Christian POV

"Actually by company policy, her leave is paid. This wonderful woman sitting next to me has carried your grandchild for the past nine months and is on maternity in order to take care of him." I fume out.

Okay, that's not how I though that would come out but I couldn't just sit here while he tried to berate her. Ana seems shaken by my outburst, my dad is absolutely pale, and my mother has tears running down her face. I don't know what to make of any of their reactions.

Ana grabs her purse and I think she is about to leave until I see her pull out something. When she slides it across the table to my parents I see that it's Teddy's first picture without anything hooked up or attached to him, taken just a few days ago.

"His name is Theodore Raymond Grey." She says quietly after some silence. My mom then starts crying harder but my dad looks pissed.

for some time all you can hear is my dad taping his fingers and my mom sniffling.

"And before you get mad at Christian, he didn't know until just a few days ago after he was born." Ana rambles out.

Then there's absolute silence for a few minutes. I decide that this has been awkward enough so I stand up and hold my hand out for Ana to do the same. She hesitates at first but takes my hand and stands. My mother snaps out of whatever she was in and stands as well. My father, who was extremely insistent that we knew and understood our manners growing up, stays rooted in his seat. We move to the door with my mother following.

"We should get going." I announce.

"Of course dear, I'll walk you out." My mother offers while Carrick just stares after us.

"It was nice to meet you both. I hope you will be in Teddy's life." Ana says.

"Of course.. how are you both?"

"We're out of the woods. My scar is healing Hopefully he should be able to come home in a few days.. Thank you for saving us Dr. Trevelyan"

My mother surprises us both and pulls Anastasia in to a hug. "I'm glad I did and call me Grace dear."

Grace POV

"Carrick Alexander Grey." I raise my voice as soon as I see my son and this somewhat less mysterious woman pull off. I pinch the bridge of my nose and take a deep breath to calm myself.

He comes in to the hallway but wisely doesn't say anything. "What was that?" I ask.

"What?"

"Don't act coy with me. Why were you so rude to her?"

"Well, how was I supposed to act?"

"I don't know Carrick, but that wasn't the right way."

"I'm sorry Grace but I didn't have time to digest all of this as you seem to have had."

"What are you talking about?"

"You obviously knew. Nice to finally meet you. What is that supposed to mean? And worst of all you kept this from me."

"It really wasn't my intention. I didn't know that. I had my suspicions but all I knew was that she and our son were connected somehow. And the only reason I knew that was because she was at the hospital. I didn't want to say anything because I didn't really know anything."

"And we don't know anything about that woman. For all we know she could be using him and that bastard isn't even his."

I can not believe my ears. No, I can't believe my husband. Regardless of if his suspicions are true, he should never call a child such a horrible name. I don't even have a response for him. I just need to walk away.

Anastasia POV

"I am so sorry Ana." Christian says to me as soon as we are in the car. I look over to Jason and see he is painfully gripping the steering wheel. I wonder if he heard or if he just knows how this probably went.

"It's okay, Christian. It's not your fault."

"No, but he had no right to talk to you like that or ignore you. That was completely uncalled for. If he th-"

"SO.. how are we going to tell your siblings? When do they get back?" I say trying ti diffuse his anger. I remember him once telling me he wasn't that close to his family and I really don't want to be the one to give the final push for them to break apart.

He sighs. "Elliot will be back on Wednesday and Mia still has a month in her apprenticeship or whatever it's called."

"Do you think this is something you can like tell her over the phone?"

"No, I don't think that's the best idea. Knowing Mia, she will just hop on a plane here so I can just invite her. When do you want to do it?"

"I think the sooner the better. Can she be here next weekend?"

"Yeah, I can arrange that. Where do you want to do it? We could go out to eat or go to your place or Escala.." he says cautiously.

"Uh… I think it would be best if we did it at Escala. This is something that should be done in private and my place screams 'I have a baby'."

"Yeah, it does." He lightly chuckles but I can see he is deep in thought.

"Why don't we go see Teddy." I say placing my hand on his knee.

He places his hand over mine and gives me a small smile.

A/N: i wasn't going to post today but..

OMG!

This story reached over 100k views as of yesterday. I wish I could thank each and every one of you personally but I can't (and it would take away too long). THANK YOU! I just wanted to put a little something out to tide you over the weekend. But expect a nice long update next; hopefully within a week. Much love!

-Ari

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