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He turns around with a horrified expression on his face and stares at me like I just ate all his puppies. I gape furiously back at him and cross my arms. The rain eased a bit, but drenches my body badly.

„What did you say?", Christian asks desperately, while taking a few steps in my direction.

„What in heavens sake came over you, to act like a thirteen year old teenager, who was punished with the removal of his phone!", I hurl insults at him. He looks at me for a moment deep in thought, before he delivers a speech:

„You know, it was never my intention to fall so hard for you and that you mean so much for me!"

‚Oh my god! Did he just confess his love for me? I mean he as Christian Grey and not as Christian Steele, who thinks he has to say something like that, because he is married to me?' I think to myself and feel my anger ending in smoke and butterflies starting to flap their wings in my belly.

„But do you know what? It happened and that's the reason it hurts so much to let you go! So if that makes you happy, then I'll do that and …"

„You are one big pinhead!", I chip in because my patience snaps and I take the last few steps parting us towards him. „I possibly made some questionable decisions lately, but I'm not a bitch with no dignity, jumping from bed to bed. Jack gave me a necklace as an early Christmas gift and I thanked him, but of course you have to overreact once more and bandy blows, you jackass!", I scold him and put my fists on my hips demonstratively while trying to catch my breath. Christian looks at me stony-faced.

„Are you mad?", he asks me. ‚What the hell…?'

„Damn, YES!" I nod and mean mug him. He takes my scarf from my neck and wrinkles it up to a triangle, before he ties it around my neck like a cape.

„Now you're super mad!", he says and throws me for a loop. Suddenly I have to laugh lustily, so that I bend over and keep my mouth literally shut to not wake the neighborhood. Recovering from my laughing fit I straighten up, grab him by the scruff of his neck and pull him to me to kiss him. In the rain. What a cliché.

„Forgive me please!", he whispers in my ear while hugging me after our kiss.

„You should apologize to Jack!", I whisper my answer in his ear and he nods.

„I will, don't you worry! But now let us go home and take a really, really hot bath, yeah?", he says.

„You sure just want to stall the conversation, don't you? But you know we have to talk eventually?!", I tease him. „There are a few things, which I cannot accept in the future anymore."Christian thinks a moment.

„Once I heard something about compromises being very important in a relationship, so how about talking in the bath tub, until our skin turns wrinkly and crumples and I can marvel at the hot 80year old?", he asks and makes me smile. Once again.

In the next morning I sit with Christian in his private jet on our way home.

„So you are in no hurry, aren't you?", I ask him in all innocence, that I can muster up.

„When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible", he says to me, as if it would be the most normal thing in the world. Once again I look at my ring finger and can't believe that there is an engagement ring sparkling. I wanted a very, very modest ring with a very, very small diamond, but Christian convinced me of another model. It's a silver ring with three diamonds, because he wants to start a family not only with me, but with my boys too. And although the diamonds are not small, I wouldn't change the ring for anything in the world.

Christian lays his arm around me and I huddle up against him, while my fingers are playing with my new necklace absently and we both are looking out of the window.

„So the necklace was a Christmas gift?", he asks casually.

„Yes, isn't it beautiful?", I tease him. He nods and sighs.

„Now that Jack guy did set a standard, hasn't he? But I'm sure I'll better that!", he says confidently and makes me giggle. ‚Shit, Christmas is like just around the corner and I need a present for him' I think to myself.

„What can I possibly give you, ever, that you don't already have?", I ask him thoughtfully.

„A little girl."

OOOOONE ...

Well, officially, this is the end, right? So let's wait another day for the epilogue ;)

Westie80 - I think HE will get it ;D.

Pielietje - No, it's just a minor fight.

Christian618 - They belong together after all ;D.

malugargula - I don't think we could ever understand, what's going on in his head!

Guest - Thank you so much for your pathetic attempt to stop me from writing ... TWO CHAPTERS BEFORE THE END! HAHAHAHA lmao! Honestly: Did this ridiculous verbal diarrhea of yours stop just one other author from writing? Anyway, your review made me laugh really hard, so: THANK YOU!

Doc-sama, emi17 - Well, Ana definitely has to train him a little bit ;D

Katexoxoluv - Well, Tommy and Andy will appear in the epilogue ;)