Chapter 23:
I wake up to find Christian not in bed next to me. Confused, I get up and wander down the hallway where I hear him screaming at someone down the phone. "I fucking told you to keep an eye on her!...Well you obviously didn't because she wouldn't have been attacked by some woman!...You know, I don't have fucking time for this I pay you to do your job and your job was to follow her and make sure she was ok." At this moment I push the door open and glare at him with my hands on my hips. He looks at me wide eyed and hangs up without saying goodbye.

"You hired someone to follow me?" I say, walking forwards. He straightens, looking slightly frightened.

"Ana I didn't want anything to happen to you."

"So you thought you'd go behind my back and get some guy to stalk me? Do you really not trust me?" I take a step forwards and he takes a step back.

"Of course I trust you Ana, I just wanted you to be safe, being with me isn't going to be easy-"

"-So what? You thought you were just going to let me figure that out myself? Just let a stranger follow me around making sure I'm not doing something "fucking stupid" like when I went to see Morton huh? Did you have someone following me then?" He looks down. "Oh my god. You did didn't you? Christian that is unacceptable!" He looks at me irritated.

"I did it for your own good Ana. You have no sense of responsibility." He frowns at me and I know he isn't pleased.

"What the fuck? You have no right to say that Christian. God, it's just the same argument over and over again. You're a fucking control freak!"

"That's not fair Ana. And FYI, you don't have the best track record for looking after yourself, so I think what I did was necessary." I scoff.

"Oh you do, do you? You can't decide that for me Christian. It's like a broken record with you. You don't own me. You can't decide what I can or cannot be trusted with and I think you think that you have complete control over me, which you don't." I can feel myself getting angrier and angrier. "Actually, just to show you how much control I have of my own life I think I'll leave now." Suddenly his face turns from angry to terrified.

"What?" He says, like he's been hurt. I just look at him, still too angry to care about his response.

"I said I think I'll leave now." I got to walk out the door but he grabs my hand and pulls me into his chest, then he pushes me up against the door and holds my face in both hands, with his forehead leaning against mine. We're both breathing heavily from these small movements and touches. He looks into my eyes with such sorrow that I can't help my eyes filling with tears.

"Ana." With one word I know what he's trying to say. If I leave now, he'll be broken. I would never leave him anyway, it was an empty threat. I love him and I couldn't bare to lose him. I just nod and his mouth takes mine, our kiss is filled with passion and love. He picks me up and walks over to his desk, then he clears it of all the paperwork. He puts me down in front of it and slides his lips across my jaw and down to my neck, licking and sucking so hard that I know it'll leave a mark. He steps back, and I can feel the slight tingle that he left with his mouth. I look up at him through my eyelashes and gaze into his darkened eyes, there's so much list radiating off us I feel dizzy. I bite my lip and he lunges forward with a growl, pinning me to the desk with such force that I moan with just the wait of his body on mine, just as I undo his jeans he moans "I love you." In my ear and I pull him closer to me.

I smooth out my dress and look at myself in the mirror. I've got my hair up Ariana Grande style with it curled and a half up half down thing going on. I've got natural makeup on and a lacy white summer dress to top it all off. I've just got on some white wedges that are surprisingly comfortable and easy to walk in so it's all good. I walk downstairs to Christian and clear my throat. He turns, he's wearing light tan pants with a white shirt on, the sleeves are rolled up so that he looks more casual. Our colours are matching and we'll look so cute. He smiles as his eyes travel down my body. "Ana you are the most beautiful woman I've ever-"

"-Yeah, yeah, yeah. Save it for the family Grey." He laughs and I kiss him. He tucks a loose strand of hair behind my ear and smiles.

"I'm sorry Ana." He says sincerely.

"It's ok Christian. But I'm am adult, I can make my own decisions. If you wanted me to have a CPO I would have said yes, but you need to run things by me before deciding what happened around me." He raises his eyebrows.

"You'll have a CPO?" I smirk at him.

"Are you asking?" He leans down and kisses me.

"Thank you Ana. I only want what's best for you. You're my girl." I smile and kiss him.

"I know baby. Now let's go, we don't want to be late." He takes my hand and soon we're the car going back to Bellevue to meet more of his family.

When we pull up I immediately hear lots of voices coming from the back of the house and instead of going to the front door Christian takes me round the side and opens a little gate, we walk through a small rose garden that has a bench with an arch covered in a pink rose vine and just when I don't think this house can get any better the garden opens up into a huge field like area with beautifully cut grass, there is a pool over to the left with a huge balcony by it and a small marquee where there is a long dining table, there's also a building way down the bottom of the garden that looks like a boathouse. Jesus if they have a boat or something that's just the icing on the cake. To the right try have a water fountain and what looks like a pond, a sort of wildlife area if you will. "I can't believe you grew up here Christian. I also can't believe you moved out! This place is amazing!"

"Thank you dear." I turn and see Grace walking towards us. She pulls me into a hug and smiles at me. "You look absolutely gorgeous Ana. It's so nice to see you again."

"You too. You look beautiful Grace." She's wearing a long mint green dress with a mint green belt around her waist, showing off her figure but in a flattering and elegant way. She smiles sweetly at me.

"Oh sweetheart bless you. No one calls me beautiful anymore apart from my husband. And he has to say it, I pay for half the house." We both laugh and she takes my hand, linking my arm with hers. Christian follows next to me as we approach a gathering of people. "Everyone I'd like you all to meet the stunning Anastasia, Christian's girlfriend." There are a few gasps and I see one blonde haired woman in particular glaring at me, she remiss me of someone but I can't put my finger on it. Christian loops his arm around my waist while people come up to us. We get questions like, "Where did you two meet?" Or "How long have you known each other?" And "Is it serious?" Then finally the woman I recognises comes up to me. Christina had walk off to get me a drink so I was effectively by myself and devoid of any defence should I need some.

"Hello, Amy, is it?" She shows me her hand and I immediately know who she reminds me of. Elena Lincoln. She's even got the "I'm going to pretend I don't know your name to show you how insignificant you are to me." Is she her daughter or something? I take her hand and shake it firmly, which takes her by surprise.

"Actually it's Ana. But don't worry you have a lot of hair it's probably hard for you to hear. It's good job, no one would ever know." She looks at me with a raised eyebrow.

"Know what?" I smile sweetly at her.

"That it's all fake." She coughs and looks at me disgusted. "Anyway, I should go and see where Christian is. I'm sorry I completely forgot to ask what your name was?"

"Lily Lincoln." She says, like she's the queen.

"Well it was nice meeting you Lola." I say, deliberately getting her name wrong. I walk off with a smug look on my face knowing she's probably giving me a bitchy glare.

A/N - Hi guys! I don't know when I'll be able to write again this week because I'm on holiday until Monday but I'll try and get another chapter up tonight before I leave. Sorry that it took so long today I woke up and had an impulse to die my hair blue. So now I'm a smurf :) hope you enjoy this chapter and please keep commenting!

Sophie x