One hour earlier
Ana POV
After texting Christian I quickly change into some running clothes. I see that the baby is asleep in his basinet and I rub his cute head. I couldn't imagine where this was headed when I got back here. I had graduated and I didn't see my future heading in this direction but I am happy about this though. I knew I would always be a good mom. Christian and I had always known that this is where it was going. The family, house and happiness are what we deserve.
I look down at Teddy and cannot think of him having the first few years of him life feeling unwanted. Christian started off this way too, the bad situation and uncaring mother aside, but I knew that he was special. Christian was with me at my weakest. In high school I was bullied and he was the sharp edge that everyone knew not to touch. We grew stronger the longer we were together. I also know when I am tired of the same walls. I need to stretch my legs for a bit and get some air.
I slowly push his basinet to the living area.
"Thank you Gail for watching him I just need to jog for a bit." I couldn't be more grateful that she offered to watch him for a little while.
"Oh no problem he is asleep. This is a babysitters dream" she chuckles, so true.
I see Luke is ready and we quickly get into a comfortable jog. Luke leads the way because he wants to make sure the route is safe and such. When we reach the mile we approach an intersection near the main road. Now it's really starting to rain and the sky darkens we make it a block north before it looks like the freaking start of a horror movie and thunder and lightning starts to make my chest shake.
I hear screeching and a car passes the median and is going too fast to stop. I feel Luke grab me and drive down. Too late or not far enough we are hit. The ditch like dip next to the road is where we end up.
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I think I black out and I turn to see the car speeding away from me. I try and turn but my entire side feels like it is going to fall off.
"Luke are you okay?" I shake his shoulder. His eyes flitter and he groans as he turns over and rises to his knees and finally makes it standing.
"Yeah I think so." He stands and quickly realizes he is injured worse than I am.
He crumbles like a sandcastle he groans and looks down angrily at his ankle. I take his arm over my shoulder and we limped him back to Escala and discover that the lights had gone out at the building. We make it into the building and the front desk security approaches us.
"Ma'am, what happened?" they ask as they help Luke into a chair.
"We got hit by a car. I am fine but we think he broke his ankle." I am admittedly lying to them. My body feels like it got hit by a car….AGAIN. Jesus what is the statistic of getting hit by a car a second time in your life?
"Well ma'am we always keep medical staff here just in case of emergencies." Wow Christian really is a paranoid.
"Can you take care of him here? Since when?" I say dreading the fact that I will have to walk up to the pent house.
"Mr. Grey wanted to have a physician on site for the young Mister Grey." AWWW now that just was a shot to my ovaries, he cares so much in his paranoia that he hired a doctor to be here twenty four seven. They slowly roll Luke to where I would assume is the doctor.
I head towards the stairs and trek my way to what feels like space. I thought I was fit until I had to look at that stairway. So now covered in mud and grass I have to climb mount Grey.
I pull out my phone just as I am about to take my first step and see that it is my dad.
"Hey dad whats up?" I walk out of the stair way and back into the main lobby and there he is with his duffle bag.
"Hey honey" he says into the phone loudly. We both hang up and hug and he hands me a bag filled with my guns.
"Thanks for this dad. I am sorry for this whole mess but it is really getting bad out there. You need to head back before anything bad happens." I didn't want him to know I was just hit by a car
"So true I don't want them closing the roads. I will also go get me something to eat too. Alright and give my grandson a kiss for me. I am going to skype you tomorrow and give him a hug too" I know he is so excited about Teddy. When I first told him about Teddy he was all excited and when he stopped by to visit him before we went to the Greys he cried. Now he is normally a well put together guy but I know he felt the tie between us all.
Now Ray may not be my birth dad but I know he sees that being blood related means nothing. Teddy is proof of that to me. I walk away from him and start my trek again.
"Have a good climb!" my dad yells as me and laughs
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Christian POV
My head is pounding as I try to adjust my eyes to the dim light. A groggy sense of doom kicks in as I remember the image before I hit the floor. Gail tied up, the basinet sitting right next to her and then the horror of Taylor's body hitting the floor next to me. In a rush I try to get my bearings and turn my heavy head and see that I am in line with Taylor and Gail. We are all tied to a chair in front of my fire place and the sectional couch that faces it shows Morton sitting there in an equally ugly Hawaiian shirt and an evil grin.
Mother fucker! I try to get up but resistance is futile. My hands are tied to the arms of the chairs and so were my legs to the bottom of the chair.
"About time this little bitch woke up! Honestly you act like you can't take a strike to the head." The cocky shit
"Son of a…." I began but he finishes my sentence for me
"Bitch! Oh yeah my mother was one piece of shit I tell you. Before you try and talk shit about her I want to tell you to remember that you came out of a used up pussy that would give head to any man that paid her enough. And let me tell you that her prices were… let's just say… always on sale and up for a combo every once in a while." He laughs a booming laugh
Asshole! I can't believe that he made it in here to begin with. I had security everywhere. There were no holes or stairways that went unmonitored.
"How did you even make it in here?" I can't wrap my mind around how he made it in here.
"Oh well that is a good story, well let's start at the beginning. Well you must know by now that I am in deep shit with my bookie. I had a friend that worked construction for these big fancy companies and he would help out friends if they needed a day or twos worth of work. And when I think all hope is lost the apartment just underneath yours is being worked on! That was the first time I made it in here. Yeah I was loaded and some douche bag muscle for the bookie tore apart my shitty apartment. So yeah I had a few. When I come upon your emergency stair well and find your apartment is nice and WHITE AND SPACIOUS AND SO FUCKING GRAND! So here we are. I know you aren't going to give me what I want while you were just single, then you had a woman and I figured I could work with that but oh the Holy Grail that is the little bastard in this damn crib. When I saw this I just knew I had you by the balls." He stands up and pulls the baby's basinet closer to get a good look at him.
"Oh well I am just going to take what I can from this place stash it down stairs and then kill you all and make it look like a home invasion. And the LUCK! The lights are out. No witnesses. Wish I could get my hands on that little wife of yours. She looks like a good fuck to me." I pull at my restraints this asshole better not touch a hair on my sons head.
"Well I am going to go look around. Excuse me." He rises and leaves to go up the stairs.
I quickly turn to see Gail and Taylor communicating with their eyes. Taylor and Gail both have their mouths taped closed. Taylor is literally taped to the chair. Not just wrists and ankles but his entire arms, legs and torso are all gray with duct tape. Gail is like me but with a little less take taking into account for her size.
The front door opens to Ana with a bag in her hands and she freezes when she sees us. She quickly recovers when she suddenly just mouths her words
Who is here?
Morton I mouth back
Her entire being changes. She silently puts her bag down and walks out the front door. She quickly returns in only her boy shorts and sports bra. She ties up her hair, slings the bag over her shoulder and goes to the basinet and carries it away. I haven't seen her like this since that camping trip. She is devoid and working off of instinct. Her first instinct is to move the baby. She comes back and goes straight to Gail. Taylor has sympathy in his eyes. A pleading stare of safety for her.
I see what she is doing. She is moving the most vulnerable parts of us. Teddy and Gail have no defense to speak of and she is moving them quickly out of harm's way and most likely taking them to the panic room. We hear the footsteps of Morton coming down the hall and Gail and Ana run out of the room and quickly the shit hits the fan.
"WHERE THE FUCK IS SHE?! SON OF A BITCH!" He quickly kicks a swift leg out to push Taylor on the side of the floor and starts kicking him. Over his shoulder I see Ana crouch down and open her bag quickly. Morton turns to me with the knife and cuts my restraints and before I could even raise my arms to defend myself Morton raises his knife and stabs my arms I glance up and hear a swift noise. A hole appears where his right eye was a second ago. He then falls to the floor with a thud. There standing a few feet from us. Morton falls like a… well… like a dead body.
Ana pulls a knife from her bag and starts untying me and Taylor. I look down at her body and see that she is all banged up and what looks like bruising is showing through her skin. I don't know how this all escalated but the security from the main floor is now in my penthouse. Ana brings me to the room and puts on a shirt and my sweat pants. She then drags me to the kitchen to only be greeted by police and the resident doctor.
In all honesty I believe I am losing time here. I am being dragged from one place to another. In the end I only come out of it at the end. I look at Ana as she explains her motives to the police and what lead her to shoot Morton. We all shake hands and I believe at one point I described how he got the jump on me and Taylor but I cant be exactly sure what I said but at the end of the night I am sitting in the front room and Ana goes to get the baby and brings him to sit with us.
"Christian tell me what is the matter?" Ana sits right next to me holding Teddy in her arms. Just as she sits down I hug her and Teddy to me and I just cry. I could have lost them today.
"I could not control what happened today Ana! Sitting there helpless and him being able to around and hurt anyone at any time. You weren't here because you went out when I didn't want you to and its was a god send that you didn't listen to me and that you had your dad bring you your stuff. You helped get Gail and Teddy into a safe place when I wasn't able to. GOD all my decisions are wrong and I am the one that put you in the awful position of having to do this act of killing another human being." The feelings are just flowing through me and I can't stop it at this point. I can't live my life without them.
Ana hands me Teddy and had me play with his hair.
"Christian I love you and everything I did today was for my family. Shooting Morton was done to protect my family. Not just you and Teddy but Jason and Gail. I love you and yeah I did something you didn't like but come on I was here all week. We are moving in our new house tomorrow, the new building is ready enough so you know what we won't have to live in this penthouse any longer than necessary. You won't lose me and him for this bullshit! This man brought this on himself and I will not lose a wink of sleep over this. I will carry this within me and I will know that I will do anything that it takes to protect you and him. You provide for me and him, Teddy will look at you for guidance and guy stuff that I have no clue about. I just need you to have faith in our strengths together and not put the weight all on your shoulders. Come on lets. Go to bed." She gets everything ready for bed and while the baby sleeps and I hold on to Ana I just thank God nothing happened to them but also who hit Ana and Luke with the car…. That second part will keep until tomorrow because tonight all I want is to be grateful.
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