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Christian lays his jacket around my shoulders for I am only wearing a thin vest, since it had been sunny in the morning.

"I'll bring you to your car!" he offers me and places his arm around my waist.

"How are you?" Christian asks me seriously as we stroll to my car.

"Quite good, thank you. Tommy and Andy keep me fit. How are you?" I ask curiously.

"I'm also fine and continue in the same style as before: Buying and selling companies. But I'm more restrained than before if it's about dismissing employees – I've had some bad experience with it," he chuckles. A wave of remorse hits me.

"I really hope I didn't hurt you too much?" I stop in my tracks, full of remorse, but he laughs it off.

"No, it takes more than that to do me any harm" he assures me. I remember his nightmare and it pains me for him.

We get to my car and I unlock the door. I turn around and my heart melts looking at him, seeing how lost and vulnerable he appears. I remember his scars and I can only imagine what he went through as a young boy. I really want to wrap him in bubble wrap and never let go off him. Enclose him in my home and shower him with love and affection. Tie him to my bed and take delight the whole day that he belongs to me. But this will never happen and I should hurry and put my dreams aside. He already made his decision and I have to support him.

A black SUV brutally rips me out of my daydream as it suddenly stops beside us. The blonde goddess gets out of it and I directly move a step back and tense up out of fear.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE?" she screams. Christian rolls his eyes and contorts his face.
"I was invited to this event and therefore attended it!" Christian replies irritated. The situation becomes more and more uncomfortable to me as I neither want to be the reason for this fight nor its witness.
"Get into the car, Christian! I need to talk to you about the meeting with Mr. Clarkson which you ditched for this useless shit!" she scolds angrily while holding open the door. Christian visibly struggles to retain his composure before he grabs his fiancee's wrists to pull her into the car, hissing something I cannot understand to her in the car. I shift from one foot to the other and remove Christian's jacket from my shoulders just as he closes the car-door forcefully and slowly breathes out.

"Please excuse this scene. It seems like Elena is in her menopause and not quite herself!" he says and looks at the car looking mad.
"She is right! You shouldn't have canceled an important meeting to go bowling!" I answer and hand him his jacket.
"What I do with my time is my decision!" he defends himself.
"No, it isn't. You should also take her opinion into account as you intend to enter into matrimony with her!" I say.
"And now marriage is sacred to you?" he asks me challengingly. I bite my lower lip to keep my tears at bay and look down at my shoes to collect myself.
"Shit! Ana, I..." he begins but I raise my hand to interrupt him as I want to say goodbye like a grown-up woman would do.
"I wish you all the very best for your future, Christian! And don't bite off her head; I'm sure she only wants the very best for you," I say and offer him my hand.

"I don't want you to leave!" he says and grabs my hand tightly as if he is scared of losing me.

"We don't always get what we want. If fate wants us to then our paths will cross again. If you want to you can invite me to your wedding – but only if the food is great, the alcohol plentiful and some great single men attend as well." I try to giggle even though I want to cry. "But until then it's time to say good-bye and promise me you'll be happy, ok?" I say and kiss his cheek before I get into my car.

I drive away and when I look in the rearview-mirror I can see Christian standing in the middle of the street looking after me with a sad face. With each meter I get between us it gets harder for me to breath. After some meters I start crying and drive home, knowing I did the right thing.

Well, I fell asleep during answering your reviews and now I'm a bit late - SORRY! So I think I will post this and today's chapter in one go ;)

I hope we agree that it's not an option, how Ana and Christian part? ;) Well, then let's do something, that their path will cross again, ok?

Guest who knows the movie title - Yeah, I knew it would be a recognizable quote ;D

hateme101 - Yes, Ana is happy too to have somebody defending her ;)

joan . goldman . 9, Christian618 - Well, here it is ;D

bonnetta - Thank you for your review!

Christian618 - Well, they weren't alone for very long ...

mya4snape - He won't put up with Elena for very much longer ...

sweetsub75 - They're not going dancing now, but there will be a dance scene in a later chapter, which happened to be my favorite chapter in the second part ;D. But yeah, it was Dirty Dancing OF COURSEEEE! ;D

ralieghbug10 - Yup, obviously you saw the movie too ;D

Guest who spent so much time in the classroom - Thank you for your review!

ashley . mercer . 16 - No and no, but let's see what will happen ;)

Guest who loves the white knight - Thank you for your review! It won't be mentioned what Ray will get, but you will definitely be able to interpret something ;)

Guest who misses a line from the movie - No, this line won't be in my story, because that would only make sense, if Christian would have been mean to Taylor before. But yeah, I loved that part too!

Pielietje - Yes, now they have talked a bit ... but don't worry, veeeery soon, they'll talk again ;)

SdaisyS - Well, welcome back ;D Thank you for your review and as you see, he hasn't told Elena.

malugargula - I know I'm a bit late, sorry ;D