he knew his brothers abilities to get information and if he made this room for me it was set up for me to use immediately. I put my palm up to the scanner and looked at Elliot and he nodded. So I set my hand on the scanner and it scanned my hand a few times then Christian's CEO voice said, Access granted and the wall slid away.

We both stepped inside and the door closed behind us. The entire room lit up with thousands of Led lights on the roof and Square light panels on the floor we were completely blown away. This room was huge and looked like something from the Iron man movie. Half the walls were covered with glass cases to showcase inventions. The other walls had all the tools a girl could ever dream of. There were immaculate tables to work on. My hands were already getting itchy to work. I had just found my new cure to help me fight my cravings.

Elliot went over to the lazy boy chair and reclined himself with a blanket. So I set my bags on the floor and decided to join him to finally have the chat.

"Elliot I need to speak to you?" It's now or never or I am going to chicken out.

"What's up baby? What is bothering you?" Ok butterfly is scaring me what could be the problem?

"First promise me you will let me say my piece, then you can talk after. But you are not allowed to interrupt me." Shit this must be bad now what do I do I could avoid it till I have backup or I could just agree.

"Ok but you are scaring me. What's up? Spill, I am listening."

Anna - "I am thinking of moving out of the penthouse and finding a place on my own. The other option was to maybe going back with my family to South Africa. I feel I have caused your family too much hurt and pain already and it is not fair on you'll. I already kept you an extra 6 months from your family. I just need to start again without messing up the lives of those around me, that I love. I can't look after me anymore its too much. Everything is wrong. I need you'll safe and the only way to have you and Christian safe is for me to disappear. If I am not around Mr Paul wont come after you'll." The tears are rolling down my face and I can't stop them.

Elliot is looking at me with a loss for words. And then he started screaming at me I could see the hurt and pain on his face. I have never seen him this angry before.

Elliot - "Bullshit Butterfly. You are not moving out of this fucking penthouse. I will not have you leaving the fucking country either those are not ever option EVER. Over my fucking dead body will I allow you to fucking leave us? Never. What fucking bullshit. You are my fucking family and family looks after each other. They don't turn their backs when things get tough. You did not keep me from my family for 6 months I chose to look after you and that was the best decision I have ever made in my entire life. Finding you changed my life for the best I will never trade you in for the world Butterfly. It was my fucking choice to stay longer. Christian and I are big boys we do not need you to keep us safe. I am so pissed at you for actually thinking about all this fucking crap. Shit butterfly what the fuck. How could you think like that? Do you fucking know what it will do to my baby brother and me if you leave us? Do you fucking know? We will never survive butterfly it will break us completely."

Fuck I can't take any more of this if I don't leave now I am going to say things that I can't take back and Butterfly will be hurt by them. So I get up and walk out to go to my bedroom leaving her sitting there completely shattered.